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00:25Terms do apply. I'm Evan Maranofsky. That is Connor Ryan Connor

00:30What is up?

00:32Evan I'm doing well. How you doing doing great doing great campus underway

00:37We're officially in we've made it we got through the summer

00:41We got through some of the boring months and we are here and boy. Oh boy Connor

00:46first press conference of the entire

00:50Season because I'm not counting captain's practice first press conference the entire season Don Sweeney comes in guns blazing

00:57had the had the

00:59Spitting all over themselves pod or spitting up on themselves podcast

01:03He had that he had you know, he was like in with a team of comedy writers like workshopping like ah

01:09What's gonna be the best dig I can make it them and they're like what if we did this spitting up on themselves pod?

01:15It's like yes, that's the one I need to find a time to use but he was coming in guns blazing

01:19at everybody and

01:21He was throwing I was through the podium and tie like it was ah

01:25Almost took out a hockey stick to just bat him down on the head. Yes, but quite the

01:33Quite the juice as Don Sweeney said he said I think he was referring to both himself and reporters

01:40We like juice and there was quite a bit of juice

01:43From day one we're doing this after day two a little less drama on day two just line combinations

01:49Which we'll get to in a bit. Yeah, and look I see the YouTube comments. I see Twitter

01:54I know people are sick of this Jeremy Swainman situation. Here's something

01:58We also are kind of sick of this Jeremy Swainman situation, but we can't avoid it. We're not gonna not talk about it like

02:06Okay, let's let's focus on the guys on the ice when the number one goalie is is currently not

02:12Dressing and isn't a you know is looking for a new contract

02:17We'll start here Connor. Are you panicked?

02:21I'm not panicking yet

02:23I think that Don Sweeney mentioning, you know, December 1st and you know

02:29The fact that that is really the the true deadline and I you know, we've again

02:34we will say we've mentioned this time and time again on multiple podcasts multiple shows like I

02:40Get to training camp everyone's in the same building everyone's around everyone's locked in

02:44they'll reach a solution at some point, but

02:48It's not like October 8th is the true deadline October 8th is their season opener in Florida

02:53Which I think we'll get to it, but you don't really want

02:57Jonas Corpora solo and Brendan Bussey being your two guys. They're in Florida

03:01Banner-raising really good team on the road not ideal

03:06But beyond that yeah, like the real deadline is December 1st in terms of if Swayman isn't signed by then

03:14He's out for the whole year. He's not coming back. He misses the whole playoffs. You hope it doesn't get to that point. I know

03:21William Nylander on his last contract with Toronto kind of got to the 11th hour there

03:26I believe is the same agency as who's representing Jeremy Swayman. So you're

03:32Noticing a trend there you hope it doesn't get to that point

03:37But it does feel like as much as I mean, you know, I'm amongst all the different like rumors swirling about

03:45What one side is asking for how close they are to a deal

03:49It does feel like at least for right now and again all it takes is one phone call to kind of change that

03:54both sides are pretty dug in right now and it's kind of who's willing to make that first concession is it going to

04:01wait until plays out in the season because again, then you run one one you run the risk from both Swayman and the Bruins camp of

04:09getting the regular season you're one hurting the overall team and

04:13you know, I

04:14Think you look at the state of the Bruins goalie grouping right now with corporate solid bussy. You don't feel

04:20great about it right now, but like if

04:24again, crazy things have happened you look at the track record if they're like

04:28Solid in net and it's a goalie by committee and like bussy

04:32Ends up playing at a high level out of the gate or corporate solo plays great. Then it also that's swimming. It's losing leverage

04:38I'm not saying that all sudden like

04:40Corporate solo starts his time in Boston 300 with a shutout or something like that. No, I'm straight swimming screw it

04:47Goodbye, I don't think getting that but whether it's from Swayman's perspective or the Bruins

04:52The more this plays out the more you don't move forward without a contract

04:57Someone's gonna lose out and honestly, it's kind of a lose-lose

05:00However, where you want to put put it like you need Swayman in net and Swayman right now needs this valuable time

