On this episode of Bruins Beat, Evan Marinofsky and Conor Ryan discuss the Bruins decisive win over the Montreal Canadiens in the Centennial Game. Evan and Conor take a closer look at the Bruins massive celebration, and, more importantly, the production on the ice. Is this win something to build off? Have the Bruins officially turned the corner offensively? All that, and much more!
Topics:
- Bruins hit a home run with the centennial celebration
- Appreciating 100 years of hockey
- Bruins get a big, 6-3 win over the Hats
- Can they actually build off it this time?
- McAvoy may have found his partner
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Topics:
- Bruins hit a home run with the centennial celebration
- Appreciating 100 years of hockey
- Bruins get a big, 6-3 win over the Hats
- Can they actually build off it this time?
- McAvoy may have found his partner
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00:24That is Connor Ryan.
00:25I'm Evan Maranofsky.
00:26Connor, what is up?
00:28Evan.
00:29How are you?
00:30Doing well.
00:31How are you doing?
00:32Doing great.
00:33Doing better.
00:34Doing much better than Saturday and last week.
00:35I feel cleansed.
00:36Alive.
00:37A little bit healthy.
00:38Yes.
00:39I got to bed early.
00:40That's a big thing.
00:41Like, you know, in college, I didn't realize this.
00:43When you go to bed early and you get a good night's sleep, my mom was right all those
00:47years.
00:48Yeah.
00:49It actually does help you out.
00:50So, I was smart the last couple days, happy.
00:54One negative, though.
00:55I missed the Bruins 100-year celebration, the centennial game.
01:00I missed it.
01:01I didn't want to be patient.
01:02Zero.
01:03How was it?
01:04How were the festivities?
01:05How was before?
01:06How was during?
01:07What did you think of it?
01:08Yeah.
01:09No, it was great.
01:10It was a culmination of, you know, over a year's worth of celebration.
01:13Shout out to the Bruins digital team, the, you know, the game day staff, everyone for
01:19putting in a whole lot of late hours, not just, you know, this week leading up to it,
01:24but for over a year now, getting all this stuff in order and all of it was great.
01:28Yeah.
01:29Like you had like the digital side, you had the videos that drone shot that had all the
01:33legends in it.
01:34That was great.
01:36The ceremony, you know, hit all the notes, right.
01:38In terms of having former Bruins legends, they're kind of reflecting on the past, looking
01:42to the future.
01:44Always good to see guys in the building, like, you know, obviously Johnny B6 around quite
01:49a bit.
01:50But him, Bergeron, you know, you had Wayne Cashman, Phil Esposito, which is always great
01:55when he's there.
01:56Obviously, obviously Bobby or Ray Borg, you know, all the guys, William remade it out.
02:02William, William looks 89.
02:05Oh my God.
02:07Same as a same as Johnny music, both 89 years old.
02:10And so, yeah, I think, you know, paying tribute to the past while also looking to the future,
02:15even if maybe this season has not gone according to plan for the Bruins, I think so far, but
02:21I think it all hit all of the right notes that you want a culmination of what, you know,
02:29this past year plus of celebration has been.
02:31The Bruins have always been a team rooted in history, very reflective and appreciative
02:36of what came before them.
02:38I think it was a good way to to bring in kind of this next generation and move forward.
02:44But they hit on all the right notes and even have the new bear statue on Causeway Street.
02:49You know, you had that, which like I honestly shout out to the Bruins for picking like an
02:53animal to have it be the thing instead of like another person.
02:56Because let me tell you, a very easy way to get roasted these days on social media is
03:02having a statue of a person and it looks slightly off or completely wrong.
03:07Like you had Dwayne Wade looking like Lawrence Fishburne a few a few weeks ago with the Miami
03:12Heat.
03:13So you don't want one of those situations where it's like the unveil of the curtain comes
03:17down and they're like, who the who the fuck is that?
03:19You don't want one of those.
03:20So it's tough to mess up a bit.
03:22I saw a few people were like, his head's too small.
03:24I don't I don't know what I didn't see that the head the head's not big enough.
03:30I'm like, I have not been that close to a brown bear to to properly assess the size
03:38of its head.
