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The Bruins-Panthers series moves to TD Garden, bringing with it several critical discussions about Boston's strategy. Conor Ryan from Boston.com and Evan Marinofsky from New England Hockey Journal will cover a range of topics in their upcoming discussion. They will explore Conor Ryan's humorous loss of his Rainforest Cafe sponsorship, analyze what went wrong for the Bruins in Game 2, and debate necessary changes for the team's improvement. Additionally, they'll dive into the ongoing matchup between Matthew Tkachuk and David Pastrnak and discuss whether Linus Ullmark or Jeremy Swayman should start as goalie.  Topics:   - Conor loses his rainforest cafe sponsorship  - What went wrong in Game 2?  - What must change?  - Tkachuk takes on Pastrnak  - Ullmark or Swayman?     Poke the Bear is powered by:  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!    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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00:00 Poke the bear is powered by prize picks the exclusive daily fantasy partner of the CLNS media network

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00:20 To get $20 off your first purchase terms apply. I'm Evan Marinovsky. That is Connor Ryan Connor

00:29 What is up Evan? I'm doing well. How you doing doing great doing great. I must ask Connor

00:35 How was the rainforest cafe? I mean it was fantastic. Let me tell you I mean where else can you go where you got?

00:44 chimpanzees

00:46 Just

00:48 Hollering around above you you got that you got the little crocodile

00:52 You can throw some some pennies in there people just carry pennies on them in 2024

00:57 You got like a bar out front. Let me tell you I

00:59 Was smitten with the cheat the I went to the cheesecake factory. It's another sponsorship. Don't want to get them messed up

01:06 Oh, oh, we'll cut this. Well, Evan, please. Yeah, take it out. We can't

01:10 Yeah, we can't get rainforest cafe with your new sponsorship. We can yes

01:15 Yes, yes angry and talk about other places but going to the cheesecake. I did it again. I did it again

01:21 Oh my god. Are you've lost the spot?

01:24 Alright, well it lasted three days and now it's gone so much for the lemur lasagna Evan. Damn it

01:29 Damn

01:33 I'm so sorry. The menu is so big. You're still running through big. It's like the Old Testament just rolling through all those pasta dishes

01:40 There's so much to parse through

01:43 But yes, you were down in Florida for games one and two any cool adventures any any cool stories from from your endeavors?

01:51 I mean, let me tell you one place as hot as hell 90 degrees

01:56 And so I think everyone's you know

01:59 Ben de flora people gone to like Orlando Disney and it's always kind of a novel thing

02:03 You see the little geckos running around and they're all over the place

02:06 But it's so different from what we have up here and lovely New England

02:09 Dude, they got like velociraptors down there now

02:12 They got like they have like legit iguanas that I think are like an invasive species. But like dude, they're

02:19 Gigantic like they're like three feet long and they're just going through the street. Yeah, they're just running around you go like to any like, you know

02:26 Corner where there's like a tree and some shrubbery and you'll hear like

02:30 You know something are in the bushes. It's like a legit like three-foot lizard. It's horrifying

02:36 I'm like that at all. I think I've said this on this on a podcast to do before I've still never been to Florida

02:44 No, I am dead. See I've never

02:47 That has been addressed so you at least been to New York

02:51 But we've I've been to New York City now, but I have I have never been to Florida

02:55 I've been to random like other places in the United States, but I've never been to Florida which like everybody's been to

03:01 I'm probably like in the 10% of people that listen man

03:03 You're gonna get down there for game 5 and then we'll take a quick detour

03:07 We'll get you get a whole get a whole crew of people bring tie. We'll go to Epcot for the day

03:11 We'll take a quick we'll take a quick flight up to Orlando

03:14 Like you do that. We can do Magic Kingdom if you want like it's all world. You got to do it

03:19 Well, I've been to Disney in California, but I know it's not the same of the same man

03:24 I know I know OG I got West Coast people. My fiance's from Washington. She reps Disneyland out in California foolish West Coast

03:32 It's like it's like a crappier version

03:34 It's like I'll take like the souped-up new version that is much cooler

03:37 Even though it's still at 90 degrees every fucking day in Orlando, but I digress Evan. I digress. I respect that I respect that

03:44 Yeah, maybe I'll make the trip down for game 5 and we can all the listener meetup

03:48 That'll be when we'll go to we'll go to the rainforest cafe and we'll go to know that dude

03:52 I'm in I am in so much trouble dude all that you are in trouble. Yeah is going right down the drain now, right?