05:06It's not like he's just going into

05:08Another year and every year is different, but this is a guy that is expected to be your number one goalie

05:14You know his most games he's played in a year is 44 games

05:16You need to get him ramped up for that every day that he's not at the rink getting the conditioning work done

05:23Working with Baba Senza and having those resources

05:26It's gonna hurt his overall game and he can you know hit the ice and I'm not you know

05:30It is we've seen from Jeremy's swimming so far right over his time here in Boston

05:34Like guy is very committed to his craft stayed in Boston the entire year

05:38I'm sure he's gonna be putting the work in but when you're not in the building every day with your teammates

05:43With Baba Senza with all these things it is gonna hurt you and obviously it's going to hurt the Bruins barring something

05:49Miraculous going on or something. We don't foresee with the busty Corpora solo tandem

05:54Which who would have thought that would have been what we'd be talking about at this point in September, right?

05:59Yeah, I mean, I think that tandem like, you know, the Bruins are a pretty good structured team

06:05I know last year was a little bit of a deviation from what had been the norm for so long

06:10Yeah, they are good on D at least on paper going into this year. They're better up front like

06:16would it shock me if

06:19Corpora solo and busty at least were serviceable. No, I don't think it would shock me

06:23I mean, are you getting swayed in like production? Are you clearly first in the Atlantic after a month with that tandem?

06:28I don't think so. But again, the Bruins are a good team

06:32So, you know anything can happen but you also can be sunk by bad goaltending where it's like, you know

06:36They come out of October and that tandem is not working in the Bruins like alright, like let's hash something out now

06:43And then even in that case though and I look at you know, Swayman is most likely

06:47Getting work done, you know getting skating work in somewhere else doing stuff

06:51So he's gonna not skate for however long and then like, you know

06:54Let's just say it's like October 8th, and he's just back and that's our first time in that like go get him tiger

07:00so that will not be the case, but you are like if if you are looking at that December 1st deadline as

07:08The target date which is scary to everybody

07:12When you come back, you know, let's say as I mentioned that let's say that tandem wasn't working

07:17Well, it's not like you can just come right back in and it's like, all right

07:19We're good now like you're putting a guy in with no preseason games in that case

07:25Not a ton of practice no practice work with this team

07:28So again, that's another scary element to that as well

07:31Like I think a lot of people are like, oh, well, let's if Corpo Salo and Bussy are great

07:35Well, then, you know, it's gonna flip the tides on Swayman and it's like well if they also if they stink and they're not good

07:41It's not good for the Bruins and that's that's really the worst case scenario because you're getting a guy coming in

07:46Who is not fully prepared for that kind of workload in terms of my panic?

07:52Like I think it's very clear. They are not close

07:57Sweeney, you know in our jobs Connor, you know, this can't always believe people in authority can't always believe what they're saying

08:05Sometimes you can tell when someone's lying a lot of times

08:08They just withhold information and now obviously Sweeney won't go into detail on you know, oh, we're looking at six years

08:14He's looking at four blah blah blah. He won't do that. He made himself clear on that

08:18but

08:19but I

08:21Do think there was genuine disappointment and emotion and that they are not close. I think he gave us that much

08:29in terms of what I think it gets done, I

08:32Still think it's some time in camp. I do and I know that Swayman's side

08:38You know his agency has dug their feet in before not budged I get that I

08:44Don't know though. And I also wonder like there's also the other end of it where you know, you had multiple people

08:50either reporting or insinuating on

08:53Tuesday that a deal was close or you know, Courtney Cox from WEI said it was done

08:58Now again, I you know, it's not true. Sweeney said as much but where's that coming from?

09:05Who's saying that because even if they're not hearing from people directly involved in

09:11negotiations

09:12Somewhere someone has a reason to think that now, maybe it's people pushing agendas. I don't know. I'm not getting inside that stuff

09:20But how does that happen?

