The Boston Bruins have fired head coach Jim Montgomery and promoted Joe Sacco to interim head coach. Joey Copponi and Rob Tocci break down the immediate change to the Bruins' play following their coaching change, the St Louis Blues' immediate firing of their coach to bring in Montgomery, determine where things went wrong for the Bruins and Monty, and much more!
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00:00Welcome back to bear with me.
00:19The Boston Bruins are now 10, nine, and three, and that is good enough for fourth in the
00:23Atlantic, eighth in the Eastern Conference, and 17th in the National Hockey League.
00:28My name's Joey Capone.
00:29It's a pleasure to talk to you, Rob.
00:30How you doing?
00:31Hello.
00:32I'm doing well.
00:33How are you?
00:34I'm doing all right.
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00:41all your favorite events in the Boston Bruins.
00:44Fire the head coach.
00:45Just like we said, we waited a little bit to do this because we knew Jim was going to
00:49get a job after five days on the open market.
00:52Check that out.
00:53We're just going to jump right into that.
00:54That's obviously the biggest story around the Boston Bruins.
00:57Crazy.
00:58Crazy.
00:59We didn't have an instant reaction because Bruins beat went live and they kind of covered
01:03it for the channel.
01:05They were here, but even more development.
01:07So it's not even like we missed news.
01:09We just waited for more headlines.
01:11Crazy.
01:12Crazy.
01:13Crazy.
01:14Run me through your instant reaction, though, when it happened.
01:16Well, I feel like we didn't have an instant reaction because we all knew it was coming.
01:20The entire episode that we recorded literally the day before was like, well, Montgomery's
01:25getting fired.
01:27I think at the time, what did I say?
01:29It was like 70% chance it happens by the end of the month or something.
01:32But I think we both felt pretty reasonably sure it was going to happen.
01:37I think you were more surefire than I was.
01:39Yeah, that's true.
01:40I won't jump in.
01:41I won't take credit where it's not due.
01:43I said that I thought they were going to wait till the end of the month, at least.
01:46You said the next time they play a game, they might have a new head coach.
01:49And I said, that's a little extreme.
01:51And you were correct.
01:52That was correct.
01:53Yeah, I mean, whispering started reaching our ears the day after, like, sounds like
01:58something might be happening.
02:00And of course it did.
02:01And so, yeah, I liked how the team reacted to it because, of course, like the press got
02:07in the locker room and got to get their instant reaction.
02:09And for the most part, it was basically this was avoidable.
02:14And our poor play led to us losing a great coach and a great person.
02:19And there was a lot of reverence in their speech and a lot of reflection in it, too.
02:25A lot of like, damn, okay.
02:28So much so that I knew for at least the first game following the firing, like on Thursday
02:35against Utah, I'm like, they're going to win it.
02:37They absolutely will win it.
02:39And if they didn't, that would have been optically terrible.
02:44But yeah, no, immediate reaction.
02:45It sucks.
02:47Like, clearly, the team is a big fan of him and so much successful, like a 741 point percentage.
02:53Like, you won three out of every four games you play.
02:56That's unbelievable.
02:57The third Jack Adams winning coach the Bruins have fired in a row who got hired within eight
03:03days for all three of them was five for Monty, seven for Clowden, eight for Bruce.
03:10So yeah, not surprising.
03:12Still sucks to see.
03:14I don't know why I didn't consider Joe Sacco.
03:17I was like, oh, Leach, probably.
03:20But of course, in retrospect now, Sacco makes perfect sense.
03:24He's been with the team for so long, and he's a different voice, but still gets the Bruins
03:30system and isn't going to reinvent the wheel with this team, which is not really what they
03:34needed.
03:35So yeah.
03:36No.
03:37Again, it sucks to see Monty go.
03:39I wish him all the best in St. Louis.
03:44Yeah.
03:45I have so many thoughts, and I'm positive that I'm not going to hit them all because
03:52I'm scatterbrained because I have a million things that I want to talk about this.
03:59First of all, there's like two directions.
04:08People are kind of taking this, and it is like the team wasn't happy with Monty.
04:15Were they playing to get him fired?
04:18And the other one being, did Monty want out this whole time?
04:27Because as time has gone on here, we've learned that he was offered an extension.
04:36They couldn't find the dollar amount.
04:39And some weird idiosyncrasies, I guess that's not the right word, some weird coincidences
04:47were happening along with the timeline of the St. Louis Blues coaching staff that lead
04:57some people to believe that St. Louis had their eye on Jim for a while.
05:02Maybe Jim wanted to go over there.
05:03I don't lend too much credence to the idea of Jim wanting to leave a contending team
05:10for the St. Louis Blues.
05:13I don't really believe that.
05:15I believe that if you're a team that isn't too great, and you see a team who has a good
05:23head coach that's on a lame duck contract, that you would have your eye on him.
05:27That makes total sense.
05:28If you're the Blues, sure, have your eye on him.
05:31But I just wanted to put out that I don't believe that Jim was mailing it in because
05:39he couldn't find an extension.
05:41Because if he has a great year this year, then he is a free agent coach, you earn yourself
05:48a better deal.
05:50You drive up your own market price.
05:52Getting fired does not drive up your asking price.
05:56So I don't really lend any credence to that.
05:59Man, there's so many angles I want to talk about.
06:03I'm absolutely right that I'm going to forget all of them.
06:07Yeah, I'll throw in that too.
06:09I don't even know if it was a dollar amount issue with Monty as much as it might have
06:12been the years too.
06:14Because Monty got a five-year deal off the bat with St. Louis.
06:20The timing that you're referring to, in case anybody doesn't know, is that St. Louis didn't
06:26hire or extend their coach until immediately after the Bruins eliminated Toronto in round
06:37one last year.
06:38The implication possibly being that St. Louis was waiting to see how that series went, i.e.
06:46waiting to see how Montgomery's future with the Bruins went.
06:50And if he were to be available, they were going to make him an offer.
06:53And of course, when they eliminated Toronto and moved on, they were like, all right, we'll
06:57stick with our guy.
06:59But the fact that as soon as Monty got fired, St. Louis fired their coach.
07:03And I believe it was their GM.
07:05The reason we did that is because Montgomery was available.
07:08Straight up on us, like, yeah, this guy's better for the job.
07:11So we fired our guy to bring him in.
07:13And it's business.
07:14And that's unfortunate.
07:15You just don't see that happen a lot, though.
07:17No, you really don't.
07:18You really don't.
07:19But Monty's a jackhammer winning coach.
07:22He's a fucking great coach.
