Transcript of Why Are The Boston Bruins So Bad This Season? | SDP

Now, let's talk about the Boston Bruins. Now, the Boston Bruins are interesting, and I'm going to rewind the clock. Boston Bruins, a couple of years ago, after signing him to an extension, Kam Neely, I believe, and who's the general manager? Don Sweeni. Don Sweeni was the guy who did it, invited then Coach Bruce Cassidy over to his living room and said, Bruce-Invited him to his own living room? You've done nothing, but you've done Nothing but win games for us. Nothing but win games. But the playoff success is not what we need, despite the fact that you have just embarrassed the Toronto Maple leaves in key games. I specifically talk about that. But if I want to go to... Oh, yeah. He lost in the first round, lost in the second round, lost in the finals, lost in the second round, lost in the second round, lost in the first round. So he loses in the first round, and they're like, You know what, Bruce? That record's shit. Get the fuck out of Boston.

Fuck off to Vegas and go win a cup.

Yeah, and he immediately wins a cup. Now, they bring in Jim Montgomery, and Jim Montgomery is an interesting coach. This is a guy who coached the Dallas Stars, lost in the second round, and then he was fired midway through the next year, I think, or there was some... Yeah. Then he was an assistant in St. Louis for a couple of years, and then he takes over the Boston Bruins. And at first, the firing of Bruce Cassidy looks like a really great idea because I remember that particular run going into the playoffs, Jesse said, and he was right about this, the Vegas Goldenites are mid at everything. Which is a great thing. Which is a good thing. Yeah. Because they're like, oh, they're decent in all areas. But then Jesse Everton is like, Fuck off. The Bruins won 65 games. That's so many games. That's a lot of games. It's a lot of games.

The most games ever.

Who cares who's mid at everything? What about a team that's good at everything? And then they go up three to one against the Florida Panthers.

Who were not the Florida Panthers of last year. No. That team was not very good.

That team became that team. And the year before, by the way, the Florida Panthers had won the Jack Adams. Not the Jack Adams, the President Trophy. And Andrew Burnet had won the Jack Adams. He got fired. And he got fired for winning that. Or just not like that. And then they just were not good. They had an up and down season and whatever. And A Paul Maurice all of a sudden is their coach.

They got hot down the stretch.

And there was a specific game in Toronto where Keith Kachuk got on the radio here and said, The team looks soft. And what did they do? They fucking pummled the leaves that night.

And then they went on a run. And I called it that night or that day. I was like, The Panthers are soft? They were never soft, but they were soft to the standard that they had set.

That's right.

Clearly. And your team stars dad, who also happens to be a very well-respected retired NHL player, calls you soft. And Paul Maurice is your coach. It's going to make you feel some way.

So they killed everyone. That's happening. But again, no one's paying attention to that. That's just Toronto being Toronto. It's just the Leaps. And you got a team that's on pace for history. They scored the most points in NHL history, most wins in NHL history. They're up three to one. They have a Vesna goalie in net, but he's injured. He didn't play really well in game five, did he? No. But I guess, do you try him again?

Let's let him go.

Try him again. Oh, damn. Oh, damn. This series is tied, and then they lose. And the Florida Panthers go on to the Stanley Cup final.

And they blow it late in game seven, too.

Yeah, they did. Now, okay, fine. Shit It happens. The team went to the finals, whatever. So then they put up 47 wins, which is still really good.

And they had a better start.

Yes. And they've got those two goalies, one coming off of Esna, this hotshot rookie from Alaska who's amazing. Well, he's not a rookie anymore, but you know what I'm saying, young guy. And they go up three to one against the Toronto Maple leaves. And the Toronto Maple leaves win game five and six. And we're looking at Jim Montgomery like, You're not going to do this again. And of course, he's not. It's Toronto Mapleleafs.

If they lost game seven, it would have been his last game as coach. I think he would have been fired.

But they lost definitive in the second round. The Panthers steam rolled them. Smacked them. This year, they are four, six, and oh. One of those wins is against the Leaps.

Which is hilarious.

Which is a... Honestly, that's a free spot. That's free parking for them.

He's got a point there, which I think is better than anyone anticipated.

Last night, they allowed three goals. Matta, you Are you good over there? Yeah, Maddie, you all right?

She just went...

Like, involuntarily. It sucks, right? Doesn't it suck? It sucks so bad. It sucks so bad. It sucks so bad. And everybody's like, Why are you so hard on the Leaps? Oh, okay. All right, I have, sure. So then After that, your Galaxy Brain general manager who fired the guy, the next Stanley Cup winning coach at his living room a summer before he went on to win it.

Did not get adequate criticism for it.