09:22Because you know and Darren Drager even reported that there are good vibe surrounding this so like it's trending in the right direction. I

09:30I don't know. That's where it's sort of conflicting where like I still have holding

09:34I still believe and I'm still gonna hold on to my prediction of it gets done in the next one to two weeks

09:40Yeah, that's not perfect. But that's why I'm not fully panicking yet. I'm not I'm not there yet

09:46yeah, no, I agree and I think you hear from especially like the

09:51The insiders who've been doing this for a long time, right?

09:54Like and again, even that's kind of kind of been tough to gauge, right?

09:57Cuz you got in this corner Elliot Friedman who again is one of the more most respected NHL insiders saying that there's still

10:05philosophical differences, which is like

10:07Not what you want to hear when it's a contract that can have a wide variance between term payout all that stuff

10:14Not great. And then the next day Darren Drager who's also been in this business for a long time is very well connected

10:20Mentioning like oh like yeah good vibes there. They're making progress

10:24I still lean towards the fact that I don't think it's obviously as Don Sweeney

10:30Pushed back against on Wednesday. I don't think they're not speaking to each other. I think there is good communication. It's all about

10:37Finding that concession right and finding out how much you're willing to give in terms of the years

10:43I think it's probably the payout has to be probably the most contentious thing because even I think Freeman had a follow-up

10:49article

10:51On Wednesday or Thursday mentioning that like the Bruins and Swayman's are still looking at a long-term deal

10:57Which is I think promising and that's what we mentioned before that would be the best case scenario for the Bruins and Swayman

11:04As long as the money's right, but that's the issue if Swayman wants to be here long term

11:09You have to imagine he wants something that coincides with how the markets gonna go

11:13But again, we've talked about this time and time again

11:16Like you go down the rabbit hole as to what his value is

11:19How it weighs against the rest of the goalie market the cap all that stuff

11:23It's really really tough to map out where this is going to go

11:26But I still think when you look at like the multiple nuclear options, they're ending with December 1st

11:33You know for a guy like Swayman who again is going into such a critical year for his own development

11:38And this is a guy that is not

11:41Has always been very confident his own abilities doesn't really waiver all those things

11:46but still for a guy going into his first year as

11:49The featured number one guy the weight of the season kind of rests on your shoulders in this role

11:53I think there has to be the awareness from I think all sides that longer he holds out

11:59Doesn't benefit him and it certainly doesn't benefit the Bruins. I don't think even if the Bruins

12:0410% of their thinking is like, you know, let's roll the dice with blessing corporate solo

12:08We are confident see what they can do out of the gate and they'll hurt his leverage they play

12:13well, maybe that's the mindset you have to take once you get to

12:17October 5th or something like that, but I don't think they want to reach that scenario

12:21No

12:21Do I think Swayman wants to be on the outside looking in once the season really starts ramping up?

12:25But it just doesn't benefit anyone once you get to that point and look they're gonna say

12:30Montgomery players are gonna say we don't care about that, you know and Montgomery basically said as much

12:35You know, I'm focused on the guys that are here, you know, it's Donnie's thing to care about

12:39But at some point be it at the end of camp if this isn't done or the beginning of the regular season or you know

12:46a month into the regular season

12:49Guys do care about that stuff because as we said like if corporate solo and bussy if that tandem comes in and they're great

12:55Well, then awesome. Whoo, like the systems are working and those guys are good and we can win with anybody

13:01But if it doesn't work you got guys, you know, you got defensemen who are you know properly covering guys and let's say

13:07You know pucks are just kind of flying in left and right

13:09It's like all right, dude, like, you know, we all want you to get paid, but we also need to win hockey games

13:15Wrap this up

13:16Wrap this up and you know, like we gotta win games

13:20And so I think you have that end of it too where it's like, you know, and you know

13:24We've talked before about you know Marsh and you know

13:26We were kind of question whether or not that was a veiled shot, you know a captain's practice a couple weeks ago

13:31But you also wonder about other guys

13:32I mean other guys have gone through

13:34Negotiations before and I think you know, there could be that sentiment of and I'm saying could because I'm not you know

13:39We don't know this for sure. There could be that sentiment of like well, I did it

13:43Why can't you like you got to make concessions? You can't just get every single thing you want

