On this episode of Bruins Beat, Evan Marinofsky and Conor Ryan discuss the Bruins' recent rough stretch. Is this team capable of winning consistently? Or even winning enough to stay in playoff position? That, and much more!
Topics:
- Bruins are sputtering
- Missing the mark during a vital stretch
- What if this streak continues?
- A local kid was the hero at World Juniors!
- Concerned about lack of Bruins at WJC?
- The future of Oliver Wahlstrom
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Topics:
- Bruins are sputtering
- Missing the mark during a vital stretch
- What if this streak continues?
- A local kid was the hero at World Juniors!
- Concerned about lack of Bruins at WJC?
- The future of Oliver Wahlstrom
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00:24I am Evan Maranofsky.
00:25That is Connor Ryan.
00:26Connor, what is up?
00:28Evan, I'm doing well.
00:30How are you doing?
00:31Doing great.
00:32Doing great.
00:33How's Callie?
00:34Pretty good.
00:35It was an eventful day yesterday.
00:37I was on the clock covering the Patriots and some other news came up right after the game
00:43ended.
00:44So, I was tied up, was able to watch a little bit of the Bruins game.
00:49Kind of a bleak day when you look at it, right?
00:50The Bruins lose.
00:52Celtics lost.
00:53Patriots won, but by correlation, they lost.
00:58Still find a way to lose.
01:00Yes.
01:01And Jerrod Mayo lost his job.
01:02So, it was a pretty bleak day in Boston.
01:04California was great.
01:05Nice and sunny.
01:06Yeah.
01:07I remember the days not so long ago when there'd be that person who'd tweet out, like, Bruins
01:12win, Celtics win, Patriots win, and then like, you know, two spaces and then to be like,
01:18city of champions strikes again.
01:20It's like, those days feel over.
01:23You know?
01:25You know that great quote in The Office where it's like, I wish I knew I was in the good
01:28old days.
01:29I wish I didn't know the way you were in.
01:30I am butchering that quote.
01:32Oh my god.
01:33I guess I shouldn't be the one to say it, but it was essentially, I wish I knew I was
01:37in the good old days when I was in them.
01:40Actually in them, yes.
01:41Yeah.
01:42Like, me, Bernard.
01:43Yes.
01:44Which I guess I can't speak today.
01:47Just feels like we're out of it.
01:48I don't know.
01:49I just, not the same.
01:51I'll see the highlights come up on TikTok.
01:53I just saw one come up and you know, it's, you know that like time is flying when you
01:58see like a nostalgia videos about like the 2018 AFC championship game between the Chiefs
02:03and the Patriots.
02:04And it's like, oh, that was like two years ago, right?
02:06Nope.
02:07It was like six or seven years at this point, which is bananas.
02:13So yeah, depressing Sunday Bruins at least were the closest to like a true win, lose
02:19five to four in overtime to the Islanders.
02:22was sort of not upbeat, but after the game sort of mentioned, you know, they grinded
02:28back into the game.
02:29They got point, they found a way to get a point.
02:31I'm going to push back on that.
02:34Bruins are oh three and one in their last four losses to Washington, the Rangers, the
02:39Leafs and the Islanders and the Capitals and the Leafs are obviously, you know, top of
02:43their respective divisions, Islanders and Rangers, definitely not.
02:49And I know those were just one goal losses, but we talked about this last week of this
02:53stretch to start January was big.
02:56It was really big and you have the Oilers, you have the Lightning, you have the Panthers
02:59and you have the Lightning again coming up.
03:02I don't know, man.
03:04If you're stumbling now and then you've got these next four coming up, how do you have
03:09a lot of faith in this team?
03:10Yeah, I mean, this was kind of reviewed this whole month really, right, Evan is like the
03:15big litmus test as to what this team could be, what maybe it values, what they are.
03:20And so far, they just seem like a middling up and down team that maybe can sneak into
03:25the playoffs.
03:26But, you know, I think I was probably a lot more optimistic the last time we had a podcast,
03:29right, where I was like, well, they can get in and went around.
