Should Pasta be the next #Bruins captain? McAvoy? Bruins legend Mike Milbury joins and weighs in! Who should be the next coach for Boston? #NHL
Is Wayne Gretzky the most dominant player in all of sports history? #NHL Bruins legend Mike Milbury weighs in!
Is Wayne Gretzky the most dominant player in all of sports history? #NHL Bruins legend Mike Milbury weighs in!
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00:00good morning mike good morning guys or should i say
00:03nailed it how are you are you gonna spend some time with the masters this weekend
00:11yeah maybe a little i'm not that glued to the television i mean it's you know it's a big event
00:17for golf i play badly but i'll i'll watch it a little bit i'm not gonna i'm not gonna be glued
00:23to the television all weekend thinking it's the wiggy will not well he acts like he won't watch
00:28a minute of it i won't i will not turn on is it on regular television or is it like on the golf
00:34channel it's on espn yeah i think it's espn today and then we go cbs on saturday or tomorrow cbs i
00:42think like you can catch a lot of it like on paramount yeah i will not watch one second of
00:47it i'm gonna finish pinky blinders cap ain't no can't believe that yeah it is believe that i hate
00:53golf this is the first time you watch pinky blinders uh yeah i'm i'm first time i've watched
00:57him so i'm on season five right now it's dark isn't it i love it i love all british shows
01:03pause i'm a bbc guy what are you uh what are you doing this afternoon um probably watch a few
01:13little pinky blinders hit the gym what are you again and then i might what are you doing this
01:17i might come to your master's event you're coming to a master's party oh that's fraudulent
01:22no but i won't watch it i'm going there for the uh braggio mozzarella wraps no i uh i think it's
01:28the reason why i'm going clear this morning you jumped on courtney and said oh i'm out where is
01:33the event who watches golf you're gonna you're attending a master's party where's the master's
01:38party at the capitol grill okay i like uh you really think i'll be watching um anything it's like
01:44when we go to marathon monday i don't look up at the television i'm there for the the wraps and the
01:49lollipop lamp chops all right uh all right i'm gonna go to the forum for the uh the debate on
01:55new police station in mashpee tonight oh 37 million it's a you should see it there's rats running all
02:01over the place in the police station it's terrible and then they're not even in the jail cells oh i
02:06mean certainly the cape is overrun by aggressive tourists all summer long so you probably you gotta
02:13have probably need a new police station i mean no question about it it's it's uh it's not safe it's
02:18not fair and and these are guys that we count on right there's another question i have for you
02:23though um when we go to my sister's place my place by the sea in june she usually has hump day on
02:29wednesday which is like bringing a dj and dancing oh okay do you want to want to have that switch to
02:34thursday or she just go with a regular quiet meet and greet yes let's do it thursday so we're gonna have
02:40a dj and all that yeah oh curtis doesn't want a dj i mean it's a lot it's a lot of noise
02:46greg you can get back to your grinding days all right you and dms maybe you can even get on the
02:51ones and twos get back to your old school days playing some of that those records oh i could jump
02:56on yeah the on the wax yeah spin some wax that's it bring some of your brings to bring your crate
03:01with your records i i know top five like off the top of my head top five records that gets everybody
03:08out on the dance floor all right um what are they so well oh you're a savior okay i got you i'd
03:14probably start uh with give it up by casey and the sunshine band okay this poor dj is gonna get
03:21judged the entire time greg's gonna be like i wouldn't do that here baby give it up then i would
03:26probably what about hot stepper i'd probably go from that to i would probably go to uh december 1963
03:36oh what a night oh what a night by the four seasons uh then maybe a little hot chocolate
03:43chocolate okay uh and then uh i would probably segue into a right said fred i'm too sexy i would go
03:51old school banger that is not only a dance like a little dance uh number but also you can sing along
03:57probably go with uh build me up buttercup oh way to push out all of your audience forget about the dj
04:03and just hire greg yeah that's what i'm saying that was a great job by greg because when you get
04:07really old you need to have time to think of the names of the songs so he did these preambles as a
04:12means of acting like he was explaining it but he was really searching for the title and then i'll
04:15finish off with don't stop believing i'd probably finish up with uh classic a long time classic all
