In this episode of Poke the Bear, Conor Ryan and Evan Marinofsky discuss the Bruins recent exhibitions as well as their developments through training camp. Who is standing out early? Who could make a push for a spot in the rotation?
They delve into Fabian Lysell, who had a big bounce-back performance, as well as Georgii Merkulov and Joonas Korpisalo, who are off to a strong start. Their conversation turns to whether we should be concerned about Elias Lindholm, and if Morgan Geekie is the front-runner for the top 6.
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They delve into Fabian Lysell, who had a big bounce-back performance, as well as Georgii Merkulov and Joonas Korpisalo, who are off to a strong start. Their conversation turns to whether we should be concerned about Elias Lindholm, and if Morgan Geekie is the front-runner for the top 6.
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00:29I am Evan Marinovsky that is Connor Ryan Connor
00:34Evan doing well, how you doing doing great doing great. We are
00:39Into the preseason preseason games are happening all the time now
00:45Utah
00:46Opened with two preseason games. They had a get to see their home rink
00:49So good to see hockey should be better in Utah than it is in Arizona. I would hope but hope that's a low bar
00:58Yeah
00:59Well, at least they have an owner who's committed to actually putting together a winning product and you know paying hotels
01:04I'm like that scumbag in Arizona. So an
01:07unserious shitbag so
01:10Yes, and it's funny. You see these owners like Arizona and like Oakland with the athletics
01:15I mean, it's like I mean you get a bad owner
01:17I know there are some like not great owners around the league and people obviously harp on like John Henry with the Red Sox
01:23but to have one who's like incompetent and cheap like the guy in Oakland like the guy in Arizona like that's that'll sink completely sink a
01:31franchise so
01:33Good to good to see that the majority of sports do not have those kinds of owners
01:38Bruins played another preseason game on Tuesday night. They hosted the Washington Capitals got a 4-2 win
01:45Got to see some different players. Matt Potter was in the lineup
01:49Brandon Carlo Hampus Lindholm
01:51They win 4-2
01:53The big story though to me at least was Fabian Lysel. We
01:57We harped on Fabian Lysel
01:59Earlier this week on Bruins beat rightfully so I mean it was one preseason game and we by the way prefaced that
02:05We prefaced all our bad things about Lysel with like hey, it's one game can easily turn it around but habits are habits
02:12Tuesday night. I just I always have this like little it's a golf tee that I just play with while I record
02:18So that's what you heard. Just smack against the mic. It's right. You hear any noise. I think last time we had one
02:23It's my little like coin. I I keep on in my hand. So that my lucky coin. Yes, exactly
02:30No, I always like my gold doubloon
02:32so whatever's on my desk in front of me like I have this little thing a chapstick that'll just kind of like sit over here
02:37And play with and this got my little Boston Terrier. Yes
02:42Yes, when we start when you start getting into like the trade tuka days you were ripping that thing apart
02:48Yeah, he's no ears. The ears have been taken off since the the Swainman discussions the
02:54500 sermon discussions we've had all throughout the summer. So
02:58right across
02:59But Fabian Lysel much better game scored a goal. I thought way more noticeable
03:06In every facet of the game was driving play
03:10More than he definitely more than he was on Sunday. What do you think of Fabian Lysel?
03:15Yeah, it's what you need to see from a player that you hope can make a push for a top six role, right?
03:20like this is a guy who
03:22Scores the goal and great finish, you know great shot there
03:26You can see where the skill set is the skating's are always been there
03:31But just seem more engaged with the puck on his stick as well
03:34Not a lot of one-and-dones not a lot of fly-bys. He again. This is a guy that at his frame
03:40He's not going to be a guy that is going to be a heat-seeking missile on the four check or anything like that
03:46But he can use that speed to his advantage beyond
03:49Trying to dangle through three guys or try to gain the offensive blue line stuff like that
03:53And again, like is he going to be the most well-rounded player?