03:39It wasn't like the little thing from like Beetlejuice or something like that where it's
03:43like a teeny tiny head or anything like that.
03:45So it wasn't egregious.
03:46So I'm not going to nitpick anything else that that came from it.
03:50But whether it's the statue, the ceremony, all that stuff, I think the Prince did a really,
03:54really good job looking back on what this past year plus was.
03:58Yeah.
03:59And if you picked one person, it doesn't encapsulate all the history.
04:02Like if you're doing a 100 year statue, I don't know how you properly do that with and
04:08you already have a statue of Bobby or Bobby or is probably your most famous alum.
04:13So you already have that.
04:15So I agree.
04:16I don't think there's another a better option there.
04:18I'd be curious.
04:19People have it.
04:20Like, would you put up the six Stanley Cups?
04:21No, I mean, that's not really indigenous to you.
04:24I mean, it's the cup like, you know, that could be anybody.
04:28So I like the bear, you know, even though I missed it, I think I'm looking forward to
04:32being there for the 200 year celebration.
04:34I'm excited.
04:35I already got my credential sent in my tickets, everything.
04:38I'm very excited for the 200 year.
04:41It's interesting.
04:42Like when you look at sort of the whole because it wasn't just Sunday.
04:45They've been doing centennial stuff since going back to the beginning of last year.
04:49They had a ceremony before the first game and they've had a lot of stuff throughout.
04:53They obviously had the sweaters, they had the those alternates they wore at home against
04:58the original six teams.
05:00And just, you know, from top to bottom, whether it's the on ice product or what they're putting
05:04on the ice for people to see, or just the off ice 100 year stuff, they nailed it.
05:10And they nailed it.
05:11And and, you know, it it felt perfect.
05:14And they do it right.
05:15They do ceremonies right over their presentations.
05:19They do well.
05:20Videos.
05:21I mean, they obviously have a an outstanding behind the scenes staff that puts on all of
05:25these things.
05:26You probably don't know their names, but these are superstars.
05:30And you know, I look at it and you look at how it could have been messed up.
05:35Right.
05:36Like that's a big thing.
05:37100 years, the history, getting the the the legends involved and getting them to participate
05:42in things.
05:44And they did it.
05:45And they hit all the right notes for the last year.
05:47And I'm not I'm not talking about how the team did on the ice or anything.
05:49I'm just saying to commemorate 100 years, you know, right now, I mean, this is apples
05:54and oranges, but UMass, my home college, my school had a rough time with PR stuff.
06:01Yeah.
06:02Yeah.
06:03A rough time with PR stuff.
06:04And that's just with small stuff.
06:05This is a big thing.
06:07100 years is a huge, huge accomplishment.
06:11And they nailed it.
06:12So props to the Bruins.
06:14Props to everybody behind the scenes, videographers, business ops people, everybody for doing a
06:20phenomenal job.
06:21I'll never forget at the end of the 22, 23 season, I said to Eric Russo, I was like,
06:26oh, you know, you must be excited for the summer coming up.
06:28Right.
06:29He's like, nope, we got 100 years next year.
06:30So that is my entire summer.
06:32So hopefully those guys can get a little bit of rest now.
06:35The other thing I'll mention, and it occurred to me watching the ceremonies on Sunday, you
06:40know, obviously you and I rag on the Bruins quite a bit, especially right now.
06:47Things are not going so hot.
06:48Fans definitely do.
06:50They're not satisfied.
06:51And good for them.
06:52Good for them.
06:53You shouldn't be satisfied.
06:54I agree with you.
06:55I'm not.
06:56I like it.
06:57But I think it is important to take a little bit of time to appreciate for us covering
07:01and for fans rooting for a team with that much history with it, for a team that is as
07:07is rich in tradition, in just incredible moments over the years.
07:14I mean, you know, you saw the eras of the Bruins, you know, from going back to 1924
07:19all the way through.
07:20It's a lot of stuff.
07:21That's a lot of legends.
07:22Eddie Shore, Lionel Hitchman to Bobby Orr and Johnny Busek and Espo and Ray Bork and
07:27Cam Neely and Jason Allison and like all these guys.
07:30Right.
07:31And to Patrice Bergeron and Chara in this current day and like there's something to
07:35be said for that.
