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Evan Marinofsky and Conor Ryan break down the B's as the Bruins set for game 5 of their series with Toronto. What is it gonna take to close the series out? Who starts in net? That, and much more!      Topics:   - The first four games went the Bruins way in a big way   - The Maple Leafs look rough...but this series ain’t over   - Who starts Game 5?   - Should the Bruins make any lineup changes?   - Predictions on the series       This episode is brought to you by PrizePicks! Get in on the excitement with PrizePicks, America’s No. 1 Fantasy Sports App, where you can turn your hoops knowledge into serious cash. Download the app today and use code CLNS for a first deposit match up to $100! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that Easy! Football season may be over, but the action on the floor is heating up. Whether it’s Tournament Season or the fight for playoff homecourt, there’s no shortage of high stakes basketball moments this time of year. Quick withdrawals, easy gameplay and an enormous selection of players and stat types are what make PrizePicks the #1 daily fantasy sports app! Visit PrizePicks.com/CLNS    Visit https://factormeals.com/BRUINS50 to get 50% off your first box! Factor is America’s #1 Ready-To-Eat Meal Kit, can help you fuel up fast with ready-to-eat meals delivered straight to your door.    Take the guesswork out of buying NBA tickets with Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code CLNS for $20 off your first purchase. Download Gametime today. Last minute tickets. Lowest Price. Guaranteed. Terms apply.

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00:00Leafs, as you said, are just reeling.

00:03Yeah, no, it's the the optics aren't that great right now, Evan.

00:06No. And like, again, like you think about I was talking about this

00:09with Carl the other night that play behind the net

00:13and it was small, like that Nylander play where Boquist just hits him.

00:17Yeah. Yeah. And I'm watching.

00:19I'm like, he just like disengaged.

00:22Like you could see his body just like stand there.

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01:08That's Connor Ryan. Evan Marinovsky.

01:11Connor, what is up, Evan?

01:14I'm doing well. How are you doing? Doing great.

01:17I'm doing great. Bruins are in a good spot again.

01:20Bruins up three one in this series.

01:24We're recording this on Monday, so you'll probably hear this Tuesday.

01:27Maybe a little pregame listening before game five Tuesday night in Boston.

01:34You know, three one series lead normally is a good thing for a team.

01:39After last year, not so great.

01:43And then you also look at twenty thirteen and twenty eighteen

01:46for the Bruins against the Leafs.

01:47They were up three one in those series.

01:49Now, granted, they won both of them, but took a little bit.

01:53Took a little bit of a look.

01:56You had to sweat a little bit, especially in twenty thirteen.

01:58Had to had to sweat a little.

02:00And then they finally pulled it out.

02:02So I ask you, how do you feel about where the Bruins are at right now?

02:06Yeah, I mean, I think the Bruins are in a good place.

02:08I mean, when you're up three one in a series, you do have that that added lift

02:13and that added breathing room that you kind of need to to go far in a series.

02:17And again, you mentioned like the Maple Leafs series

02:20and how they kind of made things hotter on themselves

02:22in those previous two matchups.

02:23But even look at like Florida last year, I was like digging

02:27into the numbers a little bit, just comparing and contrasting

02:30where the Bruins were last year at this time going to game five

02:33against Florida and then going to game five against Toronto.

02:37I'm sure we probably have a podcast.

02:38We can bring up the tape.

02:39Looking back at last year after a game, game four, I mean, like

02:43I got this one in the bag like they are coming off of that.

02:46I think I think I straight up said this series is over at that point.

02:49Yeah, I think I was like, I mean, this is done.

02:52I mean, you look at just the way the Bruins really controlled play

02:56for extended stretches when they were up in Toronto.

02:59But the Bruins won those games down in Florida.

03:02I think it was ten four was the combined score.

03:05You look at like the Bruins have the edge in special teams against Florida.

03:08They were, I think, like four for ten.

03:11I want to say in those first four games.

03:14And I think Florida was one for eleven.

03:16Look at where the Bruins are now.

03:17They're operating at almost what?

03:1850% in this series against Toronto and Toronto's one for 14.

03:23Like again, two different teams.

03:25We'll see how it plays out.

03:26But you're in that same spot where if you ask probably Bruins fans

03:29last year, feeling really good of where they're going.

