17 Burst results for "Dawn Sweeney"
Black N' Gold Hockey Podcast
"dawn sweeney" Discussed on Black N' Gold Hockey Podcast
"If he doesn't get that NHL roster spot right out of the gate. So there's a ton of options that potential for this type of player just to really excel in his early pro years. And I'm excited to see how he absorbs at all because, you know, a defenseman of his size that moves so well like him is like a really good package to have for the future. And right now the future looks grim because of the salary cap constraint to Don Sweeney and Evan gold and the Boston Bruins are going to have to go through. So we might see and I want to call it a mini youth movement coming up where the bruins are going to have this I'm probably going to go through some pretty lean years. As much as that is exciting to get more youth involved, it's not a great it's not a great start to a seat in upcoming season when you just basically moving these players up because of the low AAVs and obviously trades are going to happen and we'll hear from Don Sweeney when I mean not trades, but signings departures and all this is going to happen to be cap compliance. So it's going to be difficult no matter what, but getting these younger players involved is something that I believe is important. And I hate to say it, but I'm probably going to see some players that are going to be departing. And we'll talk about the roster next week. What we think the roster will be when Steve, the main host deform, he comes back. I want to get all three of us together and just do a little bit of homework and figure out, hey, it's just to use movement. What's our Ross are going to be like? Or what's the Ross going to be like without Patrice bergeron, or without David creators? Because dawn Sweeney did mention that they're going to both scenarios are going to coincide with what their plan is. They are always going to have a plan a plan B so, you know, getting youth involved is not a bad idea, but can you bring these veterans back when you need to be cap compliant before the October season comes? Yeah, and I think that that's going to be a sort of interesting limiting factor because on the one hand, you're like, oh, it makes it easier because you really are not going to you don't have a lot of space to do a whole lot, but at the same time, it's like that means cutting some pretty serious losses at that point. And recognizing that so many people that we liked and that we feel like are important are just gone. And so I think it is going to be hard, but yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to us getting our heads together and seeing what we think about the future next year because there are so many options, so many prospects that are great and American Hockey League players that were very successful this season and that I think have earned a chance to show what they can do at the NHL level players who I think can continue to do that. And who have had a few opportunities already. So I'm looking forward to seeing that potential youth movement, even though it will be scary and nerve wracking, but then again, you know, was this season we were scared and worried about certain things and this is just another thing that I think it's the opportunity for the team to prove that they can handle anything. So I'm hoping that that's what they're able to do, especially with an addition. Like low rye. Yeah. And talking about the bergeron and critique thing.
Black N' Gold Hockey Podcast
"dawn sweeney" Discussed on Black N' Gold Hockey Podcast
"Really liked what dawn Sweeney did this before the trade deadline getting Hathaway Hathaway can skate. He's a vast fucker. He can score. He gets to those dirty areas and he can put the puck in the net, not like a 30 goal score and so on, but he'll get you those goals that make impactful impacts. You know, and yes, you are right. I do like the idea of a Blake combing back in the day because not only can he hear that shit disturb her, but he could also be offensive dynamo, you know? Those are the types of players I wanted to see the Boston Bruins get. And when you talk about the heavier game and the playoff grindy style, I think that they did that dating back to the off season when they actually got AJ grier on a New Jersey. Obviously I didn't know that all this shit was gonna happen with him later on, but AJ career has got some offensive capabilities and some speed. But he's just got to get in the lineup with consistency and make all that happen. But there's a lot of players that are on this team that are pushing him away and him be in the rotation area kind of forward. Those players, I really like. That's how I feel about bertuzzi. To me, it's kind of like a bigger, stronger Coleman. I mean, he's, you know, he'll stir the pot and then he'll also go out there and have some beautiful passes and you know, I think that he's exactly what they're looking at. He's kind of player I love. So I'm a huge part of the guy. I love that move. So yeah, something's happening with Tampa. And I love to love to see it. I thought, by the way, I thought I really thought Jack Edwards was going to need a change of pants after that first period. He was so obsessed with Patrick maroon and oh, by the way, I don't blame him. I don't blame him. The fact that he would still want to the locker room and Patrick maroon bitched him out for like 8 minutes or whatever that was. Jack Edwards man, you're sitting in front of that microphone and that guy acts like such a jackass. Oh man, he's been waiting. I don't think he slept a wink last night. He was just laying there going, oh, that's stupid, stupid, stupid, Patrick maroon. So that's pre roll hanging out in his mouth. Yeah, for real. Oh my God. He's doing something, man. So that win against Tampa did clinch the Atlantic division title already. Bruins still have ten games to go. 56, 11 and 5 record a 117 points. Mark, do you care about them breaking any records? These point records and all that stuff do you care? I don't. No, I just want them to play well, I want them to stay healthy. Load management is going to be up and coming. The power plays just got to get a little bit better. And it's going to get harder. Like I wrote in the article at black people hockey dot com. Please go check it out. There is enough time, ten games to get to these guys and practices and games to get the power play better.
