Bring on the Maple Leafs | Pucks with Haggs
Joe Haggerty is joined today by Mick Colageo following the conclusion of the regular season. Joe and Mick look ahead to the Bruins Round 1 matchup against the Toronto Maple Leafs, and take a look back at the B's lackluster ending to the season. Are they ready for the playoffs? That, and much more!
This episode of the Pucks with Haggs Podcast is brought to you by PrizePicks! Get in on the excitement with PrizePicks, America’s No. 1 Fantasy Sports App, where you can turn your hoops knowledge into serious cash. Download the app today and use code CLNS for a first deposit match up to $100! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that Easy! Football season may be over, but the action on the floor is heating up. Whether it’s Tournament Season or the fight for playoff homecourt, there’s no shortage of high stakes basketball moments this time of year. Quick withdrawals, easy gameplay and an enormous selection of players and stat types are what make PrizePicks the #1 daily fantasy sports app!
This episode of the Pucks with Haggs Podcast is brought to you by PrizePicks! Get in on the excitement with PrizePicks, America’s No. 1 Fantasy Sports App, where you can turn your hoops knowledge into serious cash. Download the app today and use code CLNS for a first deposit match up to $100! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that Easy! Football season may be over, but the action on the floor is heating up. Whether it’s Tournament Season or the fight for playoff homecourt, there’s no shortage of high stakes basketball moments this time of year. Quick withdrawals, easy gameplay and an enormous selection of players and stat types are what make PrizePicks the #1 daily fantasy sports app!
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00 I mean, come on, four shots on net in the first couple of periods last night, whether
00:03 they have like three or four on net, you know, every period they played against what they
00:07 were dated, not like they were like they were trying offensively at all.
00:10 It was zero effort offensively to do anything like they were keeping the games respectable,
00:15 playing good defense.
00:16 Swaman played well, but they were not playing to win either one of those games in my opinion.
00:20 So I think they got what they wanted.
00:23 They're going to get a team that I think they've dominated all year and it's going to be a
00:26 good matchup.
00:26 Welcome to another edition of the Pucks with Hags podcast.
00:35 As always, I'm your host, Joe Haggerty.
00:38 You can find my work at JoeHaggerty.substack.com.
00:41 All of my Bruins and NHL writings, you get a premium membership.
00:45 You get to read all of them sent straight directly to your inbox.
00:48 I also write columns for the Boston Sports Journal.
00:51 Check BostonSportsJournal.com for all of that stuff.
00:55 Pucks with Hags podcast is powered by PrizePix, the exclusive daily fantasy partner of the
01:00 CLNS Media Network.
01:01 I believe this is the 82nd episode of the Pucks with Hags podcast.
01:05 I have a friend and colleague, Mick Colaggio, here with me today.
01:09 This will be a big episode.
01:10 We'll get to talk about the Bruins, the playoffs, who they're going to play.
01:14 We know all that stuff now.
01:16 Let's quickly though, thank our sponsor PrizePix, the largest daily fantasy sports platform
01:21 in North America with the easiest and most exciting way to play daily fantasy sports.
01:26 Instead of battling thousands of other players that could be pros or sharks, you simply pick
01:30 more or less than on two to six player stat projections and watch the winnings roll right
01:35 in.
01:36 For example, David Postner, you can pick shots on net, you could pick goals, you could probably
01:40 pick giveaways.
01:41 He had an awful one last night in the middle of the ice that turned into an empty net goal
01:45 for the Ottawa Senators.
01:46 He's always good for a few giveaways in addition to all the offense he provides.
01:50 Charlie McEvoy picked block shots, hits, all kinds of stuff.
01:54 Quick aside, if you picked Jeremy Lozon with the hits down in Nashville, you were rolling
02:00 in the money this year because he set the NHL record with the newfangled way they keep
02:04 track of the hits statistic.
02:06 Most hits in a season in the NHL ever.
02:10 Jeremy Lozon, an old friend that was drafted by the Boston Bruins.
02:13 But anyway, another player that you can get involved in.
02:16 It's fun and pretty simple.
02:17 Download the PrizePicks app today and use the code CLNS for a first deposit match of
02:21 up to $100.
02:22 That's download the PrizePicks app today and use the code CLNS for a first deposit match
02:27 of up to $100.
02:29 Pick more, pick less.
02:31 It's that easy.
02:32 All right, Mick, first, before we get into it, please plug away where everybody can find
02:37 your work.
02:38 - Okay.
02:39 RankRap, my blog, I link to it on Exxon on Facebook.
02:46 My Sunday column on bostonhockeynow.com and seasonal issues of the hockey news, I write
02:51 the little Bruins part when they come out with those things like Prospects, yearbook,
02:58 Money Power, and I do podcasts like this.
03:03 - That's right.
03:04 And we're always glad to have Mick.
03:06 Let's get into it, Mick.
03:08 Bruins lose three to one to the Ottawa Senators last night.
03:12 Nearly five periods of lackluster hockey going back to the previous game against Washington
03:18 and the first two periods against Ottawa, just barely even getting shots on net.
03:23 They finally sort of turned it on and woke up in the third period, put 23 shots on Anton
03:30 Forsberg, could only get one by him, ended up losing three to one on an empty net goal
03:36 at the end.
03:39 Your thoughts on the way the season ended and obviously now with the way things ended,
03:46 they lost out on the Atlantic Division to the Florida Panthers who beat the Maple Leafs
03:49 last night.
03:50 The Florida Panthers will face the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round.
03:53 The Bruins will host the Toronto Maple Leafs.
03:56 I would assume it's going to be Saturday night at eight o'clock hockey night in Canada for
03:59 game one.
04:01 Your thoughts on what we've seen over the last few days and the playoff opponent.
04:07 If I had a pillow on me, I'd give you an illustration because I want to put my head under it.
04:13 I just hate the way the Bruins finished this season.
04:16 It does not inspire hope that they're going to play well and turn on, find that switch.
04:24 Somebody located for the third period.
04:26 That's great that they found it, but I just don't, I think they're playing with fire to
04:32 peter out the way they did.
04:34 They talked it down when they started, I don't want to say they mailed in games, but I don't
04:40 think I've ever seen a team have this good a season numbers wise, statistics, standings
04:46 wise, and be so completely dependent on a certain high threshold of compete that makes
04:55 the difference between being able to lose to anyone and being able to beat anyone.
05:00 But that's them.
05:01 So if the theory holds true that that's going to come naturally to them when the puck drops
05:07 Saturday, then maybe I should get my head out from underneath that pillow.
