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On this special episode of Poke the Bear, Conor Ryan and Evan Marinofsky take a look back at Don Sweeney's tenure as Bruins' GM and make their picks for the best draft picks made under Sweeney. Despite a mixed reputation for drafting, these are the undeniable hits that Sweeney has made over his time in Boston. Do they outweigh the swings and misses? That, and much more!  00:00 - Intro 00:38 - Best Bruins draft picks 04:16 - Coin flip for picks 06:01 - Swayman's potential as goalie 07:10 - McAvoy's draft potential 12:22 - 2015 draft analysis 16:00 - Carlo's consistent performance 17:29 - Mason Lohrei's potential 19:00 - Game Time 20:41 - Matt Poitras’s potential 23:43 - Jake DeBrusk's impact 27:35 - Ryan Lindgren discussion 29:51 - Conclusion  *****************************************  Gametime! Take the guesswork out of buying NBA tickets with Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code CLNS for $20 off your first purchase. Download Gametime today. Last minute tickets. Lowest Price. Guaranteed. Terms apply. Go to https://gametime.co !

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00:00Poke the bear is brought to you by the game time app

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00:18Go use that promo code CLNS to get $20 off that first purchase terms apply. I'm Evan Marinovsky

00:24That is Connor Ryan Connor. What is up, Evan? I'm doing well. How you doing?

00:30Doing great doing great. This is another one of those somewhat pre-recorded episodes

00:34Where we're talking today about the best Bruins draft picks of the Don Sweeney era. So this is going back to 2015

00:42I'm sure this will bring up a lot of fun memories for Bruins fans near and far and as we said on the

00:49episode of

00:51Best free agent signings do not fret we will have a worst free agent signings and draft picks episode

00:58Don't you worry, so we will have that covered. We're not all positive

01:01We'll do a little positive, but then we got a you know, gotta get on the devil's side a little negativity never hurt anybody

01:06But today it's positive stuff

01:09Positive stuff best Bruins draft picks since 2015

01:13I know a lot of people will you know say oh there must be none and I gotta say

01:17When I was going through Connor like, you know parsing through the draft since 2015 shout out to hockey DB

01:24They're actually a good number of

01:27Solid picks. I hate to say it like there are a good number of picks

01:32It's hard to consider the 24 and 23 drafts because they were just so recent takes a long ride for players to develop

01:41And I you know, I mean it takes a while is my point

01:45You're just sort of seeing the fruits of Fabian myself potentially and that was 2021

01:51So I think we're did you have any other thoughts from the that free agent episode?

01:56Did we miss anybody?

01:57I don't think I mean I feel it

01:58I feel like we we covered all of our bases right in terms of the the good and I know we're gonna get into the

02:03Bad as well for another episode. So I would like to say for anyone who's like

02:07Where the hell is the the negativity? Don't don't worry. We'll have it. We'll have we'll have drafts

02:13We'll have I am sure people can imagine who the draft picks are gonna be but we'll have that

02:17We'll have worse freedom signing as well. But let's focus on the pauses right now

02:21It's middle of middle of July whenever this episode actually does drop

02:25Let's focus on some positives here

02:26because as you said

02:27there actually are a few guys that have I think lived up or exceeded the billing in terms of what the Bruins have had and

02:33As you said like there's you know, it doesn't make much sense to hop in on like the 2023 24 drafts

02:38but even like some of these previous ones to we're like they haven't had first or second round picks like

02:43Are you weighing as much?

