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Poke The Bear with Conor Ryan Ep. 223  Conor Ryan and Evan Marinofsky break down the first 3 games of the Bruins / Leafs series. How do the B's finish the series early and maintain momentum after taking a game in Toronto? That, and much more!      Topics:   - That was vintage Brad Marchand   - What are the Leafs saying?   - It’s clear what to do in net for Game 4   - What other adjustments must the Bruins make?   - Do we feel different about the series?       ﻿This episode 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!    Factor Meals! Visit https://factormeals.com/POKE50 to get 50% off your first box! Factor is America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit, can help you fuel up fast with ready-to-eat meals delivered straight to your door.

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00:00 I just think you got to go sweep the leg.

00:02 So say in the karate kid, I think you got to sweep the leg and stay with

00:06 and stay with time.

00:07 Say go for the knockout.

00:09 You're saying sweep the leg.

00:11 What's your saying?

00:12 Kick him in the nuts.

00:14 OK, kick him in the balls.

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00:44 That's Connor Ryan, Evan Marinovsky.

00:46 Connor, what is up?

00:49 Evan, I'm doing well.

00:51 How are you doing? Doing great. Doing great.

00:53 The vibes are good today.

00:55 That's what happens when you win game three, when you win game three,

00:58 when you win game three, the vibes are good.

01:01 If it wasn't, the vibes would be bad.

01:03 When we did Bruins beat the other day after game two, it was more negative thing.

01:07 I mean, that's the whole point of the playoffs, right?

01:08 You're not your team loses games, you know, four and five, but they won game one.

01:13 You're not like, well, but they won game one.

01:15 You know, whoo hoo.

01:17 I must say this, though, before we get into Bruins talk,

01:20 very excited for the NFL draft to be over.

01:23 I need that out. I need to stop seeing the mock drafts.

01:28 I just I can't I can't do it anymore.

01:30 Connor, I need to just be done.

01:31 It's been months of this.

01:32 So glad we got this to divert my focus.

01:36 Thankfully, all I'm saying, man, if the Patriots trade down

01:40 and get JJ McCarthy, I'm going to be in a bad state next time I'm on the pod.

01:45 I've got I've got a pod tomorrow, so we'll see if I look extremely disheveled.

01:51 If all of a sudden my beard looks like Robin Williams at the start of Jumanji,

01:54 you know, you know, you know, stuff's at the fan. So.

01:57 Yeah, I'm hoping that they just pick whoever, whether it's mayor Daniels,

02:02 just pick one of them and move on.

02:05 Anyways, Bruins huge win on Wednesday night.

02:08 Beat the Leafs four to in game three to one series lead

02:12 just, you know, to start.

02:15 What was what was sort of your big takeaway from from Wednesday's game?

02:19 Yeah, I mean, the obvious one has to be, you know, Marchan

02:23 and what he did to elevate his team to a much needed win, as you said.

02:27 This guy that was productive the first couple of games,

02:30 but still just didn't seem like the the Martian we've come to see countless times,

02:36 especially in the playoffs, a guy who's really elevated his game,

02:38 put the team on his back and whether it's just kind of pucks

02:40 dying on his stick or not really showing a willingness to shoot,

02:44 just seemed like something was off with his overall game.

02:47 And then third period just completely did a 180

02:49 sicko mode, as the kids would say.

02:53 And like a vintage Martian performance, right?

02:55 Like, why is he such a, you know, unique player?

02:58 It's like, yeah, I mean, he's got that that shot.

03:00 We just sniped it over Samsonov's shoulder for the game winning goal.

03:04 But beyond the offensive talent, many also like help set up

03:09 some of these other goals with like I know you post the clip of his entry.

03:12 You know, was that before the Nebraska goal?

03:15 The sound of what that was?

03:17 Yeah. So like a play like that obviously gets the primary assist on

03:21 on depressed power play goal as well.

03:24 But to, you know, also just drive the Maple Leafs insane

03:28 and throw them off the game.

03:29 And again, like I think you give credit to the Maple Leafs in this series.

03:32 Like they've ratcheted up the physicality as well.

03:35 I think it's what like they combined for like 130 hits in game three.

03:39 And like it was either 130 or 138 hits.

