Bruins trade deadline coverage: Different but the same

Bruins trade deadline coverage: Different but the same

So let me get this straight you’ve been playing 500 hockey for the past couple of months yeah your offense is either Stellar or completely non-existent no in between yeah your defense is either smothering or complete swiss cheese yeah and your goal tending is by far the best

Position on your team yep dang you must have had a busy deadline fixing that situation no not really really what’d you do sabotaged my gender’s mental state by trying to trade him to a team that’s on his do not trade me here list huh well hope that works out for you I feel

Good about it l quality fans of a high quality Bruins team we have remained the same first of all thank you for everyone who jumped into the live stream today we did six hours of coverage of the trade deadline to find out that the Bruins weren’t going

To change at all which is fine in some books that’s a win I said it myself yesterday early in the morning actually at like 12:15 a.m. it’s fine as long as the Bruins aren’t fence sitters either don’t do anything or make real changes to bolster the long-term

Outlook of this team they sort of did both but not in a detrimental way maybe two new additions to the Boston Bruins we’re going to go through them kind of quickly we’re going to talk about a new signing for the Bruins uh which is it is

What it is we’re going to talk about frustrations as well the first thing Patrick maroon the infamous Fat Pat comments from uh from Jack Edwards yeah Pat maroon is now a Boston Brewing so they’re gonna have to squash that beef I wonder if I wonder if Pat likes beef on

His pizza I do I like I like beef on my pizza all jokes aside this deal is not as bad as people make it out to me honestly my initial reaction was like what the hell and for those of you who just hate the player

And don’t want him to be a bruin like you’re so valid for that that’s fine you could be upset about that but Patrick maroon in his best case scenario coming off of a back surgery where he’s not even available for the next couple of weeks is a fourth line upgrade over lco

In the best case scenario he’s been a complete Black Hole offensively this year and a kind of a liability defensively as well um for the Minnesota Wild and a lack less effort for that whole team this year so who really knows honestly they struggled with their goal

Tending so some of his numbers are a little skewed but Pat maroon has not been anywhere close to what he used to be it’s also an $800,000 contract that expires at the end of this year it’s nothing we gave up top Luke toporowski who was not making the next step with

The Bruins I think if anything this was like Hey too we’re sending you elsewhere to give you a chance somewhere uh and a conditional six round pick that only comes to fruition if Pat maroon plays a playoff game that’s a nothing deal I don’t want to make it out to be

Something bigger the guy’s not a GameChanger but if he’s a slight upgrade on the fourth line sure go for it whatever that’s it’s just not enough to get worked up about I think that’s pretty simple the only other deal trade that we’ve made today so we didn’t sell

Off assets we weren’t sellers we didn’t move omark we’ll talk about anark rumor in just a second no what we did is we traded for Andrew peak of the Columbus Blue Jackets Andrew Peak is a 25-year-old 6’3 210 lb right-handed defenseman who makes 2.8 million just

Under $2.8 million a year for this year next year and the year after there is a nonzero chance that he’s just forbo again and I don’t mean the good vers version of forbort that we had a year and a half ago I mean right now forbort also forbo’s done for the year

He’s going a long-term injured reserve he’s looking like he needs multiple surgeries I think his time as a bruin is over best wishes to him it sucks to see his season end that way I know we were all expecting him to get moved to another team we didn’t really want him

In this structure anymore but I’m certainly not happy about it being a physical ailment uh because this is affecting his career and that’s tough um but he’s done for the season likely done for the season Andrew Peak a 23y old old uh 25 years old 6’3 210 intangibles young

Locked up longterm great that’s a long-term solution for your third right d position makes maybe just a little bit too much money for that position but you’re totally fine paying that if he’s solid in that role he has been so bad this year that he cannot consistently

Stay in the lineup for a Columbus Blue Jackets team the whole analytics don’t matter when it’s a bad team kind of argument comes to mind but sometimes bad teams are bad because they have bad players do I think Andrew Peak is a bad player I don’t know I I have not watched enough

Of him I know he has some upside I know he’s physical supposedly um he certainly has a size to be physical he blocks a lot of shots there’s a lot of time in his Zone though so you know it’s not a good look offensively he struggles to get the puck out of their