07:23And no, I also do not believe that he in any way was consciously phoning it in to just
07:32get out of there like that.
07:34I just refuse to believe a professional head coach in the National Hockey League would
07:38do that.
07:39I mean, I guess there are instances where that would make sense.
07:43Let's say there was some kind of collusion going on and you were on a bottom feeding
07:46team like you're the Ducks coach.
07:48And for whatever reason, the Maple Leafs have their eye on you and you know that.
07:54Then I guess you're like, you know, yeah, I want to get out of here.
07:58I want to get on the market because you can't trade me to Toronto.
08:02And you could have some collusion.
08:04But that would be like a crazy big story.
08:06That would be a really big deal to do that.
08:09I don't understand why he would.
08:11It doesn't make sense for him to for him to mail it in.
08:14I think the perfect way to put this in my mind is that Jim Montgomery was the right
08:24coach for the time.
08:28Yes.
08:29And no longer the right coach for this time, which I feel is just what happens to coaches
08:34that happen with clothes that happen with Bruce like it's you just clothes a great example.
08:39I like clothes.
08:40Yeah.
08:41Because like clothes, a fucking Stanley Cup winning coach.
08:45And still, when the time came, when he got canned, everybody was like, I mean, there
08:49was hashtag fire quote all over Twitter.
08:52Like people wanted him out for a while.
08:54Yeah.
08:55Because the team got really young and talented and that wasn't what he worked best with.
08:59And we're like, you're kind of getting in the way.
09:01Like I watched a video talk about like Brad Marchand's like explosion and to like moving
09:06away from the pest and moving into like just being an elite goal scorer and elite forward.
09:12And we were like, that didn't happen until Cassidy came in.
09:15Like Martian didn't break a hundred points under Julian.
09:19That's crazy.
09:20Yeah.
09:21So it's like, not even just like posture knock and like some of the other younger guys, it's
09:24like Martian also really benefited from that.
09:27So now like, and again, it's like, like, I feel like clothes to Bruce is a bigger change
09:31than Monty.
09:32It's a sack.
09:33Oh, we'll be.
09:34Cause like, I don't think they needed that massive of a change, like a complete reinvention,
09:39but.
09:40And the other change there, the, Oh, sorry.
09:42Sorry.
09:43Go on.
09:44Go on.
09:45The only other thing I want to bring up about money too, is apparently, and I, I don't,
09:47I didn't know this.
09:48I don't even know if it's true to be honest, is that he really wanted to bring in his own
09:51staff and Boston wouldn't let him.
09:55And that, that might be happening in St. Louis, which might've been a reason he was like so
09:59inclined to go there so quickly.
10:01Yeah.
10:02Yeah.
10:03That's also not the kind of thing that you do for a guy who at the time was only on a
10:09three-year contract.
10:10So I guess I understand that from a Bruins perspective as well, that if you bring a guy
10:13in for three years and he's like, let me bring my whole team.
10:15You're like, hold on, you know, let's give you a minute, the lead.
10:20Yeah.
10:21We'll, we'll, we'll see, you know, if, when we, when we extend you or whatever, but to
10:26go back to the whole, you know, right guy for the right time kind of idea, Cassidy,
10:34Cassidy was chased out because the players were like, this guy's kind of a brick.
10:40Okay.
10:41Like don't really love this.
10:45Really not helping the culture.
10:47I think we have a good culture already and I think he's detracting from it, right?
10:53We need a guy here to just further it and keep the guys in line, but that's it.
10:59And that's what Monty did.
11:00Monty came here.
11:01He had Bergeron here still when he got here, Crachy and that culture alive, well, pushing
11:08forward.
11:09They needed a guy to give them a little thumbs up and whatever, but as that leadership left
11:17and you could argue, maybe some of that culture went with it and a lot of that talent went
11:25with it.
11:26I don't think Monty was right for it anymore.
11:31And by the time he tried to transition into that hard ass and into the, you know, yell
11:36in your face coach, the kick him into gear coach was too late.
11:41And I don't think it worked.
11:42I don't think that you can be the nice guy player coach for a couple of years and then
11:48all of a sudden be the scream at you on the bench guy.
11:51I think guys are going to be like, fuck you, man.
11:53Don't talk to me like that when you don't have it from the beginning.
11:59So I don't think it's a detriment to Monty.
12:02I think it's like a series of things.
12:04This is three coaches in five years for the Boston Bruins.
12:08And those two guys that they have fired in that time are, well, actually the three guys
12:13that they have fired over that, that whole time, a Stanley cup winner, and then two Jack
12:19Adams winners.
12:21One of them has gone on to win a Stanley cup in five years.
12:27Three coaches, five years now, Bruce Clota is much longer ago than that.
12:34It was the 16, 17 season.
12:38No way.
12:39Yeah.
12:40We were in college.
12:43I remember watching Bruce's first game in my senior year apartment in middle of nowhere,
12:50New Hampshire, which is where you go to college.
12:56Bruins head coaches.
12:59Yeah.
13:0017.
13:03So three coaches in seven years.
13:05Let's get it right.
13:07Sorry.
13:08If I didn't say it, someone on YouTube comments would have yelled at us.
13:11And all three of them, all three of them, Jack Adams winners.
13:18I don't think that the Bruins, on paper, the look is kind of brutal to be like, well, this
13:26guy's not good enough.
13:27And it's like, the guy, he just won the coach of the year.
13:31It's just a matter of fit.
13:33And it obviously wasn't working.
13:35And this is a wicked small sample size, but it seems to be the kick that the guys needed
13:41to turn things around, at least at first glance.
13:44Not to say Sacco figured it out and he's the right guy for the job, but at least the coaching
13:49change seems to have had some impact on them.
13:54I just think it was worth driving home that I don't think this is that Monty sucks.
13:59Get Monty out of here.
14:00I think it was that he wasn't right for this team right now.
14:04I think it'll be fine in St. Louis.
14:06I think St. Louis will still suck.
14:07I think it'll be fine.
14:08And like every article on this is like, this wasn't Montgomery's fault.
14:12Montgomery is the scapegoat.
14:14It's like, I mean, it's either the players, which it was, or it's Sweeney and Neely, which
14:20like, you know, maybe, but I don't know.
14:24And it's like, you're not firing because you're like, they're like, this is your fault, Montgomery.
14:29It's like, it's what we said last time.
14:30It's like, it's what you have to do.
14:32Like you need to change something.
14:35And like, what's the line?
14:36It's like, you can't fire the team.
14:38So it happens, but yeah, no, I think Sacco is going to kind of get the Cassidy treatment
14:44where they're like, you're the interim, but you know, if you do well enough and you give
14:49us a reason to not take it away from you, then there you go.
