Andrew Raycroft on the Bruins complete win over the Canucks

Andrew Raycroft on the Bruins complete win over the Canucks

After the Bruins smacked around Vancouver last night for nothing we go to our buddy Andrew Razer raycraft on the Harbor one hotline he’s with us each and every Friday for hockey talk Razer good morning good morning gentlemen hey Razer so I know you just jumped on you

Probably heard that we’re still have the old open okay so I I’ve not personally but we you know I I do uh I was going to release it today but we decided no no no no we we’re going to we’re going to work on it one more thing as a group we

Decided we should wait on it cuz there’s a couple guys missing over here but I do have the music bed would you like to hear what I’m going to use as a music bed for your new open that’ll that’ll be that’ll Premiere next week of course I

Do okay here we go here’s your opening here’s your bed I got nothing to do with this by the way okay hold hold on you like this a do you know what this is from by the way you know you you recognize that it’s from the

80s yeah it’s from the 80s I’m guessing Karate Kid or something like that that’s a good guess that is a good guess no it’s from you can’t do that on television oh that’s another good that’s another good one no I’m not going to tell you what it is I’m just going to

Let you think about it for a while oh man why are you mind effing Razer with this putting this song in his we were just talking about this while we were playing it you know in the production room like oh he’s going to get this right away because every kid his age

Should know what movie this is from oh it’s a movie I have no idea but I don’t care I’m not okay let’s Okay kill it Joe because I can’t believe wow you let me down right away I we were we bet that you would have gotten this

Right off the Jump hey you didn’t know I was going to Spring this on you but you let me down damn it how dare you yeah exactly oh man poor Razer thinks he’s coming on to talk about how the Bruins uh smacked uh Vancouver last night for

Nothing am I too excited over this win like was there some bad in there last night Razer that my trained ey wouldn’t have picked up on because I’m giddy that after the day off Montgomery pushing the right buttons and they came out and beat Vancouver handily am I foed myself a little

Bit no the only the only cavat for last night is Vancouver was really bad they they played the role of the Boston Bruins from Tuesday night I mean really great a great hockey team like the Bruins are but they laid an egg coming out of the break and it wasn’t the first

Game it was the second game out of the break so that’s the only bad is that Vancouver was really bad it it was a complete game from the Bruins um they they didn’t give up any scoring chances essentially they were on top of the puck they didn’t give

Vancouver anything they stayed out of the box for the most part it was it was certainly a complete effort anytime you’re giving up just 17 SA shut outs at this point in the season it’s it’s a positive thing against a great team like that um so no you’re allowed to feel

Good about this one absolutely yeah and Razer aren’t you now at the point now with this team where you know I kind of felt like this was predictable like they embarrass themselves you know they this is not who they are so they’re felt like they were going to make sure that people

People like us who watch or even themselves that this is not who they are absolutely and that’s why I’m I’m almost indifferent with efforts like Tuesday night as well for you cuz I I feel like they just they get back to it and and you can there’s some teams in

The NHL and there’s some teams in Pro Sports where you say oh that’s a bad effort and oh this team you know what what are they really made of and where’s their push back and I think these guys this group gets the benefit of the doubt

And I really do like until I see them not push back for three games then I’m not going to say how terrible they are and oh they need this change and they need the you know a different you’re allowed to have a bad game in in Pro

Sports it’s 82 and and with this group I just feel like they they absolutely get the benefit of the doubt that because I don’t remember too many times where the push back doesn’t come instantly like it did last night Razer uh I know that Jim Montgomery gave the team uh Wednesday

Off it felt like one of those things that a coach who’s really in tune with his team sort of knows when to maybe back off a little bit am I misreading that could there have been another reason because it feels like for as much consternation as there was about the end

Of the Bruce Cassidy run it does seem like we’re seeing more and more of Jim Montgomery really understanding this group and when to maybe back off them a little bit yeah I thought you know certainly there wasn’t a reason to you’re not you don’t have to bury everybody after you

Know not playing well coming out of the break now the one C avat would be that they need a day off this week and with tomorrow being an afternoon game it’s hard to give today off because then no one’s skating for two days so you need

Everyone to get out there today so it might have been predetermined and hard to switch out um but but no it it it’s the same idea though like it there wouldn’t be Panic to have I’m sure he didn’t have Panic oh we need to skate we

Need to figure this out it’s like all right it’s scheduled they’re going to get their scheduled because I know they’re coming back Thursday morning with with a burr in the saddle and they’re and they’re going to go so it it might have been scheduled already but there would have been no Panic in

