In this episode of "Poke the Bear," hosts Evan Marinofski and Conor Ryan dive into the Boston Bruins' recent bounce-back victory against the Colorado Avalanche, analyzing the team's performance and the challenges of late-night games. They shine a spotlight on the Bruins' impressive fourth line, which has emerged as one of the best trios in hockey this season, showcasing their ability to generate offense and control play against tough opponents.
The hosts also discuss individual standout performances, lineup changes, and the overall atmosphere surrounding the team after a disappointing loss to the Florida Panthers. Join us as we break down the Bruins' strategies, player contributions, and what lies ahead for this exciting season! Don't forget to subscribe for more insights and updates on your favorite team!
0:00 - Intro
1:01 - Late game struggles
3:46 - Bruins bounce back
5:54 - More offense from defense
8:02 - Incredible fourth line stats
10:31 - Best fourth line ever
12:57 - Fourth line chemistry
19:00 - Geekie and Brazeau return
20:46 - Poitras's role analyzed
26:30 - Korpisalo's start
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32:51 - Future jersey possibilities
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5:54 - More offense from defense
8:02 - Incredible fourth line stats
10:31 - Best fourth line ever
12:57 - Fourth line chemistry
19:00 - Geekie and Brazeau return
20:46 - Poitras's role analyzed
26:30 - Korpisalo's start
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00:24I'm Evan Marinovsky. That's Connor Ryan.
00:26Connor, what is up?
00:28Evan, I'm doing well. How you doing?
00:31Doing great. Doing great.
00:33Late night last night.
00:35We're recording this Thursday, so Wednesday.
00:37Late game. Late game.
00:39And I gotta say, I had to be up.
00:41I had my own hockey game at 7 in the morning.
00:44So I was like, oh boy, that's gonna be quite the turnaround.
00:47But I think most folks have to get up at that time of day anyway.
00:52So my plights are no different than most people's.
00:56Today, I was just like you, everybody.
00:58I was just like you.
01:00Yes, exactly. Getting ready for a hockey game.
01:02Yeah, I think everybody was.
01:05It's funny. The late starts, I don't love.
01:09We were saying this on Monday.
01:11I don't hate the 1 p.m. starts.
01:13Late starts, though, I could probably do without.
01:15Late starts, I'm like, eh.
01:177 p.m., 8 is the latest.
01:19You start to get to 9, 10 p.m., it's like, oh man.
01:22It doesn't help that it was supposed to be a 9.30 game.
01:25And then it ends up being like 9.58.
01:28As soon as that also the Penguin Sabres game went into overtime,
01:32I'm like, please have this end early.
01:34Which thankfully it did.
01:35The Sabres, I fear, suck once again.
01:37Yeah.
01:38That's surprising.
01:40But yeah, those national, like the national broadcasts
01:43already end up being much longer anyway.
01:46Bad broadcast, too.
01:48Whether it's like Albert being like way behind on plays.
01:51You had Eddie Olczyk losing his mind.
01:54It was not a fun.
01:56It was not an enjoyable late night.
01:59Usually it's like, you know, I used to like 10 o'clock Red Sox games
02:03like in the summertime where you're just chilling anyway.
02:06You have them playing like beating the shit out of the A's
02:08or something like that.
02:10It's nice and relaxing at the end of the day.
02:12And it's a chill broadcast.
02:14They know that not a lot of people are up,
02:16so they're going to let it fly a little more.
02:18It's like Don and Jerry talking about like the shoelaces or something.
02:23It has nothing to do with the actual game.
02:25It's nice.
02:26It was ASMR before it actually was a thing, right?
02:28It was them just beating the crap out of the Oakland A's.
02:31But the broadcast was not remotely as enjoyable as today.
02:36Tough watch, even though the Bruins thankfully
02:39stepped up with a nice bounce back win.
02:41Yeah.
02:42Eddie Olczyk, you know, I grew up having him with Doc.
02:46So like Doc's iconic.
02:48So you kind of always have that.
02:50Yeah, I don't know.
02:51I mean, I don't have like a feeling one way or the other.
02:54I'm with you.
02:55I thought they were bad last night.
02:56I mean, again, like Marcian gets blindsided or hit to the head.
03:00And they're like, oh, he flopped.
03:02And it's like, well, he was removed from the game after.
03:04Yeah.
03:05How much flopping did he do?
03:08So that was my other thing.
03:09And then, you know, like I almost tweeted at one point.
03:13I think there was a play in front of the Bruins net.
03:15He was ranting and choked up on his stick.