03:31They're like, all right, we got what?

03:33We got Tampa Bay next.

03:34We got Toronto.

03:35You know, that's kind of where you're going into that into that matchup.

03:40That being said, as much as we run the risk of,

03:43you know, repeating the same script, if you're the Bruins,

03:45I think you're feeling really good about where you are right now.

03:49I think we mapped out

03:50what the advantages and net we're going to be for the Bruins

03:54and also at special teams like there was clear areas

03:56where this team is going to capitalize against a team like Toronto.

04:00And it's been the case.

04:01And again, there's ways to improve, right?

04:04There's the more quality chances at five on five play,

04:08especially offensively.

04:09But I think especially look at game four,

04:12which is I think probably their most complete win.

04:15That was one where, again, we talk a lot about the goaltending.

04:18That's going to be another topic going into game five.

04:20But I don't think it would have mattered

04:21whether it was swimming or all market net like the Bruins were

04:24really, really strong defensively in that game, blocking shots,

04:28limiting a lot of shots from the outside, winning battles in the neutral zone,

04:31turning pucks over.

04:33And you play a confident game like that against a Toronto team

04:36that's reeling right now, whether it's guys that are banged up,

04:39guys that are sick with Austin Matthews.

04:41Like there's a lot, I think, that's working in the Bruins favor right now.

04:44Going into a Tuesday's game.

04:47I agree.

04:47And you think about like, I think the Leafs had seven high danger chances

04:52in all situations in game four, which is really low.

04:56And again, like we'll discuss the goaltending in a bit,

05:00but like they were good.

05:01The Bruins, that was a Carl Corzine and I were saying after the game,

05:05like that was as structured a game as you could possibly play

05:09if you were the Bruins shutting the Leafs down in every part of the ice.

05:14My one minor concern, and this isn't Leafs specific.

05:18It's more like sports.

05:21This sounds dumb, but get ready for this, you know, going into this

05:26and maybe this is just me being more pessimistic about this,

05:29but like typically when a team hits rock bottom,

05:32they kind of rebound a bit and you saw that in game four, right?

05:34The Leafs rock bottom was the end of that second period.

05:37Now, the Leafs can find a new rock bottom.

05:40I have no doubt about that.

05:42But take them being the Leafs out of the equation.

05:46They seem to hit rock bottom at the end of the second period.

05:48Third period, they responded.

05:49Okay.

05:50Now, you still like had knee landers wild penalty on Jake.

05:54I mean, what are dude, what are you like a hit him with like the stone

05:57cold stunner?

05:58He didn't even have a stick.

05:59It's a funny part.

06:00Did you like just trying was Jager Buster's like the Mr.

06:03Krabs meme of like trying to find out where he was and then literally

06:06gets like dropped to the ice behind him.

06:08I love that.

06:09I mean, no stick, no stick.

06:11Like he is not a threat at all to get that puck.

06:14Like he's just hit.

06:14He's gonna hit you and to turn around and just poonk in the offensive

06:19zone. Like it's just a penalty every time.

06:23So there's stuff like that, but still they rebounded.

06:26Okay, and then you think about, you know, will they be better in

06:29game five?

06:31It's going to take a lot.

06:32I mean, they're going to have to be.

06:35They're going to have their power play is going to have to be

06:36better.

06:37They're going to have to find a way to break Jeremy Swayman.

06:40Sam Sonoff or whoever they start, you know, I feel like it would

06:43be Joseph Wall.

06:44That would be a crazy move to bring out Sam Sonoff for game

06:47five.

06:48But if it's wall, you know, breaking him, you know him having

06:51a great game.

06:52So you need a lot to go and you need the the Leafs need a lot

06:55to go in their way for game five.

06:59But you know, again, I do see some stuff on Twitter.

07:02People got to get ahead of themselves.

07:04Yeah, series is not over.

07:05This is not over like survive in advance.

07:08Yes, but it is not over until that final horn sounds when the

07:12Bruins, you know, have a lead when the horn sound.

07:15So and again, maybe that's because we went through last year

07:18and now we're all scarred from it and it's like, holy crap,

07:21you've got to finish it off or it's, you know, past years

07:24against the Leafs where they did come down to the wire.