04:22bong song okay oh that gets the people going it really does that gets the people going mike are you
04:30a big dancer uh well after a certain number of alcoholic beverages i will be known to shake a leg
04:40wow but it's ugly it's ugly um so uh wiki had an interesting lead this week about alex ovechkin
04:49um you want to get mike milbury to weigh in on that oh yeah so mike i it was really about wayne
04:54gretzky more than anything where i said i think what wayne gretzky did he was the most my opinion
05:02most dominant player in all of sports history in any sport in any sport
05:09wow statistically because he was so far ahead and when i went and looked i was like all right
05:17looking at some of these guys and i'm like this guy had four 200 point seasons and the closer
05:27closer active player is at 150 but during that time it was he was so far ahead of everybody else
05:34dominance wise and i don't count championships i'm just strictly talking about
05:38his dominance as a how would you say it's statistical player yeah yeah you know what was
05:45amazing about him is he he never quit on a shift like the score could be six to two in favor of
05:54of his team and the next shift he'd be looking for more he never stopped looking for more that was and
06:00that was a remarkable thing a lot of guys that just put it into neutral when the game gets out of
06:04control but he he never did that he just kept on pushing kept on looking for opportunities to you
06:10know push the envelope further and and uh that's why he's the greatest mike it doesn't seem as uh
06:18impressive now after when you're talking about ovechkin but a pasta having another 100 plus point
06:24season is his third straight for a guy like that do you take into account how dominant he is on the ice as
06:32the potential for captain next season do the guys inside a dressing room uh respect a guy like that
06:39more i think you need to have a captain that has a resume but you also have to cap have a captain that
06:45has some ability to relate um i think the kid has matured i don't know what other choices there are in
06:51the locker room maybe charlie mcavoy but he hasn't quite found his stride i i think pasta
06:56i probably will get it but you know it's it's to me it's um it's a great honor but it's a little bit
07:03overrated you know just because you put a c on your sweater doesn't mean all of a sudden you're
07:08going to captain the ship that belongs to the coach i mean it's it's a great honor and there are certain
07:13responsibilities to go with it you know you need to straighten people out when they get out of line
07:17or you need to encourage people to do more at certain points but by and large i mean pasta nox ability
07:24to put the puck in the net is far more important than whether he wears a c or not his team has gone
07:29through several coaches the past few seasons what what kind of a guy would you look for if you were
07:36cam neely and don sweeney to coach his team going forward he has to fit the profile of the team that
07:41they're going to put together and that team is not going to be middle-aged i i would assume
07:45they're going to be young they're going to be um probably in need of training they're going to be in
07:52need of of you know reigning in once in a while you know when guys are in their young 20s or early
07:5820s mid 20s they're likely to be a little bit more frisky and a little less focused so i'm looking at
08:04a younger guy i'm looking at somebody that's probably right now is probably grooming people
08:11at the college level or maybe at the american league level i don't have enough of a handle on who
08:16the personnel would be but i'm looking for somebody that's young that can communicate that can relate
08:21and it still has enough chutzpah that he can walk into the room and command it so not one of the
08:26veteran recycled no absolutely towards type people no no that would be i think that would be a great
08:34mistake i think that would be you know you're going to need somebody that can crack the whip once in a
08:39while but it's also you know the the new player here in the new day and age needs to be you know
08:44feathered a little bit from time to time but it's going to take a guy that's that's very current with
08:49a younger player and their attitude and a guy that can can be knowledgeable in the course of
08:56the game change it with some some strategy so i think it's it's a big role but before before that
09:03becomes my concern it's just filling the positions that they need to fill i mean i'm glad that geeky
09:08now has 30 goals that's a great sign pasta with another 100 point season is a great sign lindholm
09:14you know i i don't think he's he's certainly not top line center but at least he's played a little
09:19bit better so it'll give you some hope that maybe he can play on the second line if he's got good
