"Changes have to come". Could Brad Marchand be on the move? Bruins legend Mike Milbury joins!
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00:00Hello Mike. Good morning you know I never know what to expect on the show but I
00:05know it's gonna be deep and scholarly and Wiggy's passion about and knowledge
00:10about the Hulk was really a revelation to me. He's a huge Marvel guy, right Wiggy? Yeah, I am a massive comic book movie nerd guy not really the comic books themselves.
00:22Well don't stop there I mean the discussion about pick the nit or nitpicky or
00:26whatever was was tremendous yeah just tremendous and Paragon Park I have a
00:30question for you Greg. Yes. Did you ever ride the roundup? It's a roundup but did
00:36you people would get sick on like yeah yeah yeah stand on yes I did it was a
00:40round you walk into the the ride and it was just a round room and they spun
00:47the room as fast as you possibly can and they they dropped the floor right so
00:52there's no floor beneath you right they have one and they did yeah it was it
00:57was crazy and most people just came off the come off the ride and just threw up
01:02all over the place. It's a wonderful experience. The thing that is burned
01:06indelibly in my mind because I was probably like I don't know eight or nine
01:10years old when my parents took me there if they had a dude who was riding a
01:15motorcycle and they had a giant like hole in the ground and he would ride the
01:21motorcycle up the hole sideways yeah like doing round because they would do
01:26it in a circle like things sometime in this it was it was terrifying to watch
01:31because you were afraid for the guy right it was there was a talent they did
01:34and the room Mike's talking about I think I remember this it was all copied
01:38the walls were copied so you'd stick to the walls and then they had the outdoor
01:43version of it right Mike where it was like you were basically chained to this
01:47thing it was like almost like a sex dungeon. It always gets there. Greg, can I ask you a total non sequitur question?
01:56I think you'd appreciate this you know we watch movies in the 50s and
02:00everybody's smoking a cigarette and nobody judges the people like they're
02:05dumb for smoking a cigarette in the movie because they didn't know then what
02:09we know now why do we not excuse what they say because it's what everybody
02:13said that you know what I'm saying like nobody's like what a moron he's having a
02:18cigarette what a dink he's driving without a seatbelt he doesn't have air
02:22bags like it's so backwards anyway back to hockey. Credit where credit is due
02:28and I don't know if I want to reveal all the details yet when it comes to road
02:32shows but Mike Milbury working overtime for no compensation Wow setting up the
02:38very first North Shore road show for this for this program. Well we're hoping
02:43to complete that process and we've got a lot of pieces in place and
02:47hopefully your guy Ken will figure it out yeah he's a little slow on the take
02:54sometimes. Curtis says that a lot. He's not all together with it. He's having a rough week. He was asking me about some
03:05accommodations though seems very nice what Mike Milbury has put forth. Well we're talking to the Hotel
03:11Beauport and my sister has a restaurant in Rockport my place by the sea and
03:15we're in negotiations deep and dirty and we'll hopefully have good news in the
03:20next couple of weeks. Sounds like a bougie spot. It's very nice. It is very nice. Nice rooms. All right well
03:27speaking of not being fully with it let's get to the Bruins. The other night
03:33somebody in Twitch wanted me to ask you if you have ever been on a team that
03:38gave up two hat tricks in a game. I don't think I ever have I don't I don't know
03:45that I've ever been part of a team either as a player coach or manager who
03:50gave up double hat trick it was unusual for sure but I you know what was
03:57disappointing about the whole game not just this double hat tricks was you know
04:02they're clinging to a playoff spot and mediocrity but the formula is should be
04:08simple and they they used it against I think it was Ottawa and the Avalanche it
04:14was two nothing and three one wins right going into the Buffalo game the you
04:19follow this formula it's conservative play except that it's defense first
04:23because you don't have enough people to score goals you got to get great
04:25goaltending and shoot the puck whenever you can and hope for dirty goals and they
04:30just went into Buffalo who's last place in the conference and really miserable
04:35and they they just they didn't show up they faded back I know listen their top
04:43three defensemen were out of the lineup and you have to give them some
04:46recognition that that's going to be painful for them in some ways even
04:50though their top three defensemen haven't been playing to their level it's
04:54still a big hole to fill but that didn't seem to be any passion there didn't seem