03:57We'll have to see but for right now in terms of just being responsible playing to his strengths and
04:02Simplifying his game, which is what he mentioned afterwards. He said he spoke to Ryan Mugen L
04:07Who's been his coach the last two years in Providence before Tuesday's game and his message was just simplify play your game
04:13I think you saw that and he you know, even like cell mentioned that probably he was putting too much pressure on himself
04:19Going into the first game
04:20I think being able to maybe take a step back breathe a little and kind of let that natural talent take over
04:27Really helped him out there. So as you said a good first step
04:31Brad Martian speaking today on Wednesday
04:34Kind of more or less was like yeah, you played pretty good
04:36But if pretty good is your barometer where you want to be at you're not gonna get anywhere close
04:41Like it's a step in the right direction after a slow start
04:44But now it's how do you build off of that right like did Matt Potts or a last year?
04:49Did he have one good preseason game? No, he popped in his first one and then all of a sudden every single game
04:55He got more and more comfortable more settled in more, you know poise and looking like an actual
05:01NHL player you need to see that same progression from myself
05:04He wants a shot at making this team and playing on October 8th
05:07And that's one of the things and you and I are actually very
05:11Conservative and how we look at prospects especially in camp as like, all right, like take it game by game
05:16You don't really know, you know, it's it's one game and I see people on Twitter
05:21With that goal being like wow, what a shot, you know
05:24Look at that skill and it's like that's great and we know that that's there and it's good that that's coming through in the preseason
05:29but like as
05:30You said this Brad Barshad said like that's got to be consistent and I'm not saying like you got a snipe
05:35Rip shot top corner every game
05:38But being involved in the offense the pot having the puck on your stick being engaged winning board battles
05:46That matters and that needs to be every game that can't be and especially like if you're gonna be in a top-six role if you're
05:51Gonna be riding shotgun with Charlie Coyle and Brad Martian for a Stanley Cup contention as the contending team like you're not
05:59That's you got to have that all the time and I think Brad Martian is right in saying that and you know again like
06:06So you got one bad one. You got one good one. What's is he in the lineup officially for Thursday night?
06:12Nothing announced yet
06:13The only players who are expected to play on Thursday in New York on David Pasternak
06:18Nikita Zdorov and Charlie McEvoy, so we're gonna
06:22Great gonna start incorporating a few more veterans. So again, it's also one of those things where Lysel has time
06:29Right, but as I start bringing in more and more play, it's not like he's gonna be playing, you know
06:34five more preseason games he maybe has
06:36Two or three maybe four of these games left to really kind of show that yes
06:42It's a good step in the right direction on Tuesday night
06:44But it's gonna bring in more and more like it can't just be that and it can't just be all right
06:49I got I got the goal. I'm feeling good. I can now
06:52Focus in on my strengths like no if you're still not, you know trying to win
06:56You know fish out pucks along the board trying to be the first guy in using your speed to win foot races
07:01Doing the little things that you know, I look at the guy like Tyler Johnson like was he the flashiest player on Tuesday?