Zone uh defensively he gets lost in coverage consistently not good enough at clearing the front of the net uh and apparently according to Columbus fans he loves to kick the puck into his own net so I mean you can make the same argument about Carlo who just deflections love to

Go off of him and in I’m not losing my mind here my issue with this trade which the trade was we get Andrew Peak they get zabor zabor is never going to play for the Bruins that’s a nothing asset I don’t care we also paid a third round

Pick in 2027 which is forever from now I get it I get it who the [ __ ] were you bidding against seriously a defenseman who can’t stay on the ice for one of the worst teams in the league making almost $3 million a year and you had to give up a third

Round pick to get him I trust Sweeny at the deadline I usually really do this was an asset you gave up for this guy you just helped them out the the Bruins scouting staff must think there’s something much more to this guy and in our structure he’s going

To be way better in God do I hope that’s true because if this just turns into like hey forbort you’re done here but don’t worry we just grabbed another $3 million in cap space that’s going to be just as frustrating as you were this season I’m going to be a little upset he

Deserves the chance to prove me wrong and everybody wrong about that but no matter what you overpaid who are you bidding against that you had to give up a third for this guy look around the league and the deals that were being made what ridiculous

Thing to do I don’t get it when he’s on he actually moves the puck pretty well and has some decent vision and has the size to push people out of the crease and clear the front of the net wins some board battles again using his size I’ve

Heard that he’s not rough and tough enough at times and ends up losing out on some of those battles U just doesn’t leverage it quite the way he should there are upside factors to him so this might might work out really well and he becomes just a great third

Pairing guy that makes a an average amount of money totally fine with that it’s just the it’s just the cost of giving up the third for him even if the third’s forever away from now just weird to me either way I’m going to be optimistic about it I’m going to believe

That the Bruins can can kind of fix his game it’s frustrating watching roslovic even though he’s a rental get sent Elsewhere for a lower price he got sent to the Rangers for a mid Le pick I I really kind of I would have preferred that over this but whatever not to sound

Apathetic about the deadline but that’s what it is this this neither of these moves change the landscape of the team they don’t this team is still what it is it still has the same problems it had before the deadline and still has the same strengths it had before the

Deadline nothing’s actually changed here maroon is not even available for the next couple of weeks the biggest effect of the deadline well there’s two things the first one and the biggest impact on the actual team is supposedly olark had to and supposedly this is not confirmed butar

Had to flex his no trade clause his modified no trade clause to prevent being traded to the LA Kings for Pierre Luke deis amongst other pieces everyone say thank you toar Pier Luke deis makes 8.5 million and has been such a bad fit over there that he’s played on their fourth line

Omark I would not believe that people who are pointing out omark looked upset walking away from Warrior omark was pissed off don’t buy into that there’s a lot of people pretending to be insiders right now who simply aren’t insiders I’m not an Insider I’m just a collector of

Information from other areas and I relay it I’m not an Insider I also wouldn’t believe all the drama around this this is a grown man that knows the situation I do believe there’s a trade setup forar do I believe that he flexed his no trade

Clause and nixed it a little bit but I could also see it being oh no the trade just didn’t go because they refused to give up yada yada that’s just as equally possible omark’s not going to hold a grudge he’s not going to flounder the rest of the

Season but at least there is a little bit of oh omark probably doesn’t love that I get that here here’s the thing omark was going to be gone this offseason regardless the more I thought about it and look on the podcast a few weeks back I said I’m comfortable going

Into the next season withar and San and paying a $12 million or $13 million for our goal tending for one year I could do that for one year but the more I think about it why would you do this eventually you have to have your 1A and

Your backup your your starter and your backup eventually you have to it’s just the way the the world works and whether that’s going to beark or san the other one gets traded in the offse you’re not going to wait till the deadline you’re not you’re it’s very very likely that

One of these goalies likely Omar gets traded at the at the the draft I would expect that there’s an off chance that they try to keep him going through till the deadline just to help the team and then ship them off I don’t know why you would change that make that kind of

Change midseason I think you’d prefer to do it right away during the draft Mark likely was going to get moved in the offseason if he didn’t get moved today I think he knows that you certainly weren’t going to keep him to the end of his contract and just let him walk that

