If Bruins don't get to the ECF, could Montgomery be on the hot seat? Is there a better chance Monty gets an extension, or they move on?
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00:00And that is Bruins coach Jim Montgomery, who is in the final season of his contract
00:08and Wiggy expects great results or maybe a new head coach for the Boston Bruins.
00:14Well, you guys said what Eastern Conference finals, right?
00:16You and Sham, I believe, if he doesn't make it to the Eastern Conference finals.
00:21Here's a better question.
00:22Do you think he gets an extension throughout the year?
00:25Mid-season.
00:26Mid-season.
00:26Do you think he's the Alex Kora road?
00:28I think they probably, I think they, that Cam Neely and Don Sweeney look at him and
00:32think he's done a pretty good job.
00:34I mean, I, you know, it's the playoffs that, that he has not achieved what you would hope
00:41he would have achieved.
00:42He's had the best regular season team in the history of the sport.
00:47Right.
00:49And so I think he saved his job.
00:52I don't know.
00:52Do you think he saved his job last season when they were able to advance?
00:56I don't think he was ever getting canned last season.
00:58I don't think they were going to can him after two years.
01:00You don't think if they were wanting done last season, which they almost were, that
01:03he would have been gone?
01:04No, I think he would have been shine.
01:06Why do you think that they went with corpus hollow last night?
01:08If Montgomery's saying beforehand, you know, Swayman's an option.
01:11Why go with Sweeney had said all along that they were going to be started corpus hollow
01:16in game one.
01:17And so I just think Montgomery was saying that as like gamesmanship.
01:21I don't think there was ever any thought that Jeremy Swayman would start last night.
01:24He was skating at BU.
01:26Yeah.
01:26But I mean, he hasn't been with practice.
01:28He hasn't been practicing with the team.
01:29He hasn't been with the team.
01:30He hasn't been training.
01:31So like, I think they're working him up.
01:33I'm hoping he'll start tomorrow night at home in the home opener.
01:36But I mean, I guess we'll see at this point.
01:38Yeah.
01:38I mean, you were blaming that entire loss last night on him.
01:41And I majority of you, Jim, what the majority of it?
01:45Not all of it, but see, I disagree with you.
01:48It's they're back to when it comes to the defense on this team to allowing dudes to
01:58hang out in front of the net and to get a rebound.
02:03They're not clearing guys out.
02:05It's the same thing that you've seen for the last couple seasons when it comes to those
02:09guys.
02:10I think that's just the Florida Panthers effect.
02:12Like, I think you'll see.
02:13I think you will look at tomorrow night's game and go, wow, this team looks entirely
02:16different.
02:17And then you'll be the Canadians.
02:19Yeah.
02:19It's just going to be a different game.
02:21And it won't be the first game of the season.
02:24And I think the Bruins will look a lot different.
02:26Well, the concerning thing that I could potentially have, it's not an issue right now, because
02:34I said it's the first game.
02:36But the concerning thing, and he said it, and he's been saying it for a couple of years,
02:41is we look slow.
02:43We started off slow in this game.
02:45They did look slow throughout the whole games.
02:48Because they were going to get a bump from raising the banner.
02:51Like, I, you know.
02:53Right.
02:53But I would think that you would, as the opponent, would want to spoil banner night and would
02:58have the, be able to match their energy.
03:01Oh, hold on a second.
03:02When you're talking about raising the banner, I have to do this.
03:08So freaking annoying.
03:10And so Florida.
03:12And so non-original six.
03:17If I could be a hard-o for a moment.
03:19It's so hokey.
03:20It's so awful.
03:25I don't get the rats.
03:26Panthers are eating.
03:30Oh, God.
03:31Time for the panther to eat.
03:33I don't get the rats.
03:35The kachuk thing.
03:37They're the Florida panthers.
03:39So the rats thing is for kachuk?
03:41Yeah, kachuk is known as the rat king.
03:43Okay.
03:46I just didn't get when they throw rats on the ice.
