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00:00Bruin's Beat is brought to you by PrizePix and the Game Time app.
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00:23Connor Ryan. Connor, what is up?
00:25Evan, doing well. How you doing?
00:28Doing great. Doing great. We're doing this on Bean Pop Monday. We're recording this Bean
00:32Pop Monday. Big day for you. Not for me, but a big day for you, your Terriers. Hopefully,
00:39I'm with you on this.
00:40Number eight. Number eight. Number eight overall.
00:42Number eight Terriers. I want to see B.U.B.C. in the final. So like, I'm pulling for both
00:48teams today.
00:49Listen, this is what always happens, Evan. Every year when they're both filthy, or like
00:54most of the time when they're both like number one and number five, they match up in the
00:58first round and it sucks. And the game's always really good. But you know, like, why couldn't
01:02we save this for the for the actual championship when they actually the stars do align and
01:07they're like, one, both teams are really good. And two, if they just get to beat Northeastern
01:11Harvard, they get to the finals. Usually that means something goes haywire. Yep. I don't
01:15know what's going to happen. Northeastern loves like playing the spoiler now. They always
01:20seem to like deliver on the beanpot. Harvard, like there's their Harvard. They're happy
01:26to be there. Like they'll win every once in a while. But they're pesky. I don't know.
01:31I feel like I feel like we're not going to get the matchup everyone's looking for. It's
01:35going to be like Northeastern. Are you like? Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, it's going to be one
01:40of the two like Northeastern's probably better than Harvard. But like, I can't see B.C. losing.
01:46But crazy things have happened, I guess.
01:48They have. And I want to get into kind of a beanpot Bruins question later in the show.
01:52But first, Bruins get a win. Bruins got a nice win over the Rangers on Saturday. Beat
01:58him 6-3. Prime time spot on ESPN or on ABC. You texted me something during this game that
02:06I think is true and I think is interesting because David Poshnok puts up a hat trick.
02:12He is now on pace, by the way, for 98 points. Yeah. 98 points. He's played in all 54 games
02:17thus far. I did a little math, did a little proportions. Remember proportions? I did
02:2265 over 54 equals N over 82. Remember doing that? We do the cross and you do all that.
02:30Well, I did that. I still is where math has helped me when I can. I can do on pace for
02:36a few rare areas. Yeah. One of the rare areas. 98 points. And you texted me this. Not the
02:4298 point part. I did that myself. But he texted me on Saturday and said Poshnok should
02:48get heart trophy votes. Not saying he should win. Yeah. There are guys more deserving in
02:52the league. Like we want to make that very clear. But I agree. I think he should get
02:57some votes. I'm not saying he's a candidate. I'm not saying go go put money on David Poshnok
03:01being the heart trophy winner. But I think he deserves some recognition. Yeah, no, without
03:06a doubt. When you look at just the supporting cast around him, right? It's kind of the same
03:11as, you know, you look at the NFL this year where like Lamar Jackson definitely has the
03:15better stats. But like Josh Allen, considering like he didn't have digs and I like kind of
03:20a completely new supporting cast was still like just dragging them to wins. A lot of
03:24the times. It's the same thing like that. Like it's a byproduct of who's around David
03:29Poshnok out there. And when you look at just how, you know, disjointed the entire forward
03:35core has been to have Poshnok still put up. Hell, it's an economy when he gets to be in
03:40a point per game, let alone if that guy cracks 100, which like the way he's playing recently,
03:45like very well could happen. What's he got now? Like 14 goals, 28 points in his last
03:4915 games. And so how hard press this team is for offense, like Poshnok continues to
03:58kind of be that that cheat code that you need out there. And I think the most impressive
04:02thing for him. And it's something I think we even saw last year when that was a better
04:05team. But, you know, he's not like a one trick pony. We know that one time where we know
04:11the skill that he has when he has the puck on his stick. But he's not just this guy that
04:15every year he's going to be a 40, 50 goal guy. You'll take it, but he can change his
04:23game and, you know, adjust to whatever the defense is, the opposing team is giving him.