07:28But yeah, I mean the reality is this Leafs team is reeling

07:31like Matthews didn't practice on Monday.

07:33They are I think the goaltending situation was is worst-case

07:36scenario.

07:37I mean, we talked about a prior goal, you know, going into

07:39the series like they were not good in that.

07:42I don't think even we expected it to be this bad though to

07:45have and it's not even like tons of goals have been going

07:47in but it's the goals that are going in like that van Riems

07:50like one.

07:51I mean, dude, like what is that five hole?

07:53I mean, that's like like, you know, remember in elementary

07:55school and you learned like what a different triangles like

07:57a saw I saw Solis triangles and all that bad memories.

08:01You're thinking of geometry.

08:02My brain's going to stop.

08:04It's like, oh no.

08:05Oh no, not geometry.

08:08That was him.

08:08You'd like and I saw Solis triangle under it in first

08:11five hole.

08:11I mean, you know, just easy to put the puck through and

08:14the Frederick goal in game three and some of the Martian

08:17power play goal.

08:18Maybe a whole side of the net open there.

08:20I mean, dude, like and to fully commit to the shot at the

08:24point Charlie McAvoy does not shoot the puck on the power

08:27play like he could have he could have like if McAvoy is

08:30like right here.

08:31He could have just like went over here and McAvoy still

08:34would have passed it, you know, because he's just such a

08:36pass first guy, but again Martian shoves it in the empty

08:39net.

08:40So to me like, you know, take everything, you know, I have

08:44the pessimistic side of me, but then I have the opposite

08:46side room like the Leafs as you said are just reeling.

08:50Yeah.

08:50No, it's the the optics aren't that great right now.

08:52I haven't no and like again, like you think about I was

08:56talking about this with Carl the other night that play behind

08:59the net and it was small like that Nylander play room.

09:03Yeah.

09:03Yeah, yeah, and I'm watching I'm like he just like disengaged

09:09like you could see his body just like stand there and there's

09:12no the Leafs aren't on the right side of the puck.

09:15There's nobody, you know protecting against that and again

09:19like I don't get it.

09:20I mean Keith is gone if they lose the series.

09:22I think that's like pretty obvious at this point, you know,

09:26the argument what's happened you make the argument like

09:28Shannon should be gone.

09:29I don't know if they'd get that high up.

09:30I like what's been changed and I'll see he fires do.

09:33It's which again, you can point a lot of fingers at the

09:35roster construction there.

09:36But like how is you know tree living like how is he changing

09:40the terms of the guys he signed like between Reeves and

09:43some of these other players like I guess like Bertuzzi

09:45and don't we fit some of what they needed even though it's

09:48kind of blown up in their face in this series, but even

09:51like you forget like they like add a guy like John Klingberg

09:53who was lost early on in the abuse.

09:56That's right.

09:57Who's awful like what?

09:58Yeah, the roster construction there in terms of like, all

10:01right, you're Delta.

10:03I wouldn't I don't know if you call a Delta tough hand when

10:04you've got this much talent up front, but with the cap space

10:07you got to get creative but like the way they went about

10:10things was it was a mess and as you said, like you look

10:13at like the the knee Lander play and again, like this team

10:15has enough talent.

10:16They can turn it on a hurry like doesn't matter again.

10:19You'll you'll take Matthews out there and your maples.

10:22You better hope that he's out there, but we saw in that

10:25third period as you said, like they can really ramp things

10:27up make things hectic in a hurry before they shoot themselves

10:30in the foot with like a bad penalty, but the talent is there

10:33but like that play with Boquist and knee Lander.

10:36It's you know, people look at like the Bruins when they've

10:38lost some of these series right where like they they can't

10:41match the four check of Florida of Florida or even like

10:45Carolina, Florida.

10:46I know it's kind of kind of sounded like for scum bear Jesus.

10:52I almost threw up last episode now.

10:54I'm sounding like for scum.

10:55So who knows what happens if we get if we get to the next

10:58round, I'm going to be actual Florida man.

11:00We'll see.

11:01We'll actually see what happens, but you look at stuff.

11:03It's more exactly like like GTA 6 all over again.

11:08Yes.

11:09No, yes, but like you look at those series against Florida

11:14and Carolina with the Bruins really had a lot of trouble

11:16on that for check.