03:42 Yeah. So I mean, they were walloping the Bruins,

03:44 especially early on in that game, and they've

03:46 and they've done a good job of kind of, you know, shifting that physicality

03:51 or at least matching what the Bruins have kind of done in terms of elevating

03:53 their game.

03:54 But it's one thing to like, you know, adhere to the regular play of hockey,

03:58 be good on the floor check.

03:59 And Toronto has done that.

04:00 It's nothing to like not take the bait when you've got a guy

04:03 that's driving you insane.

04:04 We've seen this how many times we saw that?

04:05 Like I remember in 2019 that four game sweep against Carolina,

04:10 Marchan was doing a clinic against like Justin Williams

04:13 and some of those guys, we had a little see who was driving him nuts.

04:16 So like and again, like I think now Bruins fans, you know,

04:21 Marchan is not the same guy that used, you know,

04:23 Daniel Sedin's face as a speed bag in 2011.

04:26 He's not that same kind of player, but he knows how to bug

04:29 the bejesus out of teams and throw them off the game.

04:31 And whether it's,

04:32 you know, getting tangled up with Tyler Bertuzzi, leading to,

04:36 you know, Trent Fredericks goal where I don't stand.

04:39 So not we're still watching the worst, the worst goal

04:43 I've ever seen. Yeah, I mean, listen, if I saw you in there,

04:48 you and me could have stopped that puck.

04:50 And I'm not. Absolutely not.

04:52 But I thank you for pumping my tires.

04:54 But I don't know if Sam Sona was watching

04:57 the fracas in front of him and not seeing Frederick,

05:00 you know, come down the ice with that shot.

05:02 But like Marchan, you know, influences that he has.

05:05 Sheldon, keep talking about how he's driving the Bruins crazy afterwards.

05:09 I think was in Matthew Nyes after the game said, you can't, you know,

05:12 you have to ignore his bullshit.

05:13 So like he's doing his job. He's doing what he can.

05:16 He's dragging his teammates into the fight, obviously, and producing.

05:19 But he's also doing the little things that over a long series

05:23 can bug the ever living crap out of some of these teams.

05:27 And he's done it so far.

05:29 What was when Sam Sona allowed that goal against Craig Smith in the playoffs?

05:34 What was it that Ovechkin said to Sam?

05:36 So was it like, don't fall asleep, bitch, and Russian or something?

05:39 It was something like that. Yeah.

05:40 I just tried to find it and I couldn't I couldn't find it.

05:43 We need better lip readers, right?

05:44 Because you had all that sports that almost completely through the series.

05:49 I mean, like, what the hell was that?

05:51 And I had like so sports that is sports and who posted it, right?

05:55 Of Marchan, so like Marchan scores the empty netter after

05:58 Martians were damned after once again upending Tyler Bertuzzi.

06:02 Like, again, rough, rough game for him.

06:04 And even he scored, he technically was credited with that goal

06:08 that deflected off of his skate.

06:09 But you look at Martians goes empty and goes to the bench, the Bruins bench

06:14 and sports and post a clip of him and says like Martian says like,

06:18 what is it, Bruins in five?

06:19 Is that what it's like?

06:20 It's over in five.

06:21 It's over in five.

06:23 And quite clearly, you check the tape.

06:25 He's looking up at the clock and says, well, it's still 35.

06:29 As if there's 35 seconds left on the clock, which seems like, again,

06:33 Martian is a great heel in hockey.

06:36 I don't think he's cutting a WWE promo in the middle of skating to the bench.

06:39 Like, I think he's clearly looking at the clock as a captain, being like, guys,

06:42 we got to make sure our shit's together.

06:45 Still 35 seconds to go in this game.

06:47 Like, it seems like the more rational is one sports that doubles down.

06:50 They then deleted it.

06:51 But then I think it was either like be be our open ice or was like

06:56 Turner or someone else like posted it as well, where they were like

07:00 Martian said, like Bruins in five.

07:02 And I was like, guys, let's not do it.

07:04 It's like it's absolutely not what he said.

07:06 Open ice is like Martian goes past the Leafs bench, says Bruins in five.

07:10 And it's like 18 laughing emojis.