03:59 Yeah, it's that's a top of the bag. I fumbled the bag

04:02 You had it in your hands now like Duncan seeing this they're probably considering you for a sponsorship as they should have a long time

04:09 Ago and they're like they never will they I don't know what I did

04:13 You know annoy the the big bosses at Duncan and the guys taking big drags of this guys

04:18 Looking at looking at me being like now this guy in it, but you're right Evan

04:23 It's not helping my case. The worst thing that's happened to Duncan has been aff like bombing at that Tom Brady roast

04:28 Yeah, I didn't watch too much of it, but I did her I saw a few of the clips

04:34 Wasn't that great?

04:35 You would think you would you think like a professional actor would have?

04:39 Like the boys and like the writing down or at least someone giving him those scripts to hit a few dingers wasn't the case

04:45 No, just railing against people online, which is like kind of done every many times your every person on Twitter

04:53 Yes, that's basically what that is. You know who were really annoying right now the listeners

04:58 Five minutes in we haven't touched the Bruins yet

05:02 Listen if people complain

05:05 Go to the Rainforest Cafe to see how it is. Cuz let me tell you and then it'll show you

05:09 It'll chill you out it'll you'll have a good time I agree me telling us CBD

05:18 Gorillas

05:22 Punching you in the face as you're trying to eat your mozzarella sticks. It's like it's like a CBD supplement

05:27 Maybe like being on Molly, you know, yeah

05:31 And you got you know, like it's just to chill out of the fact of lemur lasagna

05:34 So really it really all culminates in people are stuck on 95 in traffic right now

05:39 Furious you have no other options. You have to listen to us. Sorry you and this is what you must listen to

05:45 All right, it's tied 1-1

05:49 Great game one bad game -

05:53 What did you see that went wrong in game 2 for the Bruins?

05:58 Yeah, I mean, I think it was kind of a similar script as to what played out

06:01 last year right a lot of the same things in terms of

06:05 The Bruins had struggles with Florida's for checking pressure, but a lot of it still was like self-inflicted like like listen when Florida is, you know

06:14 Being really effective on the for check and forcing turnovers forcing Aaron passes. They're gonna generate chances

06:20 They're going to put you know, puck cares and an address

06:23 We know that but you saw a lot even like in the playoffs last year where the Bruins were doing stuff where they're trying to

06:29 Do too much just not making the simple plays

06:31 Failing to clear the puck when needed or just kind of firing off pucks and no man's land where it's just

06:37 It's almost like the Bruins own lack of execution is what's doing them in as opposed to necessarily what the Panthers are doing

06:44 That's not always the case. There's been plenty times. We're just good for checking pressure

06:48 But in a tight series where you look at last year seven game series where a goal or two could have been the difference

06:54 Quite a few times where it's guys that are just you know, two lackadaisical with the puck

06:59 You know sending the puck into no man's land or it's getting picked off off of a play when maybe the simple smart

07:06 Boring play would have been a lot safer against that team

07:10 I think you saw a lot of that in this this last game

07:12 and again, we can talk about the

07:15 Physical aspect of it and how the Bruins can kind of build off of that, but I don't know

07:20 It's almost like you look at that game too and the Bruins did not play well at all

07:23 The only guy I think probably played well is Swain man

07:25 Who you know?