05:16 But it's not inspiring what happened this past week.
05:21 It just isn't.
05:22 No, I mean, it's never inspiring to watch a team mail in games, Mick, but we've seen
05:27 this before at the end of regular seasons with, especially with teams where most things
05:33 are clinched or they're sort of jockeying for position in the playoffs.
05:37 When things really sort of come into focus as to who you're going to play.
05:40 I'm going to tell you right now, and I had people around the league asking me this last
05:44 night, I think the Bruins didn't want to play the lightning.
05:49 I think they wanted to play the Toronto Maple Leafs.
05:51 I think they wanted the Florida Panthers to win the division.
05:53 I think they played the last two games like they didn't want to win them.
05:56 And it's a terrible thing to do.
05:59 It's a terrible thing to lose on purpose.
06:01 And I wouldn't say that I wouldn't be that strong about it, but I don't think the motivation
06:06 was there for them to go balls out and win these games against, certainly against a Washington
06:11 team that was fighting for their playoff lives.
06:14 And then against an Ottawa team that had some pride and wanted to close out the season.
06:17 And obviously Forsberg played unbelievable last night in net for the senators to the
06:21 Bruins could have and should have probably tied up that game and won it in the third
06:24 period.
06:25 And they would have had some great saves at that point when they finally woke up.
06:28 But I think they look like a team that really didn't want to win these games that wanted
06:33 to finish second, that wanted to play a team in the Toronto Maple Leafs that they've beaten
06:37 in six straight playoff series, beaten a bunch of players who are not playoff hardened players,
06:42 even after all these years are not the elite players they are during the regular season
06:46 in the playoffs.
06:47 A team that does have shaky goaltending, a team whose defense is not great.
06:52 I think it's a much better matchup for them in the first round, the Toronto Maple Leafs
06:56 than the Tampa Bay Lightning would have.
06:57 I think just the experience, the, the cups, the superstar players that show up when it's
07:04 money time in the playoffs that the Lightning have Andre Vazilevsky is the ultimate stopper
07:09 at the end of it, you know, him versus the goaltending that the Toronto Maple Leafs have.
07:13 I think Tampa Bay is a much more formidable playoff opponent when it gets to, you know,
07:19 when stuff gets real in the post season than the Toronto Maple Leafs are.
07:22 And I think that's why the Bruins played the way they did the last couple of games.
07:25 They showed me everything I needed to see when they won five out of six, when they,
07:29 you know, played a bunch of playoff teams, beat them, played really, really well, you
07:33 know, played shutdown defense, scored goals, did all the things they had to do.
07:39 You know, played some of their best hockey of the season, their best sort of two way
07:41 complete 60 minute hockey of the season in those games.
07:46 I really throw out what we saw in the last two games out the window.
07:50 I've seen too many irrelevant late season, regular season games with teams that are going
07:54 to the playoffs to really get worried about it.
07:57 I don't think Jim Montgomery, especially after the Washington game, he didn't, he just like
08:02 was like, that's a mulligan and kind of threw it out.
08:04 Like he, he spoke the truth that they weren't at the level of the capitals were, but he
08:08 did not seem worked up about it in any way, shape or form.
08:12 I think last night it was more of the same.
08:14 I don't think he was, you know, I think he was more focused on the playoffs and thinking
08:18 about that last night and seemed to be more in playoff mode and looking ahead to that
08:22 than worried about what had just happened on the ice.
08:25 So that's my thoughts on, on the way the season ended.
08:28 I think on some level, whether it was psychologically, whether it was in the back of their minds,
08:32 I don't think they really needed, felt like they needed those games.
08:36 I think they felt like they would be better off playing Toronto in the first round.
08:40 Maybe it's be careful what you ask for.
08:42 Like who knows if you know, the hockey gods and karma will come back to bite them for
08:46 sort of, you know, maybe maneuvering things at the end like they did.
08:51 But I just looked, I mean, come on four shots on net in the first couple of periods last
08:55 night, whether they have like three or four on net, you know, every period they played
08:59 against what they were data, not like they were like, they were trying offensively at
09:02 all.
09:03 It looked, there was zero effort offensively to do anything.
09:06 Like they were keeping the games respectable, playing good defense, Swayman played well,
09:10 but they were not playing to win either one of those games in my opinion.
09:12 So I think they got what they wanted.
09:15 They're going to get a team that I think they've dominated all year and it's going to be a
09:18 good matchup for them.
09:20 Prize Pitch is America's number one fantasy sports app with more than 3 million members.
09:25 It is the easiest and most exciting way to get on the action while you watch your favorite
09:29 sports and players.
09:30 You just pick more or less on two or more player stats and watch the winnings roll in.
09:35 Prize Pitch is so easy to play.
09:37 I can make my Celtic picks and make my entry in less than 60 seconds.
09:41 Quick withdrawals and easy gameplay and an enormous selection of players and stat types
09:45 are what makes Prize Pitch the number one fantasy sports app.
09:50 Celtics and NBA fans, you can get in on Prize Pitch in 30 states across the country, including
09:55 California, Texas, and Georgia.
09:57 On Prize Pitch this week, I'm selecting Jason Tatum to dish out more than five assists and
10:01 his teammate Jaylen Brown to have more than 22 and a half points.
10:05 Build the app today and use code CLNS for a first deposit matchup to $100.
10:11 Pick more, pick less.
10:12 It's that easy.
10:13 Prize Pitch.
10:14 I have a hard time, as plausible as it sounds theoretically, and the part you didn't really
10:25 touch on is that when they do have to get Florida or Tampa in the second round, that's
10:30 going to be after those two teams have an interstate war.
10:33 Correct.
10:34 They beat each other up.
10:36 So they might get a compromised version of one of those teams.
10:39 So to pile on to your plausible theory, that said, tacking the question from a separate
10:47 prism here, I have a hard time believing that the game of hockey at this level can be negotiated
10:57 that way.
11:00 I think that if you couldn't get motivated and find that pitch level that the Bruins
11:06 seem so dependent on all year to play at a level that makes them viable against good
11:12 competition, then that I can understand.
11:16 The idea that, "Yeah, I don't want to play them."
11:20 So that saps motivation.
11:23 I just think that they still at first, what a season not to have Bergeron, Creechie, or
11:29 their deadline pickups and come back with this team, accomplish what they did and get
11:35 to this point, have a chance to win the division.
11:39 It seems antithetical to me that they wouldn't have all the motivation that they needed to
11:44 go out and get that.
