On this episode of Poke the Bear, Conor Ryan is joined by Ty Anderson of 98.5 the Sports Hub to discuss the Bruins' 6-4 win over the Canadiens on Thursday, and sum up what we've seen so far from this team. That, and much more!
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00:00Poke the bear is brought to you by price picks and the game time app
00:09And welcome in to poke the bear episode
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00:15my name is Connor Ryan and once again, we are joined by the esteemed tie Anderson of 98 5 the sports up and
00:22Host of the hockey show tie. How you doing? Good good. It's actually funny. I'm
00:28Hosting
00:30Saturday the 12th. It's the first show with me as a host. I'm getting all my
00:35My fundamentals down getting you know, it's it's kind of like training camp. So it's like it's fun in that regard. So
00:41I'm super excited to get going and I feel like we're gonna have a lot of fun this year. Absolutely
00:46Well, it's a very well-deserved congrats
00:48I can't wait to listen to you every every weekend breaking down the Bruins because thank God tie
00:54We actually have legitimate hockey games to talk about we're done with the
00:59Seven week preseason. It's what it feels like we're done with the offseason that stretched for so long
01:04We're able to break down. What was the Bruins first win of the season on Thursday a 6-4 win over Montreal
01:12it's one of those
01:13Positive games from a writer's perspective where there's about seven different topics
01:17You can kind of focus in on whether it's Swainman returning
01:21Fourth line a lot of guys stepped up further down the lineup for this team
01:27What was kind of your big takeaway from from how Thursday's game played out? I?
01:32think that the big takeaway for me is that
01:35you have a roster that
01:38When they're going and when you have more than one line going can really cause some problems for the opposition
01:45I thought their puck possession game was really good. And now listen like they caught
01:50Montreal in the second leg of a back-to-back, you know a traveling back-to-back at that so
01:55Maybe not the greatest
01:57judge of terms of opponent
01:59but I thought they made like we finally saw like what this team can be like if
02:04They have what they want to have going offensively
02:08We mentioned they've talked about like the bigger frames and the bigger bodies and the back end what they can do
02:13They're like you saw it last night
02:15You saw if they were able to use their size and their reach to extend plays
02:19to extend zone time to keep the puck in the attacking zone and then you had to you had your first line and your fourth
02:25line going and I
02:27think too many times a year ago and
02:29And even well before that like they were a one-line team and when you're a one-line team
02:35It's kind of hard if that line gets timied or shut down or it's a lot closer
02:39But I felt like last night you had pretty much everybody going
02:43I I would say the exception maybe one or two players and I think they finished with what ten players
02:48I think had at least one point last night
02:50Yeah, like that's that's great. Like and that's sort of what they want to achieve and you know
02:56I know we're touching on a lot of topics here. But like I think that begins with the back end
03:01It begins with you guys like Zdorov McAvoy Lindholm who got his goal taken away
03:06But still on the board, you know for a moment like that was it was started by those guys
03:12So to have that come through after the ugly opening night, that was huge
03:16Yeah, and I think obviously well
03:18We'll touch on the more negative aspects as this goes along right in terms of you know
03:23The D zone coverage a few things like that
03:25but I think when you you break down that game and how it played out and who contributed that was kind of like I
03:31Imagine Don Sweeney and his staff like the days leading up to frequency as they're mapping out who they want to target what they want
03:38to
03:38Augment this team into they look at like how they generated offense
03:43On Thursday as like the that's what they were mapping out as a scenario right where you've got
03:48Elias Lindholm in the middle and he's got four points in two games
03:51You've got you know in it by that same token like how Jim Montgomery I think wants to build this team
03:57You know where you look at as you said the D getting involved
04:00You have McAvoy scoring goals and back-to-back games gets a shot on goal five seconds into the power play and scores
04:06Scores in Florida off of jumping up into the play
04:09It's a door of has to assist as you said Lindholm
04:12Gets a power play goal gets taken off the board
04:14Like I think you look at the guys they signed whether it's Lindholm and Zdorov
04:19How they can you know add to this offense and I think even though you haven't seen maybe the power play
04:24Click in terms of you know, a lot of grade a looks down low
04:27I think you're seeing how Lindholm is doing some of those little things at the bumper spot that is
04:33Facilitating the puck play a little bit more down low like it's not been really new
04:36You know nearly as stagnant as it was like last year where it's like, alright, we're gonna pass around a little bit
04:41We're not gonna try to force it into posture not gonna it's gonna get tipped
04:44It's gonna get knocked away like they're having more options
04:47And I think there's been more creativity on the power play so far and also just more of that short first mentality
04:53So whether you look at the D getting involved you look at Lindholm what he's provided or even
04:58The fourth line guys like, you know Cole Koepke who if you asked me at the start of training camp like oh
05:04What's Cole Koepke gonna do? I'm gonna be like
05:07depth
05:09Providence guy like, you know, there's a guy that you know
05:11Hasn't really had a legitimate shot so far in his career and I don't know how realistic it is
05:17It's tied to expect a guy like Cole Koepke to be posting three-point nights
05:20but even when the the pucks aren't bouncing your way and Mark Castle isn't, you know banking a puck off of Primo's like
05:27shoulder or anything like that
05:30That fourth line has been money so far and that's again
05:33How the Bruins want to play like those three guys are you know can be physical players?