And has done other things that are sus. Then him and the management group, they're like, You know what we're going to do? We're going to trade the guy who won a Vesna's trophy a year ago for a Unis Corpusallo who hasn't been great. He was okay in LA when he was there, had a terrible year in Ottawa. We're going to do it before we sign the guy of our future, even though he doesn't have a deal. If reports are to be believed, about four to five million dollars over eight years, the Boston Brewans made Jeremy Swayman sit out camp, and then all of a sudden, it was getting close to the end, and they said, Fine, we'll give you your eight-year, eight million. Got into a very public spat with him. Very public spat. And so your goalie who you're relying on to play probably 50 games this year has missed the entire camp. Over $5 million over the next eight years. Sorry, guys. That's like 600 grand.

I think it was less than That's peanuts.

Because the most they'd offered to that year to that point was 7.8 over 8 million. And then they finished at 8.1..

According to frigging Cam Neely, it was 64.

Well, they hadn't offered that yet.

64 million reasons.

And he signed for 66. Swayman miss camp. Hard to catch up after that. Now, the Bruins, it'd be nice if they played a little defense in front of him. But he was pulled last night. That team led in three goals in under a minute against the Carolina way better than we thought Hurricates.

Did you know that? Why do we keep underestimating that hockey team? I know.

It's pretty stupid. Rod the bod, baby. Rod the frigging bod. Here's what happens in the first period. You got Rosovich, who's got five goals. Wow. And then on the power play, Marchand ties it up. And then with three minutes to go, guys, in the first period, you get into the danger zone of, Yeah, don't let people score. Svetchnikow at 7:14. Jackson-blake, close to Jesse Blake, relation. No, zero relation. At 17:52. And that Martin Nietzsche at 18:06. That is three goals in less than a minute. Two tip-ins and a snapshot.

So that's what they're allowing.

That's what they're allowing.

Can we talk about what's going in?

Sure, please.

David Posternack, 6 goals, 4 assists, 10 points in 11 games. Pretty good. That's maybe a bit behind what you expect of him, but that's good. That's good enough to be getting on. What has everyone else got? Well, the second leading Same score on the Bruins, it's a three-way tie. Brad Marshan with two goals, five assists, seven points in 11 games. Again, good. Probably a little below what you expect out of him.

But Brad Marshan is like 36.

Yeah. Tied with, yeah, you I guessed it, Cole Kepka and Mark Kastelik. Now, there's a world where you look at this and you go, Mark Kastelik and Cole Kepka have seven points each in 11 games. These guys are probably steamrolling everyone. No one else is showing up. Lindhome, six points in 11 games. He's making a lot more than that. And he's also got the same stat line as John Beacher. At least your fourth line is clicking. And then beyond that, no one has more than four points. Mason Loury, Hampus Lindhome. Where are some of the... Okay, Brazos there. That's good.

Patra. Where's Zaka?

Where the frig is Zaka? He's got one goal, two assists, three points in 11 games. Morgan Geeky has one assist in nine games. Charlie Coyle has a goal, zero assists in 11 games.

Did the goal come against the least? Because that would be poetic.

I don't think so, but probably. Okay.

In spirit.

No one scoring. Other than the fourth line.

Well, and if they had taken a look at Elias Lynn Holmes' performance in Calgary and Vancouver last year, he wasn't scoring at the clip that he used to.

He can at least be a good two-way player.

Yes, but they needed scoring.

For a team that... So okay, they had their crazy goal-tending tandem. They looked at that and they went, This is a luxury that we can no longer afford. We got to get deeper. They went out and they got deeper. Big money on Zdorow, big money on Linhome, and it has not borne fruit. Borne fruit? Bored fruit.

I think either works.

They haven't gotten fruit from it. They have not been to the store. And I don't know how you fix, Hey, no one's scoring.

Well, this is where it comes down to the two guys making all the decisions. It's Cam Neely and it's Dawn Sweeney. And we know that Charlie Jacobs has defended them repeatedly. And we know that the easy switch here is Jim Montgomery.

For who?

Exactly. Not ideal in the middle of the season. Joel Quinville.

We're all just waiting for someone to push the button.

I would assume somebody's going to do it.

It's happening this year.

Probably. Jay Woodcroff will in the NHL again, but it'll be after Quinville gets hired.

If you want your team to score, he'd be an okay guy. But someone's going to push the button. I don't know who it's going to be. I don't know if it's going to be them. Jeff Montgomery has won you so many damn games. You said they won 47 last year? Yeah. So 47 plus 65.

He's won over 120 games in the last two years. There's 130, I think.

A hundred and twelve.

A hundred and twelve?

Over those two seasons. Oh, yeah. Sorry. And then on-He doesn't get a little bit more rope.

I mean, what's standard, though? How sideways can this go?

They miss Jake Dabrask.

Yes, they do.

Which is crazy. Can you imagine this conversation a few years ago? I don't know how you fix that. You got to fix it from within. Right now, no one the fourth line, for some reason, has shown up.