04:59to be any physicality there didn't seem to be any want in that game from the
05:05Bruins and that is that is a bad sign well it seems like they might get
05:09McAvoy back tonight well that that's you know that's a start I don't know how I
05:15don't who knows these days they keep the injuries a secret but McAvoy is out with
05:20whatever ails them and Lindholm forever has been out with an ailment I guess
05:25Carlo just got sick but you know that they're gonna get back to 100% healthy
05:30and then still what are they they're a middle-of-the-pack team that has to
05:35follow the formula that I just outlined in order to get successful and and I
05:40don't know if they're buying it from Joe Sacco or they certainly weren't against
05:46Buffalo and they they look dispirited which you can get that way in the middle
05:50of the season and I'll tell you what they're they're facing a bunch of games
05:56before this break that are going to be very difficult for them I think it's a
05:59Winnipeg a couple times against the Rangers who now have a heartbeat and
06:03look like the team that we thought they might be at the beginning of the year
06:06Minnesota who's a formidable and surprisingly so opponent and and Vegas
06:12who's Bruce Cassidy has them playing near the top of the Western Conference
06:16so those those games going into this absurd four nations tournament is they're
06:23gonna be very important well laid that up by the way the four nations term what
06:27the hell is that you know you don't even have we don't even have Russians in
06:31there no checks in there what I don't know who's missing but it's just do the
06:35Olympics and then forget about the other stuff please that's a big NHL PA thing I
06:40think is that what that is we're driving yeah cuz I've seen the commercials for
06:43it and I think we're gonna I believe we will have the the president of the NHL
06:48PA the great Marty Walsh in here next week he's not that great if he's given
06:52us this crappy tournament Jesus give me a break come on Mike to your point about
06:58Sako right now it was concerning after that loss to hear Brad Marchand saying
07:03that they can't afford to not be prepared for games like that that's a
07:07coaching issue correct and does that mean that you need to do a full retool
07:12or overhaul whatever you want to call it when it comes to coaching staff you know
07:16it's it's it's not just the coach the coach has to have you prepared mentally
07:21and then has to have you you know with the game plan here's here's how we're
07:25gonna approach this here's what we have to do but each guy has to be ready has
07:31to get ready himself you know has to you know wake up in the morning and start to
07:35think about the game start to think about the opponents start to know what
07:38kind of role he plays in this in the outcome of this game so it's yeah it's
07:43incumbent upon Sako to get people ready but it's incumbent upon the players
07:47themselves to motivate themselves it's just it's that simple and it looks like
07:52they're having trouble doing that and that means to me you're gonna have to
07:56make some changes you're gonna have to shake it up you're gonna have to rattle
07:59cages and you know I know it's a touchy-feely world now isn't it Wiggy
08:03it's nice but sooner or later you have to rattle the cage and make people take
08:11notice and and serve consequences Mike when you look at this not lunch when you
08:18look at this team and kind of like where they are do they need to like maybe go
08:22back and take a page out of Claude Julian's book when you're a team that
08:26doesn't really carry the puck well into the zone or pass the puck well into the
08:31zone of more of like a dump-and-chase type of hockey team and try to get goals
08:35that way I don't want to get too into the hockey weeds yeah you know well you
08:39can get in there Wiggy because they need you need to get in there when they're
08:43playing like this I mean remember a couple years ago when they had the set
08:46the records and they you know they maneuvered the puck with incredible
08:51skill and and owned it and then won most of their games with what looked like
08:56brilliant skill and then they felt they fell flat because they played a team in
09:02Florida that was driven by character not by style and now the team doesn't have
09:08that kind of level of skill and they have to find the drive that can be
09:13successful and whether it's you you quoted Claude Julian school of thought
09:17and might as well be Don Cherry in my era you get the puck to your wingers
09:21along the wall they they they somehow hammer it out you get it in deep you
09:26drive after it and you you have body contact whenever you can and and keep it
09:31simple but it's it's a it seems beyond this team's grasp to get that right now
09:38and it's that to me means changes have to come Mike there was a report this