14:53I think the exact same thing just because it happened to Bruce.
14:59Honestly, as I heard interim, I'm like, oh, they're not hiring somebody else.
15:03No, I think they're, they're looking into a new assistant coach because now that I think
15:07they're short a coach now, which like, yeah, that makes sense.
15:10They're like looking for someone to compliment the group.
15:12Yeah.
15:13I could, I could get used to Sacco.
15:15Yeah, sure.
15:16I mean, listen, I'm still learning what he, what his coaching style is and whatever.
15:20But if you just want to talk to the personality, who's at the helm of your ship, I like him.
15:24He is a youth hockey coach thing to him where he looks like he just woke up.
15:28Like he's, he's got a hot coffee in his hand.
15:31He worked construction last night and is here to coach.
15:33He's very clearly, sorry, go ahead and interrupt you.
15:38The assistant coaches are like reminding you like, Hey, like we, we don't take the time
15:43to come here to come to practice for you guys and not try, Hey, you, you know what time
15:48your head coach went to bed last night?
15:49He didn't.
15:50Okay.
15:51He's here.
15:52Do you think he's here for the paycheck?
15:54He's here because he wants to see you guys succeed.
15:55Do you want that too?
15:57It's that he's that kind of guy.
15:58He's very clearly from Medford.
16:00Like that's it.
16:01Yeah.
16:02You're like, Oh yeah.
16:03He's from Medford.
16:04Like, yeah.
16:05Like of course he is.
16:06Yeah.
16:07Yeah.
16:08I, I, I've liked him so far.
16:09I mean like, he's not like, you know, Mr. Personality, but like, I don't, I don't fucking
16:12need him to be also like we're passing at this point, but I'm curious, Daryl Sutter,
16:18not coaching, uh, not around.
16:21Nobody said his name.
16:22Like it didn't come up at all.
16:23Yeah.
16:24That's the point.
16:25I'm like, did I miss something?
16:26Like, is there like a reason?
16:27He's like, he, what?
16:29I think he's 88.
16:31That could be it.
16:32But like if, yeah.
16:33And he's maybe too far of the pendulum swinging the other way.
16:37I don't even know what direction he's swinging.
16:39You got to take a shit, but he's just so nonsense, no nonsense.
16:43And like, maybe that's what the team needed that everybody talked about.
16:45Like a guy's got to come in and kick his ass.
16:47What's the look on your face right now?
16:48He's only 66.
16:49Bring him in.
16:50Bring him in.
16:52How long has he looked like that?
16:55That man can run for president.
16:56He's fine.
16:57Even when he was a player, he looked like that.
17:02Yeah.
17:03He just, that's just his face.
17:04You got to take a shit.
17:07Oh my God.
17:08Yeah, I know.
17:09And it just, I'm curious.
17:10I mean, somebody knows more than I do about like why he's not even remotely in contention
17:15for any head coaching job whatsoever.
17:20We've talked on the show before, like, we like him.
17:22We think it's a funny guy.
17:24And like, they're talking about like, yeah, that we need an outsider to come in and kick
17:27this team's ass.
17:28It's like, maybe him people, Quenville's name came up a lot.
17:34Yeah, no, no, no, no.
17:37Bye.
17:38Good.
17:39Thanks.
17:40You know what?
17:41You know what?
17:42This whole thing reminds me of maybe not, maybe not Q, but you know what?
17:46Everything else really reminds me of what?
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19:19I've been using the expression, uh, not fixed, but better band aid.
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19:26I've never said that word like that.
19:30Band aid, band aid.
19:33No, I, you could, I mean, all right, it's going into the Utah game.
19:41We're looking for a difference.
19:42So it might be one of those.
19:43Like I saw it because I was very specifically looking for it, but did everyone see it because
19:48they were looking for it?
19:49You know what I mean?
19:50It was the first period and we're like, they're playing differently right now.
19:54Like, and you're not like, oh my God, like it's the 65 win team again, but it's like
19:59they they're acting differently.
20:01They're playing differently.
20:02They're passing differently.
20:04They abandoned the neutral zone drop pass on the power play seemingly, seemingly, seemingly,
20:13and they had 18 power play shots, 18 what they've gone games with fewer shots on that
20:22total.
20:23They, uh, also there's a wicked small sample size, but it's worth pointing out because
20:28people have been talking about the power play so much and how abysmal it's been.
20:32They are 32nd in the national hockey league, which as you know, Rob, there are 32 teams.
20:37So this is last place.
20:38There's nobody below them.
20:39They're at the very bottom.
20:40Uh, 12.8% this power play has been in the two games since they're two for nine.
20:46So they're 22%.
20:48So it's again, wicked small sample size, but there's an uptick in the power play.
20:53More so the eye test, the stats over this small of a sample doesn't really matter as
20:58much as just the eye test does.
20:59Like you said, abandoning, uh, the neutral zone drum has, if that's actually what they're
21:03doing.
21:04Oh my God.
21:05I love that.
21:06I know my father loves that.
21:07That's, that's his least favorite thing.
21:08The first person I thought of when I noticed it on the first power play of the game in
21:12the first period and their, their first entry, they didn't do it.
21:16And I was like, Hmm, Lou, Lou, I'll be watching a game with my dad and my dad.
21:23Like I almost like don't want to look over because I just assume that he's asleep.
21:28Like if he's been quiet for a little while, I assume he's asleep.
21:31And then like a neutral zone drop pass will happen.
21:35And just out of nowhere, you'll just hear, I hate that.
21:39Oh, that fucking drop pad.
21:41What are you doing?
21:43The pot snaps me awake.
21:46So it's not wrong.
21:47And he's not wrong.
21:48It's a, he's not wrong at all.
21:49No, I mean, they look so much better when they don't do it.
21:52And then, Oh my God, it's so much better.
21:54Yeah, they do.
21:57It's hard to notice actual coaching changes, you know, in terms of like how they're just,
22:05just how they're structuring things and how they're approaching things.
22:10That was a really, really evident example.
22:15But more so than that, you fire a coach, you just get a higher urgency level.
22:21And like you said early in the show, I think the guys recognized that like this, this,
22:30this falls on us.
22:31Yeah.
22:32And it does.
22:33This guy lost his job because of us.
22:34And we got to come out there and, I don't know, do the right thing.
22:37I don't know.
22:38Do the right thing.
22:39You know what I mean?
22:40They just, you got to play.
22:41It means a little bit more.
22:42Yeah, absolutely.
22:43And I kind of called out the leadership on the team last game too.