Black N' Gold Hockey Podcast
"dawn sweeney" Discussed on Black N' Gold Hockey Podcast
"Really liked what dawn Sweeney did this before the trade deadline getting Hathaway Hathaway can skate. He's a vast fucker. He can score. He gets to those dirty areas and he can put the puck in the net, not like a 30 goal score and so on, but he'll get you those goals that make impactful impacts. You know, and yes, you are right. I do like the idea of a Blake combing back in the day because not only can he hear that shit disturb her, but he could also be offensive dynamo, you know? Those are the types of players I wanted to see the Boston Bruins get. And when you talk about the heavier game and the playoff grindy style, I think that they did that dating back to the off season when they actually got AJ grier on a New Jersey. Obviously I didn't know that all this shit was gonna happen with him later on, but AJ career has got some offensive capabilities and some speed. But he's just got to get in the lineup with consistency and make all that happen. But there's a lot of players that are on this team that are pushing him away and him be in the rotation area kind of forward. Those players, I really like. That's how I feel about bertuzzi. To me, it's kind of like a bigger, stronger Coleman. I mean, he's, you know, he'll stir the pot and then he'll also go out there and have some beautiful passes and you know, I think that he's exactly what they're looking at. He's kind of player I love. So I'm a huge part of the guy. I love that move. So yeah, something's happening with Tampa. And I love to love to see it. I thought, by the way, I thought I really thought Jack Edwards was going to need a change of pants after that first period. He was so obsessed with Patrick maroon and oh, by the way, I don't blame him. I don't blame him. The fact that he would still want to the locker room and Patrick maroon bitched him out for like 8 minutes or whatever that was. Jack Edwards man, you're sitting in front of that microphone and that guy acts like such a jackass. Oh man, he's been waiting. I don't think he slept a wink last night. He was just laying there going, oh, that's stupid, stupid, stupid, Patrick maroon. So that's pre roll hanging out in his mouth. Yeah, for real. Oh my God. He's doing something, man. So that win against Tampa did clinch the Atlantic division title already. Bruins still have ten games to go. 56, 11 and 5 record a 117 points. Mark, do you care about them breaking any records? These point records and all that stuff do you care? I don't. No, I just want them to play well, I want them to stay healthy. Load management is going to be up and coming. The power plays just got to get a little bit better. And it's going to get harder. Like I wrote in the article at black people hockey dot com. Please go check it out. There is enough time, ten games to get to these guys and practices and games to get the power play better.
Black N' Gold Hockey Podcast
"dawn sweeney" Discussed on Black N' Gold Hockey Podcast
"The trade I want to get first and foremost, we have been how many times how many weeks have we recorded, Steve, and said that this is the type of trade, not the exact trade that was going to happen, but the type of trade this Boston brewing team needed. Because you're right, we did not mortgage our future, which I was particularly scared about. I do want to win now. I know we have to give to get and so on. And I want to Stanley Cup champions of ships as well, but I also want to be relevant in the next couple of years and be competitive. And filtering in younger talent, the next ones up after the bergeron to create these retires. So when we still need that sustainability in the league that's constantly evolving. So I'm very happy with this trade because it addressed just depth. The playoffs are a hard grind. We all know this. We say this every freaking week. And I just think this addressed two huge needs. Number one, Hathaway a forward. He's a fast guy. He's a pain in the ass. We've seen this when Washington played the bruins in the past and so on. And we all hated him and so on. Now he's on our team and I think we're all going to really like his contribution and just by the way he can grind on other players and so on. The defensive aspect of the trade Dmitry Olaf for me, it's still dresses the depth as well, but it also gives you a top four defenseman on this team. And I think that's something that's going to be needed. Yes, Connor Clifton is probably going to see more of a 7th player 7th position role. And I understand that. But to win, you have to make these sacrifices and so on. I'm really happy with the trade. Like you said, we didn't mortgage the future. I thought this was very smart on dawn Sweeney. Another trade that makes him look even better as he continues in his general manager tenure here in Boston. The narrative is slowly going away that Sweeney socks, you know, traded Donnie is back. I'm stoked. I'm stoked about these moves and I'm stoked about how smart it was. But I'm also even more sculptor if that could be a name. It might have to take a lot one enough. Yeah, exactly. I lost what I was going to say.