07:26 I don't think you're gonna really fault him for a lot of his performance and now when he know he got he got the boot

07:31 in the third period but

07:32 it's almost like if the Bruins correct their own mistakes and one of these just

07:36 Obvious lapses you're seeing out there. They'll they should be in a much better spot. And again, they started off strong

07:42 You had to missed empty nets right from Marshan and Beecher. You had the

07:47 Coil ring a shot off the post as well. Again. It's all about

07:51 Execution and critical moments catching in on those chances who knows what happens if you don't you know

07:56 Try my friend doesn't screen Jeremy Swain man on a goose stuff or sling goal with what 1.3 seconds left

08:02 Going to the third period, you know down to one

08:05 Probably feeling pretty good about where you're at in terms of kind of stemming the tide there. So

08:10 Third period I think it all just went to shit, you know that game got away in a hurry

08:14 we'll talk about that obviously just the the fight and the the fracas I guess that played out but

08:19 Yeah, a lot of similar stuff to what we saw last year

08:23 But also stuff that feels like it's just the Bruins themselves that are doing it

08:26 Like even if it's just doing the simple boring play

08:29 You're gonna limit how many times?

08:31 Pan is a flying in your own zone

08:33 Well with numbers because there's a matter of it's swimming on a heater or all mark or whoever it is

08:38 They're gonna bury their chances if you give them to them on a silver platter like that

08:42 And I mean, I think to me it boils down to like getting the puck out of your own end

08:46 Like you mentioned it, you know, you've got you know, they love forcing its strong side

08:51 They love it and it's something it's like, you know

08:54 Like for burn anticipated while their spoon sending it back weak side on that first goal and while their spoon just tried to shove it

09:01 Up the glass and then there was nobody in front now that's on them. That's lack of chemistry

09:07 But I I'm just surprised they don't try to go they sometimes go weak side

09:11 but a lot of times they do just try to shovel it up the strong side boards and

09:16 I you know again, it's caused turnovers. It's caused issues

09:20 But again, like I think a lot of game twos problems boil down to a when the Panthers turn it on they turn it on

09:27 Yeah, and be like on that

09:29 I think it was that fourth goal start of the third where Carlo got taken down behind the net

09:35 Brewers didn't have their legs that you know, I think they were gassed. They were completely gassed

09:39 It's been a crazy five days

09:41 and I think they looked like a team that was run out of adrenaline and now you have to find a way to mimic

09:47 that game one game plan and

09:49 To me it comes down to play structured hockey finish your chances

09:54 and

09:56 You know, it sounds easier said than done

09:58 But you can't keep turning the puck over coming out of your own zone and you've got a force, Florida to turn the puck over

10:04 That's the other thing. They are gonna do that. Look at that first goal. The only goal you scored in that game though, but

10:09 yeah, and again, I mean in game one, I mean, you know, you look at game one the amount of turnovers that Florida D had and

10:15 putting pressure on their D and making them cough the puck up and and

10:20 Forcing them into areas that are uncomfortable and I think that is the most important thing

10:25 Going forward but you know again

10:28 This is a tight series and we'll get to general thoughts on the series later on

10:33 but

10:35 I think the big story from from Wednesday night game two was all the fights all the

10:41 Fisticuffs all the toughness all those things I want to get to that

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11:57 So I was stunned I don't know what your vantage point was obviously you were in the arena I was not

12:06 I'm wondering like when that posture knock could Chuck fight started to happen ESPN

12:10 They were focused on the puck

12:12 It was dumped in I think the Bruins are going to retrieve a puck and all of a sudden was shoes and is like and

12:16 Poster knock it Chuck and it's a cut cut to the cut to the fight and they they're taking forever to go to it

12:23 What was your like?

12:25 Were you watching that?