07:12 A couple. Yeah.

07:13 Like like sunglass emojis.

07:15 Like, oh, yeah.

07:16 Like, so we have we have lip readers for Russian, but we don't have to.

07:21 I know Martians go a little bit like a Nova Scotian accent.

07:24 I'm not here to throw stones with accents or anything like that.

07:26 But like he clearly says still 35.

07:29 I hope he didn't say Bruins five because every time Martian

07:32 and someone like on Twitter, it always goes wrong.

07:35 Like the the Trocheck stuff with the Hurricanes that never went well.

07:39 But I like I was shocked that it's like just just like, you know,

07:43 I've been in that position where you're with NCAA back in the day

07:49 where you're like tweeting something.

07:51 And granted, we were the league, but it's like, make sure like,

07:54 you know what you're doing before you put it out there, because,

07:58 you know, the Leafs could look at that and be like, no, he clearly said

08:01 Bruins and five, you know, this is bulletin board material

08:04 when he clearly didn't say that.

08:06 Right. I got to get out of the game.

08:08 Martian. Right.

08:10 They're they're crying.

08:11 They're going to be crying at the end of the game.

08:15 Yeah, I think that Connor Ryan is such a good writer.

08:18 That's what he was saying.

08:19 So that's exactly what he said.

08:21 We got the next game.

08:22 We got to start any clip we see of any like Bruin or anybody.

08:25 Talk. We got to like just make it like pretend they said like the weirdest thing.

08:29 Like, yeah, I don't even like just have to say random stuff.

08:31 That's what that's what AI is for.

08:33 And I believe we can do that quite easily now with technology.

08:36 Just make something they didn't say.

08:38 So, yes, we could have something like, you know, like it's Montgomery,

08:42 like talking to Hampus Lindholm or something.

08:43 And he's like, Montgomery clearly said the mitochondria is the powerhouse

08:47 of the cell. And yes, we should.

08:49 Then we should roll with that.

08:50 That yes, I don't know if that would be that.

08:52 That might be great.

08:53 I would I would chuckle.

08:55 Thank you.

08:56 I'd like to tweet on Thursday.

08:57 I tweeted a picture of Drake Bell in an airport with the May calendar on him.

09:01 I was like, this is going to do numbers.

09:04 I hate that tweet.

09:05 It has eight likes.

09:07 I saw that. I was like, oh, and I mean, I didn't like to scroll next one.

09:11 I like scrolled like 40 tweets down,

09:14 you know, like, yeah, that was.

09:17 Yeah, I've had better ideas than that.

09:20 But vintage Marchand and, you know, I get a kick out of the Maple Leafs.

09:26 You know, Sheldon Keefe after the game immediately complaining about Marchand.

09:29 And it's like, dude, your team had five power plays

09:34 and didn't score on one of them.

09:36 Like there is the problem, right?

09:39 Like the Bruins have a little bit of a gripe with the refs.

09:42 I thought some of those calls were borderline.

09:44 They you know, I think the refs miss like they miss that high

09:48 high stick by Tavares on McAvoy.

09:51 Yeah, but like to cut, you know, if you're Sheldon Keefe to come out

09:54 and immediately, you know, just do the old sad sack routine of,

09:59 hey, NHL, please start calling more penalties like they called five

10:03 against the Bruins like again, you said five power plays in scoring any of them.

10:07 Like I don't understand how from the Leafs perspective

10:10 you can come out of that game and be like, man, we got screwed.

10:14 Like I don't I don't I don't understand that element to it.

10:17 Like again, if Sam Sonaf just focuses on the play

10:22 and makes that Frederick save,

10:24 I don't know if they're complaining about Marcia like that.

10:27 So again, score on your power plays and make the easy save.

10:30 And it seems like suddenly that Marcia and things sort of dissipates.

10:33 But again, you know, the Leafs are good at a lot.

10:37 I think the Leafs are good at a lot of things. Yeah.

10:40 They're soft, though, still like when it comes down to it with stuff like this,

10:44 like to saw like, come on, you know, and again, Montgomery made that weird comment

10:50 about the spending more time in Toronto.

10:52 Like, come on, stop, stop with that.