03:18And Eddie's like, stop.
03:19Stop it right there.
03:20Choking up on his stick.
03:21It's like, oh, cool.
03:22Like, everybody's been doing that for a long time.
03:24Like, Jake, your brother was doing that shit.
03:26Have you seen Jake to Bryce?
03:28He doesn't.
03:29That's like just a breakout pass.
03:31Yes, exactly.
03:32Catching any pass.
03:34So I just.
03:35Yeah, I'm with you.
03:36And yeah, I like the TNT crew.
03:38Like, I like the TNT, like, you know, intermission and pre
03:41and post game and all that.
03:42But yeah, those go along Bruins, though.
03:45Nice win.
03:46I know Colorado kind of looked crappy.
03:49They have not won a game yet this year.
03:51Can you imagine if the Bruins hadn't won a game yet this year
03:54that we would be like, you know, just going insane over here.
03:57But yeah, I mean, I thought, you know, five, three win.
04:00You take it.
04:01Yeah, exactly.
04:02When you look at just the disappointment of that Monday game
04:05against Florida, a lot of guys just, I think, stepped up
04:08and it was encouraging to see them, I think, build kind of,
04:11again, how they want to play, especially in that, you know,
04:14the first period and most of the second.
04:16The Bruins really were controlling play.
04:18They're really suppressing a lot of shots from a very dangerous
04:22Colorado team.
04:23Cobrasolo is pretty steady early on.
04:26And then you just look at guys across the board who are stepping up.
04:30Like, we're going to talk, obviously, about the fourth line who,
04:33you know, that group is second.
04:35Yeah.
04:36Arguably the best line in hockey, not just like the Bruins best line,
04:39but they have been monsters so far to start this year.
04:43But you have, you know, the power play breaks through.
04:46You have Charlie Coyle get on the board, which is really encouraging.
04:49Mason Laurie, I think, has responded really,
04:51really well since getting a scratch in the home opener.
04:54And he's got, what, four points in his last four games.
04:58Right.
04:59So he's been.
05:00But for.
05:01Yeah.
05:02Yeah.
05:03So he's been really promising and I think he's kind of stepped up.
05:05And then even like you're seeing guys like campus Lindholm as a,
05:09I think for as much as you look at the overall defense,
05:12especially early on,
05:13it hasn't been where it needs to be in its own zone,
05:16protecting the net front and stuff like that.
05:18I think it's encouraging to see guy like campus Lindholm be pretty assertive
05:21with getting pucks on net, bringing the puck down the ice.
05:25And just being more assertive, you know,
05:27is he going to be the 50 point guy he was two years ago?
05:30Probably not.
05:31But I think he's better than what he showed last year.
05:34And I think so far,
05:35whether it's just the fact that he's near the top of the team in terms of
05:38shot attempts.
05:39He gets,
05:40he's rewarded with a goal for putting a puck on net yesterday.
05:44I think having guy like Lindholm be more assertive and buy in already to
05:48kind of,
05:49I think what the Bruins are trying to preach,
05:50which is more offense from the blue line.
05:52I think that's also really encouraging to see so far.
05:54It's the more offense from the blue line is not just eye test stuff like
05:58this.
05:59It's statistics.
06:00I mean,
06:01I mentioned this on Bruins beat Lowry one goal,
06:04four points,
06:05four games,
06:06Lindholm one goal,
06:07three points.
06:08It's a door off three assists.
06:09Carlo,
06:10one goal,
06:11three points,
06:12McAvoy,
06:13two goals,
06:14three points peak to assist.
06:15Like they're all contributing back there.
06:17And the other thing,
06:19it was a great way to start the road trip off.
06:21And cause I texted you this on,
06:24on Wednesday.
06:25So they had Colorado Wednesday,
06:27Utah,
06:28Saturday,
06:29Nashville on next Tuesday,
06:31Dallas at home,
06:33Toronto at home.
06:34That's a tough stretch.
06:35Yeah.
06:36And you and I have talked a lot about the future of Jim Montgomery.
06:39What happens with him?
06:40Do they extend him?
06:41What do they end up doing?
06:42That's a tough stretch where like,
06:44if they end up,
06:45you know,
06:46if they come out of it one in four or Owen five,
06:48what is his status looking like at the end of that trip?
06:52We're heading into November.
06:53Now again,
06:54they could lose the next four who knows,
06:56but I think it's really encouraging to start the trip off to start
06:59really a hard stretch with that five,
07:01three win.
07:02And that starts with this fourth line.
07:05Holy crap.
07:06So I know you wrote about this on Thursday morning.