12:27 What happened? How did you see it? I mean, let me tell you Evan

12:30 It's gonna be a really boring story. But at that point of the game all like the writers were down in

12:36 We thought that one the elevator is not very fast that

12:42 Emoryn Bank Arena, which I had to catch myself multiple times being like what is the name of this facility because it changes every single year

12:50 But we were all down there getting ready for what we thought was gonna be

12:53 You have a lopsided loss like that's like, all right

12:56 I think maybe these guys want to talk quick and get get the hell out of here

12:58 So unfortunately, we were also on the same feed

13:01 So all of a sudden like it's like a little teeny tiny TV as well in there

13:06 So you see like these two guys just like hit the ice and I was like, I think that's pasta mark and friggin could Chuck

13:13 So like we were you know, I think we will give a stick tab

13:17 I believe Ty Anderson was the one the lone person who stayed up high above the ice to a quote Jack Edwards and

13:24 see it all play out, but

13:27 That game just went completely off the rails and again

13:29 It's like what do you think was gonna happen?

13:31 We're asked when you take out Pat Maroon and Nick cousins off of maybe saying a few meanie words to each other

13:36 I don't really know what exactly sir that made no sense

13:39 all right, you have the two guys or especially in Maroon's case in terms of what he provides to the Bruins of like

13:46 the guys that can mediate in terms of you know, limiting things from really hitting the fan or curb guys from

13:52 running over other guys or

13:54 You know causing chaos afterwards

13:56 Instead you take them out and then all hell breaks. It did the exact opposite of what the refs thought they were going to do but

14:03 To have it and with pasta knocking to Chuck. I mean, I don't think anyone had that on their their bingo card

14:11 Legitimate superstar players. I think someone mentioned that it's the highest combined cap hit in terms of the two guys fighting

14:18 So didn't have that on the bingo card, but it reinforces. I mean for just the series in general just

14:25 How much this is gonna get ratcheted up?

14:27 I think moving forward even like

14:29 Martian and Montour that would like it's like an old it's like an old callback episode

14:33 You got the licking taunt you've got him yelling in margins face

14:36 Like I think was good as with Joseph wall last year. We like screamed in his face at the up. Oh, so

14:42 it went from like already a very competitive series and a lot of people are excited about to

14:47 Game three is gonna be

14:50 Should be interesting. We've had multiple times where we've had these kind of hype up before these playoff games like ah

14:56 It's gonna be crazy. Remember game five in 2019 with chara come back. That's gonna be an old timer

15:01 But that being said like this one has all yeah, I'm looking suck

15:06 And this one it does have all the makings. Oh, I just feel like something's gonna give and it's gonna be

15:10 I think a critical kind of juncture for the Bruins, right? It's like you can go one of two ways

15:15 They galvanize over either winner. They lose. Yeah, what was that part of it? Evan? Yes, well said but

15:21 it's like you look at the Bruins and the way they kind of

15:24 Stood their ground and fought back and even possible not dropping the gloves in a fight

15:29 He was never going to win

15:30 But clearly I think gained a lot of respect from his teammates for kind of showing that fight and not getting pushed around

15:36 They can build off of that the Bruins and continue to punch back

15:39 Especially when you know, Matthew Pichuk doesn't have Pat Maroon and you know, all these other guys out on the ice for the Bruins

15:46 They can continue to punch back and reassert themselves and show that last year where they were kind of pushed all around in that series

15:53 That's not gonna happen this year or the pandas can ratchet up their physicality too and the Bruins aren't able to match it

15:59 I think we're gonna figure out a lot about

16:01 Both of these teams and game through it the way those things played out

16:04 It this series going into game three. First of all, I agree with you. It is the turning point

16:08 This is when things really start to take shape in a series

16:11 This it's set up

16:14 For the Bruins to take advantage of this, right?