07:07No, he's a veteran knows kind of the little details that help you win games
07:11He's the guy that screened the goalie on my cells goal. He wins a puck along the boards feeds it out and that leads to
07:19Merkulov getting a good look and it leads to a brazo goal right after that like if you're and again
07:24Tyler Johnson 5-8 not the most imposing guy, but knows how to play his he is built. Oh, holy crap
07:31Is that dude built? Yes, absolutely
07:33And again, like but he's a guy that knows the finer details knows the little things maybe get overlooked
07:38Especially by younger players that you have to do night in night out to help your team win
07:43And so I think for Lysol, yeah
07:44you'll take the goal and it'll be great if he scores again if he has a
07:48Dangle fest and scores up close or something in in New York or one of these other games
07:52But if he's gonna be one dimensional which is something that Brad Martian said you can't be at this
07:57You know at this stage of your career
07:59He's not gonna go very far
08:01so it's all about stacking good performance on top of each other now moving forward for a guy like Lysol and I even look like
08:08at
08:09Tuesday night's game like Matt Patra
08:12Just like you know, I forget it. I don't think he was on the score sheet at all
08:18Tuesday night if memory serves, I don't believe but just his puck protection and winning battles and you know
08:25Protecting against bigger guys and holding on to pucks
08:28He's a guy that does not just you know
08:30throw puck down the wall to start the cycle like he's a guy that is going to use every inch of the offensive zone to
08:36gain to get to space and like
08:38You know his like again like and we've talked we talked about this a couple weeks ago when Montgomery first put her
08:44I think was last week when Montgomery first put him on the right wing like to me at right now
08:51Patra might make the most sense for that
08:54Second line right wing spot and I we can get into that later on
08:57But like just his a just his play to me and his ability to stand out
09:02Well, not maybe even producing I think is a good thing for a prospect
09:05That's kind of what he did last year, although he also produced quite a lot in the preseason
09:11Another one who had a pretty good game on Tuesday night Georgie Murkuloff
09:15Playing down the middle again
09:16What do you think of his game? Yeah, I thought it was solid
09:20Montgomery mentioned on Tuesday morning that he's actually liked what Murkuloff has shown during practices in terms of the attention to details
09:28Maybe kind of the finer things that maybe we don't pick up pick up on as much
09:32But the coaches certainly do in terms of guys and how ready they are for NHL reps
09:38Montgomery also said that he liked it in practice. It's all about now
09:41Translating that into a game and I think you saw a little bit more of that
09:45Commitment to the finer details. I thought he was pretty solid
09:49I think in the first game on Sunday in terms of
09:51Wanting to you know, try to engage in board battles doing some of those little things, you know, that's maybe not
09:57Necessarily his skill set but then I think for him, you know getting rewarded, you know
10:01Taking a puck driving to the net feeding Justin Brazzo and he's mentioned that you know
10:06He's skated with Justin Brazzo the last two years down in Providence
10:09So he kind of knows where Brazzo is gonna be at the net front, of course on a play like that
10:14so good heads-up play there, but I think you know his willingness to kind of
10:20You know round out his game and try to show that he's ready for this next step in terms of rounding out
10:25You know what? He's going to be is he gonna be winning a selkie? I don't think so
10:29Right, but again, I think showing that willingness and wanting to impact the game beyond the evident
10:36You know production that he's shown in the offensive zone the last couple years is encouraging
10:40Like was it a breakthrough performance?
10:41Is it one that makes you reset your expectations as to where these guys all are on the depth chart at this stage of camp?
10:47Probably not but again another situation where younger players building his game up a little bit and you know
10:54Hopefully this is how you set the foundation for how you approach the last, you know, ten plus days of camp moving forward
11:00I think you saw in that goal that Brazzo scored like, you know
11:05We know Murkulov has the offensive skill we know he is creative in the offensive zone
11:11But as you said if he can build that
11:13Second half of this game if he can be a little bit more well-rounded doesn't mean you need to be
11:17The guy that Montgomery taps on the shoulder for a defensive draw like it doesn't mean that but just be responsible
11:24There is a ceiling there is a somewhat high ceiling there in what Murkulov could be and again
11:29Like we've said a number of times coming off two years in the it's two full years in the AHL of offensive production
11:35So, you know that you have that it just comes down to that
11:38Well-roundedness, which again I agree with you. I think I thought he was I thought he was fine Sunday
11:42I thought he was even better Tuesday. So again if that continues, I think he's gonna be hard to leave off the roster
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13:48So Jonas Corpo solo got hit made his Bruins debut on Tuesday night had a crazy night seven shots
13:58That's breaking a sweat baby
14:00but his credit
14:02Stopped all seven and there were some good chances in there his breakaway