05:39But their motor is what's kind of driving the play on that and I think when you look at it all right the size
05:45The the speed up front the shot first mentality from the blue line
05:49These are all things that the Bruins were lacking the last couple years and you look at other teams in the league that have been
05:54Successful they all kind of have those hallmarks, right like size on the blue line speed up front shot first mentality on the blue line
06:01Like they're there at least they're two games. They're adhering more to that. I think Oh
06:07100% and you know, we look at where they are right now through two games
06:13All their defensemen with the exception of Mason Lowry and
06:17Parker Wetherspoon, you know the two guys that that we've seen, you know in and out of the lineup so far have a point
06:25You know a year ago. Yeah, you had some guys get on the board
06:28you know you had Shatton Kirk's and and you for birds and in those types, but like
06:33This feels like they can consistently create offense from the back end in my opinion
06:38and I think it does come back to being shot ready letting it sling whether that's on the power play or
06:45You know at five on five like we've talked about this before, you know a lot of goals
06:51Nowadays are scored by just
06:54Ugliness get it to the net over chaos bang away and see what happens
06:58You know that cold kept eagle wasn't created by a defenseman, but it's a second chance
07:03Look, you just go back and bang away. And and so I think that's kind of like, you know
07:07For as as often as we're gonna see Mark Castle like
07:11You know snipe top corner like he did the other night like we're gonna see more of those ugly kind of goals
07:16and so I think if you have a
07:18Defense core that can get pucks on net and can get through traffic and is willing to get the pucks on net and take those
07:25Shots, I think that's a huge factor and I think you saw it you saw it on Thursday night
07:31I think you even saw it a little bit into on Tuesday
07:35It wasn't a great game by any stretch
07:37But I felt like their defense was trying to make plays happen sometimes to a detriment
07:41But they were trying and
07:43So I think they understand that like they're gonna have to create offense from their back end
07:47And I think right now the most encouraging sign is that the players seem willing to take those chances as well
07:53Yeah, exactly
07:54Like even you know
07:55There's the the grade a looks where there's a shooting lane and you're taking it there
08:00But like even to look at Elias Lindholm's goal or it's a door
08:03I'm just seeing a bunch of bodies down low putting the puck on net and it tumbles and gets through like again
08:08not the flashiest play or anything like that, but doesn't really matter if the pucks going into the net and I think you saw
08:15like look at the last two years with
08:17Florida look at all these teams that go far and the plans are always in the mix like, Carolina
08:21What feels like every single guy on their blue line is shot ready?