03:32Not if you're playing like this, like, and I think what's frustrating, right, is I think
03:37the sign of like a middling team is one that has multiple flaws or just can't, you know,
03:42find any cohesion, can't find any consistency.
03:44And so I think you look at these last couple of games, like what has probably been the
03:48biggest flaw for the team this year?
03:50It's been like the scoring issues, you know, you haven't had David Pasternak have some
03:53takeover games.
03:54You haven't had a lot of scoring up and down the lineup, and it's not fixed by any means,
03:58but they've been scoring, you know, three, four goals a game.
04:01David Pasternak's heating up, he's got two goals and back to back games.
04:06If the Bruins were doing what they were doing, you know, late last month or pretty much since
04:10Joe Sacco took over of like clamping down defensively, probably win both these games.
04:15You feel great about where they are beating, you know, beating a team of the Islanders
04:18that should have been an easier matchup.
04:20You beat Toronto on the road, like, all right, like, if they beat Toronto, and they walk
04:24down defensively, not give up everything in great AIs, as they did in that game, you're
04:29feeling pretty good, right?
04:30Like, ah, David Pasternak's heating up, like this is a turning point.
04:33Maybe we've had a lot of turning points this year, we feel like they've, they've built
04:37off of a win.
04:38But if it's not one thing, it's the other with this team, right?
04:42Like they finally get some scoring, and then the defense just completely kind of just implodes
04:48in terms of their structure in great AIs.
04:52McAvoy has been really poor the last couple of games, the door off Kyle, all the guys,
04:56it's like, if it's not one thing, or if it's not one thing, it's the other, right?
05:01It's like whack-a-mole, like you're trying to figure out, you've got the offense settled
05:05down.
05:06And then all of a sudden, like, the guys who should be your, your key cogs, your foundation
05:09of the defense, like forget how to play.
05:12It's like, I don't know, man, it's, it's frustrating when you just look at this team and where
05:18they're at.
05:19And when you try to map out, like, what could go right for this team, you can paint the
05:23picture as to what it is, but in terms of seeing it in practice, when are we, when are
05:27we getting it?
05:28When are we getting the four or five, six game stretch where they can win 3-1, 4-1?
05:31When are we getting those games?
05:34Because right now it feels like they just can't get out of their own way in terms of
05:38the flaws they have on this team.
05:39And they're overcorrecting one way, it leads to flaws in the defensive zone.
05:43They can't score, but they're not giving up a lot.
05:45Maybe it's just a sign of a middling team, right, Evan?
05:49Right.
05:50And I think, you know, if they continue at this pace, so they're 0-3-1 in their last
05:55four, if they continue that over the next four, and, you know, let's say they even get
06:00one or two wins in their next four games, like, I think you're at the point where you're
06:05like, all right, they might be a middling playoff team, but they might also not be a
06:10playoff team.
06:11And that's the thing where, like, if you're consistently kind of having these, not no-shows,
06:16but you're consistently having problems pop up, as you said, if it's not one thing, it's
06:20this.
06:21If it's not the scoring, it's your ability to prevent the other team from scoring, or
06:24it's your goaltender, or like, you know, the first goal against the Islanders is a shorthanded
06:28goal.
06:29And then they score, the Islanders score right after because, you know, Charlie McAvoy, and
06:33I'm not saying it was because of him, but wouldn't get off the ice after the power play.
06:37He's still out there.
06:38He's tired.
06:39The Islanders go and score.
06:40We'll get to McAvoy in a bit, but like, just stuff keeps popping up.
06:46And I've said it a couple of times where it's like, you know, the past couple of years,
06:49especially that 22-23 season, it was like, how is it not their year?
06:53Everything's going right.
06:54And they're dominating and this and that, and it's like, I can't see this team losing.
06:59First off, what we've seen, I just don't see this team being a hard out in the playoffs.
07:02And I know they're more physical and they're a little bit bigger and all that stuff.
07:06And, you know, oh, Mark Kastelik later hit in the offensive zone.
07:09That's great.