16:17 Yeah, to me the ingredients are there for the Bruins to take command of this series in game three number one

16:23 Matthew could Chuck goes out and challenges your leading goal scorer who has one career fight before last night who never fights and

16:32 Says you want to go and Pasternak says yeah and says yes and goes right out there and takes them and takes the punches

16:39 And obviously could shut it

16:41 Even when he's on the ice

16:45 and

16:46 Like to me going out and doing that should fire up that entire Bruins locker room

16:51 and I believe it will because you got guys like maroon who are adamant about things like that who live by that code of

16:58 I'm not gonna go out, you know and challenge another team

17:01 You know like what John Scott and what John Scott tried to take on Phil Kessel and Phil Kessel

17:05 He's like swinging his stick at him. They're gonna preseason game like

17:09 You know, you're not gonna do that and the Chuck I heard could Chuck's comments

17:13 I think they were either today or yesterday and he was like, oh, you know me and him, you know

17:16 We're not you known for fighting and it's like I I would disagree there

17:20 I think Matthew could Chuck even though he's not, you know a goon. He still fights a lot more

17:25 He can fight a lot more than yeah, it is not they're not the same weight class whatsoever

17:31 So that element is set up where it's like, all right. Well, how do the Bruins respond?

17:36 Do you go out there and do you take a run at Alex Barkoff? Do you?

17:39 Just Frederick quote and challenge could Chuck does maroon go out and challenge could Chuck

17:44 You know, do you have maroon going in the face of guys like Barkoff or Verhagen and saying hey, let's go Sam Reinhardt

17:50 Let's fight even though that's never gonna happen. But you know, do you have a guy like that trying to instigate that?

17:55 and then the other side of it is like

18:00 They matched it right that game was over Bruins were never winning that game once the third

18:04 yeah, we're getting smoked and

18:07 again, like if

18:09 If they just rolled over and played the rest of that game out and that was it would be sitting here like alright

18:14 Have the Panthers figured it out, but the Bruins are fighting the Bruins are fighting legitimately fought their way

18:20 back into getting momentum and I know that the Panthers are more physical and and

18:26 Better fighters and all that stuff. But to me the fact that the Bruins in that game showed hey, no, we're not quitting

18:32 We're not fighting you'll get like Fred that third line got taken out at once just by you know

18:37 Getting in tussles for as always doing

18:39 What going on yeah, I was like losing track of everything going on as I'm on the elevator Michael

18:47 Go back up go back. Yeah, exactly

18:51 I was like McConaughey that mean where he's taking the drag of the cigarette looking at his phone

18:55 That's how I was like looking at everything. So but I also think like you're going home. It's game three

19:00 it's a Friday night a weird random Friday night game, but people will be rowdy for it like the

19:05 Opportunity is there to take it and to kind of grab hold of this series

19:10 And I look at you know, you mentioned like the Montour taunts. I think Chuck

19:15 taunted coil at one point and

19:17 You look at you know Chuck taking on posture knock. I just wonder if

19:23 This wakes the Bruins up if this kind of like, all right

19:26 No, like we hate these guys, but now we really fucking hate these guys

19:29 So I to me like this is an opportunity for the Bruins to take command of this series in game three

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21:38 So I saw Ty Anderson tweet Trent Trent Frederick's parents are in town for the weekend at least

21:45 Just saw them at the airport. Nice nice talking Ty

21:49 Mother days Mother's Day. He read that wrong Mother's Day trip me up Mother's Day goal for Frederick

21:57 I think Mother's Day fight. Are you kidding me? Parents are in town?

22:01 I think that's that's that looks like a fight to me whether it's tomorrow or

22:06 our Sunday if you have any leftover thoughts on the fights and the

22:09 No, I mean, I think just there's probably a lot of in the moment

22:15 Especially mixed reaction with pasta angles like oh, I don't I don't want him to be the guy fighting

22:19 I don't want that to be the guy that's breaking a break in his hand or getting seriously injured gonna slam into the ice or getting

22:25 Punched in the face while you're on the ice

22:27 There's nothing the obvious concern, but I think you look at how the Bruins have you know from what they've been quoted

22:34 In terms of his response the tone it sets. I

22:38 Think it's a great move in the moment for posture knock, you know again hindsight now like he's healthy and he's good to go

22:45 which is the most important thing and I probably wouldn't be saying this if all sudden he had a fractured hand, but

22:49 I

22:51 Think when you look at pasta knock in his leadership in the role that he's kind of evolved in