13:48And I think Jeremy Swayman also has to worry about the tide turning on him

13:52Not just you know in his own locker room and stuff but fans not saying that that means everything but this is a hot market

13:58This is a you know

14:00This is fans care fans care a lot and I think that you know

14:03That is something to consider in this case. We are pro players getting the bag, by the way

14:08We're just trying to give every little element here. So I'm not trying to be like he should accept he should be underpaid

14:14Considerably, you know, he should he should take you should take no money. You should play for free. You should be lucky

14:19He's wearing the spoke B. That's what he should be doing

14:23That'll that'll get clipped and taken out of context which will be that's yeah, of course

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16:23Now back to the show. So we've discussed Swayman and we've discussed the the tandem. Is there anything we're missing?

16:30I assume we're gonna talk about this a lot going forward. So I don't want to

16:33Kill everything with Swayman. No, I mean, I feel like if there are updates will

16:39Do have plenty of time to kind of dissect this as it goes on, right?

16:42So I think right now it's status quo and again all of it

16:46I come down just that one phone call when whether it's an extra million you tack on another year

16:53Something like that

16:55Sometimes that's all it takes to kind of shift the gears there. So

16:59Right now it's just the waiting game continues and the more it goes on again

17:04I'm with you Evan like a week or two maybe but every week it's going to be like the next time we do a

17:13Bruins beat or poke the bear

17:15Anxiety's gonna ramp up a little bit

17:17So and I mean think like Sweeney mentioning December 1st was a good way to you know

17:21I mentioned this with Ty Anderson. We did our podcast as well. Like Sweeney is pretty like

17:28Forward-thinking pretty calculating in terms of you know, how he you know what he says during press conferences stuff like that

17:35I think mentioning that is a good way to kind of reiterate and get ahead of like

17:39oh, there is a hard deadline like this could go further like and kind of

17:44Mapping out what the stakes could be. I don't think

17:47Hopefully we don't get to that point. I don't want to be doing a Swayman watch thing in the middle of Rambo

17:52No, please no, that would be every episode that would be horrible

17:59Yes, so not looking forward to that if that happens, so I'll be in the same boat as you

18:04I think we're looking at a week or two and hopefully this gets settled and he's back and

18:09Getting ready and getting up to speed pretty soon because they're gonna need him

18:13One other thing Sweeney mentioned and this you know

18:16This is something else that I kind of just came to mind was he was asked about Lena the Lena Solmark trade and you know

18:22Whether or not these two things were connected and he basically said that they're different roads

18:25You know, we we operated separate of each other on that

18:31Did they screw themselves a little bit with the Lena Solmark thing

18:34I still don't think they did and I again like I still think I

18:38Still think I still believe Swayman's gonna be here now if they end up trading Swayman

18:43That's a different story

18:44But you had a very limited window to trade Lena Solmark and you know

18:49Damn, well that if they went into this year with the goalie tandem still intact and passed up opportunities to trade Lena Solmark

18:56specifically for a first-round pick

18:58We would be complaining about it. Everybody we become everybody would be complaining about it

19:02So I I don't think they boxed themselves in with that, but I'm curious what you think

19:08Yeah, I mean, I think there's a lot of moving pieces with this, right?

19:11It's very easy just to generally, you know be like, oh they should have done this ahead of them

19:16You know like Michael Corleone, I'm sorry, it's Godfather referenced. I'm very sorry

19:21Yeah

19:23You know the thing this is Michael Corleone thing of in one fell swoop

19:26Yeah

19:27You sign Swayman and then trade all mark an hour later on these and it doesn't work out that way

19:32Like you've got a situation with all mark where you're trying to move him. He had a no movement clause

19:38We'll probably never get it from all mark

19:40But you hear the rumors that they were trying to move him beforehand that some trades were

19:46Negated even during leading up to the trade deadline, right?

19:49Like so it wasn't just you could have flipped him for anything. You finally have this window where he'd accept a trade to Ottawa

19:56And you know we can talk about with the return what have you but you found a trading partner that he was going to approve

20:00That deal to which was not a given

20:03You had to move him in a certain time before his the rest of his no trade

20:07Clause kicked in like you were kind of already against the clock here. And again, you look at like where the Bruins are

20:13It's not like the Bruins are

20:15Fighting with Swayman over this contract because like they only have so much cap space, right?