07:10But like their defensive zone coverage right now stinks, stinks the last couple of games.
07:15I mean, it's been awful, like, you know, breakdowns just rimming the puck around the boards and
07:21it's just easily intercepted.
07:24And that stuff is pretty fixable.
07:27I always say like defense isn't really skill.
07:29It's will.
07:30I know it's cliche, but it's true.
07:33And like when I see Parker Wotherspoon go and just rim a puck around the boards that
07:38he gets behind the net, it's like, dude, pick your head up and look, look.
07:43And McAvoy's been doing the same thing.
07:44Dafumi, after the Leafs game, tweeted a whole like compilation of bad defensive zone breakdowns
07:50leading to goals.
07:52He's always good for the clips every game, which is great.
07:55Yes.
07:56And he highlighted it perfectly.
07:58And you saw it against Toronto.
07:59You saw it against the Islanders.
08:01And again, I just I have such a tough time buying into this team right now.
08:07And I think a lot of people do.
08:08And I think this is a crucial stretch.
08:10We said it on that West Coast trip in Western Canada.
08:14And what we got out of that trip was, oh, they're a middle playoff team, like got crushed
08:18in the first two, had a good last three.
08:21You'll take it.
08:23This stretch right now started off really bad.
08:27I get that they battled back for a point against the Islanders, but I just the overall stretch
08:33of work over the last four is not looking great going into the next four and the next
08:37stretch of games.
08:38And they have Ottawa after their second time playing Tampa.
08:41So like that's a divisional opponent that's climbing back into the standings or coming
08:45back into the playoff picture.
08:46So I don't know, man, I just don't see it right now.
08:50And I think they are teetering.
08:51And I know it's only beginning of January.
08:53They're teetering on sort of being a wildcard team soon, which they haven't been for most
08:57of the year.
08:58So I mean, shit, I think it's fair.
09:01Yeah.
09:02I mean, shit.
09:03They're lucky.
09:04They're even a wildcard team because they've been bailed out continually by them when they
09:07played like shit.
09:08It just so happens that the other teams take their foot off the gas and lose too.
09:11Every time they lose, Tampa loses, Ottawa loses, Florida loses.
09:16Like they haven't been, they have not really paid for the fact that they've been kind of
09:19playing like dickheads the last couple of weeks, honestly.
09:22The way they've been playing.
09:23I mean, how else are you going to describe the way they're playing right now?
09:26You can't score at all.
09:27And then all of a sudden you're having, as you said, correctable lapses in terms of how
09:31they're playing in the D zone.
09:34What are you supposed to take out of it other than the fact that maybe they're just what
09:36they are, which is a pedestrian average team.
09:39And listen, maybe they'll prove us wrong.
09:41They sneak into the playoffs and make some noise.
09:43They have the ability to do that.
09:44But when are we going to see it, Evan?
09:46That's what I'm waiting for.
09:47Because right now, again, like until this team starts winning six out of seven or goes
09:53into Florida and beats Tampa in Florida, I don't think I'm staying, I don't think I'm
09:58shifting my opinion of where this team is, like the way they're playing.
10:01I think I've been burned one, two, three, seven, 12, 15 times already this year.
10:05So let's see what they got because right now, yeah, I think I'm kind of in the same boat
10:09as you.
10:10Well, that's the thing is like, I just don't, I can't put my chips in the middle of the
10:16table with this team.
10:17I can't put any chips in and, you know, I think it's plausible kind of going off your
10:24second half predictions of like, maybe they do get a wildcard spot and surprise some teams
10:28in the metro like could absolutely happen.
10:31You know, it's not out of the realm of possibility.
10:33But based off what we've seen so far, it's hard to justify that.
10:38It's hard to think that like, oh, they're going to go deep and, you know, do they believe
10:42in that room that they're going to go deep?
10:43Yes.
10:44I remember the day that Montgomery got fired, those, those scrums in the locker room and
10:48guys saying, you know, we have belief in this team and that's great.
10:50I hope you believe in that team, but from the outside, man, it's hard to sit here and
10:55be like, oh yeah, this is a, this is a team that's going to go deep in the playoffs.