02:45I'm like a guy like a third round guy or fourth round guy who is

02:49Solid and what they are like maybe an everyday a chiller or to like a guy like lauco, you know

02:54Something like that. Like there's a lot of these kind of guys like third fourth fifth round picks

02:58It's like how you kind of weigh those expectations as to what exactly you were, you know

03:03When you map them out to be at the NHL level, so it's not a huge pool of selections here. I would say

03:09No, it's not. I think like I listed I sent you a Google Doc is 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

03:17So I would say about 13 guys. I since

03:212015 in those drafts that I would you know classify as

03:26Wins as guys you would draft in this sense where we will do the same format. We did in the last episode

03:32I think was on Bruins beat of best of region signings. We'll do a draft

03:36we'll each pick three and instead of giving one of us the

03:41The first pick I have a coin right here. I have these four quarters like next to my

03:46Computer

03:48What state is this I used to be into this I don't even know Oh Vermont. I think this is Vermont. That's interesting

03:55Yeah, I think it's a chunky monkey on the on the quarter the ice cream flavor

04:00So or maybe it's chocolate fudge brownie at Ben and Jerry's is just freaking so good

04:04So like, you know, maybe it's that chocolate fudge brownie. I'm sure quarter. There you go

04:09That's so funny well anyways Connor, uh

04:11Why don't you pick heads or tails and if you win it you get the first pick so what do you what do you pick?

04:18going tails

04:19Tails never fails. All right. Let's see. Everyone can see it

04:24It's tails you get the first pick my friend you got it

04:27It's right here. People can't really see it on YouTube, but that's tails

04:30So who would who would you yeah, we do have proof. This is a real thing

04:34Who would you like to select with your first pick?

04:36I mean, there's a lot of appealing options

04:39but I'm gonna go with a guy that is a key piece of this team now and for the future and it was also not a

04:45First round pick by any means. I'm gonna go with Jeremy Swainman

04:492017 round for pick one pick 111 a guy that again

04:55sometimes it is pretty much as you just saw there a coin flip when it comes to drafting goalies and what you're expecting out of

05:00them, but I

05:02think explain was one of those rare occasions where you he makes the jump up to Maine and right away you're like

05:07Bruins might have something in this guy. He was fantastic throughout his time with the Black Bears

05:12didn't spend a whole lot of time in Providence and it's just been on an upward trajectory since then and

05:18Again, it is kind of a crapshoot when it comes to it's kind of like quarterbacks

05:22Drafting goalies like you kind of don't really know what to expect. You can look at how they performed against lower level competition, but

05:29Sometimes it's all about you know

05:31Looking at their mechanics their ceiling all these things when you can get out of them

05:34And I think for a fourth round pick to have a guy in Swayman who

05:38Looks the pot in terms of a franchise goalie was fantastic this past year and should you know, but you know

05:45Still gonna work on that contract but barring anything catastrophic will be here for the long haul

05:50I think for a fourth round pick to find your franchise goalie and to go from Tim Thomas to do

05:56You know to to go ask to you know

05:58The Lena Solmark to now Swayman pretty good pretty good pipeline you've had there

06:02Especially with a fourth round pick being the guy that should carry you for ideally the next ten plus years. I

06:08mean that is as good as you're gonna get with a fourth like you dream of luck like that and to have that I mean

06:14that was a

06:16That was a hell of a pick and it's interesting because like I remember him at Maine when they would play UMass and he would

06:24Swayman would average like 45 shots against per game because those were the main teams that were not very good

06:31And one of the interesting things was like, you know

06:32The UMass student section would be right behind Swayman and they'd be taunting them

06:36They'd be going at him and he'd be cheering with him

06:38Like he would be you know

06:39Putting water in the crowd like he would have fun with him and I remember seeing that and being like, huh?

06:43It's interesting. That's very interesting. I mean that that's a lot of pro potential right there

06:48I'm not it's not saying that's everything but like his demeanor how calm he was

06:53Was was something you wanted and

06:56Yeah, I mean that's that like that could not have turned out any better now again, we'll see

07:03Maybe team offer shoots him in the next week and he's gone. But hey, that's not it still means he's the first pick

07:08I still think he's first pick material for this

07:11for my pick

07:14It's a first rounder

07:15But it's a first rounder when you look back you go

07:17How did he slide to where he got picked and that was Charlie McAvoy in 2016?