Doesn’t make any sense especially if you’re about to commit big money to San I don’t think this is going to torpedo the team this year I don’t think omark suddenly going to lose his cool hate the team blah blah blah especially if the reports are true that he Nicks

The trade he’s happy where he is and he likes these guys and this team wasn’t the one who made the decision if he wants to say FU to Sweeney that’s fine but he’s a grown man he’s going to do the professional thing it was just interesting to see that those reports

Came out also if Sweeney was actually going to take on pier Luke de’s contract and ship out a great headline for the Bruins that’s all it is and that’s that’s perfectly reasonable debrus is likely to get extended I would expect jvr is going to walk for nothing

At the end of the season that’s fine these things are fine this was kind of expected uh they they made their stance they didn’t think that this team had the juice to quite go all in on and they certainly didn’t have the assets to do it anyway uh they did make a signing

Today Joey Abate AB a I’m going to go body um he has signed a two-way contract a I believe it’s just a onee uh with a cap hit of $775,000 he’s an AHL player it was an AHL only contract with Providence Bruins he has 10 points in 40

Games he’s just a bruising 200 pound Winger that I mean they can call up if they want to now that’s not a lot of news there either he’s not going to be a game changer either there is one thing I wanted to talk about though Vegas if you’ve watched this channel for any

Number of of years here you know that Tomas hurdle is one of my favorite non Bruins if not my favorite non Bruin and I’ve talked about the Bruins getting this player for years and how it just makes sense and fixes a problem for us which is down the

Middle the Vegas golden knights have traded for Tomas hurdle sending a Pros ECT that from what the reports are saying looks like a bottom six center and a first round pick for toas hurdle and two third round picks at 177% retained Greer the San Jose Sharks GM

Now has used up all three of his retainment slots and that’s going to stay that way for at least two more years and two of them are going to stay that way for like five more years anyone who first of all defended Greer as a GM to me after the Carlson trade

When I was like wow that was completely stupid this guy sucks at his job hey guess who he’s got super Vindicated this guy that’s what you got for hurdle and you retained on it you got a middling Prospect a first round pick and had to give two thirds back and you had to

Retain for six more years idiot that’s moronic if you’re a sharks fan are you not just livid with this that being said how in the world now maybe hurdle who had to flex the no move Clause he had to agree to this maybe he wouldn’t go to the Bruins there’s a real possibility

There if the trade was beater in a first we would make that in a heartbeat you wouldn’t even have to retain we would figure it the [ __ ] out why wouldn’t we do that if it was a first and least cell for hurdle I would do that in a heartbeat there’s a chance hurdle

Wouldn’t want to come here but if I find out we never even asked which I’ll never know but if that’s the truth I’m GNA SOB I’m gonna SOB like a grown man should what are we doing what a solution to a real problem we have a solution for six more seasons

While Posto’s in his prime to give him a true top six center to work with and Vegas gets him Vegas who will now have a team with a cap hit of well over 20 million above the cap once the playoffs starts and no I’m not going to

Sit here and whine about that I’m not because they’re doing what they have to do to win using a clause that could have been changed and wasn’t purposefully wasn’t they have lucky timing with injuries we’ll call it that I just don’t know why the Bruins wouldn’t have made a real push for

Hurdle sooner I just don’t get it and especially with griger being as incompetent at his job as he is maybe hurdle wouldn’t go here but that one broke my heart that breaks my heart I love that player I love watching him play and I refuse to love watching him

Play for Vegas he what a what a crop of [ __ ] man that’s that sucks that really sucks anyway all that being said don’t overreact to this deadline we held on to the prospects we liked we didn’t mortgage the future because they you’re putting yourself deeper in a hole if you

Do going all in on a team that’s been Jackal and hi high for the past couple months this team is the same same chance it had before if you get hot at the right time you’re going to make some noise if you don’t you’re not that has

Been the story all year that’s still the story today I personally think I’ll give Sweeney a c on the deadline like I’m not impressed by what he did but I’m just also not devastated I think this might be the right course for the long-term health of the team I

Don’t think there’s anything wrong with that it’s just not fun is the problem go bees go be once again guys thank you so much for watching but it is time to give a shout out to our highquality inspectors we’ve got our Top Line tier inspectors we got Brock nope

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