11:45 And it bothers me that they didn't.
11:48 So you got to play one of these teams in the second round if you don't play them in the
11:53 first.
11:54 So I have a hard time engaging the process of that thought from an angle of what they
12:03 did as a team and what they say all year long and what they care about goes on inside that
12:08 one room.
12:09 And that's what they care about.
12:10 They don't worry about what's on the outside unless they've been telling us a big fat lie.
12:14 And I just not inclined to think that that was part of this equation.
12:19 I just think that they didn't find that compete level.
12:23 And it bothers me that...
12:24 Right, but that's what I'm saying too, Mick, but there's a reason they didn't find that
12:28 compete level.
12:29 I don't think they had to do it.
12:30 Because I don't think they were really motivated to go out and show that compete level.
12:35 They were not nearly as motivated as either one of those teams those last two games.
12:39 And it was obvious watching those games that the incompetence level, the emotional level,
12:43 the effort level, all of that stuff was not there like it was for those other two teams
12:48 they were playing against.
12:49 And I think there's a reason for that.
12:50 Well, I think that the better teams have brought out better versions of the Bruins because
12:58 of the task, of the urgency.
13:00 But that's been their personality as a team all year long.
13:04 That if they need the game, if they need to perform well, they summon it.
13:08 If they don't, boy, it's really hard to get them to get up, make their bed and go to work.
13:13 Yep.
13:14 But I think that bodes well in some respects for the playoffs, because I think they will
13:18 be up for all of these games, you know, and to your point, I think that is the best sort
13:23 of pathway they could craft for themselves.
13:27 They have the best case scenario right now in the playoffs that they could have had playing
13:30 Toronto in the first round.
13:32 As you said, the two Florida teams beat each other up in the first round in the other series
13:36 in Florida.
13:37 And then you end up, if you can advance past Toronto for the seventh straight time in a
13:41 playoff series, the Toronto Maple Leafs have not beaten the Bruins in a playoff series
13:45 since 1959.
13:46 Were you even on this planet in 1959, Mick?
13:49 Yes, I was, but I had not yet been to my first Bruins game.
13:53 There you go.
13:54 That would not happen for another nine years.
13:56 At least Mick was alive for that one.
14:00 He doesn't remember it, but he was on this planet.
14:03 He was on this mortal coil.
14:05 So you know, so I think like this worked out as well as it could have.
14:12 Does it mean they were going to win the cup?
14:13 No.
14:14 Does it mean they're going to get to the conference finals?
14:15 No.
14:16 I mean, I said this to you before we started the show.
14:18 I think what it means selfishly from our perspective as reporters and as people covering the team
14:24 is that we'll maybe, you know, we'll get at least a month out of this team in the playoffs,
14:28 which would be awesome.
14:29 I am not signing up to that theory.
14:32 I don't like, I think they're the other piece of the, they're the X factor though.
14:36 And I don't like how they're coming to it.
14:38 Yeah, no, I understand that.
14:40 But like I said, I've been doing this too long.
14:44 I've covered too many regular seasons.
14:45 I've seen too many times when teams look like hot garbage at the end of the season.
14:50 And then as soon as the playoffs start, it's a totally different thing, especially with
14:53 a team that, like I said, the previous six or seven games before those last two, they
14:59 looked so good that I really am not worried about it.
15:02 I think they showed everything they needed to show and showed Jim Montgomery, frankly,
15:07 after he told him to wake the F up in a practice, showed the coaching staff and him what they
15:13 needed to see.
15:14 It took that though.
15:15 You know what I'm saying?
15:16 How long would that have gone on?
15:17 Not at all.
15:18 It's going to take things like that.
15:20 Like for most teams, I think it takes that.
15:22 I think when you remove Patrice Bergeron and Zidane O'Chara from the equation, I think
15:27 maybe it's going to take stuff like that sometimes from somebody else in order to get that out
15:31 of them.
15:32 You know, I do.
15:34 And I think that's what we're seeing.
15:35 I think we're also seeing a young team that, you know, a lot of these guys, I think don't,
15:41 were having a harder time understanding how much they needed to raise the level of what
15:46 they were doing, the intensity of what they were doing, the physicality of what they were
15:49 doing to meet the playoff standard.
15:51 And I think they started to finally figure it out at that point.
15:54 And that's good coaching.
15:55 Like, I think, you know, it'd be a great interview right now off the record.
15:59 Pat Maroon.
16:01 Yeah.
16:02 I would love to sit with him right now off the record and hear exactly what he thinks
16:07 since he's gotten here.
16:08 Yeah.
16:09 Yeah.
16:10 I don't know.
16:11 That would be interesting.
16:12 He's been everywhere to where he's been.
16:13 But, but, you know, we're not, he's not going to get the full complete picture until the
16:17 playoff start either of what these guys are made out of, what the room is like, like all
16:21 that stuff.
16:22 Like when the real playoff bullets start whizzing around, I think that's when you start seeing,
16:27 you'll see the true colors of everybody and he'll be able to get a real better sort of
16:31 understanding and evaluation of what's going on.
16:34 But that, that will be interesting if you could get, you know, what he thinks of this
16:39 room as opposed to other rooms.
16:40 I don't think, I honestly, I think this room is figuring it out.
16:46 That's my feeling is I think those players are learning.
16:48 I think some of those players that needed to sort of step into the void with all those
16:52 other players, retiring the playoff warriors, the guys that had been doing it for a long
16:56 time, a lot of these other players are going to have to step up and be those people now.
17:00 And I think they're figuring it out.
17:01 I think we're starting to see that some of them are stepping into that and this will
17:04 be their real opportunity now playing the league.
17:07 I believe it's a huge opportunity for the younger core of this team to announce itself.
17:12 It is.
17:13 There's no question.
17:14 This is it.
17:15 And I think, and like I said, that doesn't mean they have to win the cup to do that.
17:19 I think winning a round, playing a couple of rounds, maybe even getting to the conference
17:24 finals this year, making a step, a tangible step in the playoffs from last year is good
17:30 enough.
17:31 Like I know everybody wants to win the cup and I know fans are going to be all in for
17:34 the cup, especially after a really good regular season, but making a step forward from where
17:38 they were last year, especially with this new cast of characters and with the summer
17:42 where they're going to really be able to build and augment this roster and add to it.
17:46 I think that's what you need to see.
17:48 And I think that's what they have to do.
17:49 And that's sort of the task or the mission at hand.