08:24And as much as you look at a guy like, you know
08:27Brendan Monter the last couple years and yeah
08:29He's jumping up into the play and he can kind of catch goalies sleeping there a lot of those chances and a lot of those
08:34Plays from guys like him at blad for zling
08:37It's sometimes it's just getting pucks on net and in the playoffs where ice is so limited
08:42It's just a scrum down low and a puck sails through and I think you know, it's good
08:47I think to see you know new guys like Zdorov who I think have had that approach so far
08:51I'm just getting pucks on net, you know
08:53It's not like it's a new guy in the system who's you know playing his own game
08:57And I think it's you hope that kind of rubs off on these other players. I mean
09:01How often do you see Charlie McAvoy five seconds into a power play getting a shot on goal, you know
09:05Like in right more or less scoring
09:08So I think it's also important that it's happening now early on in this year where immediately you're getting returned
09:14So sometimes, you know, some of these defensemen aren't wired to do that and also I'm like, alright sure
09:20And then all sudden the puck gets blocked or it leads to a chance the other way like they're already getting kind of rewarded right
09:25now for taking those opportunities and you hope that just continues to
09:28Build and build with this group because when you look at you know
09:32The the losses up front for this team and so far it's been good secondary scoring has been solid
09:37but you're going to need your decor over the span of a long year to I think supplement a lot of you know,
09:42Either the goals or at the very least those great a chances
09:46yeah, and I think that you know, you sort of look at early season hockey right and
09:53It's not pretty it's just not
09:57You know, we saw the Bruins and the Panthers on Tuesday night on Wednesday night
10:02I watched Calgary and Vancouver and then the next morning I re-watched
10:06Vegas and Colorado and
10:08Defensive coverage in all those games. I was like wolf
10:11This is this is ugly and I think that's sort of like that's kind of how it is on the league
10:16You know, like, you know, you look at Thursday night Lena. So mark stops 30 of 31
10:21Ottawa beats Florida close game
10:24Toronto and Montreal was 1-0 opening night. Like those games are kind of rare this time of year, you know
10:30it's nice when you get them, but they're kind of rare because
10:34everybody is
10:35trying to like figure out what they are who they are and so like for the Bruins for me like I'm putting more focus on
10:42the fact that
10:43the offensive messaging
10:46To the defense is getting through they're gonna clean up their defensive game. Like I just know that's gonna happen. I've seen it
10:52I know what they have core piecewise
10:55Fundamentally what they believe in as a as a team as a franchise for that matter
10:59Like so like I feel like that's gonna get fixed. I'm not worried about that
11:03So to see the offensive risk-taking and the willingness to do the things that we're talking about
11:08Like I put more stock in that than I do
11:11Then their breakdowns right now because I know just again based off how the early season goes based off their coaching staff
11:18I know they can fix those but the offensive stuff. I was a little bit worried about that
11:22I didn't know if like I'm like, can you get Lindholm to be more of the guy? He was two years ago
11:27Can you get McAvoy to be a shot ready power play quarterback?
11:31Like those are questions that I legitimately had and it's only two games. We all know but right now
11:37I think we're seeing that they will take some chances. They will make some plays and they will score goals as a result
11:42Yeah, exactly
11:43And again, it's kind of like the equivalent of like the first few weeks of the NFL season where teams are
11:49You know
11:49I only have so much time to practice so many reps to earn that the first couple weeks are always kind of ugly whether that's
11:56Offensive execution defensive execution. There's always one pot
11:59I think of any teams especially strengths that take a little while to get rolling here
12:03So yes, the net front coverage and a few of these lapses have been concerning especially in that
12:09Florida game, but I think all in considered you feel better about that riding the ship and if you can as you said
12:16Shore up that part of your game, which you should and then you keep on with that shot first mentality
12:20you're not gonna I don't think we're gonna be looking at this team and all sudden you got like
12:24For defenseman with 40 points or anything like that
12:26They'd be great. But just having that mindset is going to lead to more great eight chances and when you've got
12:32You know this forward core where you have players like, you know geeky in the top six role
12:37Patra, you know ideally making a
12:39His debut on Saturday Frederick Brazzo
12:42If you have guys that are either gonna be around the net or trying to find some traction
12:47Offensively having your defense and make it easier for guys in terms of generating those rebounds those second chances stuff like that
12:54The the overall domino effect is huge for this team
12:57So yeah again D the defense hasn't been that great early on but it's kind of the same as like looking at Jeremy Swainman's
13:03Performance like was it his shop is no
13:06but the defense in front of them is there and also like guys had one full practice like I don't think that people should be
13:12Hitting the alarm yet in terms of either the goaltending or Swainman or the defense rather right out of the gate
13:19100% and I think that you know when you analyze Swainman's game last night
13:24I
13:26Thought Jim Montgomery kind of said it best where he said he made the saves that he should have made
13:30Yeah, right and so you look at some of the breakdowns there
13:34and I
13:35Can't put too too much fault on him. I wasn't looking at any of those goals going
13:39Oh, you gotta yeah, you need to save there. There's a one that I was like, I'd like I'd like a stop there
13:44I think was that one right at the face off where I was like
13:46Maybe he could have got that but I think was a deflection too. So it's like, all right, you know, how
13:51What what are the actual expectations there on that safe?