22:56 To take on that mantle and nobody's probably going into a losing fight against a guy that has I think 20 regular season fights on

23:02 his resume in Kachuk

23:04 Losing proposition there your team's already losing you very easily could be like screw this like I'm not getting involved in this

23:10 Let's get let's get the clock running. Let's get home

23:12 Let's start things over to do that and set the tone when it's not like you need to rally the troops on the bench all

23:18 Seven of them left in the game at that point, right? It was nobody left

23:22 Yeah, I think they were gonna make the the press corps start skating later on. So boy, they were bad

23:28 but I think for pasta to view that and set the tone and not just for the guys out there on the ice but

23:36 For this series for his teammates, you know, the guys looking watching from the locker room, you know building that momentum going to this next game

23:43 I think was a great move by pasta rock looking at and again it all comes down to how they respond

23:48 like I think game three is going to be

23:50 critical for both those scenes in terms of

23:53 Asserting what they want to get out of this series the Panthers know they've beaten the Bruins before they know how they want to play

23:59 They know how they can kind of get under the Bruins skin

24:01 Let's see the Bruins can respond because they don't seem to be like the same team that whether it's because they finally got over the hump

24:07 against

24:08 Toronto in this first round or they just are still very cognizant of how last year ended

24:12 They seem out of it about not being kind of pushed around the same way

24:16 For the second straight postseason. Yeah, I mean can the you know, I mean they can prunes got 70 hits in game two

24:22 They lose 6-1 and you don't want to be trying to match hit for hit

24:25 But you know

24:27 I also like the pasta rock stuff was interesting because people like oh you don't want him fighting and it's like obviously you do not

24:31 Want David pasta knock answering the call for anything and he didn't have to do that

24:35 I mean if we if he didn't we would never have known it just wouldn't it just wouldn't have happened

24:40 You know that conversation there probably tons of conversations in a game where it's like you want to go and guys are just like no

24:45 I'm all good

24:47 But I do think with him like if he got injured would we be questioning it, of course, we would be ripping that decision

24:53 But he didn't get injured. He didn't it was best-case scenario for the Bruins. He's fine

24:58 He didn't get hurt that we know of and the team's rallied

25:02 So for the Bruins, I think it's best-case scenario and I think that that ends up being a win for them

25:06 I know he lost the fight. You're like, oh could Chuck pounded him. It's like well, yeah

25:09 I mean like what did you think was gonna happen? The fact that Poshlock hung in there and took it

25:15 I like that's all to me. That's a win for the Bruins. I think overall. Let me go

25:19 I mean that would be like back in the day like Sean Thornton or on the someone better like

25:24 Maybe like, you know, Nathan Horton, let's say going and grabbing, you know, like Ilya Kovalchuk

25:30 You know, it's like this is not like I was trying to think of like the yes of someone

25:34 And that was the first thing that came to my head

25:36 Someone that need does need to step up those Charlie McAvoy Charlie McAvoy has been struggling this postseason playing a lot of minutes

25:44 I know Montgomery kind of alluded to that today of how much he's playing and how much of a force he's been for them, but

25:50 Just that second call last night the third goal just a bad end to that second period and then I just you know

25:57 I don't know if he's hurt. I don't know what it is

25:59 But he's someone that I think needs to step up in these next couple games

26:02 Yeah, this is the guy that I think desperately needs kind of just a breakthrough performance and you know, whether that's a goal

26:08 one of those

26:09 you know we've seen it countless times or McAvoy can kind of change the momentum of the tenor of a game with a

26:15 Huge hit, you know whether he had a huge hit

26:18 I think in game four against Kachuk last year, which was the the game where all markham was fought

26:23 Kachuk few people forget about I remember this

26:25 But he had that he had you know, Jordan stall

26:29 He popped him up in the Toronto bubble and that would kind of change the momentum of that game, you know

26:36 You'll take like just a perfect, you know, 26 minute night. No, you know goals allowed those things

26:41 That's the bread butter of McAvoy's game, but whether it's you know

26:45 Momentum shifting hit like that or a goal. I mean, I think he's gone 27 straight games without a goal

26:50 Or even like an assist at a critical moment

26:54 anything right and it's like you kind of look at like

26:59 Pasternak and he mentioned, you know on I think was behind the be they had like the audio in the locker room afterwards

27:05 After that game seven and pause mark did not have by any means a great first round, right?

