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Bruins Bringing the Juice! | 2025 Free Agent Day Recap



Bruins Bringing the Juice! | 2025 Free Agent Day Recap

Well, yesterday is over. The Boston Ruins made a ton of signings. I did a couple videos, but I wanted to do a wrap-up because supposedly they’re bringing the juice next year. I’m going to talk about all this in the latest video from Bruins dieards. So, buckle up Bruins fans. I’m here to give you the latest info on your beloved Boston Bruins. If you’ve been liking my Bruins content, please leave me a like and subscribe. If you’ve already done so, thank you. And let’s get into it. So yesterday was Canada Day for me. It was also free agent day and the Boston Bruins after coming out of a stellar draft where we thought the new era is here and the Boston Bruins are going to do something different, they kind of went off the board a little bit on a couple things. I actually do after taking a look at everything and processing it in my brain think some of the moves weren’t that bad. You know, there there’s some and I know there’s some that we’re going to talk about and I’m not going to really talk about in length on one of them because I did a whole video on it. There’s been a lot said on it and it seems to be a polarizing topic right now and definitely talking about Tanner Janelle, but I think there are some good moves they made yesterday, but I also think at the same rate there wasn’t much out there. So, there wasn’t anything that they could do with with regards to the top six besides the trade they made for Arvdson. They could have done a lot more trades. That’s what Sweeney pretty much said he was going to do at the draft before the draft. He kept talking about his trade trade trades and then we see them go out and sign a bunch of players yesterday. They were the one of the most active teams in the NHL. They started off the day with just over $12 million in cap and they ended the day with just over $2 million in cap. They spent a ton of money and in a little part of my brain thinks, imagine if they still had Brad Marshian, they wouldn’t have been able to spend all this money. I also do think that the Bruins definitely were hoping Brock Besser would have been available and that’s a guy they would have pursued. He ends up resigning in Vancouver. That actually ended up being the theme of yesterday. A lot of these big ticket UFAs ended up resigning with their team. Granland actually signed a pretty good deal over in Anaheim. I didn’t think the Bruins even had a chance on him. The Bruins ended up taking a chance. But my biggest issue is going into free agent day yesterday is if you’re going to spend the money, you don’t have to. First off, you don’t have to spend the money. So, if you’re going to go out and do it, your urgency was right side defense or at least some more defense help, but definitely on the right side and scoring. Now to start off with Arvinson, he I guess he adds scoring. My only biggest concern with him is just he’s been injured over the years and over the years and then when you see the Edmonton Oilers fan base all over social media pretty much happy that we took him and yes we didn’t retain they didn’t retain sorry on any of it and the Boston Bruins take him in. My hope is Marco Sturm is right. Don Sweeney said in a press conference yesterday Marco Storm had a lot to do with Arvdson coming to the Boston Bruins. He has had great seasons before. I talked about it in a previous video. He’s been able to score goals. If the Bruins can get 15 plus goals out of him in your top six, I’m happy with it. And it looks like he probably will be in the top six. But Don Sweeney did say in a press conference yesterday he’s going to give the kids, and I’m assuming he’s talking about Lysel, Potra, Miracul, the best chance. Now, it’s interesting he said that because does he give them the best chance? Last season, we saw the likes of Lysel and all those guys during the preseason play bottom six roles. That’s not what they are. If Lysel, Murculov, or even Potra for that matter make the Boston Bruins or they’re not going to make the Boston Bruins. They’re top six players. That’s all they are. They’re offensive upside. I don’t see anything else coming out of these guys. And if you don’t think they’re going to make the Bruins, it’s, you know, trade them. Like, move on from them. Figure it out. Move the pick, move the player, do whatever you got to do, but just move on. stop playing this game and saying that you’re going to give guys opportunity and go out and sign a plethora of bottom six guys that are playing the right way and are going to take their role no matter what. It’s very hard for these kids to come in and inject speed into the lineup and inject some skill in the lineup if you’re just going to be putting in guys that you want to, you know, as Don Sweeney said so eloquently in the press conference yesterday, bring the juice
