Jones & Keefe: Do the Bruins need to embrace the youth movement?

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00:00Do you feel any better about the Bruins and their chances of making the playoffs?

00:02Nah, no. I don't feel better about it.

00:04I mean, they desperately needed the two points.

00:06So, I think it's kind of, you should feel the same way you felt yesterday.

00:11And I didn't feel great about it yesterday, even before the game.

00:14Because we said this is almost like two points that you have to have.

00:17Home game against the worst team in hockey.

00:20But you just see what else is going on around the division, let alone the conference.

00:24I don't have a great deal of faith.

00:26Now, maybe one thing, maybe Joe Sacco and Cam Neely and Don Sweeney

00:31see the young players and sort of the shot of adrenaline they've given the team.

00:36And maybe you stick with some of these guys a little bit more.

00:38They've had to shuffle the lineups, whether it's Trent Frederick being sick,

00:40or guys getting hurt here, they're getting dinged up.

00:43But some of these young guys seem to be going balls to the wall out there.

00:47Potra's giving you something.

00:48Yeah.

00:48You know, I mean, he has.

00:49He had the goal in his first game.

00:52He had the setup the other day, or yesterday rather, to coil on the game-tying goal.

00:56So, yeah, I think he's giving you a little something.

00:58Maybe there's an element to it.

01:00But when you have your captain getting benched against the Senators,

01:04and you have your team president coming out and talking about retooling,

01:08hell no, I don't feel any better about this team making the playoffs.

01:10No.

01:11Just because they picked up two points, barely, against arguably the worst team in the NHL.

01:15I'm going to need a much longer stretch to convince me of that.

01:18And I would say the same thing for Cam Neely, Don Sweeney, and Bruins ownership.

01:22They're still...

01:22Before they're convinced.

01:23Yeah.

01:23They're still...

01:24Right now, they moved into a playoff spot with the win yesterday.

01:29Because Columbus has dropped two in a row.

01:31But Columbus has played one less game, and they are one point back.

01:34Montreal is right there.

01:37They're two points back with two games in hand.

01:39So, yeah, they're in there.

01:41It seems like they're going to be kind of ping-ponging between wild card, not wild card.

01:45Almost like, kind of like the Red Sox the last few years at the deadline.

01:49And they've had to make these hard decisions.

01:51And they've kind of made the wrong decision every time.

01:53This time, if they're where they're at right now, technically in the playoffs,

01:58when the trade deadline comes around, what direction is Cam Neely going?

02:01Does he look at that and be like, yeah, we're right there.

02:03Because don't you feel like the history of the team would tell you,

02:06Jacobs would tell him...

02:08Yeah, they'd trade a first or second round pick to beef up the roster, yeah.

02:11Get into the playoffs.

02:12Yeah.

02:12Stay in the playoffs.

02:13I don't care if we're not a cup-winning team, but we need to be a playoff team.

02:15Which, largely, I agree with.

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