10:59And I think, you know, as the, as things go along, I mean, again, we've had stretches
11:04of the year where we're like, you know, we come on here and we're like, oh, they're pretty
11:07good.
11:08Like imagine they did this all the time and then there's stretches like this where they
11:10play bad.
11:11So it's just kind of consistently inconsistent.
11:14We'll get into sort of the roster flaws as time goes along.
11:18I don't want to waste it all in one because I think we're going to, we'd repeat ourselves
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13:13How about the world juniors last night, Connor or Sunday night, Boston university college,
13:19right?
13:20Leading the way for goals.
13:21Right?
13:22Not too bad.
13:23Not too shabby.
13:24I would say so be, I say the winners of this, this tournament would be you in BC, BC kids
13:29dominant.
13:30Like you kid led the whole tournament and in points, Cole Iserman played in like a specialty
13:35role and still averaged over a point per game.
13:39Like I, and then I almost jumped through the TV screen when it was Teddy Siga who won it.
13:45Like I, I know you're a big stand.
13:49Big Teddy.
13:50I stand Teddy.
13:51Love Teddy.
13:52He's a great kid.
13:53Great family.
13:54Like humble kid.
13:55I mean, like, you know, you, you would never pick him as, you know, a potential pro hockey
13:59player.
14:00If you just saw him or talk to him, he's not cocky or anything.
14:02He's just a good kid.
14:04And whenever I saw him streaking down the right side, I'm like, it's like that, that
14:08is the Leonardo DiCaprio thing where it's like, Oh, Oh, Oh, I'm like, Oh my God.
14:12And he put it, it scored and it's just incredible.
14:14So he's from Sudbury.
14:15People that don't know Belmont Hill kid went to the national program, Boston junior Eagle.
14:22Really good kid.
14:23I've covered him for a couple of years now.
14:25So really happy for him.
14:26I mean, just over the moon for him.
14:28And it's just crazy.
14:30Like, you know, local kid makes it big.
14:33So and good for the U S how about Canada?
14:36Oh, not great.
14:38Yeah.
14:39Yeah.
14:40Tough.
14:41You hate to see it, right?
14:42I hate to see it.
14:43God played the world's smallest violin.
14:44I loved all the Canadian people being like, Oh, us has been not made the semifinals many
14:49times two years in a row.
14:50And it's like, okay, well, what have you done for me lately?
14:53Yeah, exactly.
14:54What's going on right now?
14:55I'm getting beat by the checks once again, getting crushed, but they lost a lot via didn't
15:00they?
15:01They did.
15:02Yes.
15:03Yeah.
15:04Hey, no, don't disrespect.
15:05Don't disrespect Lafayette.
15:06You know, they, they had a great time.
15:08He was insane.
15:09Yeah.
15:10Yeah.
15:11But you know, I would say I don't listen, Evan, I wouldn't say I'm a hockey expert.
15:17I like hockey.
15:18I write about hockey, but I'm not going to be a fortune teller here.
15:20But if you were to ask me, I probably would have guessed that Canada would have beat Latvia.
15:27That's a hot take though.
15:28That's a hot take.
15:29Yeah, I guess.
15:30You know, I will.
15:31I think one of the cool takeaways from this is the US hockey model is working.
15:40In no point in their history have they produced so many highly skilled, quick, fast players.
15:48I mean, remember like the, the, the US teams, even the Olympic teams, like when we were
15:52growing up, they were gritty, powerful words.
15:55They weren't flashy.
15:56They were, they were like David Bacchus, you know, those kinds of guys.
16:00And they were great to watch, like no doubt.
16:03But now you've got like some of the most skilled guys in the NHL.
16:06You have more coming.
16:07You have Higgins.
16:09You've got so many kids coming up, even from New England who are like that same kind of
16:14player.
16:15And again, Leonard, if, if I were the Bruins, I would trade legitimately anything for that
16:20kid.
16:21Yeah.
16:22He's a beast.
16:23He's, he's a monster.
