In the latest episode of Poke the Bear, Ty Anderson joins Conor Ryan to discuss the current state of the Bruins' goalie corps, Fabian Lysell's odds of making the NHL roster, and the top surprises so far during camp.
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00:00Poke the bear is brought to you by price picks and the game time app
00:06And welcome in to poke the bear episode
00:10264 presented by prize picks and game time tickets. My name is Conor Ryan. And once again, we are joined by
00:1695 the sports hubs
00:18Ty Anderson Ty what's going on? What's up, man? How we doing?
00:23Doing well, we are in the in the thick of it in terms of preseason games and I don't know about you Ty
00:29We're recording this right after the Bruins lost to the Rangers at Madison Square Garden
00:36Was a that was a preseason game wasn't a whole lot going on wasn't a whole lot
00:39I'm really glean from again. You have David Poster on plane. You got McAvoy got the door off got a few guys in there
00:47Not a whole lot to draw from that game that was a lot of the the veterans got there working got there skating in
00:55Yeah, that's about it wasn't a lot to really draw from that one, right no not a lot to draw from that one
01:01That was one of the more preseason games that I've ever preseasoned in my life. I must say and so
01:08Not too too much to kind of take away from that game to be honest with you
01:13You got you got to look at some line combinations some player combos
01:17But beyond that
01:19Just kind of a big old nothing
01:22And it kind of felt that way too, you know after the game
01:25Jim Montgomery was just kind of saying like yeah, we didn't really
01:28Pressure a lot and it was it made life hard for ourselves
01:32it's like yeah, it's kind of how it felt and it was it was kind of hard to watch because I
01:36Think once a game gets away from in the preseason you naturally get into like, all right
01:41Let's just let's just get through this running clock. Please. It was it was it was a running clock kind of game
01:46I in my opinion, yeah run the clock go in go out grab a slice of Sbarro pizza
01:51Hit the road. Yeah, good day. Good day in New York City the picture with Elmo in Times Square
01:56Do we get it get it get attacked by like a goofy where like his face is half-missing looks at his face
02:02Yes, true, New York experiences as they say
02:06But when you look at if we're trying to draw any sort of takeaways or something from it burning bussy
02:16You know, he gives up four goals
02:18Rebound control was a little bit of an issue. Like some of it was was bad luck, right?
02:23Like breakaway goal from offman where it's a door off didn't look all that great there
02:28Five on three goal by Adam Fox earlier on in that game
02:32But still a lot of rebounds a lot of pucks in grade a ice
02:37You know a lot of grade a chances generated by the Rangers in that game
02:41what have you made of bussies preseason so far from what you saw both last Sunday and Thursday and
02:48Is there any cause for concern for what you've seen for him so far out of these two games?
02:54Yeah, you know as a general rule of thumb
02:56I try not to get too high or too low with a goalie in the preseason if we go back
03:03famously in
03:042021 Lena Solmark had a wretched post preseason and then was great in the regular season from about
03:11November
03:1210th or something on he was incredible
03:15So as a general rule of thumb, I try not to get too high or too low with preseason results with that said
03:23This was clearly an opportunity for bussy to establish himself and to make life interesting
03:29independent of what happens with Jeremy Swayman
03:32Because listen if they signed Swayman and bussy was what you saw a year ago in the preseason
03:37And he was making these acrobatic saves and he's looking fantastic. It's like, okay
03:42There's a legit reason to to either wave corpus alo or go with three goalies and let the battle rage on
03:48Into the regular season as we've talked about
03:51but if you're gonna begin the the preseason with
03:54In 864 a couple of goals that I think are stoppable a couple are just sick, right?
04:00Like that Crider deflection is great. He's one of the best in the world at that
04:04The the fourth goal where the guy gets his own rebound bats out of the air like that's that's just ridiculous
04:12But what I would say though, is that like, okay, well you gotta stop that initial shot
04:15you can't let that rebound get right back to him, so
04:18Structurally, there's been some things that I think are a little the rebounds been pretty big. I would say and just kind of that
04:26That that demeanor that your six-foot-five goalie has to have of like, okay
04:31The game is kind of getting away from them, but he's gonna make the saves here, right?