22:46So I want to give flowers to Brad Martian here.
22:51I think he's been working his ass off these two games.
22:54If you want to not even for very briefly mentioned the Red Wings performance, like he was, he
23:01was there.
23:02He was Brad again.
23:03That goal was just like, like you said, 2016 Brad Martian.
23:07Yeah.
23:08Can I, can I give a take on that goal?
23:10Oh, please do.
23:12It's not a good take.
23:15Okay.
23:17Seeing Brad do that made me a little sad because it made me realize how rare that is now and
23:23made me realize it just, I don't know, it was like, oh wow, I forgot that you could
23:28do that.
23:30That's been a while since you did that, huh?
23:31No, I get it.
23:32He, he doesn't have all of his magic that he used to like, yeah, there's been to the
23:38point where like, that's kind of the first time it's worked in a while where like, he'll
23:42do like a one-on-one, try to like break around someone or deep around someone and like it's
23:47doesn't work where it used to feel automatic.
23:51Oh yeah.
23:53But again, like the effort is so there and like that goal was great.
23:57So I'm very happy with the performance is there, but yeah, just a few little things
24:04about some of these games to the Utah game, Mark Castilek, the man, like we got to start
24:11referring to it as the Castilek trade, like two fights, both in Robert Bertuzzo.
24:18First fight was like pretty even.
24:19I would probably give Castilek the edge.
24:22And then later on Bertuzzo, like kind of catches Castilek up high, like close enough for like
24:29Castilek's like, fuck you, buddy.
24:30We're going again.
24:31He just fucking rocked him, like fed him his dinner and it just, they're just booming hits.
24:37Like the effort is always there.
24:39I saw a comment there, like, I don't know if Castilek is good, but he's fun.
24:42Oh, that's a great way to put it.
24:44That's a great way to put it.
24:45I think he's good too, though.
24:47I do.
24:48I also think he's good.
24:49I was like, no, he's good.
24:51I think it though.
24:52Yeah, no, he's like one of those guys that like your classic fourth line or like he's
24:56pouring out the bucket every shift, like clearly, clearly giving 100% every shift.
25:03Like you see like some shifts from pasta where he's just kind of gliding and like, you know,
25:06it's like being Dave about it, but like Castilek is like, yeah, I guess you kind of earned
25:11that too.
25:12When you're when you're David, when you, when you're a perennial 50 goal scorer, like you
25:15don't always have to, and he's also playing like 20 minutes a game, but no Castilek, I
25:20such a standout and talk about that same trade Corpus solo.
25:25That's another can of worms we get.
25:26We could get into probably worth talking about because we're talking about, yeah, the, the,
25:33the summary here is Jeremy Swayman, not doing great Corpus, all of doing surprisingly well.
25:37Um, there you go.
25:39That's it.
25:40Thanks for coming.
25:41Yeah.
25:42But two shout outs for Corpus all on the season so far, like better numbers and Swayman, uh,
25:46Swayman did look good in the right wing scheme.
25:48I'll say, um, I love having Corpus solo, not only because like, he's, it's great having
25:55an awesome backup, but he's going to push Swayman and Swayman is an incredibly competitive
26:00guy.
26:02That would be one of the first adjectives I would use to describe Swayman would be competitive.
26:07Yeah.
26:08Um, so, so that's for the best and like, he's fully aware of his place, not where it's been.
26:12And like, we've seen him go through rough, rough stretches before, like not so much last
26:16season, but the season before, like there was a period of time where we were like, what's
26:19going on with Jeremy?
26:20Yeah.
26:21So like, I'm not that worried about it.
26:23And like, again, just training cam, like slow start, whatever.
26:25Like I think he's been looking better.
26:27Like the eye test has mostly been fine.
26:29It's been a couple of like, Ooh, we should probably have that, but yeah, that's the thing
26:33is that it feels like the defense's worst games do come when Swayman's in net.
26:39So the stats, the stats look bad, um, but I think it's just important to remember that
26:46I think their worst games defensively and offensively, just their worst games on the
26:51ice have come with Swayman and net, but the numbers are pretty glaring.
26:58Uh, Swayman's record is six, seven, and two corporate solos is four, two, and one.
27:03The goals against are three 30 and two 38 respectively.
27:09Save percentage eight 87 to corporate solos, nine 11.
27:14Yeah.
27:15So that's a good extra.
27:17That's a extra goal per game for Swayman over corporate solo in that sample size.
27:22Yeah.
27:23Which, uh, yeah, not, not great.
27:26Um, so 15 games with Swayman in net eight with corporate solo.
27:30So they are doing like a two in one rotation.
27:33Do you think that for right now at one to one rotation might make a little more sense?
27:40Not even, I don't think I'd even need to go one to one, but I do want corporate solo to
27:44get more starts and I like a three to two.
27:47Yeah.
27:48Yeah.
27:49I like that.
27:50Yeah.
27:51I think he will too.
27:53I imagine Goldie.
27:54Bob is pretty heavy on pulling those strings too.
27:57I think they're going to recognize at least for now corporate solos, the hot hand, I wouldn't
28:04be surprised if corporate solo got the start on Tuesday to the point where I kind of want
28:10him to get the start.
28:11And again, it's just, there's nothing wrong with like kicking the Swayman in the ass a
28:16little bit.
28:17It's like, yeah, like you're going to lose a couple of these starts, earn them back.
28:22And like no one benefits more than him.
28:27It's a weird line to walk because you know, it's, it's a classic rust versus rest kind
28:33of situation where is it better if Swayman struggling to keep him out of the net or to
28:40get him in there more, you know it's, it's, it's weird.
28:46And it also is a matter of like, well, what are you going to do when the end of the season
28:51comes?
28:52Because I, I don't want to have this debate again, but I'm, I'm, I'm going to just say
28:56it now one time.
28:59I fucking so firmly believe whatever you do during the season is what you should do into
29:04the playoffs.
29:05I just so firmly believe that like guys get into a routine.
29:08So if you're doing a two and one throughout the season, that better be your plan going
29:12into the playoffs.
29:13Like if you're going to do a one to one rotation from now through the spring and then be like,
29:21Oh, it's all Swayman.
29:23I think that that's a recipe for disaster.
29:25I just don't think it worked.
29:26And I know it fucking worked for, for last year that Swayman was standing on his head.
29:31It's just, I, I, I think goalies are such head cases that it just, I think it matters
29:38to maintain it.
29:40And I don't know if putting Swayman through what he went through this off season and training
29:46camp with the contract stuff to follow that up with him, sharing the net more than he
29:54expected to is the right way to go about it.