17:52 And if they get rolling and they get through the first two rounds, because it was advantageous
17:56 for them and they get some momentum, then all the more power to them, you know.
18:00 I still feel that way about the team in general, even if they don't do well in this series
18:05 and go out in five games or so.
18:08 I mean, if that happened, I'd be disappointed and I'd feel like they need to address the
18:15 whole urgency issue.
18:19 I think if they lose in five games, Mick, and if they lose in the first round again,
18:23 I think, you know, Jim Montgomery might have to answer some questions, especially after
18:27 a disappointment in the playoffs last year.
18:29 If it's another sort of disappointing performance in the playoffs this year, I think there's
18:33 going to be some hard questions there.
18:35 Well, especially considering that, you know, Don Sweeney hired him under duress.
18:41 Yeah.
18:42 He didn't he wouldn't he didn't think he was going to be going for a new coach.
18:47 Yep.
18:48 So Toronto has lost six, as we said, lost six straight playoff series to the Bruins,
18:55 have not beaten the Bruins in a playoff series since 1959.
18:58 This regular season, the Bruins were four and oh against the Maple Leafs.
19:01 I would score them 14 to seven, 949 save percentage for the Bruins in those games and 891 save
19:08 percentage in those games from the Maple Leafs.
19:11 Pasternak had seven points in four games against the Leafs.
19:13 He continues to dominate them whenever he plays them.
19:16 His numbers career wise are excellent against the Maple Leafs.
19:19 Zaka had three goals in the four games.
19:22 Dubrask had six points in the four games.
19:23 He also traditionally plays pretty well against the Maple Leafs as a good Canadian boy that
19:28 wants to do well on hockey night in Canada.
19:32 Swayman in that in the in the four game series against the Leafs this year, three and oh
19:37 one point five nine goals against nine fifty nine save percentage.
19:42 And he I thought he was excellent the other night against Washington.
19:44 He was the best player on the ice for the Bruins and kept them in that game where they
19:48 could have lost that game for it.
19:49 Four to nothing.
19:50 Five to nothing.
19:51 I, you know, when you look at the numbers, when you look at the games they played against
19:57 each other this year, when you look at where these teams are trending and what they've
20:01 done in the playoffs recently.
20:04 I just think, you know, some some people are going to say the Maple Leafs are due the Bruins.
20:09 This is a scary series.
20:10 The Bruins might be the team that finally gets knocked off if the Maple Leafs figure
20:14 it out and they can go on a run in the playoffs.
20:17 Maybe this is the year Austin Matthews and Mitch Marner and Nylander, Big Willie style
20:22 and all those guys, the core four in Toronto, sort of put it together and answer some of
20:29 those playoff questions.
20:31 I don't see it.
20:32 I think this is going to be like it may end up being a, you know, a six game series.
20:37 It may get extended a little bit.
20:39 I think the Bruins are the better team.
20:41 I think they've they're the better team equipped for the playoffs.
20:46 Maybe they're the better team when you look at the really important parts of the playoffs,
20:50 like goaltending defense.
20:51 Yes, their special teams have struggled a little bit lately.
20:55 Yes, defensively, maybe they're not as good as they've been in the past.
20:58 And that might be a bit of a concern against a team with high firepower and high octane
21:05 offense like the Maple Leafs.
21:07 But if you look at it in simple terms of the way they're built and the way they win games,
21:12 the Toronto Maple Leafs are built to pile up points in the regular season, put on an
21:16 entertaining product, you know, score 70 goals or get close to it if you're Austin Matthews,
21:22 like all that good stuff.
21:23 They're not built for the playoffs.
21:25 They never have been.
21:26 They do not build.
21:27 They invested in all of their like electric forwards and didn't invest enough in the goaltending
21:32 of the defense, whereas the Bruins are a little more well balanced as far as that goes.
21:36 Maybe certainly don't have as much sheer talent up front as the Maple Leafs do.
21:41 But I think they're a more well-rounded team, more designed to win in the regular season
21:45 and the playoffs.
21:47 And I just see this as a Bruins win, you know, probably five or six games over the Maple
21:51 Leafs in the first round.
21:52 Bruins.
21:53 I mean, Bertucci has been a better player for Toronto late in the season.
21:57 Yes, he was most of the season.
22:00 That's true.
22:01 Domi, who beat the Bruins in game seven for Carolina in 22, is is suddenly a rebel relevant
22:08 player in their lineup.
22:11 Obviously, it's the defense and the goaltending that you look up as the check.
22:18 If you do in check, check, check, check, check, the Bruins get the check in the blue line.
22:22 The Bruins get the check in the goal.
22:23 Check in the goal.
22:25 Yep.
22:26 Yeah.
22:27 They they get the big check in the goal.
22:28 I mean, and who knows, maybe a swayman does start this series.
22:32 Then he gets inside their heads because of the don't.
22:35 They know that every time they saw him this year, they couldn't do anything with him.
22:38 So so that that might be a good ploy, a good strategy to to start out with trying to discourage
22:48 them, you know, because all you need is one good game to start with.
22:53 And then he's in their heads.
22:55 And then they might there might not be any coming back from that.
23:00 That said, I I'm bothered by the Bruins propensity for giving up a big goal after scoring a big
23:08 goal.
23:09 Yeah.
23:10 Yeah.
23:11 I mean, they have I thought that that was going to be a one season thing, but but it's not.
23:16 So and and as I've said before, and I've beaten this drum to death, but I'll be watching the
23:24 Bruins on the left side of the ice and the puck retrievals, the soft dumps when the four
23:29 checks come in and see and you know what's going on as far as them, you know, getting
23:34 it cleanly, moving it out.
23:36 Are they going to become susceptible?
23:38 And are they going to pressure Toronto's D's?
23:41 Because if Toronto has a weakness back there, I know that Lilligren's been playing up.
23:47 Labushkin obviously acquired at the deadline, trying to put some glue and solidify that
23:52 defense, you know, and make it a little better than than it's been.
23:57 You know, then can they get to Morgan Riley?
24:00 Can they make him cough it up?
24:01 Can they put the body on him?
24:03 That's I haven't seen enough of that this year to convince me the Bruins going to do
24:07 it in any kind of cumulative way over the course of a series.
24:10 So I'm looking at that.
24:12 The Bruins faceoff game has been lousy all year.
24:16 You know, I'm I'm looking at that.
24:18 So you know, so there's there's a lot of little things there about the Bruins that that that
24:23 I find that that that are things that it works in progress, that as this team goes forward
24:29 in the next couple of years and retools itself and continues to buttress itself, you know,
24:35 like who's going to take those left shot D zone draws?