07:36But most fans around the league don't have that outside of the Chicago and Toronto and
07:40your original six teams.
07:42You know, certainly Utah is creating a tradition right now.
07:44Vegas is doing the same.
07:46Florida seems to be getting something going down there.
07:49But you've got something special.
07:52You are in an elite class in just a few that are a few teams are in.
07:56And I think that that's, you know, there's something to be said for that.
08:00You think in like 100 years, like Justin, Justin Williams is going to do like the storm
08:05surge or all 100 years old, like doing like the thing in Carolina to get him up.
08:10He's like, like, move your hands, Jimmy Carter.
08:14Yeah.
08:15There are going to be one of those things where some of these teams, the 100 years will
08:19be a little different, I think.
08:21But I guess this will be just insane, though.
08:23I know.
08:24We're going to have Wayne Newton out there, like 240 years old at that point.
08:28Bruce Cassidy's in his 200s, you know, like exactly who knows what's going to happen in
08:33100 years.
08:34I mean, these people could be people could be just fine at 200 years old.
08:37Like, who are we to say?
08:38Right.
08:39But we could be there.
08:40We could be there.
08:41You never know.
08:42That is true.
08:43So but no.
08:44Yeah.
08:45You look at just all the history the Bruins have had.
08:47And I think they did a great job.
08:48And there's only so much you can do in like one ceremony.
08:51But I think when you look at this ceremony as kind of the final chapter to what was a
08:57year's worth of celebration and you look back at last year, whether it's the early era,
09:02you had like the big bad Bruins getting able to raise a banner for the first time.
09:07They never had that opportunity when they were there before that to like bringing back
09:11like the 2011 team had almost the entire team there bringing back the cup in that game.
09:17It all like, you know, for a team that has all this history, you can't do it all in one
09:20night.
09:21But you can, I think, hit on all the right notes and pay tribute to everything that's
09:25come before them.
09:26And as you said, like you look through all the great teams that have been here, the iconic
09:29players, the moments, even like the highlight reel, the vid showed reach era where it's
09:34you get on the list of memorable moments, whether it's like the brawl at Madison Square
09:38Garden, you got the you got the or goal, obviously, but then finally beating Montreal and what
09:4587 to present day, like you had the 2011 team, but you had the game seven comeback against
09:52Toronto.
09:53You had all these great moments that are the reason why Bruins fans have been coming to
09:58Causeway Street for, you know, years upon years now.
10:02And it's great just to see them honor that while also I liked how it's also looking forward
10:08to what's next.
10:09And that is the the big challenge facing this team moving forward is how do you build off
10:13of that tradition?
10:14It's something that the players mentioned after the game of like, Charlie McAvoy saying
10:18that you've noticed all these years, the Bruins have been anchored by elite defensemen look
10:24at every single team that has been worth you know, remembering.
10:28I've always had at least one of those guys and he he said it out right.
10:31He's like, I don't want to be compared to Bobby or Ray Ward.
10:34He's like, don't do that.
10:35Please don't do that.
10:37But I want to be that go to guy for my team.
10:40And he responded with a great game on Sunday night.
10:44So I think it's good for the fans to appreciate that.
10:48It's good for the players that were on the bench to watch that and soak that in.
10:51And that's something that has been reiterated time and time again, how important is of keeping
10:56up that tradition and those links and relationships between the old players and the current players
11:01in a Bruins sweater.
11:02And so to see that continue on from what we saw from 10 years ago to where it is now with
11:09guys like Bergeron and Rask and char and all those players now joining those ranks.
11:14It's very, very cool to see.
11:16Yeah, it is.
11:17It is.
11:18And there was a game.
11:19Connor, there was a game.
11:20Oh, you mentioned there was a game played after all of this long day for fans at the
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12:43Uh, speaking of games, Bruins win six, three, uh, quite the performance.
12:49Um, we've been kind of waiting a while for something like that.
12:53Uh, they obviously get a six, three winning against the Islanders a night before Thanksgiving,
12:57but of late, you have that Vancouver game where they couldn't score.
13:00You have, um, who do they play on, on, oh God, Friday night.
13:06Oh, the penguins.
13:07My God, these games are blending together as they can.