07:09So dive into some of the stats of,
07:12of not just them being the best line on this team,
07:15but like an all time great fourth line.
07:19Yeah.
07:20I mean,
07:21I mean,
07:22it's absurd when you look at just the,
07:23you know,
07:24you go underneath the hood and look at the underlying numbers.
07:26I mean,
07:27the fact that,
07:28that,
07:29that trio,
07:30a guy in Catholic,
07:31who's what career high in scoring is 11 points.
07:34In a single season,
07:35you've got Johnny Beecher who had 10 points in 52 games as a rookie.
07:40And Cole Koepke,
07:42who's played a whopping 26 total games in the NHL before getting here
07:47with Boston.
07:48The fact that they've played together for just 40 minutes in total,
07:51that's all,
07:52all strains when you factor in Beecher,
07:54obviously gets that empty netter.
07:55So that factors in,
07:56but 40 minutes and it outscored opponents nine,
08:00nothing.
08:01That is incredible.
08:02That is,
08:03it's an absurd number in terms of,
08:05and also I think when you factor in is that like most fourth lines,
08:09they're getting a lot of time spent in their own zone.
08:13They're not getting favorable.
08:14You know,
08:15the posture knock Zaka Elias Lindholm line,
08:18they've outscored teams two Oh at five and five play.
08:21But also I think they've had like 65% of their face-off start in the
08:25offensive zone as expected,
08:27Jim Montgomery and the Bruins want to get them rolling.
08:29You give them a little bit of an easier start.
08:31That hasn't been the case with the castle decline.
08:33I think it's 34% ozone start.
08:36So they're already not getting a lot of,
08:38you know,
08:39easy minutes to start.
08:40They're usually mashed up against top six opponents as usually the case.
08:44So even you look at really,
08:46really strong fourth lines Bruins have had in the past,
08:48you don't really gauge their effectiveness right off of like scoring
08:52totals or if they break even,
08:54like I looked at then the Bruins went to the cup in 18,
08:5919,
09:00you know,
09:01common fourth line grouping.
09:02There was a Chari Wagner Corrali really good fourth line.
09:05I think a lot of,
09:06you know,
09:07maybe they're not the Merlot line,
09:08but a really,
09:09really effective line for what they provided.
09:11And they were outscored that,
09:13that trio 14 to eight,
09:15they were on the ice together.
09:17The Bruins scored eight five on five goals.
09:19So again,
09:21you,
09:22when you have those tough matchups and those tough ice,
09:25that tough ice,
09:26it's not going to reflect necessarily all that great in terms of,
09:29you know,
09:30you're going to be outscoring teams,
09:31which means like what you're seeing from Beecher Castle,
09:34like in Kentucky right now,
09:35where they already have eight,
09:37five on five goals,
09:38they've already matched what the Corrali line did in five games.
09:43It's absurd.
09:44And again,
09:45is it sustainable?
09:46Of course not.
09:47That like,
09:48it is crazy what they're doing.
09:49I mean,
09:50again,
09:51to go back to what we always say about these fourth line guys,
09:53like they're not going to all get 20 goals,
09:55but the way they've tilted the ice so far,
09:58and the way they've been rewarded,
10:00it's,
10:01I don't think anyone saw this coming because even if they,
10:04even if they regress,
10:06which is to be,
10:07I don't think they're going to be,
10:08we'll all laugh when all of a sudden they're outscoring teams.
10:11Like it's 21 to two or something when they're on the ice and we're in the
10:14middle of November or something like that,
10:16which I will be,
10:17I will accept it if I'm wrong and they don't regress,
10:20should be good news for the Bruins.
10:22But they,
10:24they've just been unbelievable in terms of what they provide.
10:27And maybe they're not the best line of hockey,
10:29but the way they're playing right now,
10:30they keep it up.
10:31They're going to be the best fourth line by a wide margin based on the way
10:34they're playing right now.
10:35They have their own line at the all-star game at this rate.
10:38They might,
10:39if John Scott can get in the all-star game,
10:41but these guys,
10:42yeah,
10:43I put,
10:44please put them out there.
10:45I've watched this over,
10:46you know,
10:47just,
10:48you know,
10:49your top guys.
10:50I also,
10:51I think it's interesting.
10:52Like you mentioned a Chari Wagner and Corrali,
10:54and they were always kind of in their zone at times defending and having
10:56those tough matchups.
10:57I think part of what's made this fourth line so good is they are spending
11:01a ton of time in the ozone when it comes from chipping it in and for
11:06checking the hell out of the defenders.