07:2314th pick

07:25You know again like you mentioned with goaltenders this franchise having you know franchise goalies needing franchise goalies

07:33the Bruins have prided themselves on having a legit number one defenseman for a long time or

07:39Bork

07:41Chara

07:43McAvoy and there were others in between there

07:45But again, I'm not you know going in every single player

07:48But again, just what he brings the two-way

07:53Abilities he has it's interesting because around that same time

07:56I feel like smaller puck moving defensemen were things that teams wanted. You saw a guy like grizzly

08:02You know Bruins had Krug

08:05But this two-way force that McAvoy really was is now what the league wants

08:12Victor Hedman's your Roman Yosi's your Mikhail Makar is a speedster and very offensive, but you know fine in his own zone

08:18I'm like D like that

08:20That's what McAvoy is

08:22You put high skin and kind of in that category, too. So

08:26The perfect kind of number one defenseman. I saw Jay fresh did like a poll of the top defenseman in the NHL

08:32Oh, by the way, all four and this was done on July 11th

08:35So when this comes out, it'll you have to scroll a little further back

08:38But if you do, I think I think the broods are the only team to have

08:43All for their D in the top 64 defenseman in the NHL like other teams might had three

08:47But I think they were the only team with four McAvoy was number six

08:50So again, like I remember Fluto wrote a couple years ago like oh, you know McAvoy might never win a Norris

08:56Just given the talent, you know, that's in the league around him

08:58It doesn't mean he's never gonna be a you know, a number one top five defense in the NHL and I think he's there

09:05So and you you covered him at BU, right? Yeah, and like what was that? I mean

09:12You can kind of see why I think probably at the time people were like, you know

09:16this guy is like a 10, you know 10th overall to 15th overall because I feel like he was a guy you mapped out as

09:22Kind of being the the jack-of-all-trades, you know master of none in terms of you can do a little bit of everything

09:27But that just maybe makes him just a really solid good player

09:31Like again top four potential obviously and you know play 20 minutes a night, but wasn't this, you know

09:37Maybe super dynamic player like obviously different different kind of player

09:40But wasn't like a Macar where it's like you saw him in college being like this guy's got something, you know

09:45And I think you look at just the way

09:47That he's developed a McAvoy and he's become that guy where he kind of can do a little bit of everything

09:52But he excels at so many different areas with it, right?

09:55There's a lot of guys that can move the puck that a great offensively like the OCS and the Hughes's and the

10:01Macar's and those kinds of players, but there's a few guys that can

10:05Consistently, you know play 23 24 minutes a night

10:08Give you a 50 ish points per season can chip in on the power play and chip in on the PK when needed

10:14Hit like a freight train when he squares guys up, right and can do kind of all those things

10:18like that's what makes him such a special player and it's not like he's kind of a jack-of-all-trades like master of none like he

10:24Excels in some of those areas as few guys that I think open ice, you know

10:27I've been to Doroff who is pretty good at blowing people up has mentioned that in terms of open ice hits

10:32McAvoy is one of the best at it

10:34There's very few guys that can have that reputation while also being a really good puck mover

10:38Can handle that, you know can be a durable player contribute offensively

10:42So I think it was kind of those things where there was

10:45questions over where he would really thrive or what areas of the game he would do well in and

10:49He's kind of proven it that he's one of those few guys that can do just a little bit of everything at a high level

10:53The NHL level. Yeah, he can and it must have been fascinating to cover him during that time and then be like

10:59Oh my god, the Bruins took him

11:01Freaking took him you covered his first year

11:05So I I did cover it, but I was technically a graduate at that point

11:10I was the I was the the college freshman who hangs around the high school

11:15Acting cool and those a year older. So I was you know, Lonzo with the home run Derby. Yes, exactly

11:20So I was still covering BU for a few different websites at that point, but my senior year was like the Eichel

11:27Grizzly Grizzly Grizzly

11:29you saw him in college and there's the question like you there's a lot of other guys of that profile who are like

11:35510 puck moving defensemen who like alright NHL level. We'll see how they do. But in college he was