04:34Like you kind of need more that I think if he's gonna make camp interesting and through two games
04:39I we haven't really seen it but
04:41You know again, it's how much weight you want to put in to a preseason performance
04:48It like so that's where I get I get kind of stuck in the middle ground there
04:52But I will say that to make things interesting. He's got to be better
04:55He's got to be better than what he's shown through two games so far. Yeah, absolutely
04:58I think that's the biggest key right and it's as you said, we're at the stage of the preseason where yes
05:02We've got three games down now, but you look at like Cooper Salo who looked really solid in his
05:08reps
05:09but had seven shots on goal like was looked really solid with square two pucks ceiling off the post doing all the things you
05:16The basics you expect from a guy who's able to turn aside a lot of those short opportunities
05:21But seven shots seven shots like listen
05:24It's a lot better if he gave up four off of seven shots
05:27then we'd be freaking out right when you look at just what the state of this goalie core is but
05:32It does I think reinforce whether it's bussy who's
05:36Been off and on so far during the preseason or corporate solo who looks good
05:40But you see more of it obviously going forward. I imagine he's probably gonna get a full game here pretty soon
05:47It does reinforce once again that you look at this team. You look at the roster a lot to like about it
05:52man, you feel a whole lot better if you had
05:54you had number one in net because it does feel like that is the one kind of just looming thing right now where
06:00Defense even with
06:02again, a preseason game few few mistakes few a few boo-boos here and there what you deal with but
06:10Decor look strong a lot of options up front
06:14If you have to open the year on October 8th with corporate solo and bussy and it's not to say that I'm writing those guys
06:20Off I'm not saying that corporate sol is gonna be what he was last year
06:23Bussy what he's shown so far in the preseason is gonna carry over to the regular season
06:27But at the most volatile position in hockey like that is a
06:31Lot of uncertainty going into what should be a really really strong roster and it's kind of helping swimming's leverage at least right now
06:37We could be talking in
06:39You know the middle of October and corporate solos three, you know
06:43Living up one goal and maybe all of a sudden that momentum shifts
06:46But just something the Bruins you don't want to be in right now
06:49You want to be getting ready and locked in with your whole crew and that's not the case
06:52Yeah, exactly. And and I think that you know
06:56They are a
06:5796%
06:59Finished product in terms of like they're opening that roster
07:02But the 4% that's missing is actually worth more than 4% like they built the system around having a great goaltender
07:09As we've talked about before like you bring in the best to a center available on open market
07:15You bring in the best defenseman available on the open market
07:19And that confirms that you're dug in on the team construct and the team identity and how the team is gonna look
07:26You can't go back now. It's it's kind of this is what it is, right? And
07:30You know, I thought it was interesting
07:33Yesterday after the morning skate Jim Montgomery was asked about
07:37Each coffee the kid in Philly and he's talking about how like that's how you get generational players is having
07:44Top picks and he referenced Colorado and he said look at they got McKinnon first overall
07:48They got the best defense from the world fourth overall, you know
07:51It's like that's how you build teams like that. And this is sort of what we've talked about on this podcast
07:56We're like you can't just build that kind of team on the fly
08:00You have to amass the picks and you have to suck for a while and then you have to build that kind of team
08:06they have built a team that as long as that goalie is unsigned it is
08:12incredibly incomplete and
08:14You know corpus alo again
08:17Before I believe on here, but like I don't know I don't don't think and fix him
08:22Not a guy you want to rely on though for as your workhorse, you know what I mean?
08:26So like he could be great as a supporting cast member piece, right?
08:31And it's kind of like a lock right like when you brought a lock into Boston
08:35He kind of flamed out as a starter in New York with the Islanders and then he said well
08:40We're gonna bring him in. He's gonna play 30 games. We're gonna get we're gonna get 25 great games out of him
08:45We might get five clunkers, but we're gonna get 25
08:48really good above replacement level
08:51appearances
08:52But if you had to rely on a lock to make 50
08:55Appearances that number is gonna go down a little bit
08:57You're gonna get more stinkers
08:58Look at the playoffs when they had to rely on him in the bubble
09:01Like you kind of saw like, oh, this is good. And then by then to be like, oh my god
09:05This gotta get this over with get this out of here. So
09:10So, yeah, so like but until Swayman assigned the the pitchers incomplete in an
09:17Average sense in terms of what you're missing from your roster. Yep. Swayman watch
09:22Continues on there's nothing more really to note of it. So we will thankfully pivot tie
09:27We won't keep on talking about Jeremy Swayman. There's nothing really new to talk about there
09:31before we talk about a few other top subjects with the Bruins and
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11:38All right, I looking at the rest of what we've seen so far, especially maybe that game on Tuesday
11:45Against the Capitals where they had a couple of NHL errs
11:47You had this game on Thursday against the Rangers where a lot of their line of regulars were in there
11:52Whether it's fat camp
11:55Practices all that stuff who are some guys that have really kind of stood out to you so far from what you've seen
12:00Again, not too too much ice time
12:02But is there any guys that are either separating themselves or making a legitimate push maybe that we didn't really expect?