14:07You know, he had some in tight chances
14:09I forget I haven't looked at natural stat trick, but I know a couple of them were high danger chances
14:13And overall looked good. Like again, I mean, I'm not a goalie expert
14:18It's one half of a game of a preseason game
14:22I don't think he's fixed but I
14:26liked him
14:27Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean if you're looking at you know, what maybe the expectations are for a corporate
14:33Trade Jeremy Swayman
14:37I was waiting for this. No
14:40But I think when you look at the expectations for a guy like corporate solo going into this year
14:44Obviously you look at now the heightened importance of getting him up to speed
14:48With that uncertainty in net if you do have the scenario where it is corporate solo on October 8th in Florida
14:55I step in the right direction. That's all it really needs to be right now at this stage of the preseason
15:01I feel like goalies usually are the ones that have a lot of rust
15:04Going into the preseason in terms of you know, it's only so much you face, you know
15:09live action like this in a real game setting as you said not the heaviest workload for him, but
15:16Again as a fellow non goalie expert, I feel like we're like Bruce Cassidy Bruce Cassidy
15:20You always would ask him about the goalies
15:22He'd be like, well, that's probably more for both goalie Bob, but and then he would like talk for like two minutes
15:27But yeah, I really wanted to save there I'd be like, oh, okay
15:31But no from what we saw, right?
15:33Seven seven saves I believe on natural stat trick two of them were high danger, but with square two pucks
15:40Was good, you know sealing off the post
15:42Like didn't seem rattle didn't have any bad rebounds or felt like he was off kilter or anything like that
15:50Montgomery mentioned after the game that you know, he's a big goalie
15:53So, you know having him be squared a puck kind of takes away some of those tough angles makes guys
15:58You know shoot for the corner shoot for the top corner and it leads to a bit, you know sailing wide
16:02So even if maybe it was seven saves it could have been a lot more in terms of the attempts they had around him
16:09And again, that's all you're kind of looking for from a guy like corporate solve. He's not this
16:13Tim Thomas II kind of player where he's just diving all over the place and it's controlled chaos
16:18When he's on he's technically sound he's square pucks and is kind of just doing his thing and I think it's kind of what you
16:25Saw on Tuesday, you know, is he fixed as you said? No, he's got a ways to go
16:30But it wouldn't tell you if you're a Bruins fan who's very nervous about the state of the goalie
16:36Situation as you probably should be
16:38Would you rather corporate solo look pretty good with seven shit seven saves or would you rather it be?
16:44What's up two of those seven shots right like if you're looking for just finding the positives and building off of this
16:51Tuesday's exactly I think what you wanted from a guy like corporate solo who all of a sudden could be looking at a greater role
16:56At least once we get into October
16:58You know that he's gonna have a couple more good preseason starts and that trade Jeremy Swayman thing is just gonna be
17:05Oh, I've already got that. I already have the tweet seven. I guess it's
17:09Immediate. Come on. Like we knew this was gonna happen
17:12We did we did I don't know why I would be surprised at that
17:17But again, I like I just I thought he was sound like that's good. That's what you want
17:22I mean again, like I think we all expect he's gonna be much better here than in Ottawa
17:27It just comes down to how much better is he gonna be?
17:30And again, he's shown in his career that he can be a really strong goalie
17:34So again, like, you know when they do re-sign Jeremy Swayman, which you know, Pierre LeBron reported yesterday
17:41There's nothing crazy new but that both sides are looking for
17:44a long-term deal so
17:47There is that
17:48They don't hate each other yet. They don't hate each other yet
17:51but if you're standing for the majority of the year is Swayman and corporate solo and corporate solo is
17:56Playing like that and continuing to build it is, you know
17:599 15 9 10 like you take that you take that every time so it's funny. You mentioned coaches with goalies
18:06I'll never forget it UMass the goalie gave up. I think it was three goals
18:11Gone pulled. It was like no matter what no matter what that goalie was gone. So
18:17It's always fun watching coaches try to handle goalies that that were not goalies themselves
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20:25So one kind of underrated storyline that I feel hasn't been talked about a lot this week now
20:31It is Wednesday. You and I have only done our second podcast
20:35I think it came out was a Tuesday. I think Montgomery spoke about Elias Lindholm on Tuesday
20:42But that Lindholm is day to day and is out of preseason games for the rest of the week
20:49Don't remember did he say upper body or not? I feel like they didn't we don't know yet. Yeah, it's okay right now
20:55So the fear is that this is a lingering thing. That's the fear and it's not reported by the way
21:01It's just a fear. I think everybody, you know, given the contract he got
21:05You know is afraid of that Max Jones also out for the week
21:10What's the concern level we'll talk Lind we'll focus on Lindholm mainly because again, that's the the big fish they got in free agency
21:17How concerned are you about Elias Lindholm?