16:24He's going to be such a pain in the ass with the Capitals for a long, long time.
16:27People are going to hate him.
16:28I know.
16:29He's going to be awesome.
16:30Oh, they're going to hate him.
16:31It's going to be great.
16:32He's going to be phenomenal for the league.
16:34So he's another one.
16:35And like the US is churning out guys.
16:38And I don't, I'm not in tune with what Canada's doing.
16:41I know that the last, you know, two world juniors teams have not been great.
16:46And I obviously, you know, I think they have the Misa kid right this year who should be
16:49like a high pick or potential number one.
16:54But the US is doing a good job.
16:57Like the US, the ADM model is working, which I think is really cool to see.
17:04Wish the Bruins could, Oh, you know what, let's keep this a little world junior.
17:07Are you concerned at all that no Bruins prospects were on the any world junior team?
17:12I mean, it's not ideal, right?
17:14I would say that again, I think you look at their prospect system and you know, they've
17:21had a few guys that I think are a ways away, right?
17:24Like Letourneau.
17:25And you know, I think they've got some intriguing guys in their pipeline, but still, this is
17:29also why I think you look at this team and what's worth investing in, in terms of where
17:34they are.
17:35Please don't trade a first round pick.
17:38And please don't do that.
17:39Because like, let's, again, you've got a guy like Letourneau, who again, like I know people
17:42are looking at his stat line and they're not enthused, even though, again, this is a guy
17:45that's a multi-year project should honestly be in the USHL this year, kind of getting
17:50his footing.
17:51So I think we all expected some growing pains, but what the Bruins need is like adding a
17:56guy to the system who like, you know, is either lightened up in the USHL or like a guy that's
18:02like a WHL winger, who's got like 49 goals, like maybe like just some guy with some talent,
18:08like someone crushing the OHL.
18:10Yeah, blue chip, like, you know, between the, you know, low 20s or something like that,
18:17in terms of the draft order that it can bring in that is automatically worth keeping tabs
18:21on moving forward.
18:22They desperately need someone like that, like, you know, like, just the excitement you got
18:25when like, a guy like YSL was available for them, right of like, a guy that people thought
18:30was kind of dropped a little bit in terms of what his skill set was, he was like a legit
18:35top 10 talent.
18:36And again, like for the Bruins, who are so barren in that regard, and again, be great
18:40if the Bruins actually played YSL recently, which, again, which is also frustrating the
18:45fact that the Bruins aren't calling up these young guys, because you know, you gotta have
18:49a 200 foot game and the guys that are getting millions of dollars and playing like shit
18:53in their own D zone.
18:54So that's kind of ironic.
18:56But no, I think this team desperately does need to keep that first round pick.
19:01Because you just desperately need just one of those players to add to the mix that can
19:06give you a little bit of something there.
19:07Yeah.
19:08And I know Chris Pelosi tried out for the world junior team didn't make it.
19:13And he's been great at Quinnipiac this year.
19:15But I agree with you, you need some guys in the system.
19:18Like you said, Letourneau is a project.
19:21You don't know when that's going to be, that's going to be years down the line, he's not
19:24going to have any impact on this, you know, current team or current core, like, he's going
19:28to come along when Pasternak is a true vet.
19:33And I think that's the thing with, you know, they need guys that are high end, that have
19:38some hype.
19:39And by the way, I was fine with the Letourneau pick last year, like, I think that was the
19:42right thing swing for the fences, try to get your like, all time number one center, you
19:47know that you would want I agree with that.
19:48And he still could, by the way, pin into that he's nowhere near, you know, judgment day.
19:54But you need some high end guys.
19:56And that's why like, keep your picks, please keep your picks.
19:59If anything, if these games have shown you anything, it's that you do need some skill.
20:04And I do think it is concerning that they don't have guys competing at the highest level
20:08in their age group.
20:08But obviously, different guys can develop.
20:10I don't think Lowry was ever a world junior kid.
20:14Yeah, I don't think he was a holenka kid.
20:16So like, I think that, you know, guys, peak at different times, guys blossom at different
20:22times.