12:08Yeah, I think a guy that's kind of unheralded and in right now
12:12I would have a hard time sending him away would be Cole Koepke
12:15A player who I think just plays a pace
12:19Plays the right way you look at that goal that that he scored in the opener
12:24He provides great support ensures a battle win for the Bruins on the wall then drives right to the net
12:30I mean, that's kind of how the goals are scored now, right?
12:34You know, you got your your highlight reel one-timers
12:37But a lot of the game now is that kind of messiness, you know in front of the net around the net and so
12:43For him to do that, I think was uh, I think it's nice and he had he had a point last night as well
12:48So we have two points in two games
12:51So I kept he's a guy that you know
12:52I think it may be under the radar in terms of his ability to compete for a spot
12:57But a good fourth line kind of weapon that you could have for the Bruins right now
13:02Especially with Mac Joe Max Jones Mac Jones Max Jones being a little uncertain now. Yeah, can you imagine and stuff?
13:09I'm just gonna go play out and play hockey and stuff
13:11No, but um
13:13you know, I think that's like that's a it's a spot right now where I
13:18Look at it and I say yeah, you're a legit contender. So that'd be one for me. Yeah
13:22I think you look at like the entire fourth line grouping
13:25You've got so many intriguing options where you could make a legitimate case for a couple of these guys
13:30Like I think going into the air. I'm like, alright, it's probably gonna be some combination of you know feature
13:36Markaslik who I think has been really good
13:39He was impactful this last game was doing everything to
13:43Get noticed
13:44You got Max Jones. He's banged up right now, but you imagine he's probably one of the
13:50Favorites at least going into camp. But yeah, as you said, you got kept key
13:54You got Riley Tufte who's 6-6 you got Riley Duran who um, you know
13:58It's a guy that I was been talked talked about quite a bit and then even a guy who I don't think it's gonna make
14:03the team on October 8th, but like
14:05Trevor Quintar is the guy who's causing chaos every time he's out there and I think yeah, I mentioned this on another podcast
14:11But one thing I like about Quintar is that like it's going to his second full year Pro Hockey's 23
14:17It seems like he already is well aware of like I know what my identity needs to be. I'm going to do this
14:22I'm going to hop over the boards. I'm gonna hit someone I'm gonna talk a lot of shit
14:26I'm gonna hang around the net front. I'm gonna every single time and what do you know good things happen?
14:31So he's a guy that like, you know, even if there are these players that don't make the team on opening night
14:37You know Quintar maybe a cap key, you know, maybe it's you know, Max Jones is banged up Riley Duran
14:43Like there's a couple of guys who aren't gonna make this team
14:45But when the inevitable kind of injury bug sprouts up as the year goes on
14:50they've got a lot of really intriguing options to really fill out that fourth line because
14:54You got four or five six guys that you told me they were gonna play 60 plus games and be like
15:00I'm really curious to see what they do because I think they've got a lot of guys that kind of fit the mold of what
15:05Checking line units need to be in today's NHL and then there's a lot more potential there not to say that it you know
15:11We're expecting a 15 goal season from Beecher or Max Jones or anything like that
15:15But there's a lot of guys who I think they've brought in that I like how they play
15:18I like what they can bring over the span of a long season
15:21yeah, and you know, I'm happy you brought up Catholic because I think I think that if
15:27You're expecting him to constantly be a guy who is hitting and fighting every game
15:33You're gonna be disappointed because I know people in Ottawa wanted him to be more physical
15:38Pretty much every game like it was it was there but it wasn't consistent enough for them, right?
15:44So he has to bring value beyond that if it's there every night. It's great. I'm not expecting
15:49I'm not expecting it to be though. So what I'm saying is that you got to do something else and through two games right now
15:54He is one
15:5760% of his face-offs. He's nine. He's nine of 15
16:01So that's another reason why they brought him in here. You look back to last year
16:06They only had one righty
16:08Face-off guy who was above 50% It was Charlie Coyle
16:11So that is where Catholic is gonna come in and help provide some needed support
16:17Just another face-off option behind behind Charlie Coyle on the right side
16:21To keep him fresh to keep him from wearing down breaking down as he gets a little bit older here
16:26So that's what I love about him
16:29Another guy who's had great numbers. The dot has been John Farranache. Yeah along the lines of what you're talking about a player who?