04:28And a lot of the times, especially as of late, when you don't have the same established
04:32scoring options behind them on the depth chart, teams are going to key in on that one timer.
04:36They're going to try to, you know, knock him off the puck, things like that. And he's changed
04:41his game to be kind of more of a facilitator. He can still finish chances. We saw we've
04:44seen that countless times, but he's not kind of just, you know, sticking to his strengths
04:50and being frustrated. Even I think we saw that early this year, he was getting kind
04:54of frustrated, but I think he's kind of figured out what he needs to do. And it's kind of
04:57been more of a facilitator. I think you've seen it. It should be no surprise that the
05:02power play is starting to pick up first time in months, right? I think I saw a stat that
05:07like operating at 34% the last five games, which you will take. I don't think that's
05:13going to be a long-term thing, but why has it picked up as of late? It's because David
05:17Pasternak is kind of being more of a facilitator. He's moving around a lot more. He's operating,
05:21you know, below, you know, around the net. He's operating up high. He's kind of changing
05:25where he is. And when teams can no longer be like, all right, we know this, this passing
05:30is going to end with David Pasternak, you know, getting that a one-timer when you don't
05:34have that to lean on, you don't have that to game plan around. It makes the Bruins power
05:39play a lot more unpredictable. And like, if you have guys keying in on him and it leads
05:43to a backdoor opportunity for a guy like Zaka or a chance at the bumper with Lindholm, like
05:49it's opening up chances for this team. So I think you look at just how good Pasternak
05:54has been stat-wise, that's obvious, but I think it's the way he's playing that he's
05:58not, you know, David Pasternak of 2018-19 is different from David Pasternak from 22-23,
06:05which is different from 24-25 Pasternak. Like the numbers are impressive, however way you
06:10want to look at it, but he's, he's doing it in different ways. And hell, if this team
06:15all of a sudden, if this team just plummeted and got James Higgins and all of a sudden
06:18they got more talent around in the next couple of years, yeah, he's probably back to being
06:21a 55 goal guy, but to show that he can kind of adjust what he needs to do and produce,
06:28you know, regardless of who's out there, it shows you've got a very, very special talent
06:31there in 88. And he's the reason why you're even remotely in the playoff picture right
06:35now.
06:36Don't tempt me with the James Higgins stuff. That's going to, you know, you, you plummet
06:40enough in the lottery. You know, when I was saying at the beginning of the year, James
06:46Higgins may not even be number one right now. And that's not even like a knock on him. He's
06:51still, he's still Ben Filby, but there's that Schaefer kid for Canada. And, uh, is it Mark
06:57tone? Is that his last name Porter or something? He's like a winger, I think, but he's like,
07:01he's lighting up wherever he is too. He's in the NHL. So I know Schaefer, I think he's
07:06now expected to be the number one, but I'm just saying, yeah, yeah.
07:11So I mean, you got a few other guys out there, so you never know. It's got a little lottery
07:16and old man that finished third overall, we got, we got to put out like a bad story on
07:20James Higgins to make him drop in the draft to like 13 or 14. You just do the Luka thing.
07:25Be like, yeah, this dude keeps on going to Eagle's deli. It's all he does every single
07:30day. I'm saying he's a regular in their biggest order every day. Can you imagine if, uh, the
07:38Bruins somehow like the lottery, uh, gods, uh, fall their way, you know, the fortunes
07:44fall their way and they get like James Higgins at like third overall, the numbers we would
07:48get off of that stupid episode early in the year, or what if they trade for James Higgins?
07:53What if they figured out a way to get them? They facilitated a way. Well, they've, they've
07:57stunk enough. Do we, we would, we would flex for the entirety of his career, which like
08:01it means he would probably get like traded like the 30 or in for like a physical defenseman
08:05or something like that. But we would flex the entire time. Oh, it would never stop.