13:09I won't blame.
13:10I won't blame you.
13:11I was a pretty frigging boring game, so it was forgettable.
13:14Uh, but Saturday wasn't or Sunday wasn't the game.
13:16See the days.
13:17It's weird.
13:19It's, it's nothing.
13:20Nothing makes sense right now.
13:21So I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna besmirch you for getting the dates wrong.
13:25A shame.
13:26It's hard.
13:27It's hard right now.
13:28We're, you know, world's so fucked up, man.
13:30So, uh, Bruins six, three win though.
13:33Um, they get a lot of scoring coil gets to McAvoy gets to Kepke scores.
13:38The empty netter, uh, does not try to go for McAvoy, uh, streaking down the middle for
13:42the hat trick, which I thought was pretty funny.
13:45Um, I know it's Montreal and you know, the Bruins, I have beat them, what, like nine
13:50straight times at the garden.
13:52Something like that.
13:53Yeah.
13:54It's crazy.
13:55It's crazy.
13:56That curb stomping them.
13:57But, but I still think that's an encouraging show of offense, right?
14:02Yeah.
14:03No, I agree.
14:04Um, I think you look at two out of three games, he scored six goals.
14:07So progress.
14:08Right.
14:09I mean, the other one.
14:10Yeah.
14:11Yeah.
14:12This or that with Joe Sacco.
14:13We'll focus on the positives right now.
14:15Right.
14:16That I think they were, uh, really, I think early on, especially, um, very assertive we're
14:21playing with a lot of pace intensity.
14:23Um, and that's kind of what Joe Sacco said before the game, the, like the Bruins are
14:28a team whose identity should be based on, you know, playing with pace, playing with,
14:32uh, high effort.
14:34Seems like it should be a given, but it's something that I think needs to be reinforced,
14:37especially with this team where I think the high skilled opportunities aren't really going
14:41to be there all that often.
14:42Um, it's something that Charlie McAvoy mentioned after the game, um, where like, you know,
14:47the one thing we can control is how hard we work.
14:50You know, it's even a puck song go our way, or we're not getting those tic-tac-toe, you
14:54know, passing and scoring chances like those maybe not are not going to be there that much
14:58for this team.
14:59Um, you can always, uh, you know, skate hard and, and create plays that way.
15:04And I think you saw McAvoy, uh, take that to heart with, you know, getting the wraparound
15:09goal.
15:10You know, it was a weird game when that opportunity falls in your lap, um, but good on McAvoy
15:17for finishing it.
15:18But yeah, I, I think for them, it's all about the, uh, intensity they play with.
15:22They were physical against a team that likes to mix it up in Montreal these days.
15:26Um, and I think, yeah, I think you're looking at more of just the individual players themselves
15:32that, uh, stepped up in that game.
15:34Like McAvoy, you needed kind of a, a takeover game from him and he was great.
15:39You get two goals from Charlie Coyle, a guy you desperately need to get going further
15:42down the lineup.
15:43And I think that was a step in the right direction.
15:45Um, and then you had even guys that I thought were pretty impactful that maybe weren't on
15:49the score sheet.
15:50Like I thought Elias Lindholm was really active, really killed a lot of plays, um, all across
15:55the ice.
15:56Um, so he's a guy that, you know, coming off that game on Wednesday, three assists against
16:00the Islanders, um, was really good, uh, defensively in this one.
16:05Like these are guys that hope, uh, are trending in the right direction.
16:08Like I'm not ready to make any sweeping declarations to where this team is at or what momentum
16:13you're building.
16:14Cause I think we can probably focus on the negatives a little bit further on here, but,
16:17um, cause you need to see this over an extended stretch.
16:20Um, how many times we've been fooled into this before of this team feels like it's turning
16:25the corner and then they turn the corner and then head, you know, go head first into a
16:29brick wall.
16:30Like you don't want that kid, that video, that kid trying to catch the Hibachi and he's
16:33like, huh?
16:34And he hits April and misses the Hibachi.
16:37Exactly.
16:38So there's that.
16:39Um, but in terms of, I think on an individual level, I think you saw a lot of guys that
16:43need to get going, who took steps in the right direction.
16:46It's all about building now moving forward.
