Another Young Defenesman EMERGING for Bruins

Another Young Defenesman EMERGING for Bruins

Uh but W spoon I agree with you uh I think he’s been um very good uh you know he’s obviously not dazzling he’s obviously not going to catch your eye with anything he’s doing with the puck or anything he’s doing offensively but he’s been extremely steady he plays

Physical he he blocks shots he will you know clear bodies in front he will stick up for his teammates um uh you know he will he will do little things on uh that are going to get you more work in the NHL as defenseman um because he doesn’t

Hurt his team and he makes good plays and he’s kind of a well good well-rounded defenseman you know averaging 17 minutes a night he’s been a plus player like everything that you want out of a bot a bottom pairing defenseman and I actually think it’s interesting with

Him I think he’s gotten to a point that he’s played so well I think he’s played like 17 games now or something like that 15 16 games he’s somewhere in there I think he’s gotten to a point where like like if they try to send him down to Providence some other team’s

Probably going to take him or maybe there a real danger of somebody else taking him where he he may have played himself into a role with this team for the rest of the year based on the way that he’s played and based on what he brings value-wise depth to the team

Where he’s going to stick around and he’s going to be a part of what they’re doing and he kind of helps make some decisions that maybe need to be made or they were thinking about making anyway way um as far as the defenseman they have as far as you know

Trading away a defenseman as far as like everything I think he’s sort of he’s not the biggest Factor but I think he’s a factor in all that now because he really brings value to this team and I I think it’s worth noting now you know when he

Was up for a few games you’re like oh all right call up from the AHL he’s playing okay great I he’s gotten to the point where he’s starting to push his way into like the picture of like thinking about being on this team and being a part of this group and I think

It’s a credit to the way that he’s played yeah I mean again I just wrote this down like they’re de pairings right like right now uh it’s been like grizzer or lorai with makoy let’s say let’s say they’re fully healthy right let’s say Carlo and forber are back you know the

Playoffs somehow they’re all 100% healthy uh which obviously is not realistic because that never happens um but you know let’s just say grizzli or lowai with McAvoy lindol Carlo forber ChatOn Kirk does wther spoon work his way in to play with forbert just does wspoon just pencil in as the 7th d

Um you know do you again do you put him out there instead of shaton Kirk uh you know is grizzik a part of that equation is lowai like but I think at the very least he’s a seventh defenseman because he’s reliable and I think and he’s

Steady and I think when it the playoffs come around guys get hurt and I think you’re gonna need a guy like wers spoon to come in and eat minutes and play good defense and so far he’s shown that he can you know and I don’t think he needs

To be anything more than that if he’s if that’s all he is perfect perfect you know I not every guy that comes up from Providence has to be you know oh the ceiling is incredible the what he could be the potential and it’s like no if that’s all he is and he

Continues to progress as a good steady bottom pairing defenseman great like it’s fine well I mean that’s basically what Conor Clifton did he did the same sort of where he came on and just stuck and kept playing pretty good hockey and ended up getting better and better and

More a more important part of the team sort of adding facets to his game and like the physicality really started to come out some of the other stuff too as he got more comfortable at the NHL level and I think wspoon is doing that same thing where he’s pushing his way uh into

The picture and pushing his way into like their plans um and he’s 26 he’s been in the HL for a few years so it’s not like he needs to go down in Providence and play he’s not this young Prospect where you need to get him playing time and you’re worried about

Him being a 7y at times uh up here I don’t think that’s an issue I think he’d be totally fine playing in that kind of role he’s become enough of a veteran pro hockey player that like that could be his his Niche um at least until like

Something shakes out and he’s able to push his way into the bottom six but I I just I it was I think time to acknowledge that he’s done a really good job and he’s kind of earned a spot on this team with the way that he’s played

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About too is is makoy um going back to him uh we talked about the minutes that he played and on the road trip but I think bigger picture um I was kind of hard on him in November and December rightfully so I think he struggled a lot

Uh he was a minus player big time in both of those months um I think he had his his problems uh especially like right after Thanksgiving when they had that losing streak right around Thanksgiving where they gave up 17 goals and they lost three in a row he was bad

He was not a good player in those games uh and I think he was a minus for like six games in a row but he’s pulled out of it he’s back in the positive now um you know he had a great game uh at the

End of the road trip um I think he really like stepped up when they need him to when Carlo went out on that road trip and played great hockey um and he’s really sort of turned his game around um to a better level and you know I’ve

Noticed lately too he’s getting a lot more aggressive offensively which is good and I I think um maybe as a sign of uh his overall Comfort level with his game maybe as a sign he’s a little more confident in everything and everything that’s going on around him as far as the

Way his teammates are playing and he feels a little Freer to you know step up into into a bigger offensive role take risks at times but I’ve really noticed in the last month or so um that he’s been playing his best hockey of the season and um it it really has

Translated into success for the Brewers it has I I agree with you he almost scored again on Monday hit the post and then missed his rebound a classic defenseman like getting a scoring chance you never think you’re ever going to get like oh what do I do with the puck right

Here um I maram by the way hitting the post on the empty net oh my God he he missed two straight right completely and then he had Martian also had a onetime that I think makoy might have passed it to him earlier in the game that he just

Had open net yeah hit the side of the net um that’s goton to be a terrible feeling I thought the goalie saved it and then I was like nope he hit the side of the net he just missed he just missed uh I agree with you Ma boys look better

I mean ever since that suspension Eggman Larson the physicality wasn’t there really afterwards and I think his game took a hit because of it and you nailed I mean I think the confidence looks like it’s there offensively he’s joining the rush at better times he’s more active in

The ozone um and then just in his own Zone I think he’s just been better defensively now I also think that comes with you know we played a little bit with lorai earlier in this season and I think those two acclimating together you also look at like in the past gzik makoy

Have been a pretty solid five on five pairing this year that has not been as much the case um so again I don’t you know he needs to be Top Dog on whatever PA’s on right like it shouldn’t it shouldn’t matter so much who’s playing with him I mean that does factor in

Obviously Factor meals uh it does factor in but he should be the Top Dog in his pair and I think he’s been top dog for like the last month uh in terms of how he’s been playing and um just overall confidence and things like that and I

Think that’s a good sign now you don’t want to ride him so hard now and have him again burn out for the playoffs but I think as a top defens in the NHL making his money like that’s kind of par for the course you’re playing those minutes you’re playing in every situation really

Not many nights off like that comes with the territory of being probably a top five defenseman in the NHL you know like that’s that comes with the territory and if they’re going to win a cup if they’re going to go you know if they’re going to

Make a push this year and in future years you’re going to need him playing like this so I think it’s encouraging that uh he’s been doing that yeah and he’s been there in January November December not great months for him November really not uh December was a

Little better January I think he’s right back to where he should be he needs to be and um you know like you said frankly based on the contract and his profile and all that stuff playing more like a Norris Trophy winning defenseman this month than he was I think the the

Previous couple of months before um so that that’s been a positive for the Bruins

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