29:59I think if I had to give like a hard take of what I want to see, I want to see Swayman
30:06just like be in game or be a net for some good defensive game, like just two good three
30:16to one wins.
30:19And I think you can write the ship by, by leaving him in there.
30:24I think that I think right now there it's still early enough in the season and the division
30:29is still tight enough where you're not going to lose games because you're leaving in a
30:34quote unquote, struggling Jeremy Swayman.
30:37Like I, I think the answer is keep playing them.
30:40That's what I would push for.
30:44You're saying keep playing Swayman?
30:46I would, I would play Swayman more.
30:47Yeah.
30:48I mean not more, but I would keep them two to one.
30:50Yeah.
30:51Not less.
30:52Yeah.
30:53Yeah.
30:54That's fair.
30:55I, I think that'll be fine.
30:56I, whatever they end up doing, I do think Swayman works it out.
30:57I think he's in the middle of working it out.
30:58I don't even think we're at like a, Oh, it's going to get worse where it gets better.
31:02I think we're through probably the worst tip that for him, cause there was like, it
31:06was like two games in a row where it was like five to seven goals let up.
31:10And like you said, like that's more on the defense than anything.
31:15And even that like one goal he led in, in Detroit, my uncle, I wasn't watching a live
31:19and my uncle texted me.
31:20He was all.
31:21So the only thing I knew about the game was him text me saying, so wait a minute, it's
31:24got to have those.
31:26So when I went to go watch the game, I was like expecting some like softy and it was
31:31like a fucking missile from 15 feet out.
31:34And I was like, no, like, it's like, that's, I mean, like maybe, like, I think he would
31:39be like, I want another crack at that.
31:41But that's when that type of gold goes in, I'm not like Swayman.
31:45Yeah.
31:46I don't think many times this year at all.
31:49I've been like, where were you, Jeremy?
31:50It's not Matt more than usual.
31:52Cause the usual amount is none with Swayman, but no, like I, I remember sometimes last
31:59year, like late in the year.
32:01Was it last year?
32:02I think it was, it was late in the year last year where there's like some short side stuff
32:07with sway, like pretty regularly or like getting caught on his back foot.
32:11Like some weird, some weird stuff where I remember us being like, what was that?
32:16Like, where was he?
32:19But I don't really see that it's a lot of like a lot of dirty goals, a lot of uncontested
32:27men in the slot.
32:28Like, I don't know that whenever people make the comparison, the, the, you know, Swayman
32:34versus corporate solo thing, it's, it's hit with the stats and it's not ever like, look
32:41at this Corpy save versus this Swayman goal.
32:46It's never look at them.
32:47It's, it's the stats.
32:50And he said, I mean, you know, you down six, one or whatever, letting in that seventh,
32:56you know, you on your vest game, you know, it's what happens.
33:01I don't know.
33:02Yeah.
33:03So, yeah.
33:04But generally speaking, like I'm, it's nice having at least one goalie who is, who's hot
33:08at the moment.
33:09So the big fin it's working pasta, it's a little snake bin right now.
33:17Yeah.
33:18Let's talk about it.
33:19What is it?
33:20Two goals in 13 games, 14.
33:22I don't even know the stats, but even just like, again, like eye tests, like in that
33:25Red Wings game, he had like, what, like three or four all alone chances.
33:32And I, he had what one shot on net across them, just like really overthinking it, not
33:37just throwing it on net, not like he's overhandling it to the point where like people can collapse
33:42on him.
33:43Like there was one time where like he skated like past the goalie on his strong hand and
33:48had the five hole wide open and just didn't pull the trigger in time.
33:53So I, it's, he just doesn't have it right now when he, he, again, like he's going to
33:58have like three hat tricks and 10 games at some point this season.
34:02So it'll all average out to be fine.
34:04But it's in these two games under Joe Sacco, they've let up one goal and that's awesome.
34:11If only scored three.
34:13So the offense had been an issue or was an issue prior to Sacco taking over.
34:18And yes, you have two big dubs, but you have three goals scored across them and that's
34:25not enough.
34:26No, I did want to talk about the team that's just like the team's goals because I want
34:32to get, so without looking, please don't look, okay, David Pasternak leading the team with
34:36eight goals.
34:37Okay.
34:38I want you to give me two, three and four on this team.
34:42I want to say Brad is two.
34:44Brad is two with six goals.
34:47Four, I think it's going to be Kepke.
34:49Four is Kepke with four.
34:51You're missing number three, which is kind of the one that I wanted you to miss.
34:59So it's a forward, right?
35:02It is a forward.
35:03It is a winger.
35:07I really don't.
35:08I want to say Frederick.
35:09It is Braz.
35:11That's sick though.
35:12I like that.
35:13I mean, no, no, no.
35:17If he had eight goals or nine goals and was third on the team, yeah, but like Justin Brezzo
35:22having five goals and being, you know, it goes to Pasternak, Marchand, Brezzo.
35:28Yeah.
35:29That's not how the team is supposed to look.
35:32I'm so used to like having at least one Bruin and that like the rotation of like the highest
35:37points in the league and you'll get McKinnon has 35 points.
35:41I'm like, what the fuck are you doing?
35:43What do you mean?
35:44You have 35 points.
35:45Yeah.
35:46Yeah.
35:47That's a little surprising.
35:48I mean, also in terms of boards, not your fourth, one of your fourth liners being the
35:52fourth goal, highest goal score on your team right now is like, fuck third, third, third.
35:58No.
35:59Yeah.
36:00Yeah.
36:01Uh, I will say, and I'm, I did mean to bring this to the blast show and I completely forgot.
36:06I've liked Braz's play.
36:08Braz has been very consistent.
36:10Yeah.
36:11The numbers aren't super there.
36:12He did get rewarded with the goal.
36:14He is super there.
36:15He's the fucking third score.
36:16Fair enough.
36:17Yeah.
36:18I guess they are.
36:19Uh, I, I just really like his play.
36:20I think he's doing exactly what he is supposed to be doing.
36:24And when I say Bruin, yeah, Bruin, Bruin, and a big guy who doesn't always play like
36:32a big guy, like he finishes his checks, but like he's, I would classify him more as a
36:36skill player, like a skilled big guy, bottom six.
36:41Like I don't know.
36:43He's like a weird, he's a conundrum.
36:44I don't really know what box to put him in.
36:46Yeah.
36:47A skilled, a skilled big man.
36:50Yeah.
36:51Cause like, he's not a bruiser by any means.
36:53Like again, like he finishes his checks when he does like they're solid.
36:56He's like six, five.