10:54 But I just, you know, complain like the Sheldon Keefe comments.

10:59 Like, come on, dude.

11:00 Like, I don't I don't see that, you know?

11:03 No. And also, I mean, you just look at the way this series has gone.

11:07 Like you kind of hit the nail on the head there with the fact that like

11:11 Marcia takeover game, but let's face the facts.

11:13 Like the Bruins are also up to one in this series because they kind of following

11:17 the script that we kind of mapped out, like we said before the series started.

11:20 Maybe we've started a very good team.

11:23 Really, I think people don't realize how effective they are.

11:25 Five on five play, how much damage they can do there.

11:28 But you look at where the Bruins have have these sizable advantages in net

11:33 where you've got Jeremy Swin, Alina, some mark, which we'll talk about in a second.

11:36 But like you're not hopefully prone to having goals against

11:41 like Sam Sonoff has, like Sam Sonoff has an eight ninety

11:43 say percentage in the regular season for a reason.

11:45 Like and again, he even had like really good saves in game two.

11:48 You give him credit for that.

11:49 But like he's prone to some of those where you're like,

11:51 if you're a Maple Leafs fan, so you have that advantage.

11:55 And also you look at just the special teams, right?

11:57 Like Bruins had an awful powerfully going into the playoffs.

12:00 They're now five for ten.

12:02 And then you like Toronto's one for eleven on their power play.

12:05 Like that's kind of the game there.

12:07 Like Toronto is again, you're even at goals and at five and five play.

12:11 You both have scored five goals.

12:13 Maple Leafs have a sizable advantage in scoring chances.

12:16 I think it's like 78 to 48 is the edge in five on five scoring chances.

12:20 But if your goaltending is going to hold up,

12:23 you're going to be able to land punches against Sam Sonoff

12:25 and the special teams are going to be that

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13:33 So game four, goal tending.

13:41 You just mentioned it.

13:42 Bruins goal tending has been phenomenal in the series.

13:45 Jeremy Swainman had an awesome game in game three.

13:48 Do you stick with the rotation?

13:52 Do you go back to Swainman?

13:54 I think if people watch the postgame show, they know where I stand.

13:57 If you watch the postgame show, you know where I stand on this.

13:59 But Connor, where do you stand on this?

14:02 Yeah, I mean, I just think you got to go sweep the leg.

14:06 So say in the karate kid, I think you got to sweep the leg and stay with

14:10 and stay with it.

14:11 I say go for the knockout.

14:13 You're saying sweep the leg.

14:15 What's your saying?

14:16 Kick him in the nuts.

14:18 OK, yeah, I'm in the ball.

14:20 Why am I? Why am I not surprised?

14:21 Yes, no, no, I do think you look at just how good Swainman has been.

14:26 Right. And again, like

14:29 I preface this by saying that I still think Omar was the reason he lost game,

14:32 too. I thought he was fantastic in that game.

14:34 The game should have been even more lopsided.

14:36 But I think when you look at just how good Swainman's playing,

14:39 it's not like he's winning games, but it's, you know, he's given up three goals

14:43 on 28 shots or something like that, like he's playing at a elite level

14:48 against a high powered Toronto offense.

14:50 And Montgomery even kind of said it on on Thursday during their off day.

14:54 They had media availability in Toronto and was like, yeah, Max Domi

14:57 skating into Swainman, like maybe he's in their head a little bit,

15:01 which Sheldon Keith did not like that comment.

15:03 No, I did later on.

15:05 But like there is that factor in it, right?

15:07 And again, like the Bruins can look at the rotation and it's been great all year.

15:10 And like they wouldn't be like completely remiss to keep it going

15:14 if they wanted to.

15:15 But like you also have to factor in the mental aspect.

15:18 Like you can stare at the stats and listen, they speak for themselves

15:22 in terms of Swainman.

15:23 He's what he's won five games against his Toronto team this year

15:26 with just just this year alone with a nine fifty seven state percentage.

15:29 But once I started adding up for a team like the Maple Leafs that are,

15:32 you know, maybe they're gripping their sticks a little tighter

15:35 going into a game for a game they need to win in their own building.

15:38 If you look across the other side of the ice

15:40 and it's that Swainman guy who's making life miserable for you.