08:09I would be throwing the James Higgins story I wrote last year in the New England Hockey
08:14Journal. I would throw that around every day. I would treat it every day. Um, yeah, I mean,
08:20this is the thing. And I think you hit it with every year, his evolution as a player,
08:26Pasternak, not Higgins, Pasternak has been fascinating because we saw this really change
08:31last year because last year coming off a 60 goal season and he becomes more of a playmaker
08:37based on who he's playing with. He's playing with Zaka. He's playing with Morgan geeky.
08:40And ironically enough, he's back with those two guys this year. And it's back when he's with those
08:44guys, it's back to setting them up. Um, and he gets the hat trick the other day against the
08:50Rangers. But like I saw Andrew Raycroft tweet this and it hits it what you were talking about
08:53with the power play. And this is why he Pasternak is so much better moving around and getting in
08:59different spots. When McAvoy, one times that, uh, shot home on the power play, he's wide open
09:06and the passing lane is wide open because the, the, the high forward is like on Pasternak
09:12because they expect that pass to go back up for the one timer, but it left the entire lane open
09:17and it left McAvoy open to just rip one. And he did, and he scored. And like that,
09:22we've been saying this all year, like that's what you need to do to be a successful power play.
09:27Pasternak is an asset, not just as a hard shot or a goal scorer. He's an asset because you have
09:33to watch him. And when you're four guys, not a math guy, when there's four guys out there,
09:39when there's four and they've got to worry about five, that's already hard enough.
09:43But when you've got to really worry about one, someone or two people are going to be wide open.
09:49And that's what you've seen with Pasternak. And I, I, you know, will he win the heart trophy? No,
09:53he won't. And I'm not saying you should, they're, you know, they're guys who, yeah, you know,
09:58well more, much more deserving. But his turnaround the last two and a half months
10:04has been impressive. And that's why, like, you know, you always hear, you'll see the,
10:08you'll see it on Twitter every now and again, you know, I'll trade Pasternak.
10:12You got to trade Pasternak, you know, you need toughness. And you saw it actually on that.
10:17The second goal he had the missile from right above the circle, he made the hit to free the
10:23puck up for Patra to get, like, I'm not saying that Pasternak is some, you know, physical force
10:29out there, but he holds his own. And, you know, there are times when the, when the Bruins have
10:34sunk this year where we're like, all right, you know, would you consider trading a Pasternak or
10:37a McAvoy? And usually it's no, you would never, I mean, we'll, we'll get into the Donchik kind of
10:43just facilitate through and why it's not a good idea, obviously for the birds to do something
10:47like that, but you see it fans all upset with Pasternak and it's like he, the value he brings
10:54as a playmaker, as a goal scorer right now, it's firing and all firing on all cylinders at the
11:00moment. So, yeah, he's been, he's been cooking with gas as the kids would say, he has been
11:07as the kids say, I want to get into more on just sort of these next couple of games.
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13:00before Four Nations begins. And Bruins, as of now, are tied with the Lightning sitting outside
13:08the wildcard, sitting outside of it. We are in agreement that they should be selling,
13:15retooling at the deadline. But is there anything the Bruins can do over these next three games
13:20that would make you think otherwise? When? I mean, I mean, that's the whole thing, right? Like,
13:28if you're able to end on a high note, yeah, that at least gives you more confidence. But
13:33I need to see it over a longer stretch here. Like, I think you got an opportunity here to
13:39to at least get back in the playoff picture going into the break. And, you know,
13:44Sacco said today on Monday that Hampish-Lindholm is probably not going to be back before
13:49the Four Nations break, which makes sense. If you only got three games now, let him
13:54and have him ready to go there. I think him coming back is a huge development for this team.
14:01I think he can help you in a lot of different areas, whether it's on power play, five on five,
14:06just having another guy that can play 20 plus minutes a night. He's going to help, but it's
14:13all about building some sort of momentum. And we just have not remotely seen that this year. This
14:17team has been a complete Jekyll and Hyde in terms of the way they're playing, whether it's at five
14:22on five and on special teams, all that stuff. Like they played pretty well for most of that
14:28game against the Rangers. But what am I expecting on Tuesday against Minnesota? Yeah, they don't
14:35have Kaprizov. They're missing a few guys, but I couldn't tell you what's going to happen.