11:41Dynamic and again again credit to Grizzly for being a guy that's carved out a eight-year career so far off of just when there is

11:48usually a lot of skepticism about how those kind of

11:50Skilled 510 college defenseman can really kind of struggle at the next level and he had a pretty nice career with the Bruins

11:57One of my favorite things is like I'll be watching kids in prep or you know

12:01Who are you 18 you 17 and they're you know undersized defensemen who are super dynamic and you know a college will say like yeah

12:08I just don't know how he's gonna project to the NHL level and I'm like, well you don't have to worry about that

12:13Yes, you need a good college defense, but this is a good college defense like that's all that matters for you

12:19I want to get to my second pick

12:22So with my second pick I'm gonna go to the 2015 draft that infamous

12:282015 draft and I'm gonna go not the first round

12:32second round pick 37

12:35Brandon Carlo

12:37You look back at that 15 draft and there's a lot of regret from that first round

12:42Now they have no more 2015 first rounders on the roster Jake DeBrusco into Vancouver

12:48But

12:50Carlo

12:51Helps salvage this draft. I mean DeBrusque did as well. Maybe one of us will pick DeBrusque later on

12:56But what you've gotten out of Carlo is a very stable

13:01top four shut down right shot defenseman and sort of like how I mentioned McAvoy his play style has

13:08Been with the trends of the NHL and kind of with the style Carlo is a big

13:13mobile

13:14Shut down guy is another trend where it's like you need big guys back there

13:19He's that now is he the open ice hitter that McAvoy is no as he is physical not really, but his stick is great

13:25He's such he's so cerebral such a smart defender

13:29You have him on cheap money that 2019 playoff run was peak Brandon Carlo real like glimpse at okay

13:36This guy can freakin play and he's gonna be in your top four for you know, hopefully five to ten years. So

13:42Getting that kind of value in the second round is great. I know there's been like 2015 redrafts

13:48I'd have to go back and see like who else was picked but like

13:52Looking back. He's probably a late first rounder like that

13:55Like if you were to redraft the whole thing what he gives you is probably like mid to late first round

14:00So you can make the case you got two first round talents in that draft

14:05Which you know not exactly enough to hang your hat on given what you had you look back at that 15 draft though and they

14:11had a million picks and

14:13I'm sure we'll talk about this at the end because I don't want to spoil anybody but like

14:17They did get a few NHL caliber players in that draft. It just wasn't

14:23Where they wanted it to be in the caliber of NHL talent that they that they needed

14:27But yeah, I'd go with Carlo for for number two

14:30Yeah, no solid pick there in terms of just a guy that brings you stability right as you said

14:35He's not a guy that's gonna light people up. He's maybe not dynamic, but he's like he's like a great

14:42Right God. He's like a Joe Tooney

14:44Yeah, like you don't really know maybe you don't notice him that much

14:47but if you don't it means he's you in his shop and just

14:49Secures everything in terms of when he's flying at a high level and I think you know, he did with some injuries early on

14:55But I do feel like the detractors for Carlo have quieted down the last couple years where I think he's really

14:59Started to again. He's been healthy, but he started to string together

15:03Stronger seasons just as a whole and he's just been steady and I think that's what you want out of your stay-at-home

15:09Top four fixture and you look at just what he provides

15:12Yeah

15:12Like is you say like late first but like look at like a guy like Tyler Myers who was like a 6-8

15:17Kind of this young profile. He was like 11th overall. I think like for what Brennan Carlo gives you

15:24Consistent, you know great work on the PK

15:26The Bruins have had one of the best PK units for years now with Carlo as one of their main guys

15:3140 provides. Yeah, he's probably like it should be like a top 15 pick and a draft

15:36Maybe not 2015 was stacked

15:38But like in terms of most years if you told someone like hey, we'll give you this guy who can play 10 years for you

15:44When healthy plays 20 minutes a night anchors your PK don't have to worry about him