11:17That's like, you know, not being able to match the execution

11:21of what Carolina or the Panthers are throwing at you and

11:24unable to adapt like wasn't like I think like of a lack

11:27of engagement or a lack of hustle or like they were just

11:30like giving up on battles.

11:31It was like you're getting hit in the face.

11:33You're sending pucks into an old man's land that turn in

11:35the puck over the capitalizing, but then you're not like

11:38you're not having those plays where you're looking at

11:40that would be like what the hell is that guy doing there?

11:43What is coil doing there?

11:44Nebraska or anyone else like that?

11:46Like we have optics like that with me lender.

11:48We're just like when you lose the battle, you lose possession

11:51like it's not great.

11:53It isn't.

11:54Oh God, imagine if that was Boston.

11:56Imagine if the like a Toronto is a really tough market.

11:59I'm not saying it is like it's Toronto those.

12:02I mean they got booed like crazy coming off the ice, but

12:05no, the wasps.

12:06Yeah, I was wild.

12:09I want to get into some interesting stuff with the Leafs.

12:11We'll talk goaltending in a second.

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13:25So one quick Maple Leafs point before we get back to the

13:27Bruins.

13:28So I have a little funny story.

13:30So Friday night, I had hockey all weekend at New England

13:34District Festival all day Saturday.

13:36Then I Bruins on Saturday night Sunday.

13:38So there wasn't a lot of time to do stuff.

13:41So Friday night I had open and a lot of my friends and

13:44roommates were away.

13:45And so I spoke Z lives nearby and he frequents the last drop

13:52as people on Twitter.

13:54No, he loves the last drop his bar.

13:58And so I wanted to watch the game and he's fun to watch

14:01the game with and so I met up with him at the drop and we

14:03watched abs and and jets and we're sitting there talking

14:08about Mitch Marner and the Leafs and what they should do

14:10with thing and this it wasn't 3-1 at this point is 2-1 but

14:13if things had continued, you know, what could the Leafs do

14:15to fix their roster and you know, we're talking about the

14:19idea of trading Mitch Marner and you know, we're looking

14:22at the standings of you know, what teams could potentially

14:26where would he make sense?

14:27You're not trading him to a rebuilding team.

14:30Isn't that he and and spokesy goes.

14:32Well, what about Salt Lake City?

14:34What about Utah and we're like, oh, oh and we're sitting

14:38there like crunching the numbers.

14:39We're looking at the rosters and everything and the next

14:41night it's blowing up not from us.

14:44But Greg Wyshynski tweets out.

14:46What about Mitch Marner to Utah?

14:47I forget who he said in return to but Mitch Marner to Utah

14:51and I'm like did he was Greg Wyshynski?

14:54Did he have last drop bugged?

14:56Was he eavesdropping on us?

14:57I you know, I think this is like for Seinfeld fans.

15:00This is like when Kramer comes up with the the beach cologne,

15:03you know, like it was his idea first.

15:05So next if I next time I see Greg Wyshynski, I'm gonna say

15:07Greg get a big last drop.

15:10Were you a big last drop guy?

15:12Were you sitting near us?

15:13Were you listening?

15:13Did you have us bugged?

15:15So things to think about I will say I was I was worried

15:19because I think a Toronto reporter like had another scenario

15:22where I was trading him to Utah in return for Clayton Keller

15:25and I was like, that's my trade scenario guy.

15:28But again, your idea.

15:29That's my idea is Clayton Keller and also by the way bad

15:32news for my idea because I don't think that guy's moving

15:35from you or I don't think the new ownership is it wants

15:37to move a guy like Kelly's probably the most marketable

15:39guy at least for right now.

15:41So bad news for yours truly.

15:44They're stealing our ideas.

15:45This is, you know, working and I don't even go to the last

15:48people like us.

15:49Exactly.

15:50I'm afraid of running into spokesy.

15:53Exactly.

15:54That's it.

15:55That's it.

15:56But yeah, so figured that was a fun little fun little story.

16:01So going into game five looks like Jeremy Swayman is going

16:04to be starting again.

16:05That'll be three straight starts.

16:08But I mean has there's not been confirmation yet, right?

16:10I mean, I was a practice Monday.