14:39Maybe they win. And you know what? If we were to record a podcast on Wednesday,
14:43Evan, and they beat Minnesota 4-1 or something like that, I would be like, all right,
14:48we'll see what happens tonight when they put the Rangers because like,
14:51we know how they are on the road. So if like, if they end this stretch right where they go,
14:57they beat Minnesota, get smoked on the road to New York and then beat a good Vegas team at home.
15:03Okay. Like it's not changing my opinion. I need to see over a longer stretch. I need to
15:07see more guys step up. Um, and again, if other guys can contribute, whether it's guys like Matt
15:14Potra, who I think, what do you know? You put Matt Potra with a skilled player like David
15:17Postron, good things happen. But, um, if it's stuff like that, where those other, you know,
15:23secondary pieces start, you know, finding their game. Um, if it's Jeremy Swayman start stacking
15:28good performances, if the defense tightens up, you feel better about where you are. Right. But
15:33like, I'm not making any sweeping, uh, you know, changes in terms of how I, how I view this team,
15:39unless they win like eight of 10 or something like that, you know, like, and again, you've got
15:44an opportunity because you've got to make up, you've got to make up for all that inept, not
15:49ineptitude inconsistency the first couple of months. And again, and you've had multiple
15:54opportunities to put teams away already. Like oil, uh, not the Oilers, the Ottawa, like for
15:59the first couple of weeks after all mark was hurt, they were really kind of struggling to find their
16:03game. You had multiple chances to deliver a knockout punch. They're didn't do it all marks
16:07back and they're playing well, even without a little mark right now. So that's kind of a scary
16:11team. Um, right now you've got an opportunity now with like Columbus, with Marchenko, he's out for
16:16what? Like six plus weeks broken jaw. So that's a huge loss for them. Like you have had opportunities
16:22here to put some of these teams away. Um, and they just cannot seem to kind of get out of their
16:27own way. So, um, listen, like, I still think that like you can be a competitive team and retool in
16:35terms of moving assets that aren't going to help you. Like, you know, I don't think like moving
16:40Frederick is also means you're going to plummet out of the, out of the, uh, playoff race or
16:44anything like that. Right? Like, so you could do that and remain kind of competitive of other guys
16:49step up and maybe that's kind of the best of both worlds. Maybe people can say that you're not doing
16:53enough in terms of embracing that retool. Right. But, um, the two things I don't want to have happen
16:58are, uh, standing pat and just letting kind of the season carry on where maybe you get in, maybe you
17:05don't, but if you don't, and you haven't made any moves to accelerate this retail, didn't even
17:09wasting everyone's time. I don't want them to buy short-term gains. Right. Again, we talked about
17:15like JT Miller is someone that if you acquired him where he helps you in the next couple of years,
17:19it helps you out. That's not an option anymore. So I don't also want this team to win these next
17:24three games, go, you know, come out of the break, being in the playoff picture and then being like,
17:29you know what? We just need Jason Zucker. It's like, no, like, and again, Jason Zucker's had a
17:34good year, but like, that's not what, what you need for this team, especially going forward.
17:39Right. So, um, listen, I would love for this team to be playing in, uh, April. There's nothing
17:44better than playoff hockey, but like you can't, you know, usher in another potential short-term
17:51playoff run off of just a short-term game like that either got to make moves, retool and roll
17:56the dice. And I think if you do that and you get assets and you don't make it, I think fans would
18:02be like, well, at least he did some forward thing things this whole year was a shit show anyway. So
18:07what can you do? You you're behind the eight ball way too much. If you do nothing or you make those,
18:12um, marginal upgrades just to get in to play a couple of games in April.