20:19It's not like they have like six point eight seven five million and that's as far as they can go

20:22Like they could give him nine million if they want to

20:26They probably shouldn't give him nine million. So like I can see why they're they're waiting things out here

20:31like they have the the fiscal flexibility to

20:35accommodate a deal that is

20:376.5 to 8.5 like they give themselves plenty of runway in that regard. It's just you know with

20:44How negotiators are going it's just been a bit of a grime, but I don't view it as like a

20:49failing of the Bruins in terms of like, oh they needed to line these things up like

20:53you already run a very odd schedule with

20:57Allmark and his trade protections that I just didn't see how that was gonna you weren't gonna get all that resolved in one fell swoop

21:04especially with

21:05Swayman and his agents and just the track record there that does not very rarely do a lot of his

21:11Representatives get their stuff taken care of

21:14That early in the season, you know, unless it's like a top fridge in July 1st

21:19UofA status what have you but

21:21About I wasn't expecting anything getting done with a swimming deal until at least the end of July early August

21:30So yeah, I just think the timing wise it's great to say that they should have done all that stuff ahead of time, but

21:36Actually practicing that, you know applying that in the middle of the offseason

21:40Easier said than done

21:42Yeah

21:42I just and again

21:44Like as I said if they lose both if they end up trade if they end up having to trade Swayman or something like that

21:51Then it's different, but I don't you had to trade all mark you had to and I yeah

21:56There was the case you could have traded Swayman and kept all mark and re-signed him and you'd probably you know

22:00Re-sign all mark for a little bit less than maybe Swayman will make down the road

22:05But even then like Swayman's Swayman's been your guy in the playoffs. That's the guy you keep I think we're all in agreement

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24:15Let's get back to the show

24:16So other things other than Swayman were happening at development camp on ice day one on Thursday

24:23One of the surprises Matt Patra playing on the wing

24:28And Matt Patra

24:30Normally was at center last year

24:32Missed time there missed the rest of the season had to have shoulder surgery a big question mark

24:38I mean a training camp and you and I talked a lot about him throughout the offseason and we always kind of put him in

24:42The center category Jim Montgomery though putting him on the wing talked about

24:46On Thursday about him playing his I think it was his 16 year or a 17 year at the wing

24:53But then he played his draft year down the middle. So he does have experience on the wing

24:57There's you know, he'll get to do a little bit more offense

25:01What what do you think of Patra on the wing?

25:04Yeah, it's interesting right because I think he's a natural center and even Montgomery mentioned

25:09They ideally long-term want to keep him there

25:11But you do wonder where there is more depth down the middle with obviously Elias Lindholm

25:17Take care of one of those spots. You've got Tyler Johnson vying for a spot even Georgie Murkulov

25:24Yes, so you have a few these other guys that are are gonna be in the running as well if

25:30Putting Patra in a top-six role or you know, even on a third line

25:33But on the wing it has him playing kind of a more simplified kind of game

25:39And you know, he's still gonna have that play-making presence still gonna have the puck on his stick a good bit there

25:45You do wonder if that's something that

25:48Loves him to kind of simplify his game and just play, you know to his strengths, right?

25:52That's something that he even mentioned of what was kind of the thing he learned

25:56Later on last year was that it's all about kind of simplifying

25:59Not trying to get kind of too caught up wait for the next play

26:02Don't to make a highlight real play every single time you have the puck on your stick

26:06and kind of the same thing with like Pavel Zakha right where I think we see how he can benefit from simplifying his game and

26:13I'd say that

26:14Potters can all sudden like be pushed to have a shot first mentality

26:17but if you can add a little bit more play-making in that spot and he's also in the running for a

26:23Spot in the lineup along with like a Fabian Lysel or something like that

26:28You know, it's something we talked about every single training camp Don Sweeney always mentions internal competition

26:34If all of a sudden Lysel who before I viewed as one of the favorites at least going into the year