16:36Very unlikely. He makes the roster out of the gate, but you look at him a year ago. I
16:41Think he had 38 points. I want to say in in the HL at 36 around there. Yeah
16:4821st most among HL rookies
16:51Will probably get a greater role this year in Providence
16:55And you sort of look at him like if he makes this roster
16:58Or if he fills in it's gonna be in a fourth line role
17:01And if you could win face-offs and if you can turn the tide the other way play some strong D zone have good details
17:07You know all of that
17:09You're gonna you know carve out some more minutes for yourself
17:12And so that's the guy that I think it's been a standout his time similar to Kuntar as you noted
17:17It's not now
17:18But it's coming and you can kind of see like there's something to build off of here
17:23Versus a which is always better than you know a whole collection of all these guys look all right
17:27I guess you know like so you got something here now a lot of them
17:31I think are what we've talked about in the bottom six kind of mold, but you know
17:36We'll see what happens there
17:37You know guys can guys can develop on the fly and promote their way up our upper roster as we've seen countless times now
17:44Yeah, no absolutely
17:45And I also think one guy that has probably exceeded my expectations in terms of maybe where I was comfortable starting him
17:51I would probably say it's Patra who again like this set the numbers
17:54Maybe aren't there like they were last year, which seemed like every game
17:57He was stacking up more and more you know point total stuff like that, but I was going into this year
18:03I think fully expecting him to open the year in Providence get
18:08Top line minutes top power play minutes all that kind of stuff
18:11And seeing kind of how we can build that confidence back up coming off through shoulder surgery
18:16But I think he's looked really good so far. He's kind of been what he was last year poised with the puck
18:22Smart player, you know, I think you've seen that he's put on weight and is stronger on the puck
18:26Which is an encouraging sign doesn't seem like he's tentative at all of coming off of that surgery and again
18:32We've got a ways to go before the preseason ends, but he just right now looks like an NHL
18:37Now where does he fit in the lineup that remains to be seen but I feel like I'm kind of staring more away from
18:42He looks ready for October 8th as opposed to and again
18:45There's nothing wrong with them taking the the slow and steady approach of Providence
18:49But he feels like a guy that I think he can help this team right now
18:53And it's kind of playing like it even he's not gonna be with Zaka and Pasternak and that line wasn't
18:58Dynamic, but there were a couple of promising shifts and a lot of it was him down low
19:03Winning board battles making sound plays and doing what he can to help his team
19:07So I think he's been better than maybe what I expected going into this year considering his offseason
19:11Oh 100% and and yeah, I'm with you that I
19:16Thought he would begin the year in Providence
19:19right now I I have a hard time seeing that happen and
19:25you know, that's that's good for the Bruins in the sense that it turns the pressure up on a guy like Murkulov or or
19:33Lysell, you know like
19:35but I
19:36Think his strength has been the biggest thing. I've noticed like he's stronger. He's smarter. He knows
19:42Where to cut when to cut?
19:45Plays he can make you know, like another guy too is winning faceoffs right now, which was not a certainty a year ago for him
19:52and so
19:54yeah, I I I think I'm kind of changing my tune on that now where I feel like I would be surprised if
20:01He didn't begin the year in the NHL and we're not even at the halfway point, you know, we're almost there, but we're not quite
20:09but right now like I
20:11Have a hard time sending some of these guys down which I think is exactly what you want
20:15If you're the Bruins, but like you got three or four guys that are making legit pushes right now
20:20Even Tyler Johnson like do I think he's been phenomenal?