Black N' Gold Hockey Podcast
"dawn sweeney" Discussed on Black N' Gold Hockey Podcast
"The trade I want to get first and foremost, we have been how many times how many weeks have we recorded, Steve, and said that this is the type of trade, not the exact trade that was going to happen, but the type of trade this Boston brewing team needed. Because you're right, we did not mortgage our future, which I was particularly scared about. I do want to win now. I know we have to give to get and so on. And I want to Stanley Cup champions of ships as well, but I also want to be relevant in the next couple of years and be competitive. And filtering in younger talent, the next ones up after the bergeron to create these retires. So when we still need that sustainability in the league that's constantly evolving. So I'm very happy with this trade because it addressed just depth. The playoffs are a hard grind. We all know this. We say this every freaking week. And I just think this addressed two huge needs. Number one, Hathaway a forward. He's a fast guy. He's a pain in the ass. We've seen this when Washington played the bruins in the past and so on. And we all hated him and so on. Now he's on our team and I think we're all going to really like his contribution and just by the way he can grind on other players and so on. The defensive aspect of the trade Dmitry Olaf for me, it's still dresses the depth as well, but it also gives you a top four defenseman on this team. And I think that's something that's going to be needed. Yes, Connor Clifton is probably going to see more of a 7th player 7th position role. And I understand that. But to win, you have to make these sacrifices and so on. I'm really happy with the trade. Like you said, we didn't mortgage the future. I thought this was very smart on dawn Sweeney. Another trade that makes him look even better as he continues in his general manager tenure here in Boston. The narrative is slowly going away that Sweeney socks, you know, traded Donnie is back. I'm stoked. I'm stoked about these moves and I'm stoked about how smart it was. But I'm also even more sculptor if that could be a name. It might have to take a lot one enough. Yeah, exactly. I lost what I was going to say.
Black N' Gold Hockey Podcast
"dawn sweeney" Discussed on Black N' Gold Hockey Podcast
"Are they close? Well, I'll tell you, Elliot freed me came out last night. I believe it was hockey night in Canada and mentioned something about that the conversation the conversations with past the neck and his agent and obviously the Boston Bruins organization have progressed and whether it's a good progression, a step back or whatever high talent I'm not knowing, but I do feel comfortable that this Boston bureau's organization is going to get a deal done. I don't believe it's going to be a deal that's going to be record breaking. McDavid money and so on. I think it's honestly, I think it's going to be in between 11 and 12 million. What are your thoughts on the pasta negotiations? How long it's kind of seemingly dragged, drag defeat from all aspects, not just the dawn Sweeney and bruins management because Boston Bruins fans love to hammer the fact is that they think that dawn Sweeney, he's dragging his feet here. When I know I don't know personally and so on, but I have a feeling JP Barry and his in his track record with other players going right up to the 11th hour of getting a deal done.
Black N' Gold Hockey Podcast
"dawn sweeney" Discussed on Black N' Gold Hockey Podcast
"Are they close? Well, I'll tell you, Elliot freed me came out last night. I believe it was hockey night in Canada and mentioned something about that the conversation the conversations with past the neck and his agent and obviously the Boston Bruins organization have progressed and whether it's a good progression, a step back or whatever high talent I'm not knowing, but I do feel comfortable that this Boston bureau's organization is going to get a deal done. I don't believe it's going to be a deal that's going to be record breaking. McDavid money and so on. I think it's honestly, I think it's going to be in between 11 and 12 million. What are your thoughts on the pasta negotiations? How long it's kind of seemingly dragged, drag defeat from all aspects, not just the dawn Sweeney and bruins management because Boston Bruins fans love to hammer the fact is that they think that dawn Sweeney, he's dragging his feet here. When I know I don't know personally and so on, but I have a feeling JP Barry and his in his track record with other players going right up to the 11th hour of getting a deal done.