36:57Like he's a big boy stretch as they call him on the team apparently, apparently not big
37:03easy.
37:04We don't know who big easy is.
37:05I don't know who that is.
37:06We will never know.
37:07But I, I, uh, yeah, I, I've, I've liked his play and the chemistry between Justin Brazzo
37:14and Brad Marshan interest.
37:18I am so intrigued by that.
37:20So in centered by Elias Lindholm.
37:23Yeah.
37:24Okay.
37:25That's another thing with Sacco.
37:26It's the lines haven't really changed.
37:29So we're seeing some consistency there.
37:31I like that.
37:32Like that.
37:33Also worth mentioning.
37:34Has taken one penalty this year as a guy who is that physical to not get himself into penalty
37:40trouble is absolutely worth mentioning, especially on a team where you have a Nikita Zdorov leading
37:47the team with 46 penalty minutes behind him.
37:52Rob is Mark Kastelik with 36 who just racked up 10 of those in the last game.
38:01So, uh, 12 actually, cause he had hit a roughing call on that second fight.
38:07So, uh, in reality, I mean, prior to this game, uh, Nikita Zdorov had a 22 penalty minute
38:14lead, uh, on the team, which actually, I want to check the league because I can't imagine
38:21there are too many more, uh, um, penalty minutes to be given out.
38:32Do they even have that?
38:35I'm trying to find it right now.
38:36I feel like this is a good stat muse thing.
38:40What about team penalty minutes where the Bruins fallen right now?
38:43Second behind the Utah hockey club.
38:47Yes.
38:48Yeah.
38:49I don't know.
38:50I don't think that we got, uh, I'll, I'll, I'll pull that penalties or PIMS cause PIMS,
38:55the Bruins are leading.
38:57I'm seeing the Bruins are leading, but 259 for that.
39:05Can't you?
39:06Right.
39:07Cause I don't see Utah on here.
39:08Two, two 67 Utah.
39:09Yes.
39:10Well, let's go.
39:11We'll go.
39:12We'll go with what you're seeing.
39:13Uh, yeah.
39:14When they were like, yeah, Utah is the most penalized team in the league.
39:17And then they took three penalties in the first period.
39:19I'm like, I guess the fuck they are.
39:20Yeah.
39:21I felt like we were playing the Bruins.
39:22I was like, is this what it's like?
39:23Like, you're just like on the power play the whole fucking game.
39:27Also like in the Red Wings game, they put up the graphic.
39:29It was like Bruins power play, 32nd Red Wings penalty kill 32nd.
39:34It's like, this is when a stoppable force meets a movable object.
39:38It's who's going to be the shittiest between the two.
39:42And it was Detroit cause Hey, power play goals in both of Sacco's games.
39:47That's not nothing like I get it is two games, but it's not nothing.
39:53The power play just looks different.
39:56Like I, the, one of the things I noticed is like in the, I think that maybe the first
40:00power play against Utah McAvoy had it out on the blue line and he like got like 10 feet
40:07closer to the net from the blue line before shooting, which I feel like he wasn't really
40:11doing before.
40:12I still think they're overpassing on like the outer perimeter and not necessarily like
40:17being dangerous enough on it.
40:21But they have kind of eliminated that, like putting themselves in a, like two on two battle
40:27or a one-on-one battle.
40:28It's like, you have an extra guy, like you should be outnumbering them on every battle.
40:33And I think they've gotten better about that.
40:35And again, I cannot stress enough how important it is that their entries have changed.
40:42Good example of that was Georgie Murkulov in Utah, like with speed from the neutral
40:47zone along the right-wing board, getting past them.
40:50And it's like, it feels the power play feels so different when you can just jump in.
40:55Like when like you have momentum and you get it in right away and you don't do this fucking
41:00pussy footing around on the offensive blue line and passing it back and just creeping
41:05over.
41:06And I felt like they can never get set up because they couldn't get more than like five
41:08feet over the blue line to begin with.
41:11It's still not perfect.
41:12Like there's still quite a lot of work to do with it.
41:14But I mean, from again, might be seeing what I'm looking for, but I'm liking what I'm seeing.
41:23I found the answer to our question.
41:26Nikita Zdorov is the second most penalized player in the National Hockey League this
41:31year.
41:32Brent Burns.
41:33Nope.
41:34But it is somebody, you know, I know, we all know.
41:38It's either Hathaway or Maroon.
41:41It's Brady Kuchuk.
41:42Oh, wow.
41:43That's what it was right in front of me.
41:45Yeah.
41:46Dude.
41:47Mr. Fighting when you're down by four goals and a minute left in the game.
41:50Classic.
41:51Hey, I think we mentioned this on a previous episode.
41:54Like people in Ottawa are like are not big on Brady right now.
41:57No way.
41:58I'd fucking take Brady on the Bruins.
42:01Oh, shut the fuck.
42:02I would absolutely take Brady Kuchuk on the Bruins.
42:05I'm afraid what you'd have to give up to get people like give him sway and let him have
42:09the duo again.
42:10It's been 16 and a half million on two goaltenders.
42:15Go for it.
42:16Yeah.
42:17I mean, that's funny.
42:18But no, I would not give up anything really for Brady Kuchuk.
42:22I don't.
42:23I don't like his play.
42:24I mean, you want to talk about the culture taking a hit.
42:26Yeah.
42:27You want to bring a guy who Ottawa thinks doesn't fit their culture.
42:32Like come on.
42:33Imagine the Bruins Panthers inevitable Panthers Bruins playoff series when it becomes Brady
42:37versus Matt.
42:38It would just be it would be it would be a sideshow at that point.
42:41But I don't want to have a stake in the the Kuchuk brothers rivalry.
42:49I want them to both implode.
42:51I don't want them to.
42:53I don't want to be rooting for one of them.
42:54I don't want to.
42:55I don't know.
42:56To see a Bruins Kuchuk jersey.
42:57You know what?
42:58As you said that.
42:59Yeah.
43:00No.
43:01No.
43:02No, thanks.
43:03No, I do.
43:05Yucky, yucky, yucky.
43:06It's like when I see Patrick Kane in Detroit, I'm like, fucking what?
43:09Like it's his second year, but I'm like, oh, no, it's so weird.
43:14We both thought the same thing when they said it.
43:15We're like, oh, yeah, right.
43:16Yeah.
43:17But literally, as the game was playing, I was like, oh, right.
43:22That's where he is.
43:23There's always like one guy on every team.
43:25You're like, you're here.
43:26Okay.
43:27What are you doing here?
43:29What?
43:30Yeah.
43:31Yeah.