09:43week from Elliot Freeman up in Elliot Friedman in Canada about the Bruins
09:48potentially dealing Marcia and if they are out of it at the deadline what do
09:52you put the chances of that actually happening doesn't happen very often when
09:57you you know you got a lifelong Bruin of his caliber you know the probably the
10:05best left wing in Bruins history no offense to Johnny Busek but this is a
10:09guy that's done it all he's but I've said it before on the show you like why
10:17wouldn't you go to a guy like Martian and say listen Brad doesn't look like
10:20we're ready to hang another Stanley Cup banner and the rafters here we got to
10:26make some changes and your contract is up and you can go someplace like name a
10:31team that's close to being a Stanley Cup champion and you can get another chance
10:35at the brass ring and maybe extend your career with contract at the level that
10:40you have now or just below it or who knows maybe you will sign you back here
10:43in a year and and but give it a try and give us a chance to get another asset
10:48for you I don't know why that conversation can't happen you think it
10:52has to happen with him though like I think you have to give him the
10:55consideration for his his his loyalty his effort and and also and I have no
11:01idea what his trade restrictions are but I think even if you even if no matter
11:09what you have to have a conversation with him if you decide that's the time
11:12to go and if you decide this somebody there that wants to give you a sizable
11:16asset for what could be a significant pickup at the trading deadline but right
11:22now I mean all everything should be on the table because it was in there right
11:28on the bubble of a playoff spot but I don't know of anybody that thinks
11:33they're gonna make a deep run Mike so so how do you change it because they are
11:38like a bubble playoff team if you're the GM in the offseason you have to be or
11:44you're thinking about like how do we change it and get back to where we can
11:47actually compete for a cup like what what's the thought process in your mind
11:53or what you would be doing going into the offseason to try to get them back to
11:58you know being a real cup contender you know that they haven't had many draft
12:04picks over the last few years they've traded them away in an attempt to win a
12:07Stanley Cup I would be focusing on at the deadline trying to move whatever
12:13assets I have in hand for for draft picks and then you know use those draft
12:19picks wisely come June and and also take a better swing in free agency they made
12:26a swing in free agency this past offseason with Lindholm and Zdorov and
12:29they whiffed they whiffed there Lindholm is he's playing third line he's good
12:34he's a good face-off guy that's not what the door is on the best the only line
12:39they have though so you gotta give him some credit for that say that again
12:41that's really the only line they have well line I mean it's not exactly
12:47Lindholm is not exactly pumping goals into the net at I think he's got eight
12:52now that's that's for a guy that's getting paid that kind of money and the
12:57door off is a penalty machine he's got 115 penalty minutes now doesn't really
13:02scare anybody once in a while he had growls and you know takes a swat at
13:07somebody but it's not it's not this whole thing is not working right now and
13:11and and so they have to try to find a way to delete themselves of some some
13:17assets that will bring draft picks in get their people in line to know that
13:22this is a critical draft season and then maybe look at free agency where they can
13:28take another swing but but it's got you know it's got to be better than what
13:32what happened last year with Lindholm and Zdorov okay well it doesn't sound
13:37that positive but maybe they can turn no it's not and you know what I don't like
13:41I didn't what I didn't like is when Joe Sacco's pulling the gold and when
13:44they're completely out of it it's discouraging for a team you know I know
13:49it's a it's a stamp that says oh geez I'm not gonna quit I'm not gonna quit
13:52well you're down by three goals you think you're gonna get three three goals
13:55and it would they wind up making it look even worse than it than it was so it's
14:00it's not a good spot right now then their schedule is tough and I'll talk to
14:06you next week shine you didn't ask him about your lead this morning oh yeah
14:12Mike the Utah Hockey Club's name fight like the final list of names came out
14:18and it's down to Utah Hockey Club Utah Mammoth and the Utah Wasatch do you have
14:24a flying fart about that perfect that's kind of what I expected and that's a
14:32promo that's a good team though you talk flying farts all right we'll talk
14:39to you talk to you again next week that's classic I actually like the Utah
14:49Hockey Club yeah I love Washington football club because that's a big
14:54soccer thing right yes I feel like that's pretty cool