13:54But I think what's most important with Swainman is that you know, it was three to two for a while there
14:00It's about 16 minutes of that being a one goal game and I thought he made some big stops
14:05During that 16 minute stretch there
14:07he had that one where I
14:09Think it was Beecher just made that brutal
14:11Turnover because I think he thought Lindholm had a stick and was calling for it
14:15Not that he's saying I don't have a stick you spend it
14:18I think it was a complete screw-up in that regard
14:20But Beecher sends it it gets picked off and it's a great great chance for Montreal and Swainman makes a glove save beautiful save
14:28He also makes that that skate save the left skate save on Kirby dock
14:34where McAvoy jettisoned the
14:36Oh, I lost my balance
14:38That was awesome powers. Oh, I fell over
14:42again
14:44so yeah, so that was you know, that was a
14:47Again, like if you look at it in a vacuum or if you look at it just box score, you know, 20 of 24
14:53You're like, yeah, that's a bad night
14:54Then you watch it and you watch some of the saves he made when the game was still close
14:58I think that's kind of you know, that's timely saves right there, right?
15:01And so to get those after having one practice in a morning skate like that's alright. I'll take it. Honestly
15:09Yeah, the Bruins will definitely take that from Swainman who should only get better with more reps moving forward
15:14Ty will cycle back to to the fourth line. But before we do that, let's take a quick break
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17:06But looking at that fourth line, I don't think anyone expected
17:10This team to be led by Cole Kepke with three points a two-goal game for Mark Kastelik and
17:16What two points in two games from Johnny Beecher?
17:19Yeah, I think you look at just what that group has provided
17:24This is a you know a unit that going into training camp
17:27I was like, oh, it's probably gonna be like, you know, Max Jones and unfortunately
17:30He's been kind of more banged up than anything
17:32But it kind of reminds me of you know
17:34If you're trying to build a pretty cohesive and strong fourth line unit
17:38You kind of need like four or five guys in the mix, right? Like you look at
17:432018-19 it was you know, you had Wagner Corrali a chari
17:47But also like Nordstrom played what 60 games like you're gonna need as many guys you can and if a guy especially like Kepke who?
17:54You know, we knew Kastelik was gonna be in the mix. We knew Beecher was gonna be in the mix
17:58If kept you can continue to build off of this and run with what really is his first
18:03Legit opportunity like from coming from an organization like Tampa
18:07He's been one of the guys that you know
18:09You've mentioned it on this podcast before it's been really good during preseason games during camp and it's translated right now
18:15And it kind of feels like it all comes down to that motor, right?
18:18Yeah, and you know sometimes opportunity is everything
18:22This was a guy who put in his time in the AHL
18:27Talking to people over the summer. They were pretty quick to say like hey watch
18:32he's like like legit contender and
18:35You know, you always hear that about guys, right?
18:37But then you kind of dug deeper and you saw what he could do and you know
18:41Watching some of his Tampa Clips watching some of his clips for their AHL affiliate, you know
18:46Like you can see like, okay. He's a smart player. Like he like
18:50He's always got his head in the swivel. He's always in the play
18:54You know, there's always this continuous motion, right?