15:48You don't like just plot him in in the top four and you're good to go

15:52I

15:53think that's kind of the the best case scenario for what you want out of a

15:58Guy that's in the first round. So yeah for them to find him. I think 37th overall pretty good

16:03Yeah teams are taking him every time in that situation

16:07Who's your second pick? Oh

16:09I'll go I think at this point as you said

16:12there's a few guys that are still pretty young that I think this this ranking of where we pick guys is gonna be

16:18projecting a little bit but I look at the fact that I don't think anyone had them on a lot of

16:23You know draft boards at all

16:26Mason Laurie

16:272020 second round 58th overall again gets drafted every expert on Twitter is like, oh

16:33I gotta make a graphic. They did like a little Microsoft paint. There's a little smiley face like this is Mason Laurie

16:38for the Bruins to

16:40Identify a guy like that that was you know, especially at the time was you did such a project right was only

16:46What two years out of?

16:49Out of switching to forward was

16:52Super rangy didn't really know you could see the potential of looking at a guy six five offensive defenseman. Like, all right, maybe he's

16:59John Carlson or someone like that

17:00But I don't know whatever to bank on that with a second round pick when not a lot of people had them on the draft

17:06boards and so far again

17:08He's got a long way to go

17:09But from what you saw last year a lot to like about a player that just seems like every time he's received more reps

17:17He's gotten better like there. He hasn't hit a wall like you look at where he was in October where he was

17:22Well ahead of you look at where he was in the playoffs against the Panthers where told me in October like oh

17:27Mason Laura is gonna get top four minutes against the Florida Panthers in their four check you'd be like

17:32Shit, it's not great. But every time I think throughout this year, he kept on getting better and better. So

17:38Just the fact that he was such a maybe a reach in terms of when the Bruins talk to them

17:43But they banked on that, you know potential they banked on how unique of a prospect he is and again

17:48He's a guy that seems kind of what we talked about was like Dean Letourneau a few weeks ago

17:52Like that's a guy that if he thrives and hits his level a six five playmaking defenseman

17:57You can play 20 minutes a night

17:59Every team be lining up to have one of those guys and you were able to find this guy

18:02Kind of well off the board and so far looks like it's a home run. Oh

18:06Yeah, I agree. I mean I think just for a second round pick and you look at those drafts, right like

18:122020-2021, I know they had a first in 2021, but you know lower first and a lower first in 2019 and

18:20I

18:21Think the fact that you have a pick like that who hit who is clearly a first-round talent and it's just a late bloomer

18:28completely

18:29Is a steal it's a steal and you take that every time and I think what he can bring you

18:34I mean, you know if he ends up being a top four stalwart who is putting up, you know, 50 points every season

18:40It's gonna be like, holy crap. And I think you know, maybe his room for more

18:45So again, I don't want to get too crazy. I mean in that best Bruins free agency picks

18:49I had Elias Lindholm bringing them a Stanley Cup in the next couple years

18:52So, I mean, I'm not gonna get too far ahead of myself

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20:39Guaranteed so you're up next. What would be your third pick in our draft?

20:44I'm gonna go once again with maybe a bit of a

20:48Looking ahead progression, but Matt Potter

20:522022 second round 54th overall again

20:55Need to see how he does over a full year

20:57Being healthy

20:58but a guy that much like Laura and again like I think watcher was probably a safer selection and that he was gonna be a

21:04Second round pick had a lot of promise that he showcased with the storm in the OHL

21:10But still was a guy that I think has just accelerated his development timeline

21:15This is a guy that you know

21:17It was kind of like a Jackson Nika where it's like, all right really gifted attacks down

21:21You know attacks downhill really assertive with the puck, but we'll see how he does at the next level

21:26He can line up the OHL, but we'll see what what's next and brand to go right from the OHL

21:31Have a great preseason showcases value there

21:34And again, like you look at last year and he I think one hit a wall

21:38But also was banged up was probably you know in over his head in terms of the physicality and the schedule and all those

21:43Things but he was on pace for like the first month and a half of being like a 50-point guy