24:39 And are they going to win enough of them?
24:41 When Toronto has all those good sticks, they can turn those into goals.
24:46 That stuff, that stuff scares me a little bit.
24:49 So so yeah, I mean, is it a better matchup for them on paper?
24:53 Yes.
24:54 Then it would have been against either one of the Florida teams whom they would get the
24:58 winner of in the second round if they win this thing.
25:00 So so, you know, theoretically, you know, I'm not wrong about anything you've said.
25:07 I just I just have a lot of doubt about what the Bruins are bringing to the table here,
25:12 because I don't know if we're going to see the best version of themselves, minus all
25:15 the barnacles.
25:16 Yeah.
25:17 And you're right.
25:18 And that's a part of the equation.
25:20 That's why I wouldn't have them when I talked about getting a month out of this team.
25:27 That's why I would say something like that, because I saw the last two months, you win
25:30 one series, you lose.
25:31 You got it right.
25:34 Like that.
25:35 That's why I would say that, because I've seen the team over the course of the regular
25:38 season and there are some definite weaknesses on this team that can be exploited by a really
25:43 good team, a really good coach.
25:46 And they weren't they weren't completely addressed at the trade deadline because they couldn't
25:50 be completely addressed at the trade deadline because the Bruins, you know, didn't have
25:54 the cap space to really fix some of the problems that they had this year or the, you know,
25:59 draft capital, the trade assets, whatever, in order to make moves to fix some of these
26:04 things.
26:05 And they're just, you know, they're they're part they're baked in the cake with the team
26:09 with the strengths they have and the things they do well.
26:11 There are some things that other teams, you know, like you said, the face offs, the giving
26:16 up goals in the third period and blowing leads in the third period, the way they played pretty
26:21 well, pretty consistently when the goalie was pulled for the other team or when they
26:27 pulled the goalie and tried to get an empty net goal.
26:29 They've been dreadful in those situations all year when they've pulled the goalie and
26:32 tried to score almost without exception.
26:34 They've been terrible.
26:35 Their power play has really struggled down the stretch, though the bright spot, the biggest
26:40 bright spot from that game last night was the new look.
26:43 Power play got a look in the third period finally.
26:46 And wouldn't you know, Kevin Shattenkirk shooting from the point creates a rebound in front
26:51 with a screen in front and that pops out to Zaka and he scores.
26:56 And how long, Mick, how many podcasts have we talked to power play?
26:59 I said, put Shattenkirk on the top power play unit, take McAvoy off of there, put a guy
27:03 that will shoot the puck that sees the shooting lanes that will create rebounds, that will
27:07 be a threat up there and it's going to open up stuff for everybody else there.
27:11 And they've finally done it here because I think the playoff desperation is there to
27:15 do what's best for the team.
27:17 And it creates a power play goal when they were like, what, two for 30 or something like
27:20 that going into that power play.
27:22 So back up seven months when they signed Shattenkirk.
27:27 I told everybody that it would talk to me about it.
27:31 They did this for the power play.
27:33 Yeah, they know they need a better power play because they know they're not going to have
27:37 the same run support five on five.
27:39 So they got to make sure they don't have an iffy power play.
27:42 And I've been all year long, I'm waiting for Shattenkirk to be deployed here.
27:46 And if it felt like, did I get this wrong?
27:49 I mean, but here he is.
27:50 So finally, finally, finally, the fact finding mission is over.
27:54 They need Shattenkirk on the power play.
27:56 Yeah, they need somebody.
27:57 They need a defenseman that will shoot basically, you know, it's somebody that can find shooting
28:01 lanes, shoot for rebounds, intentionally wide off the end boards, like all of that stuff,
28:07 you know, like, you know, how to get it through.
28:09 Will create that action around the net that will open up scoring chances for everybody
28:14 else and open up things offensively and you're seeing it happen.
28:18 So that was like the one thing that that was good to see last night.
28:22 And, you know, the third period, they had Ottawa on the run.
28:25 Ottawa could not get the puck out of their zone.
28:27 They have them.
28:28 They had them.
28:29 If they could.
28:30 And I honestly thought Montgomery made a mistake pulling the goalie there when they had them
28:35 five on five and they had them, you know, already hemmed in down there.
28:40 I think they probably would have scored if they didn't pull a goalie based on the way
28:43 the period was going.
28:44 And instead it turns into a posture neck thrown at the middle of the ice and it turned into
28:48 an easy goal for Ottawa.
28:50 But maybe, maybe, maybe Monty was still in, like you said, looking past it to the playoffs
28:54 and maybe he has an opportunity for me to get a drill.
28:57 Yes.
28:58 And oh, by the way, if we lose here, we play Toronto on the first round.
29:02 Like I'm telling you, the conspiracy theory is out there and I connect a lot of the dots.
29:08 They're never going to admit it, but I really feel like the Bruins did not want to win those
29:13 last two games.
29:14 And there was a lot of evidence there that they made it look good and kept it close,
29:18 playing good defense, playing hard.
29:19 But offensively, they did nothing in those two games until the third period against Ottawa.
29:25 We do have factor meals to help us out.
29:29 America's number one ready to eat meal kit when it does get busy, when it does get crazy,
29:34 when we do need a quick meal, they fuel you up fast with flavorful and nutritious, ready
29:39 to eat meals delivered straight to your door.
29:41 Takes less than two minutes to cook them.
29:43 They're fresh, never frozen meals ready in two minutes.
29:46 Like I said, they have calorie conscious options going upscale with some of the things they're
29:51 offering now, like surf and turf, surf and surf meal options, roasted garlic, filet mignon
29:57 shrimp and Cajun spice shrimp and salmon, which is like right in my wheelhouse.
30:01 This is the kind of stuff I'm all about.
30:03 So it's got everything for everybody.
30:05 There's 34 plus chef prepared, dietitian approved weekly options for meals.
30:11 You can get snacks, you can get breakfast items like it's a great deal.
30:15 So if you want to get factor meals, go to factor meals dot com slash hags 50 and use
30:21 the code hags 50 to get 50% off of your first box.
30:25 It's a great deal.
30:27 You know, I've tried it.
30:28 It's fantastic.
30:29 I recommend it to you.
30:30 We love these ready to make meal kits, especially when we're on the go with our kids.
30:35 So one more time, that's factor meals dot com slash hags 50 to get 50% off your first
30:40 box.