43:32Kane is in Detroit and Taze is in India.
43:35So things things have changed.
43:38He's on his Doctor Strange arc.
43:40It's exactly what is happening.
43:42Nobody knows what that means, man.
43:44He's looking for Eastern medicine to solve which Western medicine couldn't.
43:49Just like Doctor Strange.
43:51Exactly.
43:52Look, I don't know what that means.
43:53It's a movie.
43:54Why do I say that so sadly?
43:57Who knows?
43:58It's a sad thing to talk about.
44:03Yeah.
44:04Not wrong.
44:05There's definitely more I want to talk about.
44:08I started watching the Providence Bruins.
44:10That's a thing.
44:11I do.
44:12That's a thing.
44:13I do now.
44:14You're tweeting a lot of minor or AHL clips.
44:15I am.
44:16It's a minor league.
44:17I guess that's also true.
44:18No, it is a minor league.
44:20I'm tweeting a lot of Providence clips, and I need the people to tell us one way or the
44:27other if they like that.
44:28Because my gut instinct when I see you tweet one of those is, do people care about the
44:32Providence Bruins?
44:33Do people want to see this?
44:37Fuck the people.
44:38I'm going to keep doing it.
44:39Okay.
44:40There we go.
44:41Perfect.
44:42Bruins.
44:43Bruins Twitter account.
44:44I know.
44:45Those are the kids.
44:46Those are the next ones up.
44:47Yeah.
44:48I'm keeping an eye on them.
44:49I'm going to watch him and clip everything of relevance he does in the off chance that
44:51maybe I can contribute to him returning three assists in five games.
44:57I know that that's why.
44:58There's something defeatist in me when I see minor league clips, especially not to just
45:05fucking bring up the goddamn Red Sox, but for years it's been like, look at this prospect.
45:11Look at this prospect.
45:12Look at this prospect.
45:13And I rejected it for so long being like, fuck you.
45:18I don't want to be excited about four years in the future.
45:20I want the team to be good right now.
45:23So I just don't want to fall into that where like the team was struggling a little bit.
45:26I don't want to be like only focusing on the kids.
45:30I just, as long as we're like, Hey, Patra deserves to be here.
45:34Merkulov probably also deserves to be here.
45:37Like let's get them up right now and get this team going.
45:41I just don't like looking at guys and being like, man, in two years, once this guy develops,
45:45he's really going to help the team because it's like, well, they're playing right now.
45:47So I'm playing the long game.
45:50Okay.
45:51I'm trying to find a way to watch Mariners games.
45:53That's where I'm at.
45:55I try to watch.
45:56I've been trying to watch some BC because there's some, I really mostly want to keep
45:58an eye on Dean Letourneau.
45:59Cause it's like, again, part of the old Mark trade and we got that first round pick and
46:02got him.
46:03He was like fucking six, eight, like the Tate Thompson nine years old.
46:08Yeah.
46:09He's also a baby.
46:11So it's not really, you know, like to what you said, it's like, you know, in 2044, he's
46:18potentially going to be around.
46:20Yeah.
46:21You should come watch my son play the 2038 draft is going to be really big for him.
46:27Oh yeah.
46:28Brother.
46:29Uh, I also, so, uh, Utah goaltender, former Arizona goaltender, uh, fetch Milka.
46:35Apparently it's the Milka, but I've been saying veg Milka and the people call them
46:41veggie.
46:42So I'm like, all right, well fucking which one is it?
46:45That's all.
46:46I saw, I've already forgotten that the Utah team is the Arizona team, but there's times
46:51I'm like, Oh yeah, it is the raw.
46:53It's them.
46:54It's the same team.
46:57That's it.
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49:14Well, I sent my VPN to Japan.
49:18What?
49:19Any, any viewers in Osaka?
49:21It's going to be 4 PM for you guys.
49:24Before 7 PM at the Bruins.
49:26So, yeah, expect him in Boston.
49:28Jake's getting a video.
49:29100% Jake's getting it.
49:30You think Jake's getting a video?
49:33Do you not think Jake DeBrusque is getting a tribute video?
49:36No.
49:37Joe, I will bet you as much money as I have a quick between whistles.
49:45He's been on the team for seven fucking years.
49:48We drafted him.
49:49I don't think he gets one.
49:51Not a full tribute video.
49:54He might get like a like a between periods, like or between whistles, like you're going
49:58to have to find somebody who took a video at the garden.
50:01Well, yeah, that's what I know.
50:03They're going to show it.
50:04No, Jake was a fan favorite.
50:05100%.
50:06I do.
50:07You're just one of those fan favorite go while they're struggling.
50:12This feels like a time where you just disagree with me for content.
50:16Like no, like he 100% is getting a tribute video.
50:20They're going to show him leaning on the bench.
50:22He's going to skate out, put a stick up like he's going to get a round of applause.
50:27Sally season.
50:28Yeah, 100%.
50:29He's getting a video.
50:30100%.
50:31I don't know.
50:32Wilson.
50:33We send there.
50:34We send it forward.
50:35It's on the IR.
50:36They have who we sent a third person there.
50:39Loco.
50:40No, he's in Minnesota.
50:43He's in Minnesota now.
50:44He's in Minnesota.
50:45They seem to be liking him.
50:47Heinen.
50:48Heinen went there.
50:50That's what it was.
50:52I didn't get a tribute.
50:53Heinen is not getting a tribute video, so they're going to highlight one player and
50:57not the other.
50:58Joe, shut the fuck up like, yes, dude, I can't wait to text you so much.
51:07What is happening?
51:08Hey, are you watching?
51:09It's happening.
51:10Yeah, but yeah, ESPN plus, if anybody's interested, tickets as low as $55, I'm sure they're cheaper
51:17on the game timeout.
51:18Let's see if I can't find it.
51:20Yeah.
51:21Oh, also, there was a report that the brew and sellout streak at TD Garden ended, and
51:26apparently that's not true.
51:27There was an error and it is still going, which it kind of made me sad when it ended
51:31because it dates back to December 2009, 15 years of sellouts.
51:40It's like 600 games in a row.
51:42Yeah.
51:43I'm glad.
51:44I'm glad it didn't end.
51:45It's got to be in disrepair for it to end.
51:49Yeah.
51:50Which we were not at.
51:53I'm toggling the all in price feature here on the game time app.
51:59Wow.
52:01Great deal.
52:02$59.
52:03That's not bad.
52:04That's not really good.
52:05I was about to say something.
52:06Oh, yeah.
52:07I want to.