Cracking that whip knowing that we’re going to leave it and put it on them and let them think about it they don’t need to hear our voice so we’re talking to Andrew roft and Razer um you ready for a stupid hockey question I feel like I

Need one every single week yeah this is just me trying to get to educate myself okay so stupid hockey question um you know Demco is a is a vzna you know candidate right theend for Vancouver and obviously the Bruins have their own um I’m curious is what with

That award is it strictly save percentage if you are judging a goalie um like in the NBA it is uh usually you know the points who ER you know averages the most points probably is going to get the MVP you know in the NBA with a save

Percentage you have to be at the top near the top um with save percentage it’s a it’s a pretty General good indicator now with analytics and now with all the math that’s involved they have a stat called goal saved above expected and that has kind of taken over

Um for Save percentage um you can use high danger saves above expected meaning each save has a value I mean whatever the math the nerds do right whatever that whatever the nerds do each save is a value whether if it’s a shot from the blue line it’s it’s 0.1%

Goal if it’s a break away from David Pastak it’s it’s it’s almost a full goal chance kind of thing and they add it up and um they put all the numbers together and and the goalies with the best goal saved above expected um those are the

Guys that are at the top of the league and it it so it replaces save percentage because sometimes save percentage could get skewed if you’re on a great team and all the shots are coming from the red line and you get 50 of those compared to

A guy who gets 25 from the hash marks obviously your save percentage will be a little higher so you go into the weeds a little bit more but un undoubtedly the guy who wins the vzna is typically in the top seven of save percentage top

Five save percentage if if he’s on a bat you know a team that’s not as good and what would you look at would you take that and ey test yeah yeah yeah it’s it’s save percentage because I think it still is General enough like you’re going to get

A good idea of the the the the whole picture the whole season I look at how many games they played I think more games you play I that makes it harder uh there’s more variables I think the the guy with more games more shots against is more valuable to his team High danger

Opportunities and then and then of course the ey test if he’s winning games if you’re at the top of the league that that is absolutely has to be or something just like a quarterback in football see stupid ho hockey questions I feel like it’s a thing um he just

Learned something I saw you nodding your head like he just taught you something right now oh I was reading something I’m sorry suck I’m sorry no I’ll go with it no cuz I was gonna context matters because you don’t think about either teams are good defense in front of them

Wasn’t it like was it it was either last year or two years ago Razer might have been last year where I I think both of the Bruins goalies were in like what top four in save percentage or something something like that and it’s not that either one of those guys stinks but it’s

Also a product of the system and I thought Razer explained that pretty well because I want to ask Andrew raycraft about Matty ptra and losing him uh as forier would say in a segment about an hour from now big deal or no big deal

Um no not not like for the team like for their chances to win this season I would say I would say no big deal I think he has uh a great future in front of them I think you you never want to have shoulder surgery but in this situ it’s

Not the worst thing and not the worst timing for Maddie Potter right now certainly coming back going into Christmas he went to World Juniors they sent him back for that experience um had been not getting the same amount of minutes he comes back from World Juniors obviously the shoulder was naggi him his

Minutes were way down they talked a lot about load management and I think this the the timing of this allows him to get his shoulder right he gets the a lot of time to make that better he still gets to be here in Boston gets to have NHL experience so

They’re not sending them to Junior Hockey where he goes and dominates and plays that’s not helpful either he’ll learn about the NHL playoffs learn what it takes but more importantly this time he has nine months to get ready for next season the expect A’s going to be a lot

Higher next year the target he’s not going to sneak up on anybody next season and the Bruins are going to need a lot more out of them whether it’s man getting a little more man strength getting bigger and stronger and understanding what it takes in the faceoff draw so all of this culminates

Into him getting the season off a little earlier and getting ready for next year and and he became it became important for his development I think to do that because if he played this entire season third fourth line 10 13 minutes the rest of the way and then had shoulder surgery

I think you’d really be worried about a sophomore slum and where his game would be at next season yeah I’m glad you mentioned man strength because I was because I was going to ask you the if would you be surprised if he came back like 10 pounds heavier and just nothing but

Muscle I he has to I think I I like he has to gain that weight I don’t know if it has to be complete muscle but but it he has to get bigger and and now he has he’s available he’s available to do that he literally can just drink milkshakes

For the next five months and then crank in the gym and and be around the NHL listen I I said last night on on nessen he thought he worked really hard last summer but you guys know once you get around pro athletes and you think you