16:49It is.
16:50I'm with you.
16:51I'll believe it when I see it, if they can string together.
16:52I'm not saying they got to score six goals, uh, on Tuesday.
16:56I'm just saying, you know, three, four would be just fine.
16:59How about just win or win or just win in general.
17:03Um, but I do think it is encouraging, you know, Charlie McAvoy jumps into the offense.
17:07He gets to, I mean, he's, you know, slowed down, especially after a pretty good offensive
17:12start.
17:13Uh, coil has been slow the whole year.
17:14He gets to, I do think, you know, you can add in the centennial celebration, you know,
17:18how much that motivates them.
17:20Montreal also is not a good team.
17:22That is a very, they're not, I like their defensive team.
17:25I like their defensive strategy of like stacking the blue line and then they try to do like
17:28a poke check.
17:29And if it gets by, they're like, oh, fuck, oh, well we could do, it's like, oh, it's
17:33like your 10 year old cousin plays NHL and they just try to like, they try to, they do
17:38like man coverage.
17:39They don't do press coverage and they get the games confused and they try to do a poke
17:43check.
17:44And after that, it's right by a player.
17:46Yeah.
17:47Yes.
17:48The, this uber aggressive NHL 25 players.
17:50Um, I also think Montreal is a great example of, you know, everybody who says, hope the
17:55Bruins need to blow it up.
17:56They need to start from the bottom.
17:57Go look at the Canadians.
17:59They're about to be four straight years for the first time in their franchise history,
18:02uh, four straight years of missing the playoffs.
18:04They are not just missing the playoffs.
18:06They are bottom of the league and consistently, uh, top pick like, and they're, and they're
18:12nowhere near.
18:13And what's funny is like Marty St. Louis, like a year ago, it was like this phenomenal
18:16coach.
18:17What?
18:18Jim Montgomery got fired.
18:19He was Montreal was on the landing spots from Montgomery.
18:21People thought like, oh, they'll fire St. Louis.
18:23Um, so again, they, that's instability at its finest up there and a good example of
18:28why you don't just blow it up.
18:30They didn't have a ton, like, just to go back a little bit, they didn't have a ton
18:34to build around from, like, I don't remember them having a ton of high-end talent.
18:38Carey price obviously sort of went down quickly.
18:41Uh, they made that Suban for Weber trade and Weber was dealing with injuries for a while.
18:47Memory serves up front in my lifetime.
18:49They've never really had anybody that was that potent up front.
18:54Like Michael Camilleri was one that they had, uh, they had, they had Alexei Kovalev who
18:59was good, but they weren't building around him for like this core patch already.
19:04That was one.
19:05He was never, I mean, he was never like, you know, superstar.
19:08He was good.
19:09It was like captain, but it's still bottoming out the way that they did.
19:14Um, I don't know.
19:15I just, I hate that.
19:17I don't like when you just, when, when teams decide to, and again, that completely rebuild
19:21and that is again, a team with a lot of history, a lot of, a lot of pride that does not want
19:26to go through this.
19:27It props to them for, you know, making the decision to, to go into the rebuild.
19:32But it's, it again shows that there's a lot of teams that it's tough to kind of gauge
19:36it, right?
19:37Because there's teams that also just outright refuse to rebuild when it's obvious it's time
19:41to do something.
19:42And you probably have missed the window where like, you don't have guys that, you know,
19:46you can trade for more assets or like look at Detroit, right?
19:49Like, but you, you can look at like a team like the capitals that again, I think are
19:53first in the East now.
19:55And like, they made the smart decision a few years ago to be like, all right, this ain't
19:59it like for this year, at least let's move off guys like Orlov and Hathaway and be selective
20:06there.
20:07So, um, but as you said, you look at them, you look at, uh, Detroit, all these teams
20:12that, you know, yeah, that don't want to be at the bottom of the barrel.
20:16Look at Chicago.
20:18Same thing.
20:19Um, like there's no guarantee.
20:22Like even when you hit, like, look at Chicago, a team that has money and they've signed a
20:27impact or, you know, solid NHL players and hit the, the lottery ticket with a guy like
20:33Conor Bedard.
20:34And so guarantee hell, like frigging Celebrity looks better than Bedard right now.