30:41 You won't be sorry if you go to factor meals.
30:42 It gets the hags thumbs up seal of approval.
30:46 What's your biggest key as far as Toronto goes, Mick?
30:50 What are you going to be watching with them?
30:52 Because like, I think you're right on that guys like Bertuzzi and Domi, I think are going
30:57 to be factors much like last year.
31:01 Ryan O'Reilly and Nola Chari, I thought were two of Toronto's best players in the postseason.
31:06 When they, you know, guys that they brought on as hired hands, those are the kinds of
31:10 guys it's, it's that to me, that's an indictment of the stars on Toronto when they bring in
31:16 gritty veteran players like that.
31:18 And they do more than like some of the big name guys in the playoffs that speaks very
31:24 loudly to me about, you know, what they have, their best players, what they're capable of
31:29 doing in the playoffs, as much as it speaks to the Ryan O'Reilly, Nola Chari, Max Domi,
31:35 like Tyler Bertuzzi.
31:36 Those are playoff style players.
31:38 But in addition to that, I think it, it, it's sometimes an indictment on those Maple Leafs
31:45 star guys, the core four guys, the guys that are all making 10 billion plus a year that
31:50 don't get it done in the playoffs.
31:53 So like my, my key things to look at would be, you know, a guy like guys like Austin
31:59 Matt, like Austin Matthews, really, he has to start having some superstar moments in the
32:03 playoffs much more than he's ever had before.
32:06 And the goaltending for Toronto.
32:08 I think that's a huge key.
32:09 Like is it going to be Wall?
32:12 Is there anybody else?
32:14 You know, and how good is he going to be?
32:16 And I think he's a St. Louis guy, isn't he?
32:18 I think I remember Trent Frederick saying that those two played together when they were
32:22 kids.
32:23 Really, I missed that growing up in St. Louis.
32:26 So that that would be an interesting backstory as well.
32:30 But what do you sort of keyed on?
32:31 Or what are you looking at as we build up to the playoffs?
32:34 Well, the elephant in the kitchen is Austin Matthews and a guy with a stick that deadly,
32:41 a guy so quick and so strong.
32:47 And he's not as slow as I used to think he was.
32:50 He skates better than I had given him credit for in my own mind, watching him over the
32:54 years.
32:55 The games have seen this year, he moves better than I realized he does.
33:00 Now granted with a two to one goal ratio, almost goals to assist, you'd think he was
33:06 the winger on that line.
33:07 So Toronto's got kind of a funny style there.
33:10 So I was looking at their line chart on on the daily.
33:14 Was it the daily line combinations?
33:17 Okay.
33:18 So Matthews with Bert and Marner.
33:21 So Marner is your line driving winger, Bert your hellraiser.
33:25 And Matthews is is your wizard stick.
33:29 So I mean, if they don't mess around, then then then I think a lot of it's going to be
33:35 discouraging Marner on the on the zone entries.
33:39 Because I don't think they want to go to a dump and retrieval game.
33:44 Bertucci's not fast on his feet, so he's not a good F1.
33:48 He's more of a you're already in the zone.
33:50 And now I'm going to call your net and cause problems.
33:53 So so I mean, Neylander's got blazing speed.
33:58 But that's a different line.
33:59 So you know, but so I think really, I think the player the Bruins need to worry about
34:05 Matthews just don't go to sleep on him.
34:09 If you're caught in your zone and the Leafs are moving the puck around.
34:13 But as far as going up and down the ice, I think the guy they need to kick the crap out
34:17 of his Marner.
34:18 Yeah, because he's the guy who who's he's a little engine that could.
34:22 He's sort of a Rick Middleton.
34:23 We're in 16.
34:25 And he makes plays.
34:27 He's terrific player.
34:28 So he's the Yeah, he's the only one of those star guys on the Leafs, the core for that
34:34 I would legitimately worry about because I think he has what it takes externally and
34:39 internally to get it done in the playoffs.
34:41 I think he's he's a tough kid in addition to being a very skilled kid.
34:45 And he's kind of a winning type hockey player.
34:47 If there's somebody I think you need to worry about in the series.
34:49 It's absolutely Mitch Marner.
34:51 I, you know, somewhat approved to with his contract.
34:55 Of course, coming close.
34:57 Absolutely.
34:58 And by the way, Joe Wall is from Darden Prairie, Missouri.
35:01 He is I remember Freddie talking to me a few times about growing up playing with wall and
35:07 like a Chucks and like all the other kids that came here in Missouri.
35:11 So he's from the St. Louis area.
35:12 Yeah.
35:13 Darden Prairie, Missouri.
35:14 They all played together in the St. Louis area.
35:18 Like tournament teams and stuff like that.
35:20 Yeah.
35:21 Yeah.
35:22 So this will it's going to be interesting.
35:25 I will say this to make like people want to tweak the end of the regular season, play
35:32 in games, like do all kinds of stuff to spice up the end of the regular season.
35:38 As far as qualifying for the playoffs, you see like Major League Baseball doing playoff
35:42 games and some of these other leagues doing things to try to like tweak things or make
35:46 it more interesting or give more teams a chance, whatever.
35:51 The last few weeks of the regular season, especially in the east, the definitely in
35:55 the east were awesome.
35:57 The games mattered.
35:58 The teams were playing each other like we came down to a final day where Florida had
36:04 to pull the goalie even though the game was tied because they needed a regulation win.
36:10 And that turned into a goal.
36:12 Washington scoring an empty net goal that won them a game and basically won them the
36:16 playoff spot.
36:17 Like, you know, there were all these different combinations and all these different things
36:20 happening where the Red Wings and they come on the flyers and the flyers.
36:25 You know, they were all sort of like in it and they were all.
36:29 It was amazing how many moving parts there were for that playoff spot.
36:32 Yes.
36:33 Amazing how many moving parts there were in the layers of this happens.
36:37 This team needs this scenario.
36:38 This team needs that scenario.
36:39 And I was among I was in the crowd of people were trying to figure this all out, you know,
36:44 and it's a lot of fun trying to figure out, especially when it's not your team.
36:48 I mean, that had to be heartbreaking for the Red Wings to see Philly see Torch pull his
36:54 goalie, you know, basically give the game to Washington because we need the regulation
36:58 win and give the playoff spot to the Capitals.
37:00 Yeah, you know, and here's the other thing.
37:03 You Pittsburgh, you go seven, one and two down the stretch and you're out.
37:07 They waited too long.
37:09 So, yeah, they finally got it going, but they're too little too late for them.