11:08And like I said this to you on Monday,
11:10they're sort of,
11:11they're sort of the counter to the Panthers.
11:14Like they play sort of Panthers hockey in that they all bring something
11:19a little different.
11:20They all can be physical.
11:21They get on pucks quick.
11:23They do have speed.
11:24I mean,
11:25Beecher's fast and Beecher's straight up just fast.
11:28And then Kepke and Castellic just kind of have that physical speed that you
11:32want out of,
11:33out of guys,
11:34those sizes.
11:35And I just,
11:36they're throwing pucks at the net.
11:39That's the other thing.
11:40Like they're not getting cute.
11:42They're not trying to dangle.
11:43I will say if,
11:44if Castellic scored that goal on his stomach last night,
11:47when he was like alone in front of the net,
11:49holy crap.
11:50But they're just getting pucks to the net.
11:52They're chipping it into corners.
11:54Like they're cycling.
11:55Well, as you said,
11:57is this sustainable?
11:58Is this going to happen for the whole season?
11:59Probably not.
12:00But even at the bare minimum,
12:02if they're just a good,
12:03solid fourth line that can wear teams down and you can put them out
12:07against other teams,
12:08top defensive units,
12:09and just have them beat the hell out of them.
12:11Like that is what the,
12:12they want this team to play like that.
12:14That's why they got one out and got guys like Max Jones and Riley
12:18Tufte and guys like that to wear other teams down.
12:22I also think sort of a by-product of the fourth line being so good
12:26is it's,
12:27and we'll get into lineup changes here in a bit,
12:30but it's hard.
12:31You typically at this point in the season,
12:33you would rotate guys through the third and fourth lines.
12:36Yeah.
12:37You don't have that luxury with the fourth line.
12:38They're too good.
12:39You can't break them up.
12:40You can't put Riley Tufte in for Cole Kapke or Max Jones and for
12:44Johnny Beecher.
12:45Like that fourth line is perfect.
12:46So you're really rotating your middle six,
12:49which is kind of crazy rotating,
12:52you know,
12:53your second line and they need it for sure.
12:55But I think it just speaks to how good this fourth line is.
12:58Obviously the middle six up until last night had its issues.
13:01And,
13:02you know,
13:03we've talked about that quite a bit,
13:04but I can't get over the fourth line.
13:05I can't.
13:06I do.
13:07They,
13:08the way they all compliment each other,
13:10though,
13:11I do think them staying together for most of the season at the very
13:14least is sustainable.
13:15Right.
13:16Yeah.
13:17And I mean,
13:18I think it's not like these guys are,
13:19and all of them,
13:20I think have taken steps forward.
13:21Like Johnny Beecher is a guy that Jim Montgomery has praised,
13:25I think,
13:26since the start of training camp in terms of they've really been
13:27impressed with the work he's put in and the strides he's made since
13:30his rookie year.
13:31And I think you're seeing that.
13:32So it makes,
13:33it makes sense that he takes a step forward.
13:35That fourth line takes a step forward,
13:37but you also look at like Cole Kapke and what he's provided.
13:41I texted you and Ty in the group.
13:43I'm like,
13:44is this dude going to be like the next,
13:46right.
13:47Of like Syracuse crunch,
13:48like really solid age L player lands in a new spot.
13:52And again,
13:53I'm not saying that what,
13:54what does he have?
13:55Like,
13:56do you have like,
13:57he's had a couple of 30 goals either.
13:58I don't think you're getting that,
13:59but can Cole kept be a,
14:00like a third line,
14:01solid guy for what he provides.
14:03And even if he's not,
14:04and he's still on the fourth line,
14:06then you've got a pretty damn good player.
14:08If he compliments this group as he's doing right now.
14:10So again,
14:11I'm not saying Evan,
14:13that they're all going to have 20 goals,
14:15but I'm waiting for kind of the momentum to kind of stall with these
14:18guys.
14:19But if they play the way they they're playing right now.
14:21And again,
14:22they're not reinventing the wheel.
14:23They're not,
14:24you know,
14:25as much as the production,
14:26I think succeed expectations.
14:27They're not,
14:28what we've seen from is not something we just haven't seen.
14:30Like we,
14:31we know what Johnny Beecher is good at.
14:32We know like what cast like and kept,
14:34you have to do to generate quality chances,
14:36those kinds of things.
14:37It's just,
14:38they're getting rewarded.
14:39And maybe that's unsustainable in terms of how many of those,
14:42you know,
14:43tumbling pucks,
14:44second chance opportunities are getting cashed in right now.