20:39So, you know, and that's it.
20:41And again, like that, it shows you, it's, I think there's no guarantee.
20:44And sometimes it ends up being a crapshoot because like, I don't know, I think the shocks
20:47look better than what, uh, Chicago's got right now and the Chuck still have a lot of
20:52issues.
20:53Yeah.
20:54The thumbs up.
20:55Yeah.
20:56When I, when I shout out Celebrity, it pops up like that.
20:57Yeah.
20:58The little bubble pops up.
20:59Yeah.
21:00It is.
21:01It is a crapshoot.
21:02It's complete crapshoot.
21:03And that's why I think it's a, a thing.
21:05If you could avoid it, if you have a good young core of players that you can build around,
21:09you know, you can make the argument that the Bruins need to rebuild the core around Pasternak,
21:14Swayman and McAvoy and those guys.
21:16And like, I'm for it.
21:17Like, sure.
21:18Let's, let's explore that.
21:19But when, when you get into the trade, Pasternak trade McAvoy, what can you get for Swayman?
21:23That's when you lose me.
21:24And I think that's when it gets dumb.
21:25An aggressive retool should always be the option for teams that have hit on franchise
21:30pillars, right?
21:31Like that should be the thing.
21:32It might mean a couple of lean years, a couple of years where you're maybe you missed the
21:36playoffs by a year or so, but look at how they reloaded during those kinds of lean seasons
21:40where the cap and you know, those things kind of caught up to them.
21:44So yeah.
21:45That should always be the option.
21:46Yes.
21:47And I also look at like, okay, let's go off those three pillars, right?
21:49Pasternak was the 24th pick in the first round.
21:52McAvoy was what, 14 or 15 and Swayman was a fourth rounder.
21:57Yeah.
21:58Like that, that goes to show you, you don't have to have a top 10 pick.
22:01I like the idea of a top 10 pick.
22:04Everybody knows I'm pro drafting in the first round, all that, but you don't need to have
22:07the number one pick to get the best guy.
22:10It's about identifying those guys later on and a fourth round pick.
22:13That's not going to be all the time.
22:14You know, you have to, of course, you're not going to get a Martian in the sixth round
22:16all the time, but still like you get what I mean.
22:19You have to be able to identify guys, uh, later in the draft and later in the first
22:23round.
22:24Um, things that you do want to do, you maybe don't want to rebuild, but you do want to
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23:48Another thing I really liked in that Montreal game, I think it's early and they played a
23:55little bit together before, but I think this Osterly McAvoy pairing might be something
24:02there.
24:03Not saying that they're going to take the world by storm.
24:05I think it's similar to what Grizzlik and McAvoy were.
24:08Grizzlik was a, you know, shifty, good puck moving defenseman.
24:13Osterly is older.
24:15He's played in the NHL, played for the Coyotes, I think three straight years, was in Chicago
24:18for a bit.
24:19I believe he was in Calgary as well, memory serves.
24:24Good responsible puck mover, aggressive stick at, you know, the opposing blue line.
24:30I think it was, I forget which goal it was, but he made a great defensive stop that led
24:34directly to a goal.
24:36I forget if it was Coyle, I'm blanking on who it was, but he did, just source, trust
24:42me on that bro, on Sunday.
24:45I think they might have something with this.
24:46I'm curious what you think.
24:48Yeah.
24:49I mean, you've seen in years past, right, where McAvoy's honestly been the best with
24:54guys that make simple, smart plays, move the puck quickly, and lighten some of the
24:59load there.
25:00And I think you saw that's why he was so good with a guy like Grizzlik for years there,
25:04is that, you know, Grizzlik did a lot of the dirty work or stuff that allowed McAvoy to
25:09be a bit more of a rover.
25:11And I think that's what McAvoy is the most impactful, is when he can kind of operate
25:15off the blue line, can, you know, there's a few guys in the NHL that can add offense
25:20like he can while also, you know, lay the lumber and really take out another guy as
25:25well.