and during the uh you know, the free agency time frame that we were we were under. Um, and then we went to work on finding, as I referenced, you know, last week, that we were going to put together a competitive team with bringing some juice back in here. And, uh, and that that applies to bringing our, you know, the elevating our current guys and them feeling reinvigorated coming off of of some injuries and a very down year. and uh you know just the responses I’ve had from those guys and realizing how excited some of these guys are to get here and and uh and maybe it is from the from from the bottom up but but the juice is coming and uh and we expect to be a much more competitive team.
I think Arvdson their plan for him is to be in the top six. Marco Sturm has a lot of faith in him. Arvdson has a lot of faith in Marco Sturm. So I think this could work. Like I said if you get 15 plus goals out of the guy it’s a one-year deal. You could trade him at the end of the year if you’re not in a playoff spot. It’s fine. He’s going to get a lot more ice time playing in Boston than he did in Edmonton. So, he’s going to look a little bit more attractive. So, you probably can move him if you’re not in a playoff spot. Still think with the Bruins lineup the way it is, they will be fighting for a wild card spot. They’re not going to be in the top three in their division. They’ll be fighting with either the Montreal Canadians or if say Tampa, Florida or Toronto doesn’t play as well next year and they’re down there, but the Boston Bruins are fighting for a playoff spot next year, the wild card. But you got a lot of teams out in the east, they got a lot better. And I’m not talking about free agency. I’m talking about through trades or other transactions that they’ve made over the offseason. That’s how they got better because I don’t see any team in the NHL besides maybe the Las Vegas Golden Knights who acquired Marner, but that was a signing trade. Got that much better because of the UFA, the free agency period. I I think Anaheim’s going to be a better team next year. Um they’ve done a lot of moves over this off seasonason, but they’ve also done a lot of moves. They only made the the one key free agent signing. So Arvdson I have no issue with at $4 million when you have that much cap space to begin with. It is what it is at this point. You need someone injected into that top six and he’s a low cost on an expiring deal. If you hit lightning in a bottle on this kid, this is amazing. I called him a kid, but that’s just cuz I’m a lot older. But I think Arbitson has speed. He’s shoot mentality. The coach trust him. It’s easy for him to get into the system and play better for us. I’m not saying it’s the the most amazing thing and he’s going to be unbelievable. I’m just saying I have zero issue with this. He is literally what they’ve been talking about. Next guy I want to talk about is they signed Shan Carali yesterday. Again, I don’t really have an issue with this one either. I and I think it has a lot to do with bias and has to do with me knowing the player and knowing everything about him. And I also know that when he left in what was it 2020 21 at the end of the season, the Bruins didn’t want to lose him. They actually would they just didn’t want to overpay for him. And Columbus I think overpaid for him at the time. And if you look at his first year in Columbus in 77 games, he got 14 goals, 16 assists for 30 points. He didn’t in 82 games last year though, he only got six goals and 11 assists for 17 points. I th this is a Oh, this is not that big of a deal. This contract at all. I I have zero issue with Sean Carelli. He’s coming in at 1.8 million per season for the next two years. He’s got leadership. He’s I don’t think he’s going to care whether he’s in and out of the lineup because that’s probably what’s going to happen. I think he’s definitely going to be in the bottom six, you know, with Castellik and um Johnny Beecher and all those guys rotating in that bottom line because we’ve got a ton of those guys that are going to be rotating in and out of those bottom six. But I think Carali knowing players on the team already, everything helps bringing him in. It’s it’s a lot easier to bring this guy in and add some leadership into the dressing room. And Columbus, everything that they’ve said about him after he left is just the leadership. And I know that when he was here previously, he was a guy in the locker room that everybody seemed to like. And and that does do something for you when your team is rebuilding and you’re going to have hopefully a lot of young guys in the room. We’ll see what happens. But at $1.8 million, Corali is whatever. It’s not that big of a deal. That I have zero issue with. It’s not that I have issues with the other contracts. It’s just some of them are head scratchers. This one, I get it. It’s It’s easier on what you know than what you don’t know. And that brings me back to Tanner Jano because I just mentioned it’s interesting what you know and what you don’t know. You had Trent Frederick. You traded Trent Frederick uh pennies on the dollar. You you traded with the Edmonton Oilers last year for pennies on the dollar. A couple picks. Let’s be honest here. Not much did you get back for Trent Frederick. Um he wasn’t good last season but he scored 20 goals or close to it. Sorry. He hasn’t scored 20 goals. Close to having 20 goals in a season more often than not. 10 or no. Yes, he has scored definitely over 20 goals in a season like 5 years ago. Tanner, Jano, you now just signed for 5 years. Yes, the cap hit isn’t that big. It it really