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00:00Bruins 5-3 winners last night in Colorado. That's right after they were called out by their head coach Jim Montgomery. They sure were

00:07You got a fight at Isidorov last night. You lose Marchand for a stretch

00:12You heard the two goals in 13 seconds as the Bruins moved to 3-2. They even get a win

00:17Without Jeremy Swayman. That's right. Your guy, Corporate Solo. You know, that is my guy

00:22I don't even know how many of those we're gonna get this year, but there's one so put that on the big board

00:27It's Jones and Keith here on WEI. We've got your phone call 617-779-7937

00:32And we're joined now by The Razor

00:35Andrew Raycroft of Nessun. What's going on Razor?

00:39Not much gentlemen. How we doing? Oh, we're doing good

00:42We had a win last night. Exactly. Well, it was a nice little win last night for the Bruins

00:47I think my big takeaway is it felt like they responded to Montgomery calling about the game prior. Would you say that's accurate?

00:54Yeah, no question. No question and

00:57It's four games in you're getting called out like that's stressful the NHL you I know it's 82 games

01:03But it really is more similar to an NFL season and that you can't have a bad start and a good start goes a long

01:10Way and I thought they responded well getting out on the road and and battling

01:15You know, what was the you know, the first four games even last night, you know, they did take some penalties obviously

01:21But in the first four games, it seemed like penalties all over the place

01:24You put that more on the players or is that

01:27Can that go to the coaching staff?

01:30No, that's on the players. But I you know, it's just kind of sloppy, right?

01:35The start of any regular season gets a little sloppy. I think all teams have been

01:40Playing that way or the majority of them at the start of this NHL season

01:44so I think it's just about getting getting up to speed and

01:50Recognizing kind of what the refs are calling but also just getting your feet going a lot of stick penalties, right?

01:54That usually means you are moving

01:56What do you thought of the new guys Lindholm and Zdorov?

02:00Well, they've started out great Lindholm you can see him

02:05How smart he is? Yeah, and all the little things that he does just watching him through five games

02:10You know when he's in Calgary and in Vancouver just coming in once a week or once a year

02:15Sorry

02:16you don't notice the details that he has in the the comparison of the Bergeron light is

02:22Certainly there because he plays a huge 200-foot game. He reads the place

02:26Oh, well, he seems to be in the right position and the good news is he scored right away, you know

02:30He's getting points right away

02:31I think that's a huge bonus for him because he does everything else really well and then Zdorov what we've seen from him is

02:37I think what what he is. He's a big guy. He makes plays at times. He he makes mistakes at times

02:43He takes penalties at times

02:45He's an adventure, but but someone that the Bruins needed on the back end and a huge help

02:50This is a fan base that has always loved the fourth line has always wanted the fourth line to be really good and productive

02:57And you know knows the fourth line this seems to be with good reason though this year those guys

03:02Every night seemed to be one of the most consistent lines they throw out there

03:07Super exciting to see that

03:10And you're right. It's it is such a blue-collar fan base. The fourth line is a pride of joy

03:15I think for Bruins nation a lot of times

03:17They love them being big and strong and physical and tough and getting it on the floor check

03:23And that's what this group the three of them have done since since the start of training camp

03:27Yeah

03:27the first game of preseason

03:29Mark Haslick must have gotten 19 scrums in the first preseason game and it hasn't ended and and it's

03:35Translated into points for them early on which is what what a bonus. What a

03:40What a

03:42huge relief for those guys because a lot of times you can be on a fourth line and not get

03:46Opportunities and it takes you three weeks to get on the board and it's you start to get nervous and frustrated

03:51but for them to get the success early playing the way they are and

03:55Continuing it now through five games is is huge not just for the team

03:59But for those guys and you can see that their games only going to grow now from that

04:04So it's really important and and we know listen the big thing is right

04:09We know how important that is in April and May and that's that that's the big one

04:14Talking to Andrew Raycroft of Nessun joining us here on Jones and Keefe our Bruins insider razor

04:20Last time we talked to you was before Jeremy Swayman had signed. He had been called out by

04:26Cam Neely and the organization, I guess your thoughts on where they settled at eight point two five

04:32And are you surprised that came together as quickly as it did because you know

04:36I think last time we talked we all thought there was going to be a little more hardball and this is going to drag out

04:40longer than it did

04:43Yeah, well again, I'm glad it's over that's for sure I know the players and the organization are glad it's over I

04:51Think we talked about leverage and we talked about you know pressure points at the end of the day money talks

04:58When the team was going to lose cap space and when the player was going to lose money out of their wallet the deal got

05:03Done, so I don't think that's a coincidence. I don't think that should be too surprising in hindsight

05:10it did feel like the week before that that it was at odds, but

05:14again money money talks at the end of the day for for everybody and

05:19To get it done at the start of the regular season to get it done at a number that you know

05:23It's pretty close to what everyone was talking about all along or at least the Bruins were and Jeremy swimming gets

05:29Compensated very well over the next eight years to play a game

05:32What do you think of his performance on the ice so far three games three starts right in a row?