16:11I didn't hear anybody say so.

16:12I was officially starting.

16:14I'm guessing he is going to start.

16:15I think you should start game five.

16:17Do you disagree with that?

16:18Do you think it should be Omar?

16:19I mean, where are you at with the goaltenders?

16:21I think my official take and we we had a little bit of a

16:24roundtable.

16:25I think after after practice of getting people's opinion

16:28and like the people who I think who think that Omar should

16:31go game five.

16:32I absolutely get it.

16:33There's a very compelling case to be made for either room.

16:36I my opinion that I think you stick with the hot hand and

16:39you close things out with Swayman just because he's been

16:41so good and you also have another two days off in between

16:45games, which helps out a guy that is going, you know, is

16:49going into what would be his third straight start as you

16:51said, but again, it's all about we've mentioned this before

16:54about surviving and advancing.

16:57Take care of this series close it out roll with a guy who

17:00has been an absolute monster net against Toronto all season

17:03long get the job done and then you reassess and go into

17:08a new series and you, you know, I imagine go back to the

17:11go rotation.

17:11See which of those guys gain traction again, you made the

17:15case like they're up 3-1 all mark again.

17:17I think we all agree wasn't the reason they lost game to

17:19has he been as good as Swayman?

17:21No, but if you want to get all mark back into the equation

17:26get him back into game action and best case scenario, you

17:29win that game and you know, all mark has a clinching win

17:32under his belt feeling good about his game going into most

17:36likely a Florida series.

17:37We probably have to rely on both those guys in that matchup.

17:40I can absolutely see that being the scenario.

17:42The Bruins want to take especially when you have a little

17:44bit of breathing room here.

17:45And again, if you lose you go back up to Toronto is swimming

17:48in a game six.

17:49So like you also give yourself a little bit of insurance

17:51there again, maybe my take is a little bit riskier in terms

17:57of like if swimming loses game five and also momentum is

17:59back on their side, but I think you'll get just how good

18:02he's been and you look at like, you know, I imagine Matthew

18:07is going to play game five, you know, it seems very ominous

18:10of like the fact he didn't practice at all.

18:11But if he's weakened or if he does not play go for the throat

18:16try to take things out in game five and put an end to this

18:18in advance and then you reassess from there.

18:20That's at least my take but it's very compelling case for

18:23anyone else who thinks it should be all mark.

18:25I completely agree.

18:27I think Swayman is the guy for game five.

18:30I think you should be the game guy for game five.

18:32Same reason you kept him in for game four, right?

18:34You're got, you know, you're you're you're you're going

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18:38Like that's the point.

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22:12back to the show. So the other part of it though, like in the

22:16event that Jeremy Swayman's in for Game 5 and they lose, it

22:21presents an interesting decision going into Game 6, right?

22:26Do you stick with Swayman? Because remember last year, this

22:29is where the last year stuff starts to pop up, right? Linus

22:32Olmark, good in the first four games if memory serves. Tough

22:35Game 5 with that giveaway. Game 6 was not good. Then they had

22:38to bring in Swayman for Game 7 and Olmark kind of run out of

22:41gas. So Swayman starts Game 5, that'd be three in a

22:47row. Six would be four and obviously seven would be five.

22:49Congratulations to myself, I can count. But I did it. I can't

22:55believe I did it. But it's an interesting thing because

22:58fortunately for the Bruins, Linus Olmark started Game 2. So it

23:01has not been like weeks since he started the game. But

23:07again, if Swayman did have a stinker in Game 5 or they even

23:09lost like let's say like four to three, five to three, something

23:12like that. I mean the case would be strong and go probably go

23:16back to Olmark in Game 6 for Toronto. And it's unconventional

23:20but that would be the rotation. What do you think about that?