14:46That won't probably carry on throughout the year.
14:48But if you just keep up that mindset,
14:50at the very least,
14:51you're going to tilt the ice in your team's favor.
14:53And it's going to lead to a lot of quality chances,
14:55a lot of time spent in the ozone.
14:57And that can only be positive for a group that again,
15:00is going to mostly have pretty tough matchups based on how Jim
15:03Montgomery rolls out that fourth line.
15:05I agree.
15:06I agree.
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16:52So we talked lineup changes and I found the,
16:56I think everybody was found this interesting going into Wednesday's game
16:59when they put Tufti and Jones with Patra took geeky and Brazil out.
17:04Didn't really work.
17:06I didn't find that line to be terrific.
17:09Tufti took two offensive zone penalties and of course the abs scored
17:12immediately after both.
17:14So I would assume he will be watching some games from the ninth floor
17:17coming up.
17:18What lineup changes are you looking to in the coming games?
17:23Yeah.
17:24I mean,
17:25I definitely think you need to put geeky and Brazil back in there.
17:27The one thing that I am curious to see,
17:29and I don't know if it's going to be immediate switch is whether or not you
17:32eventually get to a point where, again,
17:34I think Patra had another okay ish game.
17:39But again,
17:40when you look at kind of who is with the,
17:41who are really able to get a lot of momentum,
17:43they only played,
17:44they play the kind of fourth line minutes.
17:45And I think maybe that's also a by-product of,
17:48I think Mark Cassidy played 16,
17:4914.
17:51Like,
17:52they're not the fourth line.
17:53Like we call them the fourth line.
17:54They're not really.
17:55Yeah.
17:56So the ice time is kind of a little bit out of whack right now,
17:58but I think Patra is the guy that if he continues to show more of what he
18:03provided in that game against the Kings last weekend,
18:06I think he's a guy that if you want to put him in a top six role down the
18:10road,
18:11he's someone that's worth taking a look at,
18:13whether it's him,
18:14Marchand and like a guy like Brazzo or guy like Frederick,
18:17maybe just because I do think that if your third line is a group of like
18:22coil geeky Frederick,
18:24something along that line,
18:25I think that's a really,
18:26really good third line.
18:27Just you're going to need to bring me,
18:29take a little bit of a leap of faith as to what a guy like Patrick can
18:32provide.
18:33And again,
18:34I think for him,
18:35it's one finding,
18:36you know,
18:37the right kind of group to play off Patra strength as a playmaker.
18:40And I,
18:41I don't know how much you were going to get out of that with Max Jones and
18:44Riley Tufte in that game on Wednesday.
18:46Also again,
18:48Patra needs to keep his head up because he keeps on getting rocked with
18:51some of these hits.
18:52That is pretty concerning.
18:54You know,
18:55he got smoked,
18:56he got smoked in that game on Wednesday,
18:58but I do think at the bare minimum,
19:00you have to get geeky and Brazzo going geeky.
19:03Obviously has been kind of slow to start the year.
19:06I think you gotta kind of put him in the right spot to succeed.
19:08But also I think Brazzo hasn't really been a net negative.
19:11He hasn't scored,
19:12but he's generating chances.
19:13Like he's a guy that I think you,
19:15again,
19:16the same thing as what you're seeing from the fourth line right now,
19:19where you look at what Brazzo is good at.
19:21If he keeps up what he's doing with these passes around the net and how
19:24good he is at retrieving pucks,
19:26sooner or later,
19:27he's going to cash in.
19:28Maybe that just means a secondary assist here and there,
19:30but I didn't,
19:31that's a guy that so far hasn't really shown anything that makes him,
19:34you know,
19:35that warranted him being out of the lineup,
19:37I think.
19:38And I think when you look at just how that Patra line wasn't able to get
19:41a lot of traction against Colorado,
19:44I think the first step has to be putting Geeky and Brazzo back in the
19:47lineup.
19:48Yeah.
19:49I was surprised at Brazzo.
19:50I think,
19:51you know,
19:52I thought maybe the results weren't there,
19:53but there were chances for him in the first four games.
19:55I understood Geeky.
19:56You need a day.
19:57You need a game to watch,
19:58like go reset.
19:59In terms of lineup changes.
20:01I mean,
20:02obviously I think Tufte comes out.
20:03I do think they want to see more of Max Jones.
20:05You didn't see a lot of him in the preseason because of injury,
20:07but I do think they have legitimate expectations for him again in a,
20:11in a regular season or regular year.