05:36We had the one in the middle that looked really good

05:39Then splits the other two win over Montreal and the loss to Florida

05:44Yeah, so the first one was as expected the game was kind of sloppy the opportunities that Montreal had it was a tough game

05:52But I think there was six shots in the first period and a couple of goals just banging off players backside

05:58so

05:59That was to be expected

06:01I loved his second game and then the third game kind of got a little wobbly as well

06:05Just in how it was played in front of them a couple of power play goals. So again, it's it's a

06:11Great to get him in three games. The other thing that was great him playing three games Corporal

06:15Salo gets some work you put him back in

06:18He looks better in net already just after his first game gets a big win like you guys just said prior to me getting

06:24On here. That's a huge win for for Corpus all you don't want to go. Oh and two one and one you're like, okay

06:29Now I'm back to 500 and now I can run from that. So

06:33It'll be similar to Jeremy swimming. He's gonna have five days off six days off with between starts

06:38So, you know, he's getting work done while he's out on the road and should continue to look more comfortable as the games go on

06:44Do you have a number in mind for how many games he should start this year?

06:48Meaning Swain it. I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. No

06:51well, we heard the 55 and and I think ideally you get

06:5652 if it's if it's 52 32 at the end of the season, you know

07:01the Bruins had a great season and we're handily in the playoffs come March and you're able to

07:06The bank some rest for Jeremy swimming get the right opportunities for starts now if it goes

07:126022 then you're saying that would tell me that the Bruins are grinding in March to get in the playoffs or

07:18Three four points up and they're trying to hold on to that and they're playing the starter a little bit more

07:24so typically if you look at the end of the season the

07:27Best teams the starters play a little bit less because they're kind of cruising into the playoffs at the end

07:33It's the teams that are in six seventh place

07:36That are the ones really leaning on their starting goalie at the end of the season

07:40So if I had a if I had to pick a number that would be perfect

07:44It would be that 50 to 52 which gives Corpus a little 30 to 32 starts meaning he's playing

07:50well getting wins and Jeremy Swain and

07:53Getting wins and being rested for a good Bruins team if you know if there's no back-to-backs how many games in a row?

08:00Realistically can swim and start and because on the one hand I know you don't want to just completely like ice out Corpus

08:06But we were trying to figure it out the beginning of the year

08:08And I don't know if they're gonna alternate at first just because Swayman was still getting his legs back

08:12But he goes three in a row then Corpus

08:14Oh, like will there be a stretch where it's four or five games in a row or is three kind of the cap?

08:19No, I I think there could be I even dug into the schedule like I kind of go month-to-month on my schedule

08:25Just to like keep my sanity, so I don't think about what's going on

08:29There's no back-to-back. I think until November 2nd 3rd

08:32So they go the rest of this month with no back-to-backs, and it's like six games. Yeah, so for instance like this week

08:40for example if

08:43If the Bruins had a play so they played Monday

08:45They play Wednesday if they had a played again like a back like they played tonight, or they played Friday, and then Sunday like I

08:52Think you could see

08:55I'm talking a lot now now

08:57I

09:03Apologize I really

09:06The reason why I think corpus all played last night because if he hadn't have played he's not playing for 15 days

09:12So I think it's more a matter. It's not a matter of how many days

09:16Swayman plays in a row. It's more a matter of how much rest is in between so if they have eight games over two weeks

09:23Four and four then I could see a scenario where

09:26Corpus all plays the second one of that and then

09:29Swayman rattles five or six off in a row and then corpus all plays the eighth one

09:33But he only had ten days off in rest

09:36So I think it's more look at corpus all playing once every ten days

09:40That's the absolute max you don't want to you want to freeze the guy out for

09:45Clean all that up in post

09:53Don't worry about it, so when it comes to the the Panthers Razor

09:57Yeah, they're obviously more talented than the Bruins is it just talent or are they in their heads I?

10:04Know I don't think they're in their heads. I think they are talented. I think the style of play

10:10Can give the Bruins trouble at times and especially this week?

10:15That just went past where the Bruins are trying too hard

10:18I thought the Bruins tried too hard against both games against, Florida

10:22I think in that respect they're they're trying to prove they're trying to show they're trying to be physical

10:27They're trying to get their faith. They're trying to make plays

10:30It doesn't make place

10:31And they're really difficult to make plays against because they play fast

10:35The puck goes down the goal line up to the points and it goes in on net right away

10:39And there's a lot of chaos involved and I think at times the Bruins

10:43Over the last two games

10:45especially on Monday had

10:47Opportunities to go low to high and put it on net or break out of the zone just going up the wall chip it out

10:52And go chase it

10:53where they try to make a play to the middle and then the forecheck of the

10:57Panthers gets going and they get behind and they take a penalty from that so I

11:01They're not in their heads by any means the other thing is to the way the NHL season

11:06So they don't have to worry about the Florida Panthers again

11:08They play once in January and that and once in March like it's kind of over with until they see him possibly in April

11:15Where this has to come back up again, so I it's more a stylistic

11:21Situation and I think the Bruins as the season go on will get more prepared because they understand

11:25That they have to go through Florida at some point in the playoffs and that's where we go talk about fourth line and be indirect

11:32Okay, razor. We appreciate the time

11:34Andrew Raycroft every Thursday at 1130 here on Jones and Keith best of luck at the the warm press got there today

11:40And we'll talk next week

11:41Love it. Thank you. I yeah, I got a warm up and keep my words down obviously. Okay. All right. Sounds good razor. Thank you

11:49Yeah, thank you Andrew Raycroft joining us here on Jones and Keith on wei

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