23:23Yeah, I mean that's like the argument, right? Is that if you

23:26go with Swayman and he loses and you go back to Olmark or

23:29what have you, it's been a long time in between shots for him,

23:32right? That kind of again throws out your whole equation. It's

23:34almost like after you broke from the rotation in Game 4, it's

23:39almost like you have to now kind of commit to it just for this

23:41series. Again, once you get past the series, we can reassess

23:44everything. It's the same thing with like looking at Fulbert

23:47and like Brazzo who could be options for Game 5. I think

23:51like especially like Brazzo could be a guy that could really

23:53impact this team at 5-on-5 play. I don't want to really tinker

23:58with the lineups right now. I don't want to change what's been

24:00working these last four games or these last especially two

24:03games up in Toronto. Stick with what you have, go with Swayman

24:07and try to close things out because if things go awry or

24:10something comes up short, snowball starts, right? And then

24:13again, you make the case. If you go with Swayman and he loses

24:16and you go back to Olmark, yes, I think you have confidence

24:19in Olmark to go up to Toronto and close things out. But if

24:22it's been a while in between games for him and all of a sudden

24:24if he's not up to speed or he's a little bit rusty, go back

24:28to Boston for Game 7, right? Like again, you automatically

24:31go through the worst case scenarios, but we saw last year.

24:34It's very easy like Bruins controlled, you know, stretch to

24:38that Game 5 last year. They had, you know, the puck on Marcian

24:41stick on that breakaway right at the end of the game and

24:44all it takes is one play from Kachuk off a bad turnover

24:47overtime to kind of change everything. So what, you know,

24:52it's you can like overanalyze everything. You can look at

24:55like the lineups and you look too far ahead. I think if you're

24:58the Bruins all about staying in the moment, that's kind of

25:00was what their overall message was at practice on Monday

25:03and it's like game fives here. You have to I think put up

25:06the best lineup right now. That's gotten to this point.

25:09I think it's keeping your lineup intact and that's Jeremy

25:11Swain in a net and you get to Game 6 you deal with it.

25:14Then if it's all mark, you still have I think faith in the

25:17reigning Vesna trophy winner to close things out, but that's

25:21a hurdle for another day. It's all about right now Game 5

25:24what gives you the best chance to punch your ticket to the

25:26next round. There's no reason to stray from where the what

25:30the lineup has been and that's what I want to hit on next

25:32right offense and defense. We saw an interesting thing at

25:36practice Marsha and and Heinen did not practice their

25:39maintenance days, but on defense Wotherspoon and forbert

25:44were technically the third pair and then grizzly

25:47Schattenkirk were the fourth and you know Montgomery

25:51mentioned forbert as an option for Game 5 like you said,

25:56I have no desire to put him in there given that the lineup

26:00has worked the team defense has been good. I don't feel

26:03the huge need to throw forbert back in there part of me

26:07also thinks could this be a decoy? We saw him do that

26:10with Lindholm and McAvoy before the series and then series

26:15starts and it's grizzly McAvoy and it's Lindholm and

26:17Carlo Anton Stroman on the ice for Game 5. Yeah, that's

26:22true. And anytime I say series by the way, my phone

26:26thinks I'm saying Siri like no, I don't turn that off

26:30right now. Sorry. I know I should I should I can't let

26:32this thing be going off while I'm over doing this, but I

26:37don't have a big desire to change the lineup right now.