The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"dawn sweeney" Discussed on The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"To the noise outside of the dressing room. Good for him. Good for him. But he did explain it in an acceptable fashion for me. But then more recently, last couple of days, he's now defending his lack of production of late based on a focus of playing better defensively. You buy in it? I mean, is that what you're seeing in his game? I don't know. I mean, he's bouncing back and forth between wing and centers, probably not very easy for anybody. With the year that horvath had and pedersen's clearly, their best player. He's had pedersen's had a terrific year. All of a sudden, if Miller's at center, he's your third center. That's probably not the place you want to play him, and that's probably not the set of wingers that you probably want to play him with. So that's a bit of an issue. When he plays, you know, he's pretty clearly he's an emotional guy. And I connect a little bit with him because, you know, I did things that I just wish I didn't do. It can almost guarantee you he wished he wasn't banging the back of the net. Screaming at people. He did the moment stuff, right? In the moment, and it bothers me when people write and say, oh, you know, he was an aggressive. He was aggressive towards a teammate. You don't really have time there to go, hey, Colin. If you don't mind, could you head to the bench? You don't really have time for that. No. Now you'd like to be a little more polite in everyday society, but at the time you're like, get the to the bench. Yeah. Yeah. Right? You know you're running out of time. You don't, so that's my defense of that. You shouldn't do it the way that he did it though. No. You just shouldn't. Last year to the production 99 points, career year. Everybody has one. That's why they call it a career year. He's not going to do it again. It doesn't mean he's not an effective player. If you get 75 points out of JT Miller and you get a more complete more well rounded game, then I don't think anybody would be disappointed with that. His numbers might be the people that pick them in their draft pool might be disappointed. But I think a lower point total more complete player is probably a really good thing. Now, can he get there? Is he getting less points because he's trying to play a more complete game? I don't know, I don't know about that. But if I'm honestly, if I'm coaching, I'm going to say, look, JT, I understand you're an emotional guy. Don't do that again. It's not a good look. It's not a good look for you. It's not a good look for our team. I get all of it, but just let's not do that again. All right, let's wrap up headlines with the winter classic. We had Caroline on our list because they won 11 consecutive games. I think we should call it The Rain dregs bump because we had rod brindle moron, not that long ago. And that team has been white hot since then, but it feels like we'll have opportunity moving forward to talk about Caroline. So staying in the moment, the winter classic yesterday afternoon. I don't know. I feel like, I mean, I know it's a fan based event. And I know that the players in the clubs buy into it. I loved the fact. And I don't know whose idea this was. I'm going to find out. The Boston Bruins arriving wearing Boston Red Sox old unis. Did you see that? See, but if that Steve mayor from the NHL or whomever came up with that idea, that is the spirit of the winter classic. The players bought in like Brad marchand looked like an old Boston Red Sox player. Since he's walking in, you know, just looks like that. Beyond that, it is a spectacle. I feel like you have to be there to truly get it to feel it to get that wholesome takeaway. Otherwise, as we watch it on TV, it's just another game. You know, it just looks like another game. But in the moment, it's bigger than that. And so big day for Jacob rusk with a couple of goals. What is it about this? Well, first of all, I mean, offer a quick thought on just the winner classic overall and then what is it about the bruins? How do they keep rolling rate? They just dig themselves out of adversity every single time. Well, the touch on the game, I think you hit all the hit all the points, drakes. There's a certain faction that say there's too many outdoor games. You shouldn't play anymore. It started out as a national spectacle. And then it's become more of a local markets thing that we show on national TV. And the local markets love it. And that's why there's going to continue to be more of them. And it looks like it would be really fun to be there. Like the people look like they had a good time. I thought the game was kind of a dud. It was a bit flat. And that's the way games can be in the regular season. Outdoor game is about the venue and everything around it. Once the game starts, the cameras can't show, like they can have 8000 cameras there. It doesn't matter. You got to show the rank. The link's 200 by 85. It's all you can show. It doesn't matter if they got the green monster in the background. You can't see it. You can if you're there, but so it's a location based event. I think it best serves when you're there. As far as the bruins. So I worried coming into the array could they stay in the mix until all their injured guys got back from off season surgery. I didn't realize they weren't going to lose a home game here and now we're in the January. I didn't think I didn't think I didn't trust that David krejci was going to be able to come back and make such an impact. So there are two centers. There are two top centers or 37 years old. The only the only roadblock I see for them is health to those center to bergeron and creature. Because this is a well balanced team, they play a style that is really aggressive. They get scoring from a bunch of different places. Like, remember, Nick foligno was on waivers. And Jim Montgomery said, I