25:26So I think putting him with maybe a guy that has kind of that simplified approach can kind
25:31of unlock more of his game, as opposed to someone that, you know, like Zdorov, who's
25:36can kind of do a little bit of the same thing, or maybe puts himself out of position or stuff
25:40like that, or, you know, lines a guy up for the hit, but then you've got McAvoy trying
25:44to recover, you know, like in terms of I think like a simple puck mover, the guy that makes
25:49simple, smart plays is the best guy to put with McAvoy.
25:51And as you said, sample size has been pretty small, but it is intriguing that maybe that
25:56is the skill set you're looking for with a guy like McAvoy to get the most out of his
25:59game.
26:00Yeah.
26:01And I think it's interesting because Grizzlik and McAvoy always worked so well together
26:04last year.
26:05Not so much, but historically they did.
26:07They think, you know, a lot of people said, oh, it's because they have such great chemistry
26:10from their BU days and their friends and this and that.
26:12But I also think their play style might just work best with McAvoy.
26:17You know, they tried Derek Forbert, who has a very different play style with Charlie McAvoy.
26:20They've tried Zdorov.
26:21They signed Zdorov in hopes that, you know, his play style could mesh well with McAvoy's.
26:26Maybe it isn't the big, you know, chance taker who can mess guys up and this and that.
26:32Maybe it is, you know, having a shifty puck mover on the other side who is responsible.
26:38Like that might just be osterly.
26:40Now, you know, maybe I, you know, is it a Hampus Lindholm when he comes back?
26:44Is that who they put up there with him?
26:47Is Lowry the long-term fit there?
26:49I don't know.
26:50You know, I think Lowry is a little bit more of a chance taker offensively and can kind
26:54of, you know, leave you, leave his partner out to dry at times just trying to make plays.
26:58And I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but I do wonder if osterly might, they've maybe
27:03found something with him.
27:05Who knows?
27:06I mean, he hadn't been in the lineup prior, you know, since, I think since Sacco took
27:10over.
27:11But I like his game.
27:12He keeps it simple.
27:14He knows pucks.
27:15Well, aggressive in the neutral zone.
27:16Like I think I, you know, keep giving him a chance while there's spoons.
27:20Great too.
27:21Like I think while there's spoon is great.
27:22We've said this a thousand times, great seventh defenseman, a good fill in a good third pairing
27:26guy.
27:27The problem is like the door offs on your third pairing right now and low rise, you
27:31know, teetering between your second and your first and while there's spoon kind of plays,
27:37doesn't stand himself out among those two.
27:40And osterly I think fits a need that while there's spoon can't really fill.
27:43So like I think that sort of leaves him as the odd man out.
27:46I do wonder, you know, if osterly continued to play like this, what that would mean for
27:51when Lindholm comes back.
27:52But again, Lindholm Sacco even said on the other day, I'll come back for weeks.
27:56Yeah, exactly.
27:57So I don't know if you're even going to see him until probably the start of the new year.
28:01The way that kind of looking in terms of his recovery.
28:04So again, it is going to give you an option if you're the Bruins to see where exactly
28:09a guy like osterly or someone else can kind of fill in there and add a little bit of an
28:13element there.
28:14But it is it is brutal that right before, you know, the Bruins kind of have this hard
28:18reset and Joe Sacco's in there that I still think it was Lindholm was their best skater
28:24this whole year until he gets hurt.
28:27You are really kind of missing that when you're looking at this team.
28:30And again, with how small the margin forever has been for this team with their scoring
28:34issues, how much is having Lindholm out there who has been really active in the offensive
28:38zone, really been a dynamic player.
28:42His injury did come at the worst possible time, especially with the power play, which
28:46still doesn't look very good.
28:47No, I was going to say the power play also just another one against Montreal, which again,
28:52it would have been a good chance to get that going.
28:54They run out the same grouping.
28:56I didn't see any real big differences, especially at the point.
29:00And even low rise look shaky, you know, with the puck at the point.
29:04So like they I don't know, they have the yips.
29:07They just something's up with that whole operation.
29:11It's like Chuck Knobloch just throwing a first base and going like 20 stands behind him.
29:15So just got the yips.
29:18That's what's happening.
29:19Anyway, Connor, what can the people look forward to from you over at the globe and Boston dot
29:22com?
29:23Yeah, well, I've covered every step of the way this brewing season, whether it's recaps,
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