isn’t. 3.4 million over a couple years, but at 28 years old, I don’t know. Don Sweeney, as I showed you in the clip before, said he needs guys to bring the juice. And he also mentioned Tanner Jano was brought in for the young guys that are coming down the line. Like he alluded to James Hagens that that’s why Tanner Jano is in the lineup. Well, I got some stats for you here. Everybody says the Boston Bruins need to be tougher. And that’s something as Bruins fans, I guess we pride ourselves on. We need to be tougher. We need to be tougher. Well, guess what? The Boston Bruins had the second most fights in the NHL last year. Guess what? 28th in goals scored. Why did the Boston Bruins lose games last year? It wasn’t because they weren’t tough. They were already tough. One of the toughest teams in the NHL. It’s it’s it’s mindboggling, actually. The whole like the Bruins need to be tougher. And even Sweeney, again, I I love using the term, need to bring the juice. Mark Castelick got more fights than Tanner Jano last year. And I’m going to say this right now. Mark Castelick is tougher than Tanner Jano and adds more to the lineup. He at least wins faceoffs. He at least plays hard in the corner. I haven’t seen Jano in the lineup, but Castelick can at least score goals every now and then. I don’t get it. That I think that’s my issue with this because all it does is tell me that they just didn’t learn. Last year they went out and they got all these guys. Riley Tuy for some reason who they resigned, Max Jones, all these guys. They brought these guys in to be tough, be harder to play against, play the right way, bring the juice, as Don Sweeney loves to say now. It did nothing. In the playoffs against the Florida Panthers, your captain gets concussed and Patrick Maroon was useless. Absolutely useless because the Florida Panthers don’t want to fight you. If you’re playing these teams that play tough like that, they don’t want to fight you. Florida Panthers don’t get in fights. They don’t really do that. They go out there and they’re rats and that’s why they got Brad Marshan. But you can’t play that way if you just think you’re going to fight people. Fun stat for you. The most fight the most fights in the NHL last year, Nashville Predators with 37. Did not make the playoffs. Absolutely terrible. Top 10 pick in the draft. Second in fights, the Boston Bruins, 30 fights. Didn’t have a great season. Top 10 in the draft. Third, Utah Hockey Club or the Utah Mammoth. 30 fights. Again, top 10 pick. But, you know, they’re bringing the juice. They’re tough. San Jose Sharks were fourth with 25 fights. Hey, didn’t they pick in the top five? I just went through the first four teams leading the league in fights, leading the league in toughness, as we would like to call it. And guess what? None of them made the playoffs. Fighting doesn’t win you hockey games anymore. You have St. Louis coming in next. They at least made the playoffs. You got Calgary, Columbus, Buffalo. We all know the Buffalo Sabres, the Minnesota Wild, which oddly enough in a press conference, Don Sweeney alluded to, wants to play more like the Minnesota Wild or the Los Angeles Kings. two teams that got knocked out in the first round. Why do you want to play like them? I I don’t I don’t understand. It made me sound like to me Don Sweeney, all he cared about is just making the playoffs, not winning a Stanley Cup or building a team to win a Stanley Cup. He just cares about making the playoffs. And it sounds like that’s literally how he’s going to keep his job. He either makes the playoffs, doesn’t, he’s fired. That’s what I think because all he cared about is making the playoffs. And then after the Minnesota Wild, you got the Chicago Blackhawks at 20 fights. We all know how much they suck. So again, I’m not saying being tough doesn’t matter. I love guys that are hard in the quarters, hard on forch, hard to play against, be a little rat out there every now and then, get in people’s face, you know, cause havoc, but fighting does nothing. Absolutely nothing. He said teners, you know, makes these guys feel a little bit taller. Doesn’t Mark Castelic do that? You used to say that about Trent Frederick, who he doesn’t make anybody look tough, but Castelick, I thought, already made you feel a little bit taller. Every guy had and you already got Zidor off as well. You have Cast Lix Zador off and Jano now. Yes, look, it’s great. You can punch people in the face a bunch of times, but that’s my issue with Tanner Jano. You need offense. If he doesn’t add it, what’s the point? You’re not going out of there and scaring teams. It’s just not happening anymore. That’s just not the way the NHL works. Show me a different stat that shows me that if you go out and fight that you’re going to win the Stanley Cup or you’re going to have a successful franchise because those stats don’t exist anymore. I had someone in my comments talking about, well, Gretzky had Dave Sankl. That was in the 80s. The 80s. What are we talking about here? You can be, you can disagree with me. I’d love to hear it in the comments because this whole Tanner Jano thing. Yes, the contract isn’t that high of an AAV, but five years, come on. Like, the guy can’t score goals. You’re Tai Anderson said it so eloquently. That’s