15:43 And it's been the case all year long. So

15:45 again, what the Bruins will do

15:49 that remains to be seen, because I would not be surprised if they go back

15:52 to to Omar and keep the rotation going.

15:55 But man, you look at just how good Swainman's been, how much momentum

15:59 I think you can kind of carry over into this game.

16:01 And especially like with the extra day off,

16:04 how much that maybe could help Swainman, because I think that is something

16:06 that needs to be cognizant for people is just their their reps

16:10 and how their their work usage has been and how that go to rotation helps them out.

16:13 But with an extra day of rest, I just look at what Swainman's done in the series.

16:18 I feel like you go you go and try to sweep the leg in game four.

16:21 Right. Again, if they win, it's still three one.

16:23 We saw what happened last year.

16:25 Does not mean you're clinching the series, but man, you feel really good

16:27 about your game and the overall kind of momentum of this series.

16:30 If Swainman starts again, gives you a win on the road in Toronto,

16:34 you come back to game five and then maybe you go back to Omar like you keep him

16:37 fresh. Not to say Omar was, again, a net negative in that game, too.

16:42 But if you have to then turn to a potential clinching game at home

16:45 with the reigning Vezina winner who played really well in game two,

16:49 feel pretty good about your game, I think.

16:51 I agree. I mean, Montgomery mentioned on Thursday

16:54 on whether extra day between games will impact goalie decision for game four.

16:58 He said, we're going to have more rest, but the rotation has been so good

17:00 for us, so, you know, it's a hard decision.

17:02 I so I think Swainman is the move.

17:06 You go with Swainman in game four.

17:08 He's too good right now.

17:09 You have an opportunity to, as you said, sweep the leg, as Ty said,

17:13 knock him out, as I said, kick him in the dick.

17:16 You know, we got that.

17:19 He said, let's try to say nuts.

17:21 We can go for Bobby, you know, yes, one can't hit both.

17:23 You know, you have to go for the knockout.

17:26 Like you're in Toronto.

17:27 You have this opportunity in front of you.

17:29 You go for it.

17:30 And and I just, you know, and you mentioned it also,

17:34 like you can go to all mark in game five.

17:36 Right. I think if you're up three, one and you're, you know, it's like, all right,

17:40 we you know, we don't want to have Swainman play three in a row.

17:43 You can go to all mark.

17:45 Now, there's also the argument that like go for the knockout again at home

17:48 and like Swainman is that good against them.

17:50 And so I'm fine with that.

17:53 But I like going off that comment now, I didn't hear it.

17:57 I just read it.

17:58 So I don't know what his tone Montgomery's tone was or anything.

18:00 Wouldn't shock me if they went back to Omar.

18:03 Wouldn't shock. Yeah, because I said it after game two.

18:06 I was like, it feels like they're going to do the rotation

18:08 for the first four games and then see where they're at for game five, six, seven.

18:12 Wouldn't shock me if that's the case.

18:15 Like, yeah, you know, and look, I don't think Omar puts them at a disadvantage.

18:19 Like I think Omar would be fine.

18:21 He was fine in game two.

18:22 Like, that's not the issue.

18:23 The point is that Swainman just has the Leafs number like in it.

18:28 He's where you are trying.

18:30 You know, it's a close series and you're trying to gain any little edge you can.

18:33 And Swainman is giving you that much of an advantage.

18:35 Like if Swainman comes out in game four and they lose, are people second guessing that?

18:39 No, and I'm not saying you don't because it can't be second guessed.

18:43 But if Omar comes out in game four and they lose, whether it's like in game two

18:47 or it's more convincing, like then you're like, dude, just keep Swainman in there.

18:51 And again, as I said, don't ever make decisions based off the fact

18:55 that people can can or can't second guess you.

18:58 But from our perspective, like

19:00 I think Swain going back to Swainman is the move.

19:03 So, yeah.

19:04 And I don't know. Yeah.

19:06 No, I mean, you also just look at the fact that like we've talked about this

19:10 before with how they handle the goal rotation and like how it can very much

19:13 be just like a field based approach.

19:15 And, you know, it could be the argument that you keep the guy in that until they

19:18 until they lose.