21:19Yeah, I mean it's not ideal when it's a guy that is your top free agent addition that you know
21:24his presence alone beyond what you know, the expectations like we've all set where I think we both agree that he can easily be a
21:3160 point guy great to a player
21:35But just what he brings being in the lineup where you're all sudden Charlie Coyle can be your to see you've got
21:41really really good players pushed down to maybe third line roles like a Frederick or a geeky or
21:46Patra or whoever it may be like I think just getting him the lineup is essential for this team and
21:52Again when you have a guy like David Pasternak on your line
21:56Maybe you don't have to worry all that much about building that chemistry and and knowing where guys are gonna be. I think
22:03That's the kind of player that if that's who Lindholm is skating with for the majority of his time here
22:08he's gonna be just fine, but
22:10Obviously, it's kind of the same thing with like Swayman, right?
22:12Well, we've talked about why you hope this is done sooner rather than later
22:16You know getting settled in getting ramped up for especially God went home on a new team in an
22:22Newish role, I guess as like kind of the unquestioned first line center. I mean hell last year at Vancouver
22:29He was like the 3c or like on the wing because you had Horvath and Pedersen, you know in for our JT Miller rather
22:36Alright was not on that team, but I was like wait, where's more value? Yeah, Long Island, baby
22:41Yes, but yeah Pedersen JT Miller two other very good guys in front of them on the depth chart
22:46I think just getting Lindholm back is gonna be key for this team
22:50Montgomery mentioned on Wednesday that a couple of guys are you know off the ice more just being extra cautious
22:57He said it's not anything that they're worried about
22:59week to week
23:01So guy like him Brezo didn't skate on Wednesday. Same thing basic maintenance
23:07and
23:08From what Montgomery said they expect these guys to be back next week skating
23:12definitely Lindholm who's the guy that seems like maybe the
23:15They're being the most precautious about which makes sense in terms of where he kind of is and how important he is
23:22But you do like to hopefully see him in at least one or two preseason games with Pasternak
23:27With Zaka before the regular season starts because I mean you look at how many?
23:33Question marks or how many sure bets there are on this team in terms of like guaranteed offensive production
23:38A lot of the heavy lifting is probably gonna be that top line, especially out of the gate
23:42Yeah, you don't want to be missing him and you don't want to be missing him for stretches of games during the year
23:47So yeah, take the precautions now, but it is something to monitor
23:49I think you know if that, you know, we probably won't know what that exact injury is or what was bothering him
23:54But you hope you hope that it's not something that that is nagging him throughout the year
24:01Before we hit on the last thing about
24:04About you know potential top six guys and Morgan GE in particular. I don't know if you saw on Twitter
24:10EA Sports posted like a like I think was
24:15Quinn Hughes and Nasher against Jack Hughes and Luke Hughes and an NHL 25 like playing against each other and
24:24It's like a one minute and 30 second long video and it shows the new game
24:30It's looks so
24:33freaking terrible
24:35It's depressing
24:38Yeah, and like again, I like you know
24:44They it's the same game every year
24:45I you know, it is I completely agree this past year was the first year where I really did not play it at all
24:51I mean, I played a little franchise mode
24:55Here and there just when I wanted to play a hockey game, but it wasn't cuz like the game was good
25:01It looks so bad and I you know again like I don't know
25:08You know for video games like for sports, you know, it's hard to make a new one every year. That's good
25:13It's why I wish they would just
25:15You know do you know update the rosters?