great. You’re going to go out and fight, but you’re still losing 5-2. Well, what does it matter? Your job is to win hockey games. It’s not to see how many people you can beat up because that doesn’t do anything. Those days of being the big bad Bruins, you can’t do that anymore. It doesn’t work. The Florida Panthers don’t go out there and, you know, beat people up. They go out there and they’re hard on the forche and they piss people off and they get people off their game. All fighting does is put you in the box. You can’t score in the box unless you can like somehow punch a puck in the net. Wait a second. You can’t do that. So that’s my issue with Tanner Jano. They were like, “Oh, he’s a locker room guy.” So is Shan Carali. So was David Pastor Knack. So was Charlie M. You already had locker room guys. You just traded away the whole leadership core. And then some people said, “Oh, Marco Stern brought him in.” I’m sure Marco Stern was asked, “Hey, you had him there.” And he’s like, “Yeah, sure. No problem.” But this was Cam Neely. Cam Neely thinks they need to be tough. They already were tough. That’s my point. They were already tough. It didn’t do anything last year. They got the doors blown off them. They need to be better on the forche, better defensively. They need to move the puck up and they need to score goals. That’s how you’re winning a hockey game, not punching people in the face. Another guy they signed is Alex Steves. 6′ 202 lbs. He’s 25 years old. He’s a bottom six guy. He’s going to be playing in Providence last year. Next year, sorry. In seven games last year for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He got one goal, one assist, two points. Big guy. Shoots left. I don’t know this one. This was just, you know, he plays center. He’s just a guy to go down and play in Providence. If he ends up playing with the Boston Bruins, I could stand corrected, but I don’t think this is much of anything. This is not hurting you. This isn’t anything. It’s not that big of a deal, but he’s definitely playing in Providence. Here’s the one that intrigues me because I’m not going to spend an hour talking about Alex Steves. Mate Blamel, right-winger, was top in scoring in the AHL last year in the Dallas Farm team. and he came to the Boston Bruins and I quote because David Pastnac called him which was one of the things that swayed him going the other way and that he wanted to go to a rebuilding team. We’ve been all saying they’re retooling. Well, he used the words rebuild when he was interviewed why he came to the Boston Bruins. In seven games last year, he got one goal, zero assist for one point. But his AHL stats, okay, in 67 games last year, he got 39 goals, 33 assists for 72 points. Kids got speed. Everybody’s going to knock him on his height. He’s only six foot. Shoots left even though we need help on the right. He’s 25 years old though, but the kid can score. He’s got offensive potential. It was interesting. Everybody was putting out their lineups yesterday and they kept leaving him off. For me, I think this is the dark horse to make this hockey club. I think this is the guy that they actually might have saved their day. As much as I was like, hey, they went out and they got a bunch of fourth liners. They got a bunch of grinders. This guy could be the steel of the free agent period, I think this guy could be the guy. This is what I’m hoping at least. I guess I guess it’s like I’m trying to find a silver lining from what happened yesterday. It’s not like doom and gloom because I didn’t think the Boston Bruins, like I said before, were going to be a Stanley Cup contender next year. They’re a wild cup a wild card contender. Um, so they don’t make the playoffs, you know, gives us a better chance of getting Gavin McKinnon. Um, but I think Lumel, I think this is the kid. This is the kid to watch. 39 goals in the AHL in 67 games is nothing to shake a stick at. The kid can score. That’s what he is. He’s a goal scorer. I’m all in on this kid. And if he’s friends with David Pastnak, that’s a win. He plays right, shoots left. Maybe he’s the guy we want Fabian Lysil to be. Maybe Dallas screwed up by letting this kid go. He was drafted by the Oilers in the fourth round, 100th overall in 2019. And then he gets traded to Dallas. Plays there for a little bit, but Dallas really, they had no room in their lineup to let him play. If you look at the Dallas Stars lineup, where was this kid playing last year? He’s not He’s a top six kid. He isn’t playing in their bottom six, and he’s definitely not playing in their top six. The Boston Bruins might have made a steal with this guy. This is the guy I’m hoping. I’m hoping next on that list, Jordan Harris. Hey, the Boston Bruins went out and got a hometown boy. I know. I know, I know, everybody’s shocked. A left shot defenseman at 5’11. Whatever. Hey, he’s good defensively. He’s very good defensively as a seven defenseman. He could be it. He got 33 career games last year. One goal, four assists, five points. Maybe there’s an offensive upside. He was a 71st overall pick by the Montreal Canadiens in 2019 2018, sorry. But Her Hill, Massachusetts, I know it shocks you when the Boston Bruins bring in kids like this. We’ll see. I He’s a seventh defenseman. It’s not that big of