18:57Like there's not a lot of like standing and waiting for something to happen. Like no he's going out. He's making it happen
19:01and
19:02and so I like those kind of players and yeah to your point you need four or five of those because of the way
19:08They play when you play with reckless abandon like those guys do like you're gonna get dinged up. You're gonna get hurt
19:14And so but I think with Kepke like we're seeing finally the translations of okay
19:20This is what made you a good player growing up. Now. This is gonna make you a good pro and
19:24Yes, it's only two games
19:25But if you look at it, you know
19:2730,000 feet above like he's been I
19:29Thought he was one of their if you asked me to make it like a list of the top three players in the preseason
19:35He would have made my list. Yeah, it's like so so it's just more than just two games. Like this has been a continuation
19:39It's been a build. It's kind of like AJ Greer, you know a couple years ago where
19:44It started off like in the preseason. You're like, maybe he can make it and then by the fourth game
19:50You're like he's making it like yeah, they're gonna have like they're gonna have to find room cuz this guy's making it and
19:55You know, he might not be as electric as Greer in terms of the personality
20:00you know what he says how he answered the crowd all that but like
20:04This is a guy who plays a game that I think is tailor-made for a fourth line bottom six kind of role
20:10You know smart good good wheels
20:14Always in the right position. It feels like so I've loved what he's been able to bring to that line so far
20:18Yeah, and I think that fourth line like we know it's gonna be as advertised in terms of the physicality
20:23I think Catholic has provided that quite a bit. I know I think Ottawa fans were like
20:28He's 6 4 2 26, but he's not as physical as you guys might think so far
20:32Maybe it's just putting on the Bruins sweater and he's right. He's answered the call there and maybe that makes him go sicko mode
20:38But he's he's been good there, but I think just the speed is in that stands out and it's you know, it's not
20:43they're not reinventing the wheel, but you look at like the sequence leading up to Catholic first goal where
20:50Kepke drives drives towards the net kind of creates like chaos there and what happens like the defensive structure
20:57Kind of implodes a little bit guys are trying to regather
20:59you know reset and all sudden a little bit of soft ice is there and cast like, you know rips a shot like
21:05You look at like Beecher who again had that miscue that's when building out on but he I think he's been really strong so far
21:11in terms of
21:12Playing to his strengths driving to the net like he's he's generated two goals whether it's McAvoy's goal against, Florida
21:19Obviously Kepke's off of just you know, we know his skating ability
21:23But I think last year you'd see it, you know in transition a lot
21:26You're seeing him now just drive towards the net whether that's just another year experience, you know added muscle more stamina
21:33Something Montgomery mentioned today, you know
21:35he's a guy that I think especially on a line like this can be kind of the
21:39The spark plug right where if you got guys with a nose for the net like cast like and Kepke
21:45Having someone like Beecher who has those wheels to carry the puck in to drive it down low a lot of good can happen
21:51So again, I'm not saying you're also gonna have a fourth line with you know
21:55Two guys with 20 goals or something like that. It'd be great. But I think you're seeing just the way they
22:00They play off each other. It's kind of
22:03So far it's like the ideal I think fourth line in today's NHL, right?
22:07like you got some size, but it also is
22:11Where the strengths lie I think is in the the pace the speed and those things and the willingness I think to bring the pucks
22:17down low
22:19100% and and I think that you sort of look at
22:22What they can do and you know
22:25Like I think you can go a lot of different ways with your fourth line, right?
22:28Like you can have a speed line
22:30You can have an offensive line. You can have a grind line like what's kind of funny about this about this
22:37Complexion is that I think they had they got a bit of everything here
22:39Yeah, you know like you got two guys that can win face off some Beecher and Caslik
22:44You have a smart player in Kepke of a smart player in Beecher
22:47I think house looks underrated too in terms of the smarts and his know-how
22:50but you also have two guys Johnny Beecher that uses a speed to create turnovers and he can use the speed to to really
22:58Lay some hits like they're not gonna be like bone, you know rattlers, but like you can get in there. He's a big boy
23:04Yeah, and Caslik's a big guy too and and and yeah to your point
23:08He's definitely used his physicality more in Boston than in Ottawa
23:13Maybe that was something that they said to him like we think you can be this so go out and be that
23:18Maybe it's just by you know, you watch guys like Marcia and the way he was throwing the body around on Thursday night
23:23It's like okay. I gotta follow that. I gotta follow his lead
23:27But this line is kind of a complaint it has everything right and it's a bit different than a year ago
23:32You know a year ago
23:33They were very clear with what they wanted out of that fourth line
23:36You had two speed guys and then you had a hammer like that's kind of how that line went, right?