27:10 But sometimes all it takes is that one break to go your way that one play

27:14 To get your confidence back get you rolling again because you know

27:17 I think possibly was great in both of these, you know games down in

27:21 Florida so far like he was impacting a lot of play

27:25 He was great. I think defensively in game one was engaged

27:28 And again sets that kind of tone for game three moving forward that fight with Kachuk

27:33 So he seems like he's kind of turned a corner and is a guy that we know what he can be

27:38 And for McAvoy, it's like yeah

27:40 It's the lapses that are just the things that are staggering right like even

27:44 Right his worst play was not even when they scored a goal on it, but it was early

27:47 It was before

27:49 Lusteranian's goal in the third

27:51 But he had that like it should have been an easy tape to take past a lori and he like

27:55 Wants it ahead when Dell picks it up and it's women has to make a glove slate

27:59 Glove save from the spot from audio slave audio slave. Yes, exactly

28:05 But like that's probably the worst play and swimming bills are not there for that

28:10 Another grade a chance that you can't have in that moment

28:13 So for I don't know for McAvoy, is it mental? Is it fatigue? Is it injury?

28:20 Which I getting people are worrying if it's something like that where it's just like he's not handling the puck very well

28:25 but whatever it is needs to write the ship in some regard because you've had a lot of other guys step up but

28:31 You can't go very far in this playoff

28:34 if you're number one defenseman the guy that

28:36 Plays 26 27 minutes a night in the playoffs can impact the game and a whole bunch of areas if he's not

28:42 Operating at 100% whether that's just his own mental

28:47 Struggles right now or processing the game or execution or injury, whatever it is

28:51 You're not gonna go very far with him playing at this kind of level right now. I said it on Bruins beat

28:56 He needs a game

28:58 Where you tweet out his whole stats, you know those games like Charlie McAvoy tonight

29:02 six hits for

29:04 Plus five like, you know four shots on that to assist like that's he needs one of those nights

29:12 But I agree. He also needs whether it's a big hit and he's had a couple big hits

29:16 Yeah, no a goal he needs there needs to be something so I I can completely agree on that

29:22 We'll make this quick who starts game three in that I

29:26 Think you go swimming. I think he still gives you the the best chance right now

29:32 And that's not an indictment on Oh mark. I'm not gonna I don't care what Oh

29:36 Mark's numbers were in that game yesterday the same way. I'm not really putting a lot of stock into

29:41 Wayman's play and again, like I think there was some miscommunication from sway man and maybe his defenseman on

29:46 You know the first goal in terms of maybe he should have given the puck to Fulbert instead of Weatherspoon and some things like that

29:53 but in terms of like the actual plays themselves like getting screened by

29:57 McAvoy on

29:59 before his goal

30:01 McAvoy can't clear the puck on bar Kravs goal has no stick like isn't there to deny the rebound like

30:08 And again that game could have been a lot worse. There was several other grade-a chances where swayman was

30:13 You know it when he's that locked in it's all like he's making these sprawling saves. He's like square to the puck

30:19 He's me. He's turning aside these great chances pretty easily. He still seems really locked in

30:23 I think you know for the Bruins and for

30:27 what we're expecting out of this game three with the the compete level and the physicality and just the confidence and the poise of the

30:34 Bruins should

30:35 Generate from what how that game to ended?