a deal. Like I this is a nothing. This is not that big of a deal. He he was a Hockey East second team all-star in 2021. Whatever. It’s nothing to get excited about. It’s not like he’s going to be playing top six minutes for the Boston Bruins on our on our decor. I wish he was a right shot. Let’s be honest here. I would have maybe been a little bit more excited. But if you know more about this kid, and I’m sure if you’re from the Boston area, his best friend is probably in the chat. Just drop it down. Let me know about this kid. From my understanding, defensively, he’s fantastic and hopefully he turns out to be something. He could be a Boston Bruin years from now and they all get a chance. Sweeney continued to say in the press conference yesterday, he’s going to give everybody a chance to make this team. I find it hard when you bring in a lot of vets that can play the right way is what he said. It’s hard to beat out those guys in the lineup. Next on the list, Michael Easymont, center. As Don Sweeney said, he’s a pain in the butt to play against and that’s why he got him. I’m hoping he’s right. in 77 games. He’s got nine goals, seven assists, and 16 points. I That’s not bad. He played for the Kraken U and Tampa Bay Lightning last year. Four goals in the Kraken in two in 20 games. I have zero issues with this one as well. I think he can be decent. He’s going to be in the bottom six because in a little knock on him, he’s 6′ 191 pounds. Shoots left. Again, don’t know what it is. In the draft, they got a bunch of guys that shoot left. We know they need help on the right hand side and they got a bunch of guys that shoot left. But this guy’s an energy guy. Plays in the bottom six and he’s got a ton of speed. I have zero issue with this one as well. The Bruins need speed. They need offense. Marco Sturm is a shoot coach. He wants people to generate a lot of shots and hopefully they generate offense from that. From all intents and purposes, my understanding on this kid, he plays the right way. He does everything that Don Sweeney continued to talk about. Not a lot of people have him. They have him as like the extra forward on the team next year. I’m hoping he actually makes the lineup. I don’t know where that fits. Uh later on I’m going to try and do a whole roster and see what happens here. Um but hopefully like hopefully he is something because right now we got a whole lot of nothing. Again, you weren’t changing this hockey club in the signings yesterday. But after going through these signings myself, I was less like, oh my god, they got a bunch of bottom six guys, which they did. But they got guys where they’re taking a flyer on. And they got two guys in Eimont that I’m talking about and uh Blue that I think could add some off offensive sparks if they’re allowed to open up. I I think Blume is the the long shot and the one that I hope. But I also hope guys like Potra Lel and all those guys get an actual shot. I saw people saying that they’ve gotten shots and they’re already bust. They’re not busts. But if they don’t work out this year, you need to move on from them. You need to trade them. Stop trying to drag them along. Try and get assets back for these guys. If other teams think that they can change them or get something more because the Boston Bruins do this all the time. We always bring in former first round picks to see if we can get something out of them, move them. Maybe you can trade them to another team that has a a like player that just can’t fit their system. Bring them in. The Bruins have a ton of holes up in that top six. If Lysel doesn’t make it out of camp, he isn’t making this hockey club. It’s just it is what it is. I I think Murcul I think they just gave him a qualifying offer just so they don’t lose him as an asset. I think they’re definitely would trade him if they could. I also don’t think the Boston Bruins are done. I don’t I don’t think what we saw yesterday and we all could get mad. I’m I’m only harping on the Tanner Jano thing because that term is just ridiculous at 5 years. It just doesn’t make any sense. Uh and in fact, if you go along and look everywhere besides Andrew Rayfraftoft, everybody is harping on this deal. No one understands it. Jeff Merrick is like the biggest Tanner Jano fan in the world and he doesn’t even understand why he got five years. I jokingly said the other yesterday, sorry, who were they going up against? Who did they actually negotiate against themselves? Who who like that agent for Tanner Jano, he deserves the biggest raise. He just got you five five years. It whatever. He’s not going to do much, but the Bruins need offense. So hopefully hopefully out of all these guys they got, someone can generate some offense. Cari is not going to generate you offense, but he’s also going to not going to hurt you when he’s on the ice. Again, I I hope Luml can maybe maybe this is we’re all going to come back and go right back to where the draft was when we thought Don Sweeney was actually changing things. But when Don Sweeney said in that press conference that he wanted to be like the Minnesota Wild or the Los Angeles Kings, it dawned on me he just cares about making the playoffs this year. Doesn’t care about winning the Stanley Cup. Doesn’t care about winning the Stanley Cup in