37:14 It just always seemed like it was going to be that way.
37:16 And in the end, it was that way.
37:19 So that that Bruins win against them was a killer.
37:22 Yes, it was.
37:23 That was a big game for that was a killer.
37:25 And the Bruins played their last good game of the year.
37:28 Yeah.
37:29 So but that's what I mean, like that, that those kind of games towards the end of the
37:32 year showed me everything I needed to show.
37:34 I have one opinion about the potential expansion of the playoffs or the debate about whether
37:39 to do it.
37:41 Yes.
37:42 I think the NHL had a situation since the absorbing the four WHA teams in 1979, where
37:51 you had twenty one teams in the league and 16 made the playoffs.
37:55 The regular season was a joke, but it didn't matter because the NHL was a ticket based.
38:00 It was not a TV league.
38:01 It was a ticket league and and teams went and people went to the games because they
38:05 wanted to go to the games.
38:07 And the Islanders didn't turn it on in the early 80s until they needed to.
38:11 That's you know, so that's why they don't have too many great regular seasons like the
38:14 like Montreal did in this decade before.
38:17 But you have you have a situation there where one thing, as much as I hated the expansion
38:25 and southern migration of the NHL throughout the 90s, the one byproduct of that going from
38:31 twenty one teams to 30 made the regular season competitive because the tournament did not
38:37 expand with the league.
38:39 Suddenly regular season hockey became pressure packed.
38:42 And then all those new arenas right in these big storage, these utility elevators.
38:48 And with all the executives, you can feel the steam coming out of their ears after the
38:53 games.
38:54 You can feel the nervousness going into the games.
38:56 And in every regular season game meant means so much.
39:00 The only thing you cannot bottle and put into the regular season is playoff emotion.
39:05 That you cannot do.
39:06 And that's what makes the playoffs so great.
39:08 And why watching this first round is going to be so incredibly fun.
39:13 You know, just any game is a good game.
39:15 You want to watch it.
39:17 So so but but if you try to add to the playoffs now, then all you're doing, in my opinion,
39:25 is is taking away all that ground you work so hard as a league to gain to make your regular
39:31 season relevant.
39:32 You'll be sucking the relevance back out of it.
39:35 And I think that'd be a huge mistake for the NHL.
39:38 I agree.
39:39 I have all the four major pro sports leagues.
39:41 They do it the best as far as down the stretch and the playoffs.
39:46 And yes, people are going to bitch about the divisional setup and, you know, having to
39:51 play out of your division that it's not advantageous for some teams like, you know, Florida Panthers
39:55 fans would, I'm sure, argue that they should be playing, you know, one of the other wildcard
40:01 team.
40:02 They should be playing some.
40:03 They should.
40:04 And the reason is, is because this regular season schedule was balanced.
40:08 It's not like the 80s and 90s were really 90s when you played the Buffalo Sabres nine,
40:13 eight or nine times.
40:14 You know, you have four home and four away.
40:17 Montreal, you know, can keep going down the line here.
40:20 But those divisional rivalries, you could justify having a division centric playoff.
40:25 Now you have a division centric playoff, but you have a balanced schedule because the league
40:30 is so big now they want to make sure that everybody gets to see Connor McDavid.
40:33 Now I get the theory, but I would give up Connor McDavid to inject, get back to the
40:39 divisional rivalries.
40:40 Not in that extreme.
40:41 It doesn't have to be that, but give me three home and three away and rotate, you know,
40:47 what I get from the Western Conference during the year.
40:50 Yeah.
40:51 And I think there will be some games against the Eastern Conference, other division, but
40:54 I agree, you know, and then rotate what I get home or away.
40:57 Do I get a home game this year?
40:58 No, I get there.
40:59 They actually held that at one point where you didn't get a home game against a Western
41:03 Conference team at one point.
41:04 You've got to, you got them on the road, but not at home.
41:07 They actually did that at one point, but the, this mandate to get everybody that assumes
41:12 the player's going to show up, you know?
41:14 So I just think there's too much of those eggs into that basket for marketing purposes
41:20 because they've got NBA jealousy.
41:23 And I think that they are making a mistake here because it's ridiculous that you play
41:29 Montreal.
41:30 Oh yeah, that's great.
41:31 We got them Sunday and we got them Tuesday.
41:32 Yeah.
41:33 And then you don't see him again for five months.
41:34 I think, yeah, I think that will have to change, especially as you know, the speculation is
41:39 they're going to expand to like 36 in the next five years, there's going to be more
41:42 teams coming into the league.
41:44 So I think as that comes in, I think you're going to have to see that.
41:47 And I don't think that would be the worst thing in the world.
41:49 It's like, you know, you play one of the Western Conference divisions at home one year, you
41:54 don't play them at home that year.
41:57 And then you alternate or something just so you add some divisional games.
42:00 So you're playing your divisional opponents, you know, it's your point five or six times
42:04 a year instead of the three or four that we get now, which is not enough.
42:10 Question of the week, Mick, and I think I answered this one.
42:13 My bottom line on that whole thing is whatever your playoff format is should reflect the
42:18 regular season schedule.
42:19 Absolutely.
42:20 That's what's wrong right now.
42:22 It's never been wrong before that I can think of, but it's wrong right now to have a division
42:26 centric playoff and a balanced schedule.
42:28 Plus the playoffs if you're going to balance the schedule.
42:31 Yep.
42:32 Question of the week.
42:33 I believe I answered this when I did a solo mailbag episode last weekend, but I want I
42:37 like the question.
42:38 So I wanted you to get a crack at it.
42:40 Hi, Joe, I have a mailbag question for you and your latest podcast episode.
42:44 You mentioned how well Paul Maurice coached the Panthers versus the Bruins in last year's
42:47 playoffs.
42:49 Aside from setting the line combinations and choosing a starting goalie for each game that
42:53 in your opinion makes a good what, in your opinion, makes a good in game coach versus
42:57 an average in game coach?
42:58 Is it as simple as keeping your players motivated throughout each game or is there more to it
43:03 than that?
43:04 Thank you.
43:05 Love the podcast from Roger Perry.
43:06 Mick, your thoughts.
43:07 Well, with the technology now, the video and the reporting back, I mean, I think that there
43:16 are some coaches that look at their own team and say, we need to worry about our own game.
43:21 And that's what they'll tell us.
43:23 And then they'll go out and they'll do it or maybe not.
43:26 But other coaches are really good at finding the kryptonite on another team.
43:34 And do I have that kryptonite in my lineup?