30:38 I think you go with the guy in swayman who's kind of echoes that same kind of

30:42 sentiment when he's out there on the ice and he's in that you know, the Bruins have mentioned that

30:47 you know his

30:49 demeanor is something that can be both calming and also a guy that you get

30:52 Excited to play for when he's competing out there and if the Bruins are gonna set the tone in game three

30:57 I think you go with the guy that has been still locked in for a majority of this

31:01 You know playoff run again the final stat line didn't look great in game two his state percentage in the post

31:07 He's gonna still I think nine four three, so pretty good. I think you stick with him for another game

31:11 Wayman, yeah, he's not he's not good in game three

31:15 You then turn to Oh mark right and you see what you can kind of write the ship there

31:18 But for now, I go with swayman swayman has earned the right to have an iffy performance

31:25 Which again I still don't fault him for game two. There was the defense in front of him

31:30 There were so many lapses so many turnovers

31:32 He bailed you out in a ton of spots to me

31:36 Swayman has earned the right to go in in game three and be the goalie again

31:40 And if he stinks if he is awful, then yes, then maybe you got to make a move

31:45 But if he continues to be solid and you know, it puts you at least in a position to win. It's his net

31:52 He's earned it. He's earned it. So to me, it's swayman

31:54 You know, I feel bad for all mark in a sense

31:58 It's like, you know played fine game two against the Leafs

32:01 But swayman's just been on another level like I said this on bruise be like you and I all year were or at least I

32:06 Was I think you were too like I want to see the goalie rotation in the playoffs

32:11 I want to see them try it at the same time though

32:13 I don't think either has anticipated the run that swayman would go on at least round one like when it's that it's okay

32:19 That's off the table. He's he's the starter. That's just it, you know, whereas like if his numbers were like, you know

32:24 915 save percentage or whatever. It's all right. Well, then you rotate

32:28 That's why you have that. So yeah, I don't anticipate we see all mark for at least a couple games

32:33 On this series though

32:36 Like has the first two games changed any of your

32:40 Predictions outlook anything on this series. I mean, I don't think so

32:45 I think it's two very good teams and I think you know, tennis probably have the edge in terms of just their overall skill

32:51 But it's two teams that are I still think will make a very competitive

32:56 So I think we both said Panthers and seven I expect it's gonna be seven games the way these teams are playing and again

33:00 you got two lopsided games and games one and two, but it's

33:05 Both games are one team executing the other team not and I think there's gonna be still like a feel-out process as there is for

33:12 Any of these teams in the best of seven series and I don't want to make like almost like a sweeping

33:18 Declaration of how this series is going until we get to game three

33:21 I feel like game three is gonna be where we're gonna see what these guys are made of on both sides, right?

33:26 and again

33:26 Like it could be

33:27 It's not to say it's gonna make the Bruins gonna just like beat the crap out of the Panthers Panthers will punch back

33:32 Like they are also a battle-tested team, but if the Bruins step up and show they can hang with them in that regard

33:38 It's gonna make for competitive series and maybe changes the complexion of if they come out and win game three and their physical and match

33:45 Their physicality that the Panthers bring maybe that it goes from Panthers and seven to Bruins and seven, right?

33:50 Like I feel like we're gonna learn a lot more about

33:52 The tenor and what this Bruins team especially is made of off of how they respond in game three

33:57 Yeah, this has two games. I'm super. I'm not surprised. It's one one

34:03 I think to me like if you're the Bruins

34:05 I think you feel good coming out of Florida because even in that 6-1 loss a walk in

34:10 That can be attributed to just overall

34:13 Exhaustion but like you fought there at the end good game one win

34:17 Swainman still cooking. I mean Montgomery talked to him when he came off the ice

34:21 You know, I think the Bruins have a huge opportunity in game three. Yeah to me

34:28 that's the big thing like you've got a big freaking opportunity in front of you and

34:32 Like you gotta own it because they come out and they have a stinker

34:37 Like if they have a if it's like a 4-1 Panthers win or something, that's not great. It's a alright

34:41 Well, maybe it's less than seven. Maybe it is less than Panthers in seven

34:45 But if they can come out and at least have a competitive, you know at the very least competitive physical game

34:50 You know this series is going seven. So I agree with you on that

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