the future. He cares about making the playoffs this year because his job’s on the line. And I get it. If my job was on the line, I’d be the exact same. We’re going to have a different coach. We’re going to see a different attitude. We’re going to see a different team. Until these guys hit the ice, everything I’m saying now doesn’t really even matter. It doesn’t. I’ll be the first to admit it. I could be totally wrong. I could look terrible. I had people in the comments saying, “We know gets 20 goals.” Then I will do a video saying, “I was wrong and I am so happy about this.” because in the end of the day, I just want the Boston Bruins to be successful. We got a bright future with some of the kids they picked up in the draft. Development camp looks like it’s going great, but again, these kids are playing against like peers. They’re not playing against NHL talent. We definitely need Swayman to have a better year. And that also brings me to the last thing I wanted to chat about. It sounds like more uh Corpusal isn’t going anywhere, which is hilarious. Ty Anderson asked straight up the question to Don Sweeney, and Sweeney said that uh he’s going to have the goalies all fight. So you now are potentially going to put one of them on waiverss. He said if Corposal doesn’t make the team because DPro has a phenomenal training camp, then he’s going to have that tough conversation. So that tells me that they’re going to go in with all three of them and then one of them’s going to get put on waiverss and then hopefully not claimed, but odds are they’re going to get claimed. Corposal is not a hard contract to move at a $3 million cap hit. It’s not hard at all. So it it can happen. I still think it needs to because I just I don’t understand where he fits in with this hockey club. The Boston Bruins need to start showing kids that they can make this roster, not telling them they can make this roster. If you show no kids actually making the roster and anybody’s actually moving up from Providence, where’s your motivation? I know people say you should be motivated enough to make the NHL, but if you try, try try and you don’t get to play in the NHL, what’s the difference? The Boston Bruins are a bunch of lunch pale kids, which is fine. It’s fine, but you can’t spend the whole year relying on David Passion and Morgan Geeki to lift you up and score goals to make this team win. Otherwise, you’re going to be losing a lot of 5-2 games. We’re going to see a lot of people next year blaming the goalending again when you’ve got no one to move the puck up the ice. If the puck’s in your zone the whole time, eventually it’s going to go in the net. You can forche, you can fight, you can be tough, you can do whatever you want, but if the puck’s in your zone the whole time, it’s going in. You know, they brought in Steve Spot to make this power play better. I hope so. And I think guys like Lumel, like you can see little spots like these guys all came from their former teams. Hey, I’m here for it. Show me. Prove me wrong, Don Sweeney. Prove me wrong. I would love to be wrong about everything I’ve seen here. And I think I’ve pretty much, if I go through this whole thing, it’s really just the Tanner Jano contract that really bothers me. The other ones, they’re nothing. I think if Tanner Jano isn’t signed yesterday, the internet isn’t as mad. We’re not the laughingtock. You know, Steve Dangle podcast makes fun of the Boston Bruins like three or four times. NHL Network makes fun of the Boston Bruins about this. It seemed to be the laughing stock of free agent period yesterday because I think it also was one of the first signings. So, it was gave them something to talk about before all these signings started to come through. And it was also one of the first signings. Was the Boston Bruins talking to him before? Because that does happen. And I don’t care about this tampering thing. Like that happens. But like gez, they signed him real quick. Hey, it seemed to be their target. Seemed to be the guy they wanted. Don Sweeney, prove us right. We’re going to have two guys in Castelik and Jano that are probably going to play on the same line that are going to be unbelievably tough. You’re going to have your fourth line just go out there and I guess scare people. We We’ll see. We’ll see what happens. Or they’ll just have stage fights over all the time when they’re already losing and it won’t really matter. and hopefully build the team up. Hey, I’m hoping Jano is a great locker room guy. We already know Corali is. It’s not all doom and gloom. We still got a good decent top six. I think Arvdson, I’m going to give him a chance. I can’t harp on him until he plays. There’s just no point. None of these guys, you know, it’s just that term. I want to hear from you, though. Do you think it’s all doom and gloom from what happened yesterday? Did you have aspirations that this team was going to be a Stanley Cup contender? I sure didn’t, but I need to know from you. Drop those comments down below. That’s a wrap on today’s video. 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The Boston Bruins jumped into NHL free agency, making a bunch of signings. They brought back a familiar face in Sean Kuraly, but they made some signings that the fan base doesn’t agree with.