43:37 And so Florida, like Maurice last year, devised a really good system, knowing that the Bruins
43:42 played zone, that they don't go outside the dots with the D's.
43:47 They don't want to anyway, to eliminate plays once the puck's in their end.
43:51 So what they did was is they hired around it.
43:54 They rimmed it hard around the dad, the bottom, the kick plate.
43:58 So they go from point to point, they just fire it around.
44:01 And the Bruins are caught going like this.
44:02 And like, do I go outside our system?
44:04 Do I break our system to cut this play off?
44:07 Or do I, you know, how do we get the puck back here?
44:10 And I knew and it happened when the Bruins came out this year, because Monty's the coach
44:15 and they want to play that puck possession game.
44:19 Every team tried to parrot what the Panthers did last year because they showed them, here's
44:24 how you play against the Bruins.
44:26 So Monty had to do some in-game adjustments to figure out how do we get the puck back
44:31 and tweak our system so that we can interrupt some of these plays, recover the puck and
44:35 start moving in on the way we want to.
44:38 And I thought that he did a really great job of that, adjusting the Bruins system to that
44:42 and having, you know, some tweaks so that guys could make plays without violating the
44:49 whole system or throwing it out of kilter.
44:52 And I thought that that was really good.
44:54 And that's one of the things with watching the Bruins that I'm going to be really keying
44:56 on in the playoffs here.
44:58 I don't know that Toronto is going to be focused on what the Bruins do and trying to screw
45:03 that up like Florida did last year, as much as trying to just impose themselves because
45:08 they're a skilled team.
45:09 So I think that may bode well for the Bruins that they're going to try to play according
45:14 to their skill.
45:16 But like the team that scares me in the West this year is Edmonton because a lot of teams
45:22 decided don't let McDavid be the guy who beats us.
45:25 Well, he's beating you with assists, not goals.
45:29 So to me, the fact that he's taken another step in his career to reinvent himself according
45:34 to the needs of the game and what's presented to them as a team is a great sign for the
45:39 Edmonton Oilers that they're ready to take another step.
45:42 So they're like the Dallas Stars turning Mike Madonno into a shadow for Peter Forsberg and
45:48 check that guy.
45:49 Here's the guy who scored more goals than any American ever to play the game.
45:53 And his job in those playoffs was to eliminate another player on the other team.
45:58 I mean, this is what, you know, this is what Bobby Carpenter did when the Bruins got him
46:04 and turned him into a checking player.
46:06 And then he wound up being really ready for Lou Lamorello to deploy him in the 95 playoffs
46:11 for the Devils.
46:12 So I think they're great players, great goal scorers.
46:15 They take steps in their career to evolve, to change.
46:20 And so it's on them too, if the coach has the wherewithal to figure these things out.
46:27 And so having that acumen, that's a great thing to have, you know, as a coach in the
46:33 playoff series, because you're going to play the same team and over four games, you get
46:37 it all figured out when you get to that fifth game.
46:40 It's just who's doing what they do better.
46:41 Yep.
46:42 And it'll be interesting.
46:43 Like there are so many moving parts to a Toronto series beyond what's going on in the ice when
46:49 it's the Toronto media getting involved, you know, stressing on things.
46:56 And Mike Babcock, remember him getting Patrice Bergeron kicked out of the face off circle
47:00 all those times when they played in the playoffs?
47:03 Like the little thing about public comment.
47:05 Yes.
47:06 Well, that's what I mean, though.
47:07 Crazy.
47:08 Yeah, that's that's what I mean.
47:09 That's the Toronto has a unique thing going on where they have a megaphone, the Leafs
47:14 do the players and the coach, the media like parrots it and then throws it out there.
47:20 And because it's such a Toronto centric league, the league is paying attention to all that
47:23 stuff as well.
47:24 And that turns into its own thing.
47:26 And I know the players are hyper aware of that.
47:29 Especially Marcia has been one that like he plays with the Toronto media because he knows
47:34 that, you know, they can they have a megaphone and they use it a lot, especially when the
47:38 playoffs start.
47:39 And it turns into that sort of fun game within the game thing that's going on.
47:43 So that's 99.
47:44 This is I can't believe this.
47:45 Twenty five years ago now.
47:46 But the late great Pat Burns, he went he went to to the media to say that Buffalo is getting
47:52 away with murder and murder.
47:55 That's a quote.
47:56 And he was talking about, I mean, Michael Packer for checking on Ray Bork.
48:00 What is one of the ways he for check was to punch him in the face.
48:03 It literally did it right under us.
48:06 And I'm thinking, like, how the hell did they not see that?
48:08 You know, how is he not going off for roughing here?
48:11 And the Bruins are just trying to like, let's play our game, let's play our game.
48:14 But Burns knew what was going on.
48:15 They knew they were going to lose that series.
48:17 You know, so, you know, they got it to six.
48:20 Good for them.
48:21 All right, Mick, thank you very much.
48:24 Let's also thank our sponsor, PrizePix, the largest daily fantasy sports platform in North
48:28 America and the easiest and most exciting way to play daily fantasy sports.
48:34 PrizePix offers insurance, injury insurance, so that your entries stay in play even if
48:39 one of your players gets injured.
48:40 For basketball games, if you have a player who exits the game in the first half and does
48:43 not return in the second, PrizePix will have your back and not count that as a loss.
48:48 That sounds pretty cool to me.
48:49 You can win up to 100 times your money on PrizePix with as little as four correct picks.
48:53 You can turn $10 into $1,000 with basketball, hockey entries, and baseball entries today
48:59 on PrizePix, America's number one fantasy sports app.
49:02 You just basically pick more or less than on two to six player stat projections and
49:05 watch the winnings roll right in.
49:07 It's fun and pretty simple.
49:09 Download the PrizePix app today and use the code CLNS for a first deposit match of up
49:13 to $100.
49:14 Download the PrizePix app today and use the code CLNS for a first deposit match of up
49:19 to $100.
49:20 Pick more, pick less.
49:21 It's that easy.
49:22 Thank you very much for coming on.
49:24 Let's bring on the playoffs.
49:25 Hats off to Jack Edwards.
49:28 You know what?
49:29 Absolutely.
49:30 And we're going to get into that the next time you and I are talking because we've got
49:33 a whole playoff to enjoy him coming up and give him his flowers.
49:38 But for now, we're going to take off.
49:40 Thank you very much for listening.
49:41 We'll see you at the rink.
49:41 [MUSIC PLAYING]