20:23No
20:24but I think he's a
20:25Guy that can play left wing center right wing is a veteran like, you know
20:31Like he's made some plays that you're like, oh
20:33I'd like to have that as an option if I can I'd love to have that in the in the in the chamber
20:38you know as a potential bullet, so
20:41They're getting a really good camp. Like the results might not follow like last night's game was boring as shit
20:48Let's not sugarcoat it
20:50but I think
20:53Positionally and player wise you're getting a really entertaining camp in terms of battles and who's gonna go down and who's gonna stay up
21:01You got a couple guys that are saying I'm not going back down and that's that's a great problem to have
21:05I think if you're the Bruins while you try to sort through the the messiness of the Swayman stalemate
21:11yes, no, absolutely and obviously we're gonna focus a little bit more on some of the other younger players who
21:17We expect it
21:18We're going to make a push for the roster and Fabian Lysel and judging mark you up before we kind of dive into that tie
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23:25Looking at two guys that we were all were talking about before camp started Fabian Lysel, Georgie Murkulov
23:33prospects who have
23:34Legit middle six maybe top six potential further down the line at least going into the year
23:40Didn't show all that much especially Lysel on Sunday against the Rangers both took steps in the right direction on Tuesday
23:47Lysel gets the PowerPoint goal
23:49Murkulov sets up Justin Brazos goal at the net front
23:55But you look at their performance a step in the right direction, of course
23:59but then who is a bit Brad Marchand to I think throw a little bit of reality check of like
24:04You know pretty good isn't gonna be good enough if you want to beat out
24:09Patra or let alone a geeky or whoever else that Tyler Johnson a veteran who's on a PTO
24:15Who's desperate to keep his career going like you just can't have one solid performance
24:21To validate your spot in the lineup, especially a team like this
24:24Where are you at now in terms of either one of those guys?
24:27Maybe Lysel in terms of their odds of making the team. Is it gone down? Is it?
24:33Status quo like where are you kind of out of terms of evaluating those players? Yeah, I think
24:39personally, like I think I might have Lysel above Murkulov right now and that might sound a little bit crazy because of
24:46The production I think Murkulov has more has two points and Lysel has one
24:51But right shot right wing plays with speed
24:54Can probably sheltered a little bit more
24:57Murkulov like I think that so I loved how he finished the game
25:02Against the Capitals that assist was great. I hated his power play work
25:06I thought he made a couple of plays. He made one play. That was really impressive where he he's getting challenged
25:13By a Washington PK guy who's trying to close in on him
25:16He makes this nice spinning backhand pass to Hamperson home that leads to a shot on goal
25:20Then he's trying what I would call a HL type move
25:23Then he's trying what I would call a HL type moves where he's trying to thread it through two guys at once it gets intercepted
25:26And now you have a short-handed chance going the other way. It's not gonna work at this level, right?
25:30Like your brains got to move as fast as your body does
25:38Now with that said there was also something that Lysel did that I was like, nope that can't happen where you know
25:43He goes end to end and he gets a shot the shot
25:47Doesn't hit the net it goes wide it rims out and now you got numbers going the other way
25:51So both guys have things I got to work on
25:54I think right now I would have Lysel above Merkel off but not by much and
26:00I was admittedly surprised that neither guy played last night, and I know they played the first two games, but
26:06One of those things where it's like I would kind of give these guys
26:09Every game it that you can because you got to know you've got to have some certainty
26:14you know and a great example would be like you put Potter between Zaka and
26:19Pasternak I liked it. I thought they were good. I actually I actually did like that combo quite a bit
26:26But could you put Merc there for a game and just see like just see what that looks like just so, you know
26:33It's a potential option for you moving forward. Like that's something that I was a bit surprised
26:38we didn't see same thing with uh
26:40If the lineup has Morgan and geeky in it
26:43I kind of want to see Lysel there with him too because that could be a role for him
26:46You know playing with geeky on a third line role
26:49perhaps so a little surprise didn't get in because I but I got a I got a feeling we're gonna see them the rest of
26:55The way if not three of the remaining four games, I feel like yeah
26:59I feel like you definitely have to at one point see Lysel with Kiki if you want to have him be kind of a
27:03Guy that cuts his teeth on the third line and kind of builds a rapport that way
27:08also
27:08if you know Martian tries to get into a game if you're able to get a game with like
27:13Martian coil and Lysel just to see what it looks like like
27:16If there's any a person who is going to be very candid very upfront with how you're playing on the ice