18:17I don't think that's the case either. So, um, again, like I would love for this team to go on
18:20a run, but as we say, I think for like the last three months now, Evan, I will believe it when
18:26I see it, I would love for this team to go, uh, to go on a run here, but I need to see a lot more
18:32to change my opinion as to what this team should do and just how legit we should buy into this
18:37team, making any sort of noise next couple of months. I agree. And you're not going to see
18:41it in three games. You're not, it's too small of a sample size. I know they had an ice game on
18:45Saturday. Uh, if they get their ass kicked the next three games, then that would further, I think
18:51that would be much more clarity as far as, you know, that's my thing is I am on the side of
18:56retool. And I agree with you. Like if you did trade Frederick and a piece or two else, like
19:02you're not going to plummet out. You're not bottoming out. You're not going to the bottom
19:07of the East. You're in the mix still. You're very much in the mix. Um, but the idea of, Oh,
19:14they won three straight games going into four nations time to buy. Like, I hate that. And I
19:18think that's a bad idea. The other thing, Detroit, not, we've said this for years now,
19:22when are Detroit in Ottawa and we included Buffalo in this that hasn't happened yet,
19:27but when are Detroit and Ottawa good at, when are you, when are you gonna start to see the fruit
19:31that they've been planting and you're seeing it this year because they're both above you in the
19:35standings at the moment, it's not by a lot, but they're above you as of Monday afternoon.
19:40So again, like in a year where they are starting to pass you a bit, don't try to keep up by going
19:49out and buying, try to recoup some assets, get some assets, get back in the second round,
19:54make a second round pick this year. Um, and we saw what McHale Grandlin just went for first round
19:59pick. So like, again, he's been great this year. He's produced well. Um, but again, like, I,
20:05I think you can get some legitimate draft capital and not give up a ton off your roster.
20:12Um, and I just, again, there's nothing I could see over these next three games that can make
20:16me change that. Um, I think it could only sort of enhance my belief of what they need to do.
20:21If they get their doors blown off the next three games, as you said, like, all right,
20:25it's a pretty easy decision. Um, but my worry is they win these next three games and suddenly it's
20:29time to buy, or as you said, Stan Pat. Um, and again, if they win these next three and then win,
20:35as you said, like seven of their next 11 or something, okay, cool. Like, all right,
20:40maybe they're turning a corner. Um, but I, I just, I haven't seen it yet at this team. I can't
20:46sit here and say, Oh, this is the year. There's still a chance. I don't see it. I just don't see
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22:08time? That's what time is it? I think, I hope so. I took Spanish in high school and I'm calling me
22:15out now. So I took Spanish in middle and high school, and then I took an intro to it class
22:20in college. And I actually got worse at Spanish throughout the class because it was like a
22:25beginner class. And so I ended up just going right down to that level as the class went along,
22:29which did not help me in the slightest. Big news over the weekend, the Luka Doncic trade,
22:36you texted in, you and Ty were like, the chams get hacked. And I'm like, Oh God, like what,
22:41what could he have tweeted? And turns out it was actually not hacked. It was a real piece of news
22:47that Luka Doncic, a top three player in the NBA was traded. And the NBA continues to be
22:52such an entertaining league when it comes to off the court stuff, because they make these
22:56massive trades and they don't have no movement clauses. I mean, again, a Luka Doncic in the NHL
23:02would have a no move clause or you don't have to waive it to get moved anywhere and would hear
23:06about it. And there'd be rumors because he'd have to waive that. But let's just play this game.
23:12Is there a Doncic like trade the Bruins could look to make?
23:18Well, they did trade Joe Thornton for like Marco Sturm. And that is like,
23:25yeah. And again, that one, like, again, you look at the actual assets being moved and did not
23:31equate right. You could also make the case. Future Bruins head coach Marco Sturm,
23:35though, went back to the Bruins. That's true. That is true. And they got some pieces,
23:39but not for what obviously Joe Thornton is and was. But you could also look at that one and be
23:46like, all right, that was also part of the the fiscal chess match, right, of like freeing up
23:50the money to then sign Char and Savad. So there was something that if you, you know, went through
23:55the tea leaves, you could see where you could make the case. The Bruins still made the most of that
24:01opportunity. But in terms of just asset for asset, no, was not was not a great one. In terms of right
24:06now, it would be like, jeez, I would have to think it's like David Pasternak for like.