19:20 So for a swim, it hasn't lost yet.

19:21 But even if like they deviate from the script a little bit

19:24 and go with Swainman in game four and then whatever it is in game five,

19:27 you either go with a knockout with Swainman or Omar.

19:30 Like it's all about surviving and advancing.

19:32 And like it doesn't mean just because you maybe you stuck with Swainman

19:36 for a little bit more in this first round, you're abandoning,

19:39 you're throwing Omar to the shadow realm moving forward.

19:42 Like every round is its new set of challenges.

19:44 So all of a sudden you go against the Florida Panthers in the second round.

19:47 You start the clock all over again.

19:49 You go with maybe it's the same thing with maybe both guys give you similar returns.

19:53 It all, I think, depends on the matchup and how guys playing in the moment.

19:56 And when Swainman is playing this well against Toronto, take advantage of it.

20:00 Survive and advance and then reassess things.

20:02 Every series its own little set of battles and matchups.

20:05 And you got to do it four times.

20:06 You want to win the cup?

20:07 Yeah. And I think the other thing is like, you know,

20:09 Swainman has been hot against Toronto all year.

20:12 If the Bruins are to advance past this first round and get to play Florida

20:16 or Tampa, you know, as you said, you can reevaluate.

20:20 But Swainman also could be really hot.

20:21 Like Swainman could just be like scorching right now.

20:24 And then that you see you have that, too.

20:25 So it's a good problem to have for that.

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22:01 Now back to the show.

22:03 So Bruins up to one going into game four on Saturday,

22:08 getting the two days off in between, which leaves more time for adjustments,

22:12 which we know Toronto is probably making quite a few.

22:16 The Bruins have more of an active four check.

22:18 They've you know, they've been a bit better.

22:21 They were better in game three at just throwing pucks on net.

22:24 But what kind of adjustments do you like to see the Bruins make going into game four?

22:27 Yeah, I mean, I think in terms of the the goaltending

22:31 and special teams, keep on doing what you're doing.

22:33 You've got sizable advantages there.

22:35 I think it all comes down to a five on five play and just kind of sticking more

22:39 with, you know, adhering to the four check, making the simple smart plays,

22:43 just learning a little bit more punches there.

22:45 Like I think you feel good about a lot of the areas of your game

22:48 that you have that clear advantage in.

22:50 But we look at Toronto and what they can bring at five on five play.

22:54 You got to find some way to either, you know, land a few more punches there,

22:58 at least keep them off the board.

23:00 And in terms of just like the personnel,

23:02 I would probably see you have to take a look at that decor

23:05 and see whether you need to make a few more adjustments out there.

23:09 I mean, you look at like the way the power plays humming right now,

23:11 like a Shatner guy you want necessarily out there when

23:15 he's not really made an impact on that power play, like the power play

23:19 unit that's scoring right now.

23:21 I think he played what, 10 minutes and five seconds in that game in game three.

23:25 So, you know, I don't know if that means you keep Laura and it's Laura.

23:29 I love this food.

23:30 And you bring back Rizlik, who, you know, and, you know,

23:32 had his fault in game two, but still can make kind of those quick passes.

23:36 Plays well with with McAvoy.

23:38 Like I think maybe make a tweak here and there in terms of maybe

23:41 just your personnel, but then it all comes down to a five on five play.

23:44 Finding ways to do a bit more damage against the guy like Samsonov

23:48 because like it does feel like the Bruins are are due to have a game

23:51 where they're able to get a few more pucks against Galec Samsonov,

23:54 even like especially a guy like Pasternak, whether it's five on five play

23:57 or power play, it just feels kind of like Matthews in game two, where he feels

24:01 like he's due for a game where he's going to stop the statue here.

24:03 It does. It does. It does feel that way.

24:06 I agree with you on that for check and they did it the third.

24:08 You can't do it all game because you're going to tie yourselves out.

24:11 But like just being more aggressive on them, closing quick,

24:15 you know, forcing Toronto's D to make quick passes,

24:20 I think is important throughout the game and then just shooting like Trent Fred.

24:24 I mean, like when Frederick scored that goal, it was like, there it is.

24:26 Like, that's just what you got to do.