20:13He would rotate it on the fourth line,
20:15but that's not happening because that fourth line is so damn good.
20:18You mentioned Patra and I think Patra is interesting because he's 20.
20:23So,
20:24you know,
20:25and he's not a big guy,
20:26so he is going to get rocked from time to time.
20:29And that is scary because I think every game you're going to see him,
20:32you know,
20:33whether it's a huge hit or just constant,
20:35you know,
20:36just getting nailed against the glass it's unfortunate.
20:39But I also think people have to kind of be okay with him being a little
20:42inconsistent.
20:43Cause he's,
20:44you know,
20:45this is,
20:46this should be his first full NHL season.
20:48Like you're going to have some nights where you don't notice them.
20:50We said this last year when he was in,
20:52like he put the world on fire at the start and then cooled off a little.
20:55And it's like,
20:56well,
20:57that's what you expect out of a 20 year old.
20:58They started him in camp at right wing.
21:01And I would be curious cause I,
21:03I would rather him down the middle.
21:04I,
21:05I,
21:06you know,
21:07if you develop Patra as a center,
21:08I completely agree.
21:09But to kind of jumpstart coil and Marchand on that right side,
21:12I wonder if that's something they go to.
21:13And then your third line is Frederick geeky and Brazil.
21:16I like the idea of Brazil,
21:19you know,
21:20again,
21:21like maybe Patra Brazil and Marchand,
21:22but oil showed you too much last year to move them back to the third line.
21:28I think I agree with you.
21:30Obviously the team's better with him as a third liner,
21:31but I don't know if,
21:33I don't know if you can sacrifice that on the second line.
21:36So to me,
21:37I would probably,
21:38I would,
21:39I want them to try Marchand coil Patra and see if that works.
21:42And then to go with the third line I just mentioned.
21:45So I think Patra is kind of the X factor moving up.
21:48I know a lot of people want Lysel to come back up,
21:50to come up and to get a shot up there.
21:52I have not watched the Providence Bruins yet,
21:54but from everything that I've read or seen from down there,
21:57it doesn't sound like he's lighting the world on fire either.
22:00So I don't know how close they would be to doing that.
22:04I think Patra is probably your best bet.
22:06I don't think rolling geeky coil and Marchand back out there is
22:10what is going to generate the most offense.
22:12Cause again,
22:13that second line needs to generate five on five offense.
22:15They can shut down lines for sure,
22:17but that is still part of your top six.
22:19They do need to score on defense.
22:22I think things are fine.
22:23They kind of keep shuffling the deep pairs.
22:25We expected that first line's the first line.
22:28I really think it's just the middle six that is going to just
22:31keep getting shuffled around and that's okay.
22:34That's okay.
22:35I want to get into Corpus Solo.
22:37We'll talk a little goal tending.
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24:27So Jonas Corposalo got the start, uh, uh,
24:30on Wednesday night first start since opening night against Florida,
24:33just swam and gets the night off.
24:35Uh, no, it was fine.
24:37I thought he was fine.
24:38I thought he did the job.
24:40Uh, you needed him to get a win.
24:42He got a win.
24:43Wasn't pretty.
24:44Didn't see a ton of rubber until the end.
24:47Um, I still think he's a little shaky, you know, from my eye,
24:52I'm not a goalie guy.
24:53I'm not one of those, you know,
24:54I'm not a goalie expert.
24:55I wasn't a goalie.
24:56So I can't be like, Oh, you know,
24:58his angles and everything like that.
25:00Um, I don't know.
25:02There's times that he does look a little shaky though.
25:04Yeah.
25:05No, I mean, I think you look at the matchup, right?
25:08Going into that one where he hasn't played and, you know,
25:10over a week you look at just high,
25:12how high powered Colorado's offenses and, you know,
25:15what Corporasol is looking to build in his game.
25:17That's a matchup going into it.
25:19You're like, let's see what happens.
25:21Like that kind of, it's kind of a tough spot.
25:23Smashing me over.
25:24Yes.
25:25Corporasol's first two games with the Bruins.
25:27Again, I've been both on the road against Florida and Colorado.
25:30Like not necessarily a Stanley cup matchup.
25:32Yeah.
25:33Not really a good, uh, easy way to ease him into these reps.
25:36But yeah, as you said, I think he was solid.
25:39Um, didn't face a lot of shots, made some quality saves early on.
25:43I mean, that could have been very much a, here we go again,
25:46kind of sequence where if the Bruins who are already kind of reeling
25:49off of that loss on Monday,
25:50give up that kind of mini breakaway chance to Miles Wood early in that
25:53game.