26:39For that top six spot if all sudden you have a guy in Matt Potra who's already had NHL reps in his fighting that spot

26:47Probably good problem to have if you have those two guys competing with one another for a real featured spot in this lineup

26:53So that was my first thought is if you're gonna put Potra on right wing

26:58Suddenly he's another candidate for that top six second line right wing spot

27:03I mean, you know, we talked about Lysel. We've talked about Frederick. We've talked about geeky now

27:08I got Tyler Johnson and now you add Matt Potra to the mix of

27:12Here's a guy as you said who's been up here who plays a style they like and you know, Montgomery even mentioned, you know

27:19Sometimes he you lost out a little bit on that offensive ability last year because as a center you have so many

27:26Responsibilities, especially in the D zone that you you miss out. You don't you know, you don't get to produce as much offense as maybe you'd like

27:33Now you can potentially have him on the right wing and March and if memory serves liked playing with Potra last year

27:40so that's another whole thing of like

27:42You have that

27:43And again, like if you're looking at Matt Potra as you know

27:47A guy that's definitely part of your future going forward and I think we all can agree that he's at least a top six

27:53You know center when push comes to shove down the road

27:57You know if that's the case who better to put him with than a guy like Marshan and coil like

28:04That's that makes a lot of sense if it works now again

28:07They might move Potter back to the middle at some point throughout camp

28:10It's not set in stone, obviously, and I think you want Patra as a center of the future down the road

28:17But letting him kind of spread his wings offensively is not a bad idea

28:21on the wing

28:23You know

28:24Sweeney mentioned it yesterday with Lysel like Lysel is not gonna be on the fourth line because it's on his game

28:30But you know anywhere in the top nine works. So maybe that's slots Lysel down as more of a third line candidate. It's day one

28:37We don't know lots can change but I do think Patra playing on the wing

28:43Offers up a lot now on the third line. I think he also brings a lot there, too

28:47You know if he's with a guy like geeky Max Jones, Justin Brezow

28:51Trent Frederick, whoever it is

28:53I do think you get you know

28:55You're gonna still get a good amount from him or at least you should get a good amount from him

29:00In terms of other things in the lines now again, it was two groups. Yeah, and I'll be that way on Friday as well

29:08They kind of mix up the players

29:10Different group different guys in different groups and you know

29:13You had Trent Frederick in one group and in Morgan geeky and guys another but one line I found interesting

29:19Was Jones geeky and Brezo as a potential third line

29:24I'm curious what you thought of them and and if you thought any other lines were interesting

29:29Yeah, definitely a really interesting line and it's fascinating because they do have so many guys that could mix and match in those spots

29:35Cuz you mentioned that line and like you you look at them, you know, you're saying

29:39All right, that could be a good third line. But then you have like the fourth, I guess the you know

29:44Established fourth line of what it could be. You had like Beecher

29:48Castilek and Riley Duran which a lot to like about that group as well, right and I think you

29:53Probably right now like the favorite in terms of like the three guys on the fourth line on October 8th are probably

30:00Beecher

30:01Castilek and Jones, I would probably say the three guys right in the running there

30:05But like the fact that Duran's already mixed in there is promising

30:09You've got I think it's just a fact that again. It is the first day of on ice skating

30:16You've got

30:18You know this point of camp a lot of stuff can be mixed around but you you're having I think an early glimpse of what?

30:24Some of these lines could be whether it's you know, right out of the gate. You've got Zaka Elias Lindholm David Pasternak

30:30You have McAvoy was a door of to Montgomery City like both of those groups

30:36You've got Charlie Coyle with Fabian Lysel which is something we've mentioned right of like if you want to see what Fabian Lysel has

30:43Put him in some established NHL talent what he can do there

30:48You have Georgie Murkulov down the middle on a line

30:51I think Montgomery said he liked kind of that it was kind of there's like him Letary and

30:58Capke I think it was like that. He mentioned that was a line that he liked as well

31:03You've got a lot of guys that are in spots where

31:08if that is how they want to stick with these groupings for at least the first week or so and