24:28 You know, they're not all going to go in like that, but some might.

24:31 And again, Samsonov, like that's what's going to happen.

24:35 And then I think in the Bruins own end,

24:38 I think you can always have cleaner breakouts.

24:42 I think that, you know, Toronto's been pretty good at forcing turnovers

24:46 at five on five and Swamens covered up for some of them.

24:50 There was one where Lowry and Shattenkirk both went behind the net

24:54 and left someone wide open in front.

24:56 So I think stuff like that.

24:59 And then you mentioned it like, you know, do you make any changes to the back end?

25:03 A lot of people in the comments last night in that postgame show

25:05 were ripping on Mason Lowry and saying like how bad he was.

25:08 I thought he was fine.

25:09 Like you have to expect with a guy like Lowry, right?

25:12 Like if you're going to put him out there, you're going to have some lapses.

25:15 You're going to have some like, what was that?

25:18 But then you're also going to have some really nice passes.

25:20 You're going to have, you know, a guy who's more active in the offensive zone.

25:24 That's that comes with the territory with him.

25:26 So like you have to understand, yes, he's six five, but he's not

25:29 he's not this defensive stalwart, at least not yet.

25:32 So you're going to have those now.

25:35 Like I think Wotherspoon stays in and they gave him the jacket after the game.

25:39 He can't come out.

25:40 Like that's a bad look.

25:42 There's like a knee almost got obliterated there.

25:45 So as soon as he went down, I was like, Oh my God, they can move with pressure.

25:47 And for I was like, they've lost this series if they if they because again,

25:51 like Wotherspoon and peak are sort of those secondary shutdown guys.

25:55 You need them, I think, especially in a series like this, where

25:58 especially if Nylander comes back, we'll get to in a second.

26:01 Like you need those guys in any situation.

26:05 So, you know, on D like Shattenkirk, I haven't liked.

26:09 I really haven't liked.

26:11 They're not using him much.

26:13 Is it worth it to keep men just because he's on the power play?

26:16 Like, you know, you could stick Lindholm there.

26:19 You could stick low rye again.

26:21 I know that they don't want to like touch the power play at the moment

26:24 because it is working.

26:25 But as you said, like it's been the other unit that's been.

26:28 Yeah, it's like in DeBrusco oil, that kind of crew.

26:31 Yeah. And like that's been what's that's what's worked.

26:34 So, you know, to me, like I would probably slot Shattenkirk out,

26:40 but then are you going to have low Ryan Wotherspoon as the third?

26:43 Because I'm assuming Griswick would come back in.

26:45 So like, do you want that?

26:47 And then for Bert's not ready to go yet.

26:49 So I mean, that peak injury really does screw him.

26:52 Like, yeah, in terms of matchups, really, he's playing really good hockey for them.

26:56 So, yeah. So we'll see what they end up doing back there.

27:00 I mentioned Nylander.

27:01 So William Nylander has been out the first three games.

27:04 Hadn't he not missed a game since like 2016?

27:06 I believe so. Yeah, it's crazy.

27:08 Crazy, which good for him.

27:11 So according to Elliott Friedman, he is out with a migraine issue

27:15 and it's been so bad they took him to the hospital to see if he had a concussion,

27:19 which a I feel really bad for him because that that sucks.

27:24 That sucks. There's no like there is no.

27:28 That's not an excuse like that just freaking stinks.

27:31 And I'm sorry to see it because I want Nylander in the series.

27:34 I do like it makes it more exciting.

27:36 I know the Bruins don't, but like, you know, he adds a whole element.

27:40 Makes it more interesting and I think could could really shift this series.

27:44 So, A, I hope he gets better.

27:46 But B, like it's a huge loss for the Leafs and it's really unfortunate for him.

27:50 I saw somewhere that he switched to tinted visors like a year ago

27:54 because he had a migraine problem.

27:55 So it's better.

27:56 I think that's the biggest thing, because that's a migraine sock.

28:00 And this sounds not much you can not much you can do with that,

28:03 especially when you're also competing in the Stanley Cup playoffs,

28:06 getting the shit kicked out of you for for an entire night as well.

28:10 It's I don't even like getting like out of bed.