25:54I literally thought that was like McKinnon.
25:55Cause I just saw like 20 and I was like, who the shit is this guy?
25:58I was shocked.
26:00Um,
26:01What?
26:02And he burned.
26:03I was at Lindholm and McAvoy.
26:04Yeah.
26:05Yeah.
26:06It was like literally went right by him.
26:07So, uh, but that is, uh, you know, again,
26:10you look at timely saves and that was when right there you desperately
26:13need it in that moment.
26:14So again, like wasn't perfect.
26:16I think that last goal, I believe from Renton was one where you're like,
26:20Not, not great there.
26:21But I think when you look at just what you're one,
26:24what you're expecting out of corporate solo.
26:25And two,
26:26I think the natural expectation when it comes to a guy that the Bruins are
26:30trying to build his game back up,
26:32I think you're expecting some of these growing pains now to say,
26:35like,
26:36you have to expect this guy's going to be letting up three or four goals a
26:39game.
26:40But as he tries to find his footing, um,
26:42and you factor in the opponent,
26:44the quality competition he's been up against,
26:46I think you'll take it right now, right now.
26:48You're relying on your fourth line and these guys keep you afloat and
26:52you're allowing corporate solid to settle in and kind of build some
26:55momentum.
26:56So I think as the year goes on,
26:58hopefully you carve out maybe matchups against teams that maybe aren't as
27:02imposing offensively.
27:04But I think for what it was, um,
27:07and for what you're trying to build and what you're trying to draw out of
27:10corporate solids game, you'll take it.
27:12It wasn't a disaster.
27:13It wasn't like,
27:14I think what people were worried it was going to be when you look at what
27:17he did last year in Ottawa, it's not perfect.
27:19He has plenty of stuff to keep on working on,
27:21but that's why they Bob descends in these guys, uh, working on,
27:25you know, trying to get his game back in order.
27:27So all in considered, I think a step in the right direction,
27:30which if you're the Bruins, you'll definitely take right now.
27:33Yeah.
27:34You need him to do basically what he just did come in after three starts for
27:40Swayman, come in, do, you know, do an admirable job.
27:44And that's that.
27:45Like you don't need him to be the starter.
27:47You don't need him to like, I mean,
27:48it'd be nice if he kind of let the world on fire as the backup,
27:51but that is what, you know, you're just,
27:53I think baby steps at the start of just come in every three,
27:57four games and perform well, like give us a chance to win.
28:01I think that's, you know, give the Bruins chance.
28:03But I think that's the biggest thing that he can provide.
28:06Um, and again,
28:07I assume they'll go back to Swayman for Utah on a,
28:10on Saturday night, which should be interesting.
28:12Utah doing well.
28:14Interesting.
28:15A little team that got out there.
28:18Yeah.
28:19Dylan Gunther is barely on pace for like 90 goals.
28:22So yeah, he still,
28:23he still wouldn't be an upgrade on the Bruins fourth line though.
28:26People forget.
28:27True.
28:28Exactly.
28:29Not quite.
28:30Not quite.
28:31Uh, speaking of upgrades,
28:32little news dropped on Thursday morning.
28:34Celtics had kind of tweeted it out already,
28:37but we won't talk about that.
28:38Uh, New Jersey's alternate centennial.
28:42Uh, it has the,
28:43the first game I think they ever played stitched on the,
28:47uh, on the inside.
28:48Uh, I love him.
28:50I love him.
28:51What do you think?
28:53Yeah.
28:54Nice, clean design.
28:55I like the kind of centennial,
28:56uh, crest.
28:58I like the,
28:59I like the B it's kind of very similar or has kind of,
29:02uh,
29:03elements from the,
29:04the centennial,
29:05uh, season sweaters from last year.
29:07And,
29:08you know,
29:09I,
29:10I do like kind of the late seventies,
29:11eighties kind of design hearkening back to that.
29:14It's simple,
29:15but the colors are slightly different.
29:16It's a kind of a fresh look.
29:18And,
29:19uh,
29:20I know it's just for the centennial game,
29:21but you hope that they incorporate that more heavily moving forward,
29:24because this team needs a little,
29:25not a rebrand,
29:26but a little bit of a,
29:27uh,
29:28a new look as they kind of usher in the,
29:30the post Chara Bergeron kind of era,
29:33I'd be all in favor of,
29:35of bringing in that design with kind of the reworked spoke to be in,
29:38and kind of bringing those colors back.
29:40Cause I do think it's a nice change of pace.