Are a hard worker in the gym and you think you you know the guys who go to Planet Fitness and they think they work out hard unless you’re around pro athletes you really don’t know what hard work is and that’s what Maddie potra is going to be able to do this summer and

Over the next five months even while he’s rehabbing is is train like a pro athlete not like a junior hockey athlete uh Razer intelligence we’re receiving from our ground sources are indicating did you have an onair yawn at nessen I heard that I did have a yawn

Last night I was I was skating with some of the guys this morning and they’re like hey tired long night last night huh um so I I think I got caught yawning um but I’m I’m not ashamed of that in any way I’m I’m doing a 45 minute post game

At 10:30 at night and you know you get sleepy up there it was a after after the Bruins got up four nothing too by the way it wasn’t like it wasn’t a it wasn’t a great hockey game I I’m I’m not gonna you know it wasn’t that exciting well uh freaking jaffy can’t

Keep the entertained enough so you’re not doing the yawns take whatever he’s taking he always seems like he’s got too much energy cuz that was my role whenever tangway and I were on the Patriots radio network and it’s like 1:00 in the morning and here’s Chucky and Dorchester after a 50-point win I

Had to like make jokes to yeah gr you keep me awake but don’t touch me yeah and what does a morning skate look like for a goalie uh they’re still shooting pucks at you oh so you’re not really run going anywhere you’re just sitting on your knees so hold on your morning skate

Razer is are you like strapping on the full goalie deal or oh my my morning SK yeah your morning SK morning no no no there’s no chance I’m putting gear on ever again no no no no ever again I burned that is see it’s just so it seems like a lot

Man once you don’t have to do it anymore so so a morning skap for you is literally just like going to the ice shink holding hands with your your your lovely wife you know just hanging out no we were we were we were passing the puck

Around we had some we did some drills played a little bit of a three on three game we had like a good sweat going who’s on your team by the way like if if if I said I’m gonna get a Wei team you get you get like a Razer team and then

Uh we challenge you guys to a three on three it’s a bad idea I mean and you better be a net for that too by the way cuz that would be I will tell you what I will guarantee you you can’t you can’t get one goal past me oh sweet get one

Not one where I can guarantee you I will show you the real athlete we’re let’s get that jug machine out again go take your glasses off and then we’ll oh yeah can I wear glasses do I need to get like athletic glasses no you’ll get your re specs no right I

Mean yeah you can get the you can get those athletic go for you I don’t care I’m just gonna just deny you we gotta do it intimidation I will you know what gresb bets.com will be taking Wagers on that I’ll end up losing money cuz no

One’s gonna be like oh yeah for shut him out no way and you know what and you know what’s gonna happen uh Razer is Wiggy’s gonna hear this and he’s gonna be like yeah I could pull one by him oh yeah maybe Greg should just be a

Goalie the only I I play he really can’t skate either Razer you’ll love this I played in like one pseudo celebrity hockey game and I ended up my old radio producer was like 56 and I had him dragged me down to my knees and we did a

Fake fight so we can get thrown out because neither one of us could skate the only thing I have is a wrist shot that’s it that’s a good idea I’m to get a fight there you go oh oh there you go oh we got oh we got twitch video rolling

Right now of uh Razer and Lou oh my God young Lou look at that no gray what these little like these little eight-year-olds I just just swatted this crap out oh it’s lb lb was there help me out put the gear on oh you and I had a

Bad KNE at that point in time I couldn’t I could barely walk and I still struggle look at this little girl over here she trying I’m trying to intimidate her that’s nice you’re unbelievable uh Razer thank you buddy we appreciate you man we’ll talk to you soon all right enjoy

The Super Bowl yeah yeah who you got Razer a momes all the way okay all right there you go smart what are you eat well more importantly what are you eating uh we’re going oh chicken wings for we’re going bunch of wings I’m a big appetizer dip guy like all all pound dip

The whole time um couple beer I don’t I don’t know if I’m going beer I I’m not sure which way I’m gonna angle that way on Sunday night little yeah maybe all the there we go all right then I’m hammering the jet hammering the Chiefs like it noted dip pounder our guy

Andrew Ray thanks Razer thanks buddy you got it guy H there it is his laugh is hilarious when you get him you really get him I know very Canadian y my two favorite interviews of the week all end up all come on Friday oh they do yeah H if you baldinger

NESN’s Andrew Raycroft joined the show to discuss the Boston Bruins, last night’s shutout win over the Vancouver Canucks, head coach Jim Montgomery’s decision to give the players Wednesday off, and the keys to winning the Vezina Trophy.

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