28:12 Do you have a migraine, let alone?

28:14 Yeah, ready for a game.

28:16 So no, that's a sizable loss for the Maple Leafs.

28:19 And we'll see if he comes back in game four.

28:21 But he changes a whole other dynamic for that team.

28:24 If you put a guy who's what do you have?

28:26 Ninety eight points. He's on your third line.

28:28 And I think like their third line actually has been pretty effective

28:30 with some of those guys like Jan Kroak and what have you.

28:33 They've generated some good chances.

28:35 Gully Willie Mealander on their hopes are quite a bit as well.

28:38 So for the Maple Leafs, yeah, it all comes down to what we've expected.

28:42 Like if they're going to make this a series, it's going to be them

28:45 really, you know, landing punches offensively, offensively.

28:48 But if the power plays not, yeah, I was like, true to that.

28:52 Jesus, if the Leafs can't convert,

28:57 I'm going to puke.

29:00 And so I was I was like, I was looking at the Maple Leafs power play

29:05 and I all of a sudden have like a brief moment here.

29:08 I thought I was going to just vomit all over the screen

29:11 if they can't sort out these things on the power play.

29:14 Like, I don't know how you're going to get back into the series

29:18 unless you want to come back.

29:19 And I agree with two or three goals in the on the third line.

29:22 Like, I just can't see anything changing in terms of especially

29:26 what they have in now.

29:27 Like I'm listen, if you go into game four and Samsonov

29:31 as a 45 save shutout, that'd be unbelievable.

29:34 But I can't see that happening.

29:36 No, but just because we said it, just because we said it, it could happen.

29:39 You know, I like I said, Bruins and six, you said Bruins and six.

29:44 I you know, I said it last night.

29:45 I haven't come off that.

29:46 I still believe that this is why the series is kind of going.

29:50 How I thought, except I thought the Bruins would be better at five on five

29:53 scoring, at least to start

29:55 just given Toronto's defense, Toronto's goal tending.

29:58 And, you know, I mean, like the Frederick goal is because the goal tending.

30:02 But like, that's not because they the Bruins are just like doing some five

30:05 on five wizardry.

30:06 I mean, Marcian was, but they weren't as a team.

30:09 I still think Bruins and six and I go back to like, you know, Toronto

30:13 made good adjustments going into game two.

30:15 They win because of it.

30:16 That's great.

30:18 But now the Bruins have kind of unleashed that fast four check.

30:21 It's working, you know, unless Sam Sonaf turns a new leaf

30:24 and unless that power play gets going now, I think the power play getting going

30:27 is more likely than Sam Sonaf just go in sicko mode.

30:31 Like, you know, that's totally true.

30:34 But I just think the Bruins have, you know, they have the

30:39 they're winning the matchups in the right areas.

30:42 And I don't know if I see that fully changing enough

30:45 to think that the Leafs will win this series.

30:47 Could it be Bruins and seven?

30:49 Of course it could.

30:49 Like, you know, but I just I don't know.

30:53 You know, I'm not saying the series is over, by the way.

30:55 It's not. It is very much not because as I said, Toronto's power play

30:58 could easily get going.

31:00 And if Nylander comes back in the series, it changes things.

31:03 And, you know, does Marner go off on a game?

31:06 Did the Bruins have a bunch of defensive lapses, you know,

31:08 just swam and come back down to earth that all could happen.

31:11 But if things kind of continue on this track, I just think that the Bruins

31:15 the Bruins are the favorite, at least going forward.

31:17 So not really, you know, through three games.

31:21 I think the Bruins are a good spot.

31:23 And I think that that's, you know, it seems like they have the upper hand

31:25 in the series, at least for now.

31:28 Connor, what can people look forward to from you over at the globe and Boston

31:32 dot com? Hopefully not the vomiting, Evan.

31:34 That would be. Yeah, that would be good.

31:37 I think I like a little straw wrap of maybe in my Duncan.

31:39 I don't know what that was, but.

31:41 Well, it's like, you know, when people talk and they'll start to like

31:44 and it's like, just swallow, please take a second clear throat.

31:48 Like Tim Robinson when he's choking up, choking at the restaurant.

31:52 Anyway, Evan, great question.

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