20:23But I agree, you still need that.
20:25That high end young talent, by the way, did you see behind the B did like a day in the
20:30life of Mason Lowry on a game day?
20:32Did you see this?
20:33I did not know.
20:34It's on YouTube.
20:35It's like, they did a great job with it.
20:37Couple things like a little concern, not concerning, but a little crazy.
20:42Lowry stopped at dunks before the game, it was before they beat the Caps on December
20:4523.
20:46So maybe he's on to something.
20:47And he got a donut, a donut before a game.
20:51That's wild.
20:53But I can't imagine that.
20:54It's I mean, it's like Jake DeBruys eating Oreos before a game, too.
20:57So that's right.
20:58These guys, it works.
20:59It works.
21:00I mean, I saw a video that was I think it was DK Metcalf on the Seattle Seahawks, where
21:03it's like that dude just eats like gummy worms, like all day.
21:08So these problems might be built different, I would say, Evan.
21:13Yes.
21:14And then the second concerning thing was he was driving.
21:17He was driving his car, talking to the camera and eating a donut.
21:20No hands on the wheel, not really looking at the road much.
21:24And I'm like, is this is a green screen like they just set like, is he actually driving
21:29to one of those Mary Poppins, like the really grainy film behind them?
21:34Even like Seinfeld, like just the back doesn't match up.
21:37Yeah.
21:38So yeah, that was I got a kick out of that with Laura.
21:41Go check that out on YouTube.
21:42It was well done by the Bruins and also interesting.
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23:28Um, Ty Anderson, our friend Ty Anderson had an interesting tweet after Sunday's game.
23:34He said, no, it's not an, no, it's not easy to be claimed on weight.
23:37Wow.
23:38Ty needs to really work on his sentence structure.
23:40No, it's not easy to be claimed on waivers and dropped into a new organization, but really
23:44think Wallstrom's got to show something here soon.
23:48Been given more rope than multiple young players that continue to knock at the door in Providence
23:52slash don't get same NHL rope, but not seeing much.
23:55I would agree.
23:56I'd agree.
23:57Wallstrom, uh, hard to notice at times, um, had a couple almost goals.
24:03Um, I know they've tried them out on the power play, um, cool story, but he's 24 or 25.
24:11Um, and Ty's right.
24:12You have Lysell, you have Murkuloff, you have Patra in Providence who've done their time,
24:16who've paid their dues down there and they're not getting looks and Wallstrom is extended
24:20period of time up here, not doing a heck of a lot.
24:23I just wonder, like, are those guys in Providence getting angry at that?
24:27And I wonder when do we see some sort of change made?
24:30I mean, I think it's going to come soon, right?
24:32Like even if the Bruins are starting to score a little bit more now, it's also coincided
24:36with David Posternak taking over games, right?
24:39It's not like you're, you're losing five, four, six, four, what have you, but it's like
24:44Frederick scoring and, you know, and again, he's, he was able to score, uh, against Toronto.
24:49So there is some progress there, but still, I think you look at what this team is and
24:54where they're at and I think how hard they have to work for goals, especially further
24:58down the lineup.
24:59I think this team definitely needs just some more skills, some more playmaking, especially
25:04further down the lineup.
25:05So if that's Potra, if that's Lysel, that's Markulov, like I also think at this point,
25:10Evan, right, where if this team is going to be middle of the pack, wildcard team or something
25:15like that, let's make, you know, what could be a wash if it's season worthwhile and seeing
25:19what these guys can do, right?
25:21Like I'd rather you go into this year, they, you know, set themselves up for a first round
25:25knockout or just missed the playoffs entirely, which would suck, but I'd rather go through
25:29a year like that where you also find out, all right, Lysel is not where this is it for
25:34him.
25:35Like, we know what we got in him.
25:36He's not at NHL.
25:37He's not doing what we need him to do.
25:38He's out, you know, Markulov, same thing, Potra, like, all right, like, I think he benefited
25:44him going down to Providence and you saw the production he's had down there.