I’m going to talk all of that today, along with the Victor Adrvisson trade, and Joonas Korpisalo is going to fight for a spot on this edition of Bruins Diehards.

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  1. Seeing Mangiapane go to Edmonton for only 2/3.6mil bothers me. Bruins couldn’t have signed that guy? A cheap contract and the guy actually has skill. Wtf..

  2. If Jeannot gets 20 goals, I go full "Hand Up" accountability that I was wrong, and I will personally fly to Boston to apologize to Don that I was wrong.

    But, to quote the old adage…this juice was definitely NOT worth the squeeze šŸ™‚

  3. I haven't watched Jeannot since he played for TB, so I'm going to try not to overreact to his signing or any of what happened yesterday. Let's see what happens on the ice. However, one criticism of the team last year was that once they were down by 2 or 3, they would uncharacteristically give up and, with shitty goaltending from Swayman, the team would end up losing by 5-6-7 goals, and a lot of us were saying the team's not even entertaining to watch. Maybe that's what the front office wanted to change, knowing the team will still lose a lot of games this season? (At the same time, I wish the B's hadn't been the butt of all the jokes yesterday, haha.)

  4. "The Juice" how many consultants did that take? 100% Kastelic is better than Jeannot every day.

  5. They needed more grit as they lost so many battles along the walls all season long. More competition at training camp is a good thing. Go Bruins Go! Team NLY.

  6. Personally, I feel why Florida is the team we need to be is Florida’s players have ā€œSKILLS!ā€ They can play tape-to-tape, one end to the other and can play in any situation. They also don’t need to fight because they can ā€œforecheckā€. You can have ā€œbigā€ guys but they have to have skills. I liked the signings (except for you know who).

  7. First let me say, I really appreciate your level headed takes on the Bruins. So many of these Bruins YouTubers are out here screaming at that camera how they know everything that's going on behind the scene and that Sweeney just stupid. I have some insight to people in the know and and they all say Tanner is a awesome locker room guy and Sweeney even said during the press conference he's there to make sure the young guys get space on the ice. His contract well Freddie got 8 x 3.8

  8. Mcdavid did have Lucic and maybe it's so Kasti And Zadorov are more focused on there game and less on the brawling because yes they have better skills than tanner.

  9. I just hope this is the last season for the management, and whoever replace them can stitch it all back together. The Bruins need talent, not bottom 6 bouncers.