27:22I'd love to see Lysel with a guy like Martian who is
27:26Preaches accountability has pretty much like thrown cold water multiple times in terms of like that's not gonna just be like a young guy
27:32Just because he's talented because he's skilled like he mentioned that
27:36Before camp even started about like, you know
27:38He can't dangle through three guys and be in a top six role and then on Wednesday again kind of not poor cold water
27:45But reaffirmed that like, you know
27:47Just one game isn't enough or even look at potter last year
27:50Like he had a really strong start and then he kept on stacking those games kept on stacking good practices
27:57Like that's what you have to do
27:58To try to beat out a few of these guys that like you've told me that they settle on like geeky
28:03And like a top six role. Is that the flashiest option? No, but like
28:08He can hold his own there with those guys like Frederick. We've mentioned before
28:12I think they want to keep him down the middle
28:14But like if you're trying to make them to like a shut down heavier line, and it's Martian coil Frederick
28:20They can kind of do that damage as well and be pretty effective in that role
28:23Like they have options the Bruins do in terms of yes
28:27It's exciting and fun to think about like a guy like my cell who's 21 on a dirt-cheap
28:33Contract being a productive top six guy and letting the rest of the pieces fall into place
28:37That's great
28:38Bruins would love if that happened
28:40But it's not a given and they have other options they just they don't have to like, you know
28:44Put a a square peg in a round hole if I sell it's either not ready or not showing enough
28:49to step into that spot, but I would like to see a guy like Lysell especially with
28:55Legit and you know NHLers and that's not to say that like because I know people were complaining that Sunday game where he was with
29:02Was he with Kepke and Farinacci and people like well, you got to put him with better players
29:05I wouldn't use it as an excuse like I want to see Lysell with a coil in Martian
29:10But also it falls on the player to elevate as well because I thought was the worst player on that grouping and that Sunday game
29:16like yeah, Farinacci was great at the dot and
29:19Kolkata he scored a goal like they stepped up for what they are and they're not
29:23Probably knocking on the door at the same rate that a guy like Lysell is so I think you know
29:28it falls on the player himself, obviously, but I do want to see what a guy like Lysell can do with these guys because
29:35I'm not saying this is like a
29:38Excuse or like a worst-case scenario, but it also feels like if if this isn't the time where you're gonna get an extended run
29:43I feel like you run the risk of if it's like, you know
29:46You give him one or two more games and you send under Providence
29:50Are you gonna go back to that? Well again in November, right?
29:54Like right that that is I think one of the risks you have and again falls on the player to fight through that
29:59But I'd rather you find out now what exactly you have. I'd rather you him play
30:03Three or all four of these next preseason games and see what you have before you make that decision
30:08Yeah, and the other part of it too is like why I may have Lysell over Merkel off right now was just the position
30:15Right wing. I mean behind Pasternak. What do they have right now?
30:19It's kind of a whole lot of unknown like yeah, you like Justin Brazzo, you know, Morgan geeky can play there
30:25but if you want to put
30:27Trent Frederick in the middle or if you want to put Matt Potter in the middle
30:32okay, well that's one less right wing option you have right and so I
30:36Think this team has a tremendous
30:39wealth of left shot wings
30:41right and that might work get work against a guy like Merkel of right now like right when when your bottom six has Johnny Beecher and
30:48Max Jones and you have Cole Kepke making things interesting you have
30:54Trevor Kuntar as well who I believe is a lefty. Sorry. Sorry if I'm not I'm not 100% on that
30:59But you have those guys down there it's like, okay, well that there's more bodies now competing for
31:04Opportunity whereas like right shot right wing that's been a need for God knows how long with this team now
31:10It feels like so
31:11You look at last year like they had they had JBR and Jake's brusque and intent and high and all playing right wing
31:16Those are all left shots doing that
31:18So there's such a positional need for this right that that's why I would put him above a guy like Merkel off right now
31:25Despite the results and despite Merkel off
31:27Looking like a better player in practice. It's just like what does the team need more than anything else?
31:33And and I think that's kind of why it's such an interesting scale and it's such an interesting
31:38Battle to watch here as camp continues to unfold. It's why Tyler Johnson was brought in
31:42I mean, he's a he's a right shooting guy who can play the wing and had 17 goals a year ago mainly in the power play
31:48Yeah, but he's a right shot right wing. They don't have a lot of those guys
31:53Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean for right now, where do you stand on?
31:56Do you think what do you what do you give the odds right now as again?