26:40If it ain't broke don't fix it. I think the fourth line

26:42has come together really nicely. I like the speed that

26:44Beecher and Boak whispering. I like the puck protection

26:47and kind of the the physical force that maroons been

26:51the third line has been strong with Frederick down the

26:53middle and Heinen and Ben Reams Dyke. That line is

26:56four checked really well and the top six, you know, again,

26:59you want a little bit more out of them, you know, five

27:02on five production wise, but I don't have a huge issue

27:05with the lines right now. Same with on D. I thought

27:08lower. I was great in game four. I've noticed like I'm

27:12cool with it going into game five. Don't don't over coach

27:14and you know, we'll see what happens on Tuesday, but I

27:17assume you also would like Montgomery to keep it the way

27:20it is. Yeah, I think it's all about just staying the

27:23course, right? It's a great problem to have when you

27:26get to the next round and you determine. All right,

27:28do we go to swim and do we do all mark? Do we keep the

27:30rotation in place? All right, Brezza was a guy who is

27:33really impactful at five on five play in the regular

27:36season. Getting him to line up is a great problem to

27:39have right? Do we take out a guy like JVR who I think

27:41is really kind of reasserted himself the last couple

27:44of games up in Toronto. I think he had some really

27:46strong shifts out there for that one. So yeah, these

27:50are all questions. I think that are you have to answer

27:52but not right now. You got a clinching game in your

27:55own building on Tuesday night get past a team in

27:58Toronto. That's reeling that has the talent to jump

28:01right back in. We're all well aware of that, but we

28:04look at where they are. How kind of disjointed they

28:07look fact that luck is on your side right now with

28:10the fact that you miss Nylander for the first three

28:12games and now you have Matthews who was without a

28:15doubt the best player on the ice in game two and has

28:19not looked the same since then like you you've benefited

28:21from some major breaks in terms of just the evidence

28:26skill that Toronto has has been limited off of some

28:29factors outside of what you're doing. So take advantage

28:32of it. Put the best lineup out right now. Don't

28:34overthink things and try to put this team away and

28:37get back into the second round of the playoffs and

28:39then go from there. I think it's as simple as that.

28:42You know, I don't want to get into predictions of

28:45like is this series over to the Bruins finish it in

28:47five, but I think an interesting thing between the

28:51Maple Leafs and the Panthers last year was the

28:52Panthers and I don't know if we saw it at the time,

28:56you know, I I think we may have overlooked it and

28:59obviously at the end of the series. We realized it

29:02they had some guys who were built for the postseason

29:04could Chuck Bennett, you know guys that were just

29:08you know, bigger tougher brought a lot even guys

29:13like for Hagee like those guys just could be a little

29:16bit better games playoffs. Yes, Matthews Nylander

29:21Marner who we have, you know, haven't mentioned a

29:23ton. I I don't know the history history is not on

29:29their side with that. They're very good skill players.

29:31No one is doubting that Mitch Marner has outstanding

29:35vision and skill and Matthews is maybe the best

29:37goal scorer right now in the league and Nylander

29:40is a ton of skill. That's great. But do they have

29:43what it takes to win three in a row like my guess

29:47my prediction is no, I don't think the series is

29:50over by the way. I want to say that but like my

29:52gut my gut says the Bruins probably win game five.

29:56That's what I would predict. I'm not saying it's

29:58definitely going to happen, but that's what I would

30:00predict. I'm curious if you think any differently

30:03on that. Yeah. No, I mean again, I will keep on

30:08saying this is a very good Toronto Maple Leafs team

30:10until they get eliminated and whether that's in

30:11five six seven games, but I think you look away

30:14the Bruins are playing right now. They don't have

30:16to deviate from the script. They have to keep on

30:18doing what's working for them and it's I think

30:20Pat Maroon said it best on Monday's like playing

30:22simple boring hockey like the Bruins aren't yeah

30:25nearly and they're not nearly as flashy, but you

30:27look at especially in that game for we're not a

30:29lot was happening for extended stretches of the

30:31game. The Bruins love that against a team like

30:33Toronto that can make things happen in a hurry,

30:36you know winning, you know controlling the neutral

30:39zone forcing turnovers flipping the puck out and

30:41learning kind of to to fight another day instead

30:44of trying to force the buck and lead to turnovers

30:46of your own blocking shots. All these things that

30:49again aren't as flashy as you know, a great passing

30:53sequence or a goal off the rush. What have you

30:55but it's what you got to do with this team like

30:57this team Martian. I think even said it before

30:59the playoff started like when this team's at its

31:01best. It's all about playing simple hockey and

31:03then just taking advantage of your opportunities

31:05and that's what they've done. They've taken

31:07advantage of bad penalties from Toronto and

31:10they've capitalized on the power play. They've

31:12had bad turnovers from Toronto where it's like

31:15the the Reeves turnover that led to JVR's goal

31:18like they're not like controlling play at five

31:21on five, but they're landing their punches when

31:22they're there. That's what this team needs to do

31:25and I think if you keep up that defensive

31:27commitment, you keep up, you know, whether it's

31:29swayman or all mark whoever it is in net and

31:32then like you keep on capitalizing on the power

31:34play. You should be in a position to put this

31:36team away. I agree. I agree. This should not be

31:41I don't think this is going to be like last year.

31:42That would be my my guess. But again, it ain't

31:44over it ain't over and I don't think Bruins fans

31:47will feel comfortable and where they are until

31:51the final horn sounds on whatever game the Bruins

31:53and you know, hopefully end up winning. So again,

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