09:23wingers around him but the the personnel is the first and foremost goal of changing this team around
09:29and and um and the coach obviously will be important but um he'll go as far as his good players will
09:35take him mike when you talk about that personnel it it's interesting because how do you go from a team
09:41just a few years ago where you break the nhl record for points in a season and then the following year
09:48you're still a really good team to now one of the worst teams in the nhl with i don't want to say
09:56the same guys but a good group of players is the personnel just that bad on this team where they're
10:05going to have to do a complete overhaul to get back to being a playoff contender you know that it's
10:11i mean they were in playoff contention not long ago they weren't in championship contention not that
10:17long ago but just think of the centers of three years ago when they set the record they had bergeron
10:25they had crechey and charlie coyle was their third line center there wasn't a better lineup in hockey
10:31down the middle i mean there may have been some better players than bergeron or crechey in the
10:36middle but for depth chart purposes it was as good as it gets and that evaporated within you know
10:45the two guys that were up front were were gone and all of a sudden there was nobody there to replace
10:49them they traded away a lot of their draft picks they didn't have anything in providence to look
10:54forward to and now they're stuck with that reality and so it's going to take some magic i don't think
11:00you're going to get guys out of this draft that are going to be impact players in year one you know
11:04maybe down the line you'll get somebody that can play regularly for them i see that there are a lot
11:09of centers in contention for high draft picks but you know they're going to have to be they're going
11:15to have to suffer for a year or two in my opinion and so are we curtis courtney cover your ears uh you
11:22like bu getting it all done when it comes to frozen four beginning this evening i i do i think they have
11:29as good a chance as anybody and they've been there before and the coach seems to have a pretty good
11:35handle on how to crack the whip when he needs to and coax them into a good position i think they i'm
11:41going to be watching that game it should be fun jay pandolfo is a guy that a lot of people bring up
11:46whenever we bring up the next coach of the bruins yeah and i i can see he he would merit consideration
11:53and that's the kind of guy i'm talking about does he have the you know he seemed to be a quiet guy
11:58i mean i don't i'm not looking for you know a huge presence in terms of being a big guy but he has to
12:05have some kind of command of the room i don't know how he does that but certainly his results have been
12:10impressive and he'd have to be in consideration to have a look and they know him mike if this team is
12:18kind of like the roster is depleted of like high-end talent and it looks like it could be
12:25several years to where they're back contending do you think next year is cam and sweeney's like
12:34hot seat year and and if so how do they really how are you able to bring them back after next year
12:42when there's probably a good chance that you're not a very good hockey team you know they they have
12:49to show that the team is heading in the right direction i don't think you can expect a complete
12:54turnaround although you know washington has done it miraculously and in a very short period of time
13:00just two years but they have to show that they've filled some of the spots that need to be filled
13:05particularly at center as i mentioned they have to show that this team can play with consistency
13:12that lindholm can play to his ability and not just kind of dance through another season i know he's
13:16had some he's had missed most of the season he's making a lot of money he's a two defenseman that's
13:22got to play 25 minutes a game and mcavoy has to round himself out so you've got to see
13:28progression swayman i mean swayman's played well in the last couple of games god bless him
13:33needs to go to summer school for social relations i think and learn to keep his mouth shut once in a
13:39while but those guys are you know those are key performers and they have to get back to their
13:43level of of excellence and hopefully pasta mark and geeky stay at where they're at and then they have
13:49to see that the personnel is starting to change that there is some hope in the personnel positions
13:53but they at some at some point they have to be on the hot seat everybody is in this business
13:59mike milbury thank you mark your calendars celebrity bartender and guest dj night on june 26th
14:08at my place by the sea in rockport and that's right okay the pre-game for the road show and we will
14:16talk to you next week mike milbury
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