25:18Do one every couple years don't do it every single year because it's I mean you would never know what the difference is between
25:2523 24 25 and I just it it kills me cuz me will I buy it? I don't know
25:31I don't know
25:32Usually I'm always a lock to buy it
25:34But this year might be the year where I just stick to my UMass franchise and NCAA 25
25:39I think we've won like three of them at this point. Yeah, we're we're blue blood
25:44place now
25:45But it just it's it looks like crap
25:48It makes me feel old Evan because I think the lat well
25:51All right. The last one I played like in earnest like almost every day was in college. So that was like
25:57Makes me feel old. It's like it was like NHL
26:0012 and 13. So I think those are the ones with like 12 was in Jerusalem. Yes
26:07Quite a bit cuz I used to the older ones like NHL like oh wait
26:11Oh nine where I think that was one like Patrick came on the cover like every skater was so friggin fast
26:17it was like unbelievable like how like I feel like those are the first ones were like they actually
26:22Accounted for the fact that like hey, maybe
26:25Pat maroon isn't as fast as like Patrick Kane
26:28Like those are the first ones that actually kind of try to change things to make it slightly more realistic
26:34I always like those ones like the 2k games back then like the Jordan cover ones
26:39What a time to be alive the last NHL game ride the Zamboni
26:44Yes, the last NHL game I think I got was
26:47Was it NHL 20 the one with Austin Matthews on the cover? I know he's like they've had awesome
26:52I just want to cover like I know it was the first one
26:55It was the first one because it was right after kovat hit and I was like, oh my god
26:59I'm gonna have nothing to do. So I literally went out. I
27:03Went out after I think was the the the day after
27:06Woe tweeted like the NBA seasons can't postpone. I was like, oh and so I like went and I
27:13went to treehouse brewery and just got a bunch of beer and then I went to GameStop and bought a PlayStation 4 and
27:20NHL tournaments, I'm gonna be all set and then that is awesome game. I barely play the guy I sold the PlayStation
27:26I like don't really yeah, I don't even have it anymore. I was like, this is stupid
27:29I played Red Dead Redemption 2 for like four days straight. I'm like I gotta find I'd be more proactive
27:35This is what the pandemic is. So yeah
27:38It well that's like that sounds like peak life just drinking beers and playing if you told you a 21 year old Connor
27:44That's what you did in the immediate aftermath of a pandemic is you want to get beer and a video game system?
27:50Like what is your life?
27:51Now and then you hit it. You're like, well, I should be more I should I should like, you know
27:56Learn about investing take an online investing course. I have to be proactive
28:01Did not happen
28:03No, that's the better road there's a guy on tik-tok actually who he I think his wife or his girlfriend whoever he lives with
28:10Works nights as a nurse and he's like my wife's working as a nurse tonight
28:14So I'm gonna sit here and drink a 12-pack of whatever and you just and he has like, you know
28:19He'll have one screen on like a movie one screen on like college football one screen playing Xbox and he just like throughout the night
28:26He cut, you know, he edits it so we don't watch the whole thing
28:29But just gets progressively drunker as he plays like nc-dev like 25 and you know walk the dog
28:35He'll go out and get like food and it's like man, you know, that's it's like quite a life to document especially. Yeah
28:43But yeah
28:43I noticed myself with video games like when I was younger
28:46like high school and even parts of college and even before high school you could I could sit and play for hours and hours and
28:51Hours now I play more than like three games. I'm like, I'm toast. I'm done. Like I'm I can't do it
28:57But yeah NHL 25
28:59I'm curious to what people think about it once it comes out because I don't know if I'll be playing it
29:03But people really like it. Maybe I'll jump back on the bandwagon
29:08In terms of the top six
29:11You know, we've talked a lot about Lyselle I mentioned Patra earlier. I like the idea of a young guy in that spot. I