24:14Like Brock Besser and a first and like a prospect, right, like in terms of like a legit top
24:23top 10 player, right, like against a few other assets. I mean, then the Lugodontus trade is
24:29so nutty that I can't think of like the actual NBA one. I saw a good MLB one where it was like
24:34the Mookie best trade. Well, there was that, but it's like trading. Yeah, I guess that is
24:40probably the most accurate. I saw one that was like trading like 27 year old Shohei Ohtani for
24:44like 32 year old Manny Machado. I'm like, damn, that's actually a pretty good one.
24:48Like it's like a good player. You get back, but that's a generational talent. The Mookie best
24:54one is actually. Horrifyingly true, so that is it's unfortunately true, I would if it was to
25:00NHL terms, Pasternak's 28, don't you just 25? Five. So that's tough because it's not
25:09totally comparable, but like let's just do that for the sake of argument.
25:13How old is Nikita Kucherov? 30. Kucherov is 31, which is AD's age. So I think like if we're doing
25:23no Bruins, it would be. Like a Quinn Hughes or a kale Makar for Nikita Kucherov type trade.
25:31That's what it would be, because kale I think gales my age, so he's 25. So kale is a generational
25:38player and dealing him for a really good vet or a guy who's getting older and that's AD.
25:44Maybe Kucherov's better. I think he's always better. It would be like it'd be like Queen
25:48Hughes. It'd be funny because they're obviously just recently played, but let's say for the sake
25:52of argument, it'd be like Quinn Hughes for or kale Makar kale Makar for JT Miller and like a
25:59third line like 28 year old player. That's a good one. That actually might be it. That's
26:05that's what it is. A good player guy that had 100 point season, but like not kale,
26:10not a generational like Anthony Davis is a Hall of Famer and he's much older. Yeah,
26:15and he's much older. Like Lou Donja is going to average 38 and 8 for the next freaking 10 years.
26:21So yeah, I think if you're the Bruins, you want to be the Lakers in this trade. You want to go
26:26get the generate. You want to give up, you know, let's do look at the other side. What would who
26:31would be the AD of the Bruins to give up in a trade like that? And for people who are like,
26:34oh, this isn't hockey. This is one of the biggest sports trades ever. Complete surprise. A huge
26:40story that I think is fascinating. So we're going to talk about it. Who are the Bruins don't really
26:45have like a slightly over the hill like stop player, right? Like it's not like they have like
26:5133 year old like at that at like 31, though, like, no, they don't. You know, I thought it
26:57would be Marcian, but yeah, but yeah, so it would be like, yeah, if it was like Marcian, like 30,
27:0431, 32, when he's still like what he had 100 point season when he was 30, 31. So that would
27:11make sense from the 18, 19 season. But yeah, the, what it would be, it would be something
27:16like that. Like Makai for a, uh, for Mila and, uh, 20, 29 first and like Jack Drury.
27:23I was like, put Jack Drury in a trade. Now someone's like, what the hell is he doing in that
27:26deal? It goes everywhere. Yeah. That would be, that would be the deal. That would be the deal.
27:31Cause Kucherov is better than AD, you know, across sports there, but yeah. Um, I, yeah.
27:39So there we go. That's our little Luka don't cheat a minute. Um, frigging leaners. Yeah,
27:44exactly. Beanpot wise. I have this idea and I've had this idea for a while. Obviously the NBA does
27:49a mid season tournament. Do a lot of NBA today. Uh, but, uh, be used goalie coach, Brian Decord
27:55brought this up to me at a bean pot either last year or the year before, um, the idea of an NHL
28:00mid season tournament. If could that work, would it make sense? I think the Bruins would have no
28:05shortage of good, uh, uh, teams to play. I have an idea. I have an idea one week, a year, one week,
28:15a year, especially like now where it's kind of boring, but it's dog days. You need to freshen
28:20things up. It's better than an all-star game or like four nations is coming, but you know,
28:25bear with me. I go with, you put teams in groups of four. Cause there's what this 32 teams now
28:33so you'll have eight groups of four math coming up big again. You do the Bruins, the Leafs,
28:40Canadians, and the Rangers. Cause the Bruins, the NHL is going to want this to be one of the
28:44premier toxic, the most toxic group ever add the flyers and make it a little more toxic.