23:41Like this is more balanced and I think it allows you to have you know
23:46more balanced deployment in terms of how you utilize that kind of grouping because you're not worried about
23:52Jeez, the faceoff is in this end on that side
23:55This sucks like you don't really have that feeling with that grouping just based on their skill set right now
24:01Yeah, I feel like the Bruins like the first day of camp just brought in cast like they just made him watch the videos of
24:06like patches Oh Houlihan from
24:11They sent out on Soldier Field Road like running into traffic
24:15Yeah, the whole the whole routine form which if it leads average Joe's to a title in Vegas
24:20So like you hope you have you know, who knows what it could happen here? Like it's a winning formula if you ask me
24:26Yeah
24:27And honestly like this is sort of what I think is interesting about the way they built this team is that they built a team
24:33that
24:34it should be
24:36you know able to win games in a variety of ways and I don't think they worry as much as they did a year ago where
24:44Okay, like the moon's got to be at this point in the sky and we got to have this guy playing
24:49Well, it's like they don't really have that like let's just throw the puck out there. Let's play
24:52We'll figure it out. And so, you know, like they're gonna obviously there are some teams that we got to see how they how they fare against
25:00Florida being the big one obviously, but you know, I just think there's more cohesion. There's more balance. There's more I
25:07Don't look at this team like a team that has an identity crisis
25:10like I just I think they all know what they are and they just got to go out and do it and
25:15They're gonna make some tweaks and some fixes along the way
25:17But I think that they understand what they have to do to to be the best version of themselves this year
25:23Yeah, absolutely. Shut up patches. Oh Julian
25:26Tie before we are fresh. I'm not gonna lie. That was a really good. I was gonna I was going between that or doing Zedd from
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25:35It is yes
25:37Shut up rip torn. I can also do the the farmer from Men in Black, but I won't
25:44Turn off the podcast I
25:46Like saying
25:48From Men in Black all the time. It's out of nowhere. So I got that going for me exactly
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27:35Tie to wrap this one up another guy who I think
27:38Definitely stood out that I think probably the Bruins and fans expected was going to be an impact player out of the gate
27:44Elias Lindholm
27:46four points in two games had a three-point night on Thursday against Montreal and I think probably the
27:52encouraging thing is that you look at kind of his
27:55cohesion with Zaka and
27:57Apostronik so far the still I don't think fully on the same page yet
28:01I think it's more of that's just reps and stuff like that
28:03but there were a couple of passes where they were just
28:06Off of being like really quality grade a looks which if he's already contributing on the score sheet
28:11He's already making I think some of those small nuanced plays that I think other guys on this team
28:16Maybe can't do or it's just not ingrained in them
28:19I think he's so far two games as he said
28:23He's been a really solid fit and it's funny people were like looking at the expectations for him. They're like, ah, you know, he had
28:3044 points last year. Like what are we gonna get?
28:33I thought if there was like an over-under of like 65 points
28:37like I think he's like a sure bet to
28:41Hit over that off of just literally being on that power play and being next to Pasternak at five on five
28:47yeah, I
28:48Would agree with that and you sort of look at what Pasternak was able to do for guys like Eric holla
28:54Tyler Bertuzzi
28:56Good player, but you know what? I mean like like elevating his talent pretty much pretty consistently it felt like
29:02Pablo Saka obviously has had career years back-to-back years playing with David Pasternak
29:08And so yeah, like there's sort of a you just play with that guy
29:12You're gonna get some some secondary apples and some easy goals, you know deflections, whatever the case may be
29:17But you know, I'm happy you brought it up the power play. I feel like once they get going
29:24Like that's gonna be a
29:26Really impressive weapon for this team. You still have some guys that I don't think fully
29:31Know their role on that power play or and fully, you know, like realize what they can and can't do
29:37But like if you go back and you watch
29:39One of their first power plays the year a Tuesday against, Florida
29:44Teams have to respect Elias Lindholm in the bumper like they have to and what happened there is that
29:49Marcian had all day he
29:52Walked within seven feet of a Brofsky and got a great shot on goal now
29:56It didn't be Bobrovsky, but it was a great shot. Like when they get going
30:00You have to respect three out of the at least three of the guys out there
30:05Right and that's gonna open things up because then we got four you got five
30:08And so I think that's really impressive or it's gonna be really impressive once it gets going and truly firing on all cylinders
30:16With Lindholm and I just feel like he can do things that Zaka couldn't do
30:21it's not a knock on Zaka, but like sort of a little details like
30:26You know the birds run esque kind of like the senses of like oh
30:30I got to grind this guy down for 20 seconds to kill some clock and to get us in a you know
30:35To let us reload whatever like I just feel like he knows what he's got to do out there at all times
30:39I think that's what's really, you know, that's what sticks out to me, but I agree with you that like the passing game
30:45They're not there yet. They're getting there, but they're not there yet. Yeah, it's even I think on that posture not goal, right?