25:47But I also see occasionally, like, whether it's Anthony or Diver or someone else posting
25:52like something of like him getting crosschecked in the back, I'm like, all right, let's call
25:56him up.
25:57Like, you know, I forget like the AHL is kind of like the Wild West at times.
26:00I'm ready to see him up in the NHL level.
26:01Yeah, the physicality in the AHL is the exact same like the NHL, like you guys were heavy
26:06and physical down there, too.
26:08Yeah.
26:09So I think it has to be pretty soon in terms of when the Bruins are calling these guys
26:13up and bring them to the mix.
26:15Because again, the just shortage of playmaking and skill on this team has left a lot to be
26:22desired.
26:23And again, like, even these guys don't work out, we're not going to know unless we don't
26:26give them extended time to try, fail, and who knows, maybe succeed at the next level.
26:31We just haven't seen it yet.
26:33It's frustrating.
26:34I agree.
26:35And I've said it all along, even like trade value wise, like, I think, you know, a lot
26:38of times when there's like a hot player available, people are like, all right, do a package around
26:42Lysel.
26:43And it's like, he doesn't have much value because the Bruins have stashed him in Providence
26:47forever.
26:48Like, and yeah, of course, some of that's on Lysel for sure.
26:51But like, you've also got to see what he is at the NHL level and you're not going to see
26:54that if you never bring him up, it's, you know, Murkuloff has done well in Providence
26:58for a long time, especially offensively, like this team needs an offensive jolt.
27:03They need playmakers and Murkuloff has been one in Providence and Patras the same way
27:08Patras produced.
27:09So like, you know, do we expect they come up here, two of them, one of them, I can't
27:14see them doing all three, but like, let's say two or one or two of them, do I see them
27:18coming up and like game changing, you know, the whole team and they're suddenly like,
27:22you know, at the top of the Atlantic, no, but a jolt wouldn't hurt and an extended look
27:26wouldn't hurt.
27:27Like Sacco has been pretty good about keeping lines together for a fair amount of time.
27:31Seeing what those lines can produce, bring up Lysel for eight, nine, 10 games, you know,
27:37bring up Patra, you know, and I think Patra they're more sure of in the NHL, you know,
27:41same with Murkuloff, bring up Murkuloff for nine to 10 games, like see what you have for
27:45an extended time.
27:46And if there's nothing, then there's nothing.
27:47And if they didn't take advantage of their opportunity and they didn't take advantage
27:50of their opportunity, but you know, I even look, um, you know, I just, I, I, I don't
27:56understand why they aren't.
27:57I don't get the rationale behind that because as we've seen, um, the last stretch of games,
28:03even these vets who are up here, not even vets, but like a Trent Frederick, who's been
28:06around for a while.
28:07Um, and I'm not just saying him, but they make mistakes too.
28:10They make mistakes too.
28:13So, and, and, you know, I get that they have a hard stretch of games coming up, so they
28:17should be able to play against top NHL teams.
28:19They're in the NHL.
28:20You should be able to play against anybody.
28:22Um, so that's, I think people are very frustrated about the young guys not getting the call
28:28up.
28:29Um, and I do wonder if the, if they, if they really slip in these next four games, right?
28:33Well, they lose the Oilers, they lose the Lightning, lose the Panthers, lose the Lightning
28:36again.
28:38I do wonder if their whole outlook on this season changes where then the young guys come
28:43up where it's like, all right, it's mid January.
28:45We are teetering on that second wildcard spot.
28:49I would imagine.
28:50I mean, if you've lost three games in your division, that does not help.
28:53Um, so I do wonder if these four games kind of dictate when we might see those young guys
28:57come up.
28:58Uh, Connor, what can people look forward to from you over at the globe and boston.com?
29:03Yeah.
29:04Uh, you can read me over at boston.com and the Boston Globe.
29:07I've covered every step of the way this Bruins season with recaps, features, Collins, breakdowns,
29:12all that good stuff.
29:13And if you want to follow me on Twitter X, whatever it's called, you can at Connor Ryan
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29:21That's Connor Ryan.
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