21:48He had like, you know, I think it was

21:5113 points in his first 27 games something like that

21:54Like he was a guy that was showcasing his value

21:57so not to say that I think all of a sudden this year is gonna be healthy and he's gonna be a

22:0255 point guy, that'd be fantastic. But this is a guy that you look at just the fact that he only just recently turned 20

22:09It still has you know gone through the first hurdles and the first growing pains that usually that's reserved for guys who are 22 23

22:16He's just a guy that you look at how desperate the Bruins are down the middle and how much they need a young cost-controlled

22:22Player there to find this guy who I think is just exceeded expectations everywhere. He's gone so far for a second round pick

22:29I think that's great value for what he already is and ideally what he should be in another couple of years

22:34And you think about when they picked him right?

22:362022 so this was the first season without crazy and

22:41You know, you knew Bergeron's career was coming to an end sometime soon now

22:45They obviously got crazy then next year, but you knew that they needed franchise sentiment

22:51they need a franchise sentiment at some point now is he a

22:55projected bonafide number one center in the NHL

22:58Not quite yet

22:59But definitely top six and someone who at some point in his career is probably gonna be a consistent

23:04You know what?

23:0655 to 70 point guy which is not far off point wise from what crazy and Bergeron were so like right not trying to compare

23:13I'm here but like point production wise

23:15It's not crazy. So I think getting that value at pick 54 is incredible

23:21So yeah, I would agree with you that would have been my pick but but you went in and snatch

23:25I tried to trade up for that pick but you were stubborn you were like, I'm not giving away that pick not gonna happen

23:31With my final pick I could go with a lower in the lineup guy

23:36I could go with you know, maybe a third pairing defenseman, but I think there's an obvious final pick here

23:432015 draft again pick 14

23:45Take the brusque like again. I know everybody, you know, that draft gets crushed rightfully

23:50So we'll get to that in a different episode

23:52But I mean to brusque was a legit first-round pick like gave you a ton of production

23:59big in the playoffs

24:01You know fit in your top six worked alongside David Crachy

24:06Obviously there were you know attitude concerns, you know stuff with Bruce Cassidy over his nine years here

24:13but for a first-round pick like

24:16That's what that's what you need like that that I mean again, it was never

24:21You know, there were a couple there was a season in there where I think he had almost 30 goals

24:25But cut short due to injury

24:28Had some big moments had the winner classic game against Pittsburgh

24:31I

24:32Was a fine first rounder like no one, you know people ragged on to brusque for certain things, but it was never like oh

24:39They shouldn't have picked a brusque with that first pick

24:40It was you know, Senna shouldn't Zabor all that, you know, those are the picks that got crushed the breast turned into a very good

24:49Offensive NHL player and the fact that he was able to also learn the d-zone well and kill penalties and be reliable there

24:55So like again, I think both of us were on the same page of like if it was the right price bring him back

24:59Obviously the Bruins really did not want him back considering he signed for five and a half million out in Vancouver

25:05But I'd go with the brusque. It's my final pick Jake to breast

25:09No solid top six player and as you said give him credit like he his kind of game was based on his speed and his

25:16Scoring ability and you were kind of waiting for him to finally hit that 30 goal threshold that didn't happen here

25:21But full credit to just how he developed over time where he became a really good two-way player

25:27And again a guy that you look at

25:29What's the easiest way to I think tick off Bruins fans is not delivering in big moments

25:34The guy had a lot of clutch playoff goals

25:36You look at the 2018 game 7 against the Maple Leafs was arguably their most consistent

25:41Offensive player in this most recent playoff run guy that elevated his game at the right time

25:47And I think was a great Bruin for what he provided

25:50So as you said, I think it's the rest of the draft like again

25:53It's not even saying like they need to get you know

25:55The bars all those guys even like another connect me what it would have helped like the same things in terms of what the brusque provided

26:03this team

26:05Over the years again. It's just that stability. It's why we're now looking at like again

26:09It's intriguing this upcoming year of like is it why sell is it geeky? Is it brazo? Like that's intriguing but

26:18The stability that the brusque offered you not just you know

26:21The scoring but especially just his two-way game and how he could impact the game what moving his feet

26:26Was a good Bruin and well worth that first-round pick it was it was

26:31So yeah, that's about it for that. Anybody else like I think with my next pick I would have probably

26:38Went with Trent Frederick just what he can give you again. Again. That's just a an end of the first rounder

26:44I know everybody brings up

26:47Who's the guy drafted right after him drink it right to bring it was the guy picked right after him?