52:09I really liked what he brought, especially, and I loved that Sacco was putting him on
52:24the top unit, at least to start, because I think they kind of need to give the kids a
52:31little bit more reps in moments like that.
52:36He did get sent down, and then he scored the game winner
52:39in Providence in overtime.
52:41And then they called Mark McLaughlin back up,
52:43and he was a healthy scratch against Detroit,
52:45but they were playing a lot of games.
52:46They have a back-to-back this week included.
52:49And they got to get Johnson back in the lineup,
52:51so there's some juggling going on.
52:52And again, Mark McLaughlin has goals
52:54in his last five games in Providence,
52:56and they did the locker room interview with him,
52:59and he's like, I think my game is
53:00in a great place right now.
53:02He's playing very good hockey,
53:04both defensively and offensively,
53:07has experience with the team.
53:08He has several goals at TD Garden.
53:11I really hope to see him against Vancouver,
53:14but if they kept Johnson in over him, I'm fine with that too
53:17because I like Tyler Johnson's play also.
53:19He took two really stupid penalties against Detroit,
53:24but if I'm not mistaken, he had a really big assist
53:27in that game as well too, so I've liked his play.
53:31Um, yeah, yeah.
53:37What are you thinking about over there, Joe?
53:39What am I thinking about?
53:40What are you thinking about?
53:42Thinking about maybe attending this here Vancouver game.
53:46Oh, yeah?
53:47What, it's Tuesday?
53:49Tuesday, Tuesday night.
53:53Do you want to go?
53:54I'm seeing a super deal in the lower bowl,
53:5710 rows back for 126 bucks.
54:00I could be convinced to go to that game, Joe,
54:04to watch that Jake DuBras tribute video.
54:07Oh!
54:13How about this, if you're right
54:14and they play the Jake DuBras tribute video,
54:16then you can pay for the tickets.
54:19Deal!
54:22You fool!
54:24I'm not me trying to get in contact with TD Garden,
54:28be like, for the love of God, do not play a tribute video.
54:33I'll pay you $400 to avoid paying Joe 100.
54:38It's a matter of principle.
54:39They take a $400 bribe.
54:42And it's someone who doesn't even work at TD Garden.
54:45All right.
54:46Yeah, just the slap shot guy outside on the rollerblade.
54:51You're like, listen, don't play the video.
54:54Are you skating away from me with a flag?
54:55Come back!
54:57The Bruins have a lot of staple fans.
55:03I realized that the other day
55:04because I was talking to somebody
55:05because they were talking about some Celtics fan
55:07that's a famous fan or something.
55:11And I was like, oh, the Bruins have a few of those.
55:13They have the lady with the Christmas hat.
55:15They got the-
55:16Oh, the creatures of TD Garden, yeah.
55:17Yeah, they got the rollerblade guy outside.
55:20You got the luchador.
55:22You got the vest guy.
55:24You got the vest guy.
55:25You got the lady who throws coins at people.
55:27She's my favorite.
55:28I don't know her.
55:29She's the older woman who wears the full hockey helmet.
55:33She's like, she's shorter, wears glasses.
55:34Oh yeah, Sarah and I sat next to her one time.
55:37No, that's the woman with the Christmas hat.
55:39Christmas hat?
55:40I don't know what you're talking about.
55:42It's like a big hat.
55:42She puts like ornaments on it.
55:43She wears a helmet.
55:45No, she doesn't.
55:46Yes, she-
55:47Joe, you're just fighting me to fight me this episode.
55:50She 100%, if we're talking about the same woman,
55:53yes, she wears a hockey helmet.
55:54She was in like the Stitches video last year.
55:56Yes, that's her.
55:58She's wearing a helmet.
56:03These are my coworkers.
56:04These are my people, all right.
56:10105 year old, that's not her.
56:12That's her.
56:15Yeah, no, no, TD Garden does have
56:17some reoccurring characters.
56:19You're like, oh, it's them.
56:20You recognize them.
56:21I didn't know what you meant by staple.
56:22I was like, the company?
56:25Yeah, yeah, some staples employees.
56:27Big office supply.
56:28Some really good content from the social media
56:32for the Bruins account lately.
56:33I love the video of Mason going around
56:36asking people what their favorite nickname on the team is.
56:39Absolutely worth talking about.
56:40Yeah, McAvoy, like I said, it's just like,
56:43oh, this guy, Lowrider, like I gave it to him.
56:46And then he's like, yeah,
56:47he gave himself this nickname.
56:50Yeah, Gucci Mace.
56:52Yeah, that was good.
56:53And then he goes up to Brad, Brad starts walking away.
56:56It's like, no, you don't have to go anywhere.
56:59No, I.
57:00No, you're good, you're good.
57:01Stay right there.
57:04Yeah, we gotta figure out who the Big Easy is.
57:06Yeah, that's.
57:08Well, actually, the Big Easy is New Orleans.
57:11Wouldn't that also be Mason?
57:13Oh, that would make sense.
57:15I can see that.
57:16And it would probably make sense
57:17why they said that to him, too.
57:20Yeah, yeah, it's probably Mason.
57:22I'll ask him.
57:23Next time I see Mason Lurie, I'll ask him.
57:26We run into each other a lot.
57:28That video was the first time I felt
57:31like NHL players are mostly younger than me,
57:35which is true.
57:36Yeah, you said that.
57:37Watching them talk to each other,
57:38I was like, wow, these are like young kids.
57:41I mean, Mason is insanely young,
57:43but even like Freddie looks crazy.
57:45How old is Freddie?
57:46Probably 28, 29?
57:47No, he's younger than us, I think.
57:50Really?
57:51Yeah, my only saving grace is that McAvoy and I
57:54have been losing our hair together.
57:56Nice.
57:57We have the exact same hairline.
57:59He's 26.
58:01Frederick is 26.
58:02He was born in 98.
58:05Just a baby.
58:07Just a child.
58:08Well, we're gonna, I would assume,
58:12be back after the Canucks and Islanders game.
58:18Yes, oh yeah, the back-to-back is this week.
58:20Yes, yeah, that makes sense.
58:22Do you wanna do Wednesday night?
58:24I can do Wednesday night, yeah.
58:29Let's maybe do Wednesday night, maybe Thursday morning.
58:31Yeah, I'm free.
58:34Thursday morning is Thanksgiving.
58:36Yes, it is.
58:38Wednesday night it is.
58:40Wednesday night.
58:41I think we can give the people a nice Thanksgiving show
58:43for when they're driving to their relatives.
58:45Wow, yeah, remember when you're driving
58:47to your relative's house on Thanksgiving,
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58:51and it's gonna be a good one.
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