This late game trend should have Bruins fans worried

This late game trend should have Bruins fans worried

Well the Bruins are going on but really they’re coming home now after this uh well you know a week ago it was oh they need to get out of town and they get five of eight points on the trip but it feels really Hollow because of whether

It’s an overtime loss or a loss in a shootout or even a win in a in a shootout uh last night the Bruins you know again pasta gets them up early pasta is really the only guy offensively with any sort of heartbeat you turn around and you look and the Bruins are

4-3 losers in a shootout once again and the bigger question like for me Christian it’s not so much the what happens in overtime or what happens in a shootout it’s the why are they going to overtime because the it’s one thing I do hate about the NHL but I get it because

Of TV constraint is that the rules are different in the regular season than they are in the postseason once you go to overtime you know uh this is the unique situation of getting the three on three and you’re just looking to there are when you go to overtime it’s real overtime come the

Playoffs but I think Christian the bigger question is is there a mental hangup with this team to where they have a 3-2 lead and then they blow it late and then they’re going into multiple overtime come the postseason and completely draining themselves so I don’t know if it is so much what has

Happened in overtimes and shootouts as it is is there a real problem in why they keep going to overtime and is that potentially the Fatal flaw yeah and it’s um and if you could even if just go to last night’s game uh soar had a really boneheaded play where he’s trying to

Knock the puck out of the air out of the zone and it Ricochet off somebody else and he gives up a goal that that that you could literally look to that one particular goal and say well that could have been the difference of the game so then they they’re leading one nothing

Then they’re tied 1-1 now they’re then they’re up 2-1 then they’re tied 22 then they go down 3-2 then they tie it up at 3 three it’s amazing it is a it is a lot it’s almost like you know they sit there so they they can’t hold a lead and why

Can’t they hold it and then in the third period do they just you know is it just too much complacency is it too much just okay we’ve been been here before we’ll figure it out I honest to God I don’t know cuz if you hear if you listen to

Montgomery you know he doesn’t seem worried cuz I would say is this time like is this is this something that you should be focusing on of something that will come back to bite you in the postseason here’s a little bit of Monty after the game not only talking about

Overtime but other you know everything that kind of goes into what Christian just talked about and we talked about it in between the second about being aggressive um offensively so that we could you know you know we want to have a uh Killer Instinct also extend leads

So is it lack of focus is it I know I don’t think it’s I don’t know no I I I think it’s um sometimes when you’re in that situation and things don’t go well you wait for things to happen instead of making things happen I think we’re waiting for things to happen

We don’t have the right attitude to start Thirds with the lead okay so the whole Killer Instinct I heard poso talk about this also somebody asked him about it because this is the new narrative they don’t have a Killer Instinct that that’s the new narrative reporter asked

Poso about it kind of hmed and hot and didn’t really answer it Montgomery offically mentioned it himself which I was surprised by to be honest with you and I would just say like what does that even mean like to me sometimes the whole Killer Instinct is such a kind of a

Vague term like you’re you’re trying to score you’re hoping to score you’re you’re being aggressive but like maybe you know they just played a little bit better maybe you don’t have the right Personnel so even though you have one guy that’s getting all the goals I don’t know if it actually I don’t

Really know if it if that’s the actual answer like is the reason why they are losing these overtime games because they don’t have a killer instinct no I think it is more rooted in defense and there is the back stop of overtime and the shootout and again you know you look at

It and it’s not like the Bruins didn’t come away with points on this trip it’s the damn you know in this instance it was you were down 3-2 scored to tie it then went to overtime I don’t know how that isn’t some level of say Killer Instinct or or and and Killer Instinct

Might be wrong it at least shows you there’s fight and there’s fire in this team and it isn’t just well we’re up 3-2 and we gave up a goal now it’s tied woe is me I don’t think that is this group and I also don’t think that Monty is

Just sort of like whistling past the graveyard and is completely blind to what is going on on but I do think there is the heavy kind of Reliance in the belief that okay it’s five on five in overtime in the postseason we play real hockey after 60 Minutes still in the

Postseason and that’s what the Bruins are built for really what they need I think Christian they they need a bit of a shakeup they need a jolt and that’s where it a jolt of what CU they’ve been moving the lines around for a while now no they need uh they they need another

Body it it it’s now time in my opinion for the Bruins where you you’ve got to consider flipping olark because he’s the guy who makes more money and the Bruins You could argue if the Bruins got another defenseman if they could find a a top four defenseman in a trade for

Omark now it sort of resets everyone you re refresh the defense you bring in another body you get arguably one of those olds off the ice you know and and I’m not down on ChatOn Kirk don’t get me wrong or anything like that but I I I’m

You’re also missing lindol who Hur well and and look I know lenus has been uh I know sorry Lindholm has been hurt forbo got suspended for a game because he missed a meeting like that that’s never good but Don sweene go don Sweeney’s got to do something to sort of shake this up

A little bit Mark and Medford withr and forier hello Mark I don’t want to hear the lind Hol is hurt crap because lindol has been missing all year the guy was a norish trophy candidate last season the guy’s a shell of himself right now I wouldn’t

Mind not seeing him grizzli or Carlo on the ice ever again and yes trade Almar there is no need to have two number one goalies if busy is the goalie they say he is then he’s more than adequate enough to back up Jeremy San Mark early

Morning hockey call I love it to bring to fire here’s the thing with with uh don Sweeney in this trade deadline um last year it was obvious they believed that they had a legitimate chance at the Stanley Cup legitimate chance puszi uh orav on Hathaway right so they

And then they gave up all their first round picks they don’t have a first round pick this year they only have I think four well they they they gave up their one two and three for the 24 draft and they have their first and third rounder in

2025 I do believe the second round 25 pick was a part of the garnet halfway deal so if you believe that last year they they they were all in so they obviously made Moves I just don’t know like if it’s worth it to trade olark unless you get something significant

That you believe will legitimately help you win a Stanley Cup because you’re going to want to trade him and move him when the value is there and the return is something like really good right and I don’t know if they can do that this year or if they even think it’s worth it

Because they know this year was so much different than last year like last year breaking records everybody thought that was their time it didn’t work out do you think that they believe they have a Stanley Cup team yeah how could they not then then then they should trade then

They should treat it the same way they did last year I don’t think they do I I don’t I don’t know do do the other teams with 82 points at the top of the NHL look around and go nah we’re not really a contender like that that makes no

Sense to me whatsoever but if last year was the indicator of them declaring to the hockey world that they were there and then they chased it right did they not oh well yeah they but they had every good reason to agree and do you think

It’s the same this year well yeah oh I don’t think so Christian it’s not it doesn’t last year’s team doesn’t matter it’s what matters is the rest of the league and relative to the rest of the league the Bruins are one of the top four contenders for the the Stanley Cup

I mean I yeah I I I don’t know what I don’t know how last year ties into this year other than there’s a depletion of assets which I think now forces Don Sweeney to have to say I’m going to have to pluck somebody off the roster to go

Make a move and the money issue with that they’re going to have to take away to add they have no money to add and there are a lot of teams like that so I think when you look across the NHL I think there could end up being some

Matches but then again it’s got to work for everybody

Gresh and Fauria discuss the Bruins recent shoot-out loss to the Seattle Kraken which notched their 14th overtime loss on the year. As the NHL trade deadline looms, the guys discuss what MUST be done so the B’s can bring home a Cup.

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