32:00We are not even maybe at the halfway point
32:02You got four preseason games to go where your odds of lifestyle making the making the roster at this point, you know
32:07I like I I try to put you on the spot. No, no, no, but but after all of this I still feel like
32:1440% like I'm not like oh, it's a slam-dunk. It's I just don't know because
32:18You know if the performance that he had on Tuesday
32:22Where he scores a goal or he draws a penalty and scores a goal and by the end of the game
32:26He's under their skin the capital skin that is, you know, like by by playing with speed and playing with pace
32:31I love his odds, but if he reverts back to what he was on Sunday
32:35Which has kind of been the mo like you can't you don't get consistent
32:39Performances out of him then that bumps down so he needs another game
32:43I think he needs a game or he has you know
32:46Two goals or he has a goal in the cyst like he needs a multi-point night to bump that figure over 50%
32:52Because they could say to him
32:53Okay, well you're still not in a finished product because that's what they that's what they stress
32:57that's what they emphasize whether we like it or not, that's what they that's what they stress and
33:02They can say you're too up and down like you got it gotta find that level man
33:06Like you got to be consistent. So until that's proven. Otherwise like that keeps him below 50% in my opinion. How about you?
33:13Yeah, I'm going at 35 right now and I think it all I think that can swing
33:18Quite a bit based on how he does in this next game because again as you said there is an mo
33:23There is a reputation in terms of the off and on production
33:27He's 21 like he still has room for growth
33:30But I think what that growth has to be at this camp with what's at stake and the minutes available
33:36His growth needs to be stepping in and building off of that performance. We haven't really seen that yet from him
33:42It's something that is tough to do like that's why it was so
33:46Shocking when Patra who everyone thought was gonna be playing the OHL had a good game when you know
33:52Let off all of our headlines probably that first game where he scored the goal. We go. Oh sure. It looks pretty good
33:57Oh, he's scoring two more the next game. Oh, wow. He look holy you need that progression for my guy that
34:03you saw last year in Patra and I still has all the talents do it like again, you even saw like
34:10After he scored that power play goal like the car. Yeah, I feel like he's a guy that's very
34:15Reliant on the confidence part of his game. You saw how much I think freed up he was after it
34:19So, you know
34:20It's one thing to score a goal and then feel good about your game and have rolling the rest of the way and be active
34:25Bring the puck down low
34:27Beat guys to lose pucks like doing the things that yes
34:30He's not a heat-seeking missile on the floor check at his frame
34:33But can use that speed beyond just trying to dangle through guys. You saw that
34:38as Tuesday's game went along but
34:41How do you carry that momentum not just from the rest of the game
34:44How do you carry it a few days down the road like that?
34:47That is what you have to do to be an impact player at least somewhat consistent
34:52consistently at the NHL ranks
34:54So I have 35 right now
34:56But if he scores another goal in the next game and he keeps on stacking these performances
35:00That can change in a hurry because the Bruins have options
35:02but again, I think the best-case scenario is a guy like myself taking that spot because there's a lot to like about
35:09The ceiling of that player if he proves over these next, you know
35:13week to ten days that he has the metal and the ceiling to be a guy that
35:18Maybe not this year, but down the road can give you 2025 goals
35:21Give you that speed that teams covet now, especially up front
35:24Like this isn't a guy that I think if you're the Bruins as you said earlier on you do your due diligence and give him
35:30304 these preseason games because now's the time to find out what you have in the guy
35:33You know what you have probably in
35:36Morgan Geeky, even if you maybe carve out in the expectation for a little bit more of a scoring output
35:41You kind of know what you have in Tyler Johnson
35:43you don't know what you have in Fabian Lysel and that could be a good thing or
35:46Bad thing depending on what kind of plays out, but let's find out right? I think that's the most important thing
35:52yeah, and the other part of it too is like, you know, I
35:56You know harken back to May when?
36:00Don Sweeney is talking about we got to get faster
36:03Okay, well he's probably you know, then you let to brusque walk and you trade Jacob Loco
36:08You lose a lot of speed and now you bring in Lysel. Like that's a fast guy
36:11And so I think you have to utilize that correctly
36:15And you saw that he you know, he draws a penalty. It's a trip
36:18It was kind of a I think it was kind of a crap penalty, you know
36:22It's a call in that moment, but he draws a penalty
36:25This team's gonna need to draw penalties a year ago after losing Loco. So if he can address some of that speed
36:31Drawing penalties and add the scoring. It's like you gotta have this guy on here, you know
36:37Yeah, no, absolutely. So we'll see how Lysel and a few other younger guys can kind of build their game moving forward
36:43Again for more preseason games to go
36:45We're not quite at the finish line yet for the start of the regular season
36:49But tie as we do gear up for October 8th in Florida, which I know you will be at
36:56get ready for the sunshine the
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