03:48I was like, what's that for?
03:49Well, New Whalers knows more about hockey than I do.
03:52I'm looking at the Twitch chat.
03:53What do you say?
03:54I mean, I played the game.
03:55I don't know if New Whalers played the game.
03:56Did you play the game, New Whalers?
03:59I actually enjoy talking about hockey.
04:02Between that and the NFL, my two favorite sports.
04:04I don't know what to tell you, New Whalers.
04:06Well, I like talking puck.
04:08Who doesn't?
04:09New Whalers.
04:11You want to come in one morning and regale us with your intricate knowledge of the game?
04:16You're welcome to do so.
04:17But aren't we at the point now where it's like for the diehard Bruins fans,
04:23when is this team going to win another cup?
04:25For people that have become Bruins fans for it seems like the past five to seven, eight years,
04:31they always have a good team.
04:34Isn't the next step similar to how we viewed the Celtics?
04:38When are you going to win that next cup?
04:42When are you going to show that you are now a team that can contend year in and year out
04:49when you have the talent?
04:50And I don't know if it was Courtney, maybe you might have asked this question a while back,
04:54or we had this conversation.
04:57I know it was more around Bergeron and feeling like,
05:01did he underachieve with his career as far as when it comes to winning?
05:05When you start to look at this Bruins team for whatever it is,
05:11the past 15 years or since 2011,
05:15do you feel like this team has underachieved with the talent that they have?
05:20And aren't your expectations like,
05:23what is it going to take for them to get back to that point?
05:27Great question, Wiggs.
05:30I think it's hard when you look at the talent as you've had this nucleus,
05:34the same for so long.
05:36So when are they going to make the jump?
05:38And you could say, well, they used to be constantly in contention
05:42and they've had a drop off since then.
05:44Well, if that's the case, then you've got to kind of restructure the entire thing.
05:50You don't count making the playoffs being in contention?
05:53In the NHL, everybody makes the playoffs.
05:56Yeah.
05:56And then it's about, all right, making the playoffs versus really-
06:01Looking good in the playoffs.
06:02Having a chance to compete for a championship.
06:06Yeah.
06:06All right, you even said it.
06:07You go, I asked you yesterday, I said,
06:09do you think this roster and this team's good enough to contend for a championship?
06:16Well, you said good enough to make it to the final.
06:18Yes.
06:18And I said, no, I don't think it is.
06:20But P.K. Subban would disagree.
06:23He's picking the Bruins to get there.
06:24So I don't know.
06:26I mean, you definitely, like when it comes to being physical,
06:30which they need on the blue line, you theoretically added that with Zdorov.
06:35Like, he should be way more physical.
06:38And he will.
06:38I have my issue with Carlo.
06:40My issue with Carlo goes back a while.
06:43Like, he just is not as physical as he needs to be.
06:48They're not clearing guys out in front of the net.
06:50And you know what they continue to do?
06:52And even the, uh, Zdorov, is that's how you say his name?
06:55Yes.
06:56They continue to be sloppy with the puck.
06:59Turn the puck over like defensemen forwards.
07:03And I don't know what that comes from.
07:04We'd have to ask Milbury, you know, what that comes from.
07:07Is that just a lack of focus?
07:09Do you want the rat origin story from your guy, T.C.?
07:13Please.
07:14I'd love to know where it comes from.
07:15Hey, T.C.
07:17What's up, guys?
07:18So the rats, uh, Scott Melanby back in, um, 96, I want to say, because that was the year
07:23they, uh, Florida went to the finals and got swept by Colorado.
07:27They upset my penguins in game seven of the Eastern Conference finals, but Scott Melanby
07:31killed a rat in the locker room.
07:33And that's, uh, that's kind of how the rats all started.
07:36That started that year.
07:39Like in the locker room, killed a rat.
07:41Yeah, that's how that all started.
07:44T.C.
07:47I didn't know because I was, I was always hunting prey.
07:51I was wondering why they throw rats out on the ice when they're the panthers.