29:42And I will say,
29:43like people were saying,
29:45it looks like how the penguins rebranded their things.
29:47Bruins have those sweaters before,
29:49like the Bruins are the ones who've done it.
29:51And I,
29:52again,
29:53I liked how the penguins made that switch,
29:54uh,
29:55to those kind of more black and gold ones they've had the last,
29:58what is it?
29:59Almost a decade now,
30:00maybe,
30:01but,
30:02uh,
30:03I am,
30:04I am a fan of what the Bruins have with those ones and you hope they
30:05kind of build it moving forward.
30:07It does seem like they've,
30:08they've heard from fan input,
30:10whether it's like the designs from the centennial season,
30:13you look at the last couple of alternates they've had,
30:15some of the reverse retros,
30:17um,
30:18doesn't have to be super flashy.
30:19You had the poo beer that one year,
30:21which you had to bring back.
30:22Right.
30:23That was cool.
30:24I was,
30:25yeah,
30:26I liked it.
30:27Yeah.
30:28Those were great for like a nice nineties,
30:29like nostalgia,
30:30but in terms of,
30:31you know,
30:32bold colors,
30:33but also a pretty simplified,
30:34clean design.
30:35I'm in favor of it.
30:36Moving forward.
30:37Yeah.
30:38Remember the yellow reverse retros they sported during the Tahoe
30:40when he,
30:41yeah,
30:42like the 2021 season.
30:43I thought those were a awesome,
30:45but the same design,
30:47like for a home Jersey,
30:48like just make it black,
30:50uh,
30:51in the back and whatever,
30:52you know,
30:53different things,
30:54but like that same kind of design.
30:55Yeah.
30:56I know what they have here.
30:57Um,
30:58which I like,
30:59uh,
31:00I want,
31:01and I also think like kind of what you said in sort of a re,
31:02a little retool rebrand,
31:04like they've basically had the same home in a ways and they're
31:05really nice.
31:06Like,
31:07there's nothing wrong with them.
31:08This is like us being kind of nitpicky.
31:09They've had them since oh seven,
31:10which is,
31:11you know,
31:12what?
31:1316,
31:1417 years ago now.
31:15Like,
31:16again,
31:17nothing wrong with it.
31:18Patriots had their jerseys forever.
31:19Then they've have new Jersey.
31:20They look like crap.
31:21So like,
31:22you don't want to exactly,
31:23you don't want to shift.
31:24They broke.
31:25Don't fix it.
31:26Right.
31:27Yes.
31:28Yeah.
31:29And,
31:30but these are cool.
31:31And so my thing is like,
31:32you know,
31:33if they make this an alternate and wear it every now and again,
31:34and as the season gets going,
31:35they wear it a little more and more.
31:36I wonder if next season,
31:37the season after,
31:38if they stick with this and then maybe say,
31:39Hey,
31:40you know what?
31:41We're going to make it,
31:42uh,
31:43the permanent homes.
31:44I also wonder,
31:45cause this is for the centennial game.
31:46If they do it like a,
31:47a variation of this for future seasons,
31:48um,
31:49as either alternate or as the permanent home Jersey.
31:50Cause like,
31:51again,
31:52and I said this to Joe,
31:53but horrific.
31:54I said,
31:55I said,
31:56I said,
31:57I said,
31:58I said,
31:59I said,
32:00I said,
32:01I said,
32:02I said,
32:03I said,
32:04I said to Joe,
32:05but her real life on Bruins beat,
32:06like in 2050,
32:07we'll be saying to our kids when the Bruins have an alternate that looks like
32:08their current homes,
32:09like man,
32:10I remember I was,
32:11I was watching them when they used to wear those.
32:12Speaking.
32:16There were all the rage,
32:17everybody loved them.
32:18I remember when they came out in 2007 with the Reebok edge,
32:19Jersey remember,
32:20Reebok.
32:21All right.
32:22Grandpa,
32:23let's get you to bed.
32:24Yeah.
32:25I remember when Joe,
32:26All right, grandpa, let's get you to bed.
32:28Yeah, I remember when Joe Rogan was the host of Fear Factor.
32:32We don't even know what a podcast is.
32:33So you can you can now you can now teleport to Lake Tahoe.
32:37You guys put up a green screen saying you were broadcasting live from Lake Tahoe
32:41during the COVID pandemic.
32:44Those were those were dark days, young boy.
32:47So, yeah, I I all I'm saying is I wouldn't be against them
32:52making these the permanent homes,
32:54because I think that they're onto something with the design.
32:58Anyways, Conor, what can the people look forward to
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