30:50Where I think Lindholm was the first guy and I forget who he was kind of tied up with against the boards
30:56But it was kind of that thing where he kind of processes right away
30:59Kind of pins the guy against the against the boards for two three seconds and you know
31:04Kind of frees up the puck then sends it down and then Zaka gets it like those kind of little nuanced plays that
31:10Obviously Lindholm gets to the secondary assists from it, but it's not like
31:13When you're cutting that clip, it's usually you don't put a simple kind of board scrum into it, right?
31:19But that's something that he did that leads to positive gains
31:22And yeah, as you said that whether it's him there him on the power play
31:26It does feel like that's a good fit and I I do kind of like how the power play so far how it's looked in
31:31Terms of you know, and I think probably it's a byproduct of a guy like Lindholm there
31:35But I think Martians had more of a shot first mentality
31:38which is encouraging to see you're seeing obviously the defense is getting more involved and I think it's also an
31:43intriguing group because
31:45You also have guys on the second unit that I would also love to see with the first unit as the year goes on like
31:50Already, it's like you look at we mentioned like Laura is a guy that could be a fit
31:55When he gets back in the lineup and builds his game
31:57There's a lot to like about what he could do there
31:59You look at like at the net front like if Justin Brazzo who likes him that he like recovers every puck down low
32:05or always has the the puck on his stick in that spot like you have a lot of pieces that even if
32:10Might take some time to get it all
32:13cohesive
32:14your power plays in a spot where
32:17Again, he's gonna go back to the the Krug vintage days of a top five every year
32:21But there they can be a lot better than what they were last year, which for the last two three months was pretty bad
32:28Yeah, they were really, you know, Jekyll and Hyde as a power play
32:33Last year and you sort of look at where they are right now
32:38They're 22% so far which is bottom half of the league. No, actually, you know top half 13th 13th real quick
32:47but like
32:49They're getting chances. Like I think that's the biggest thing is that I no longer look at their power play and go
32:55Yeah, I'll do something else for two minutes because they're not gonna score like no
32:58I get it feels like it's back to being more of a weapon
33:01And one thing with Lindholm of that on the power play that I think is really interesting and can be interesting for them is
33:07That he plays the bumper here, but he has played on the half wall
33:12In in Calgary and Vancouver so he can do that
33:16But that's comfortability, you know that that versatility that allows them to rotate more than they could
33:22You know and in past iterations, you know when Charlie Coyle was the bumper
33:26It was kind of like that was his best spot
33:29He could put him behind the net win a battle, you know, like you can do what you want with him, but like that like
33:34You have five guys now that in theory can rotate and can really put penalty killing units in a blender
33:40and I think that's what's really impressive like
33:42Everybody is capable of making plays from all over the ice that five-man unit if it's soccer out there with them
33:49Because I like what soccer can do in this role. I really do
33:53I just feel like he's got a he's got trust a shot because he's got an absolute cannon and
33:58Just from two games now watching him
34:01Playing with Lynn home playing with Pasternak
34:03Playing on that top power play. He's got to get a lot of really really good looks and he's got to bury them
34:08It feels like yeah, no, absolutely
34:10No a lot to a lot to like from Thursday's Thursday's win over Montreal Bruins will be back at it on Saturday against the Kings
34:18Tie, where can we read you stuff? Where can we hear you on the airwaves, especially on Saturday?
34:25Yeah, so now I'm beginning
34:27Saturday October 12th
34:28You can hear me as the host of the 90th have a sports of the Shaw's and Star Market hockey show 9 a.m
34:35To 11 a.m. Every Saturday
34:37We're gonna have a normal crew of guests
34:39We're gonna try to introduce some new ones along the way as well. But tomorrow's show
34:44It's a weird show right because we have a matinee game. So we have the matinee at 1 so it's not gonna be
34:50Myself Ryan Johnston and Bob beers the studio. It's gonna be me and Ryan
34:55We're gonna have Collins with Bob beers and with Billy Jaffe as well
34:59So full deck, but the matinee is thrown it off. So we're not gonna have our full crew until I think week three
35:06So I'm gonna need you guys the audience to be to call in. Give me your takes. Give me your thoughts
35:12We'll talk about the team have a lot of fun along the way
35:14And I'll see you can find me there and everywhere else for that matter
35:18How about yourself, yeah, you can read my stuff over at Boston comm in the Boston Globe
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35:32Once again, this is episode
35:35268 of poke the bear you fans have a great rest of your week
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