think he can get ten goals this year. And he's going to do it. And he looks terrific. So the bottom of their lineup is better. Their defense is really good. Line is all Mark has been rewarding. He's got it as pocket right now. I think now he's 20 and one and one. Like how's that for a start? You know, so the bruins are and there's one other thing, Drake, and of course you can't quantify this. You can't touch it, you can't feel it. You just have, it's just there. And that's their chemistry, the way they fit, it just seems perfect right now in Boston. And if I were dawn Sweeney, I'd be really nervous about tinkering too much with this team come up to the deadline here. I know there's some rumors about Patrick Kane. I love Patrick Kane as a player fantastic. Yeah. But what if you drop them in there and it throws the mix? Like what if they were able to make a deal for a significant addition like that? And that happens. That happens. It always does. They get Taylor hall playing on a third line with Charlie Coyle. He's had a fantastic year. That line is a problem for teams to match up against. And then yesterday, things don't work. Montgomery moves the deck chairs around a little bit and all of a sudden, different lines, different players, hall sets up the de brusque game winner and Jake de brosco got a big day, you know? And so it's fun. I enjoyed watching it, but I think it's best when you're there. That's my guess. I think it's best when you're there. I've been to them, haven't you? Yeah. I've never been to one. I went to modern Vancouver, but it was in the dome. It was inside. No, and I've enjoyed my experiences. I've been to a couple of heritage classics, a winter classic at Yankee Stadium. I've enjoyed them when I'm there, you know? And I'd like to take my family because when you're there, even though you can't see much, it just feels like you're oh, you know what? I wasn't an old door game. The outdoor winter classic at the world junior. An amazing day in Buffalo, about 42 feet of snow. Those poor shovelers, the guys that came over. Oh my God, they must all had back issues by the end of it. There was so much snow. And it was an amazing day. We've got a question about the bruins and the penguins. So think about this as we continue the podcast. Don't answer again. It's on Instagram. It's part of Oscar and Greg's anything. But a question about which team will have more Hall of Famers who are currently playing on the roster of the penguins or the Boston Bruins. So there you go. Those are your headlines. Thanks as always to Boston pizza. Well, for the first time in 2023, we're pleased to welcome in Chris Albert, the presentation of the town of dot C, now available
The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"dawn sweeney" Discussed on The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"General manager Dave nonis and it feels like deservingly so this should be a podcast with a tage Thompson themed to it. I mean, you score 5 goals in one NHL game aside from when ray was ravishing the NHL back in the 80s. I guess ravaging would be the ravaging, more appropriate. So St. Louis wins a Stanley Cup Dave, obviously with rhino O'Reilly after that trade with the buffalo Sabres, which landed the Sabres tage Thompson. There's no way Doug Armstrong on the blues knew that tage Thompson was going to develop into a budding superstar, which is where he is at. Today, in saying all that, though, is this that rare win win, where, like I said, I mean, you know, saint Louis got what they needed in that deal. They end up winning a Stanley Cup. And now Armstrong is watching Dave Thompson just follow up a tremendous year with a spectacular start to this season. So from army's perspective, is it win win? Definitely. Doug Armstrong makes that trade every day of the week. He does because he's got a ring to show for it. I mean, if it didn't turn out that way, I think he could look back and say, you know, this may have been a mistake. No one, I don't think anyone thought page Thompson was going to do this. You know, I think everyone thought he had some God given ability and sides on his side. Yeah. But the way he's turned into a skilled power forward, I don't think anyone saw that, but Doug Armstrong makes that makes that deal of. If he can get a Stanley Cup, he makes that trade. In all of these deals now, certainly going back to pages deal and there was a first round pick and then there's another pick and how do you value a first round pick because it seems like teams need them to be good. The other teams want them, like how much collateral can you hold back and when do you decide that, okay, now is the time I get a blow to first round pick. Now's the time. Yeah, you have to really think that you have an opportunity to win. I mean, if you're trading first round picks to hopefully get one round into the playoffs, it's not a very intelligent move long term for your franchise. But if you have a chance to win, I think that almost every general manager will make that move and trade that pick. You're also talking about, you know, usually moving picks towards a deadline now, you have a pretty good idea where you're going to finish. Most teams now are protecting if it is an earlier part of the season to protecting those picks of what they're not top ten. So I'm not saying that they're not going to worthwhile because Thompson wasn't a top ten pick and look what he's turned into. But the fact is that we feel that the boss of bruins, for example, if they continue on this tear, I guarantee you that dawn Sweeney will do what he did last year and try to add to his team to give himself the best chance of winning. When you say about, you know, no general manager would make that deal if it's just a win one round. One of the great pressures in management is the pressure from above and the pressure from below. How do you, when you sit in the middle and the pressure coming from the