  10. I agree, there wasn't much out there. Nothing they picked up makes me think they are a playoff team. I would've rather seen them give more prospects the ice time. Arvidsson is ok, they need top 6 help. Either way, not much out there so they weren't getting much better this year. Hope is that Sturm is smarter and puts better combinations together and let them play for a decent amount of time. Marchand 37? Multiple surgeries and he was on the first line, power plays, penalty killing. Florida he played on the 3rd line with reasonable ice time for his age and coming off surgeries.

  11. Interesting stats about the teams who fought the most last season. It is striking! My main concern wth all the new signings is that we now have a busload of players with low ceiling. Where will the goals come from? A Pastrnak injury and the Bruins turn into of the worst NHL clubs.

  12. It's really the Jeannot contact that was puzzling. It's like Neely tried to get him 4-5 years ago and hasn't forgotten about it. I see this as a buyout in 2-3 years. Maybe he surprises everyone, but i doubt it. It was a weak FA class, and they needed bodies. Enough there to let them complete and see who rises out of the pile. Hopefully some show promise, the team is competitive and that will attract some good FAs next year

  13. I am shaking my head…
    I am fine with Arvidsson, it's a do-able contract. 1 yr. I'd like to see 20 goals, becuase right now, we have Pasta and Geekie and thats really it for ur scoring threat. Jeannot???? 5 yrs? THAT is absurd. WAY too much term.

    Kuraly I liked, and was sad to see him leave. He's a good player, play's hard and had some scoring. he'd be great with Kastelic and Beecher. Mix an occasional kid in, too. I'd like to see a couple of speedy kids on the 3rd line. And keep the (merlot) 4th line strong, and solid. Kastelic and Kuraly for solid physical play and Beecher for his rush and scoring threat.

    I am confused by Neely's insistence on TOUGH, as opposed to heavy, and physical. Trent Frederick didnt get in the dirty areas. He never used his size. Every once in a while tossing some fights??? THAT is not the Panthers. The Panthers played HARD and Skilled. I am positive Jeannot is NOT Tkachuk. Not in any shape or form. Tkachuk is HARD, Physical and SCORES!

  14. So who, other than McAvoy, is a legitimate, skilled, puck carrying D-Man? The Bs had a pathetically slow-to-react and slow-to-transition, offensively retarded defensive game. They don't seem to have improved this all that much.

  15. Boston Bruins choke in Playoffs, Sweeny not the answer.. Love the B's since 1973… But it's a losing organization in the Playoffs..

  16. I don't believe Sweeney means fighting, when he mentions toughness. I believe he means the compete level, not giving up in the corners and..if by chance someone takes a run at a player, the team has each other's back! Jeannot doesn't suck, he scored 24 goals with Nashville a few seasons ago. I pencil Jeannot for 15+ goals.
    Frederick just signed an 8 year deal and scored a whopping 3, count them, 3 goals this past season. I like the Essymote signing. He's an agitator, very similar to Marchand.

  17. I chuckle at the moves the Boston GMs have made for the past several decades. Been watching since the Sinden years . Always adding an extra player that can fight , Wensink, Curran, Kastelic and so on….instead of a skilled player. Guess management and the Bruins fans would rather win the fights than Stanley Cups. You got your wish:
    One cup in the past 53 and soon to be 54 years!

  18. So many comments on line about what a great move signing Sweeney to a 2 year extension. As of today, I disagree with that assessment. He and Neely should have been axed after the season.

  19. Worse teams may also be more willing to fight. Less to lose/need a spark when trailing. Not necessarily a causal relationship.

  20. One of your YouTube colleagues made a great point. He said if Florida would have had brought in ,[ let's say Jeannot] or any other player that other fan bases are bitching about today; the talk would be how it's brilliance that Florida brings in these players. By all account Jeannot has upset the B's apple cart with his trade. I can't invalidate those who feel those way. Benefit of the doubt, let's see what happens. I have no unrealistic expectations on the 25-26 season. Also, I think most teams in the league are going to try to emulate the Florida. So fighting may not be the :juice" Sweeney or Sturm are looking for. (Please give me a Bill Zito in Boston). I'm not a Sweeney Kool-Aid drinker by any stretch of the imagination.

  21. I seee tanner as more of a Trent Frederick replacement than anything yeah it’s expensive but, he’s actually tougher than Trent, and hopefully he can pick up his goal scoring once again and figure something out for the next five years.

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