26:52So obviously yeah, like hindsight, of course, but you picked Frederick and turned into a serviceable bottom six guy like, you know

27:01Yeah, like I like that's fine

27:03Would you rather to bring it? Of course. Yeah, that would have been nice. But you know, they didn't they got Frederick instead

27:11Looking at the rest here like lows on obviously, you know big hitter. Can I say my honorable mention?

27:17I know where you're gonna go with this. Oh, yeah

27:20I'm not gonna take it from you, but I

27:28You're gonna go with a defenseman from the second round in 2016, that's what you're gonna I sure am Ryan lingering, baby

27:34Yes, do it a guy that every time I think you watch him play with the Rangers you like damn

27:38He'd be a really good Bruin. He hits like again. It's like a freight train

27:42He's always bleeding that guy could like go to a trampoline park and leave just covered in blood

27:47Like every time I see that guy he's getting stitched up. He's gotten something to stop stop the bleeding on the bench

27:54Super physical player again was part of that Rick Nash trade that I think a lot of people are still stewing about

27:59I still think it's a trade you make at the time try to put that team over the top

28:03Yeah, you traded Rick Nash with the expectation. He was gonna be here for a while

28:07concussions played into it

28:08So it does suck you lose a great kind of defense in that I think would have been a

28:13nice piece to have and lingering that the Bruins did draft and develop quite a bit but

28:18Also, I think you got the Ryan swooner and Bolesky contracts off the books by doing that trade

28:24so you did also people people kind of forget about that part that it was also kind of a

28:28It took some crap contracts

28:30as a whole in terms of getting a guy like Rick Nash that

28:33Ideally should have finally given you a running mate to go with David crazy on that second line didn't work out

28:38but

28:39It's cost of doing business

28:40It's one of those rare times the Bruins have given up a prospect not like an Axel Anderson where they've actually become a pretty serviceable

28:47Defenseman, but that's my honorable mention. I'm like, I agree. That's a good one

28:50And I it's funny. I was looking at his elite prospects right during a commercial break

28:54So I was like, I might pick Lindgren with that third pick

28:57Did two years of Minnesota because the Bruins drafted him in 16 out of the program

29:02Out of the national program two years of Minnesota

29:05Seven points and nine points in both those years now obviously points not everything in points is not his strong suit

29:11But I am surprised you only did two years at Minnesota

29:13you would think a guy like that would do three and then go but he only did two went off and

29:19Has been a fixture with the Rangers ever since not a high point guy, but gets the job freakin done

29:24You know, um, you do notice them and you notice the hit they hit compilations are pretty legit

29:31But I think that's it

29:32I mean Johnny Beecher could have got a mention

29:34Yucca Blanco was a nice piece third round in 2018 back in Iden you traded and got Hampus Lindholm

29:40So like there is that end of it, too

29:42He's had a nice little run with Anaheim, which I'm glad to see cuz he had concussion issues

29:46It seems like he's got a pretty steady role there, which is good to see. Yeah. So again, I think like, you know

29:52Good picks not bad. So that's this episode of poke the bear. Connor is still a honeymooning having a great time. He is

30:00Swinging from the vines and I'm still I'm still at home

30:05Well in the future when people listen to this you will be happily on your honeymoon

30:10So go enjoy that and that's been this episode of poke the bear. I'm Evan Marinovsky

30:15That's Connor Ryan represented by prize picks and game time you poke the bear listeners. Have a great rest of your week

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