28:49That was like, that was like someone did like a thing where they wanted to realign the MLB
28:53division. It's like, we should have an AL East, but it's the Red Sox, Yankees, Mets, and Phillies.
28:58Most sicko fan bases ever. Like, no, you couldn't go to a game as an opposing fan. Like I just,
29:04you would get killed. Um, I, I like this every four years you, you transit, you know, every
29:11year you go to a different place. So like this year is in Boston. The next year is in Montreal.
29:15The next year is in Toronto, New Hampshire. That's right. Put it in Manche, Vegas, baby.
29:19And then it resets. So it's a, it's every four years your team gets it. It's a big deal. Um,
29:25you do it all around the league. It's one week, every team plays every team. And then you do a
29:29championship sort of based on points and things like that. The games count towards the regular
29:34season. It boosts rivalries. You get, you know, it's they're intense. They're on national TV.
29:39They're streamed. I like that idea. I like, and you don't need that. You have the history there
29:44with those four teams. I imagine you have like Tampa, Florida, Carolina, and like Nashville,
29:48which again, like Tampa, Florida and Nash and Carolina have legit history.
29:53So like, you know, they're in the same conference, I guess, throw Nashville in there too. You can do
29:57these all over. You can do these all over and make them really interesting and make them fun.
30:02And I think, you know, again, it doesn't have the history of the beanpot,
30:06but I do like the idea of a mid season tournament where you boost rivalries. We talk about this all
30:11the time with the schedule where it's like, Oh, I got to play the ducks twice a year. And that's,
30:15you know, that goes in place of potentially playing the Leafs or something like that.
30:19This helps with that. And this builds rivalries. I love this idea.
30:24Yeah. And also you might break down to like an original six tournament. You got like maybe like
30:29a Sunbelt tournament or something like that. Unfortunately, Arizona is now out of the
30:32picture, but like some teams like that, or Sunbelt plus like Florida and stuff, you know,
30:36like you can, you can kind of break it up by like region history, stuff like that.
30:42You would make it again. It is the NHL. So, you know, they feel like they don't think of these
30:47ideas until like, it's way past the fact, but it would be fun to add that kind of unique kind of
30:53angle, add some, you know, intrigue in the middle of the season. Like I'm not a huge fan of like
30:58the NBA tournament, but I feel like I like the concept of doing something to break up the
31:02monotony. That's why I like, even though people talk about the winter classic being tired or like
31:07the stadium series, I'm like, give me something in the middle of the year that I can look in,
31:11especially if like the Bruins are in it, obviously can circle on the calendar and be like, Oh,
31:14that's something to look forward to. Like, you know, like even who knows what the Bruins are
31:18going to be next year. I think they will be better, but regardless, like I've got February 1st in
31:24Tampa outside. So I was on the calendar. That should be a fun game. Like anything like that,
31:30that can kind of break up 82 games, especially is good in my book. So I think something like
31:36that, whether it's region original six I feel like the NHL wouldn't do that. Cause I think
31:41they're so hyper aware of not excluding like all these new teams, but again, then have it be like
31:46the newer teams, like Vegas and like the new bunch are out West, like a Western cup and like a
31:54original six, like a Sunbelt, something like that. I think it'd be fun. It's something that
31:59just give us something else to look forward to. I'm all for like having four or five things in
32:04the middle of the season to, to break things up like a Europe trip for some teams, like a winter
32:10classic stadium series tournament, anything like that. That's not just kind of the same old song
32:15and dance because man, we are, we're swimming against the tide right now, Evan, in terms of
32:19this season. Like I feel like we were just in limbo between like waiting for the Bruins to do
32:23something. Yeah. But especially this year, it's like, we're just waiting for a move to be made,
32:27whether it's acquiring someone, moving guys out where it's kind of just they're
32:32Fred and water scene where they're at. And we're just kind of waiting for something to happen.