31:13Preseason game or two a lot to like about work, you know

31:15Whether it's a glimpse of what we should expect to be the case on October 8th with like that top line

31:22You had the usual suspects on defense, right? You have Laura I with peak you had Lintelman Carlo together

31:29But I think when you're putting some of these other guys in roles where they could succeed with Lysel Potra with Frederick, I believe

31:36There's a lot to like it, but I think even though we're at this stage of camp

31:40It's good to start building that chemistry and I think it's good to see a lot of these younger players. They're not with

31:47the guys that we know are gonna be in Providence like I'm not gonna just

31:50Rattle off names and you know do that in terms of being disrespectful of guys

31:55We know we're gonna start the in Providence, but like it's good to see these guys that they want to give an opportunity to all

32:01right, let's see how you do with

32:02Charlie Coyle or Frederick or are the guys that we know where they're gonna be in October 8th

32:07But can these younger players?

32:09Kind of fight for their spot as well with the talent around them and that's kind of really encouraging to see out of the gate

32:14I think it helps that Marsh ends out for those guys where guys are playing up a little bit

32:20You know, maybe like a Max Jones would be more on a fourth line at camp and instead is on a third

32:25But he also could be a third line guy

32:27Like that's the other thing is like we talked about it over the offseason sort of that untapped

32:31Potential and a guy like Max Jones

32:34Some other interesting stuff, you know that first line who you know, they believe is gonna be that first line of Zaka

32:41Lindholm and Pasternak

32:42and then you also had

32:45Fabian Lysel

32:47Charlie Coyle and Tyler Johnson, which again again Marsh ends out. So those two guys

32:51I mean if you want to look into that

32:54Maybe those are the two guys who right now are the favorites for that top six right wing spot

33:00You know Johnson's an interesting case. We talked to him today

33:03Always usually, you know went against the Bruins many a time when he was the Tampa Bay Lightning

33:09And I think working with Lysel, you know, I think you know

33:12You're sort of hoping you Lysel can give you the consistency of a Tyler Johnson in the past

33:17So I also think that's interesting to where it's like you're it's not like Tyler Johnson's playing on a potential fourth line in camp

33:24He they have higher expectations for him

33:26And I think you know

33:27He'll make this team if he can prove that he can be a middle six guy

33:31Whereas if he can't do preseason games then, you know

33:35But it also we also made it kind of sound to me at least like they wanted him

33:39If in free agency just couldn't really put together the right deal and then you know because he was a PTO

33:46They picked him right up. So there's that end of it to where he he feels like a little bit better than like your typical PTO

33:52Right. Yeah. No, and again, maybe it depends on whatever the swim and contract is

33:56Maybe it's something like that where once you get the remaining big piece of what your cap space is

34:02Allocated then maybe you then circle back. But again, it also falls on what Johnson can provide right?

34:08like he's still a guy that

34:10Said today still thinks he's a good player things. He can kind of contribute playing down the middle playing at wing

34:15The Bruins have had a lot of success with these PTO candidates in the past

34:19how he does on a

34:21Maybe lesser role

34:23Where he's not gonna be getting, you know power play one reps like he did in Chicago on a very bad Blackhawks team

34:30Shout out Nick Felino, by the way new captain

34:32Well-deserved a guy that has been a well-respected guy in a room for many teams for a long long time

34:38So it's great. I think for that team with the way they're rebuilding. I'm having a like Felino

34:44Leading the charge a great decision by them

34:47But I just think you look at Johnson like he's a guy that

34:51Yeah

34:51If he shows you still something left in the tank would not surprise me if whenever the Bruins get the Swainman contract settled

34:58They they circle back and see what how much money they have left

35:01But again as we keep on saying when you get to this time of year also falls on the player to kind of prove their

35:07Value, so let's see what you can do. Once these preseason games get started this weekend, which is crazy

35:13Sunday no Patriots Patriots are Thursday night. So Sunday instead of football

35:19You can sit back and watch some preseason hockey baby. Tis the season

35:24Connor what can the people look forward to from you over at the globe and Boston calm?

35:28Yeah

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