29:19Still want to see what they have in Lyselle
29:22but again if he continues to be inconsistent the preseason like it's hard to
29:27It's hard to endorse that
29:30Where are you at with that top six spot? Yeah
29:34I mean, I think it's still kind of tough to gauge where exactly the Bruins are leaning right now at this stage of camp
29:40You know Morgan geeky is a guy that skated with coil and Martian today
29:45Martian who again kind of reiterated like the younger players that like pretty good is not gonna be good enough
29:51Spoke highly of a guy like geeky
29:53So you wonder where he is on the
29:55The pecking order there of a guy that you know
29:58This is a player who averaged like 10 minutes and 11 seconds of game time with the Kraken
30:05The year before then almost has for you were all over you were all over him
30:10But I that's a guy that if he's in the top six spot again, you see the flashies player. No, but has a good shot
30:17Really sound to a game and if you're looking for what that line with coil and Martian
30:23Could be is more of a you know, two-way shutdown grouping
30:26maybe that's a guy that they want to plug in there right out of the gate, especially if like Martian is prioritizing that thing of
30:33accountability solid play
30:36Playing to other other line made strengths, especially
30:39So he's absolutely in the mix geeky was we spoke to him on Wednesday
30:45very confident that he thinks he has more to give mentions that he says he reads everything in terms of
30:52People either saying that maybe last year he wasn't good enough to be beyond a
30:56Fringe player or can't play up in the lineup
30:58I mean, I think people also forget that the end of last year in the playoffs. He was like their first line center
31:04like yeah, so and he played and he
31:07was really strong in some of those games, especially against the
31:11Against the Florida Panthers. So he is a guy that you know
31:15I think regardless of where he ends up whether it is the top six or more of a
31:20Set role in the third line. I think he is a guy that with the added minutes with the experience another year in this system
31:26I think he has more room to grow and has more to give kind of wherever he is on the on the depth chart on
31:32October 8. I mean, he's just so reliable. That's the thing like I don't you said he's not flashy
31:38We'll see where kind of the point ceiling is what what he can give there
31:42But he's reliable and if that line if that second line is gonna be, you know
31:47Martian coil geeky and it is gonna be a shut down line. He's probably the guy that you lean towards on that
31:53it just comes down to do you want that line to be strictly shut down or
31:58Would you like to see what you have in a licel or putting Patra there?
32:02Cuz I think I Patra is good is 200 foot game is good
32:07It's like that's another one who I'm fine with being in that spot. I think it's reliable
32:11It just comes down to you know
32:13Do they want him at center long-term or do they want him on the right side?
32:17So yeah geeky is interesting one reading everything. Maybe listening to everything too
32:22Maybe he's like watching our our podcast being like all those those fools, which wouldn't be far off. Yeah, it's not far
32:28There's nothing. Yeah, I accept that title
32:31I'll gladly take it
32:33Connor what can people look forward to from you over at the Boston Globe Boston calm?
32:37Yeah, we're gonna have you covered every step of the way this preseason and training camp with
32:42Recaps features columns breakdowns all that good stuff leading up to October 8th in Florida
32:48Which I will be in this in the Sunshine State. I will be at Sawgrass Mills. I will be at the Rainforest Cafe
32:56Living it up before the Bruins season opener against the Panthers. So excited to get started with that
33:02But in the lead-up to it will have you covered throughout camp throughout the preseason
33:06Over at boston.com and the Boston Globe so you can read my stuff there
33:10And if you want to follow me on Twitter X, whatever the whatever the fuck it's called these days. I have no idea
33:16You can't hack Connor Ryan on discord 93 go do all that. That's Connor Ryan. I'm Evan Marinovsky
33:22You poked the bear listeners have a great rest of your week
33:32You