32:35It would be like, it's a, it's a lime and a Corona. It's a, it's a trader Joe's chocolate
32:40chip, uh, ice cream sandwich at the end of the day. Like it's something, it's just something
32:44to spice things up a little bit. That's right. Yeah. The whole fucking box. I just, or again,
32:50like you can change the teams every year. If you want to create new rivalries or, you know,
32:53do something different Ottawa, right. Ottawa's in this area as well. Get them in. Like there are
32:58ways you can freshen things up. I think my thing with the NBA and season tournament, I'm not as
33:02up on it as I am with NHL stuff, obviously, but isn't that kind of like sprinkled in over the
33:07course of the year, like different games, like I, that's too much. Do one week focus the market,
33:13the hell out of it one week, the tournament, you know, tournaments all over the country.
33:18Also these players grow up going to showcases, going to tournaments,
33:21they're used to these style of things. So like they should have like a tournament and have like
33:26the final be like, they never would cause they would lose money. But like the final should be
33:30like a cool outdoor venue, like save like the final game for like a Tahoe or like Lake Louise
33:35or something like that. That'd be sick. They wouldn't do it cause they wouldn't make money,
33:38but like something like that, then they should stand out. It's like the one thing I do like
33:41about the NBA tournament, I can't follow it cause I can't do math. I'm like you, Evan,
33:45of like how it all works with the points and everything, the point differentials,
33:49all those things, the Bruins would be screwed. They had to do a gold differential.
33:55But that would be something that like, at least they ended in a different place,
33:59like in Vegas, like Vegas doesn't have a team yet, but it's a different venue,
34:04different scenery, stuff like that. So like the NHL had a tournament like that
34:09and it went somewhere different, unique, like ManchVegas or an outdoor venue. Like it'd be
34:14cool. It'd be interesting. I'm all for the NHL trying things differently. People look at like,
34:17why the hell are they going to Florida? Let's see it. Who cares? Like they got, they got wizards
34:23working the ice down there. They'll be fine. Like we're not going to be swimming. They're
34:26not going to have a scuba gear as they're out there. So I'm all for anything that makes it,
34:29that makes it different and unique. So yeah, I'm for it. I am for it. So yeah,
34:33give me a beanpot style a tournament. So you had, you had 32 teams, eight different ones,
34:39one week, they're all playing each other. I think that'd be great. Or you could even
34:44just keep going on this. We're thinking out loud here. This is how ideas, this is how great ideas
34:48come in. Gary Bettman's listening in right now. He's tuned in. What if, what if there was,
34:53what if there was one a week? What if there was one a week for eight weeks, every week was a
34:58different, there was a different tournament going on. Not saying you stopped the season for it,
35:01but like, you know, LA Anaheim, San Jose and Seattle, let's just say off the top, right?
35:07Those four spend a week at one venue doing that. And every other team is still playing the regular
35:13schedule, but those four teams do it that week. It's a reason to watch. They should,
35:18they should have like a Utah cup and the winning team gets to decide what the name of the Utah
35:22team is. That's right. Yeah. They could use that. They're running into stop signs everywhere.
35:27Trying to find a team name for that. Anyways, Connor, I think we've, we've done a lot of
35:33innovation today. This is last week. We were angry this week. We're, we're thinking bigger.
35:38Yes. Connor, what can people look forward to from you over at the globe and boston.com?
35:43Yeah. You can read me over boston.com and the Boston globe. I've covered every step of the way
35:47this brewing season with recaps, features, columns, breakdowns, all that good stuff.
35:52You can also follow me on Twitter X at Connor Ryan underscore 93.
35:56Go do all that. That's Connor Ryan. I'm Evan Marinovsky,
36:01brewers beat listeners. Have a great rest of your week.