ownership, you know, because they're like, we want to get in the playoffs, and you're like, yeah, but we're not good enough yet. Like, how do you, how do you make that work? Well, that's a pretty good point. I mean, there is pressure from above in certain situations, and you have pressure from the fan base, but I think if you're in fairly solid footing, I think you have to make the decision that's best for the team. And sometimes that's hard to do when you have to stand up to ownership and explain to your fan base when you didn't jump on a deal. But the worst place you want to be is 7 11. I mean, you're just getting in it, you know, 7, you're 11th. You're in that band. You probably don't have a chance to win. So you have to, I think, look at the long-term prospects for your team. Draft picks are important. You can go back to cliff Fletcher's draft shaft, you know, years and years ago, that was in the era of being able to sign as many free agents as you want without a cap. You need good young players on your team if you're going to be able to retain your older players as they start to become more productive. So the draft is still one of the biggest components of building a franchise. So I was a bit bored on Tuesday preparing for insider trading, which is seldom good for anyone, right? So I get poking around. And we know the oilers as an example are a team that needs some help on the blue line. I know that there's at least some interest in entertaining the idea of what Eric Carlson might need to be pulled out of San Jose. Now number one, is Eric Carlson going to wave to go to Edmonton. If you're Kenny, do you even entertain possibility because of, well, the cap for starters, right? You know, you're going to have to make it work. San Jose is going to have to eat money, or you're going to need a broker, all of those things. So it's easy for me from the outside to say that generally GM's lack creativity, right? Because of the worry that cap and the assets you have to give up. When is the right time when you're looking at a team and you've got superstars, like McDavid and draisaitl, where you start thinking about the creativity. Or even before that, luring petrology is a free agent, right? Now there's a difference between Vegas and Edmonton, but when is the right time to get as creative as you can be in trying to make a big splash. Well, Kenny's got two of the best players in the world. And I know he doesn't want to just let them die on the vine and, you know, not have a parade in Edmonton with them at some point. So creativity is going to be important if they're to add anybody. You look at their cap situation. It's not great. So they can't just the can't just add people. There's really nothing there. So how do you become create creative enough to add a player that makes 11.5 for four more years after this one? I think it's going to be impossible without some miracles from above for someone that makes it that much money. So I think that he'll be looking to do something. I just don't think Eric Carlson is going to be the guy that they end up end up using your creativity on. I think it's just going to be too difficult to put in that deal. You mentioned you mentioned earlier in the year earlier in the interview here about when you have to decide whether you get a chance to win, whether you don't. When do you decide it's time to punt on a season and you know what? Not now. I've got to start exploring maybe deals that I can't make today, but maybe I can make, I don't know in 6 weeks or something. Is that just a gut feel? Is that just looking at the standings or is it a bit of both? It's a bit of both, you know, I can tell you from personal experience when my last year in Toronto, we had we were in a playoff spot about two thirds of the way into the season. And things started to slide. At that point, I could see the direction we were going. I started trying to make deals or set the table for deals right then, and some of that comes with just making phone calls. So when it comes to having face to face meetings, I remember flew to Nashville to meet what they would boil to talk about moving a couple of players there and that was weeks before the deadline. So when you see which direction and you really feel where your team is headed, whether it's up or down, you'll start making deals either trying to add or calls to set the table to either add players or to move them. It's going to be almost even if you want to punt now that you can't get anybody to take your players anyway. Nobody's got any cap space. No, this league has become a trade deadline league. It really has. You know, you get the deals that the draft and the off season. And then most teams have set up for the year and that within a million bucks of the cap or they're in LTIR. So the deals early in the season are few and far between. Teams need player salaries to be paid down. And if they have any room of their own, they need that room to grow. So if they've got some money, the start of the year, even if it's a million bucks, that does grow to a significant number at the trade deadline. That's why we see so many deals then. Dave, let's go to the Toronto Maple Leafs here. Mitch Meyer is on a torrid pace, right? We establish a franchise record in a point scoring streak. He extended that earlier this week against the Dallas stars. Part of the group that drafted him fourth overall in 2015. I mean, is there anything about how this young man is developed into the player that he is now? I mean, a rock solid two way player with I'm going to use the word creativity. I mean, oozes out of his veins, but is there anything at all surprising to you about how he's developed as a player? I wouldn't
The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"dawn sweeney" Discussed on The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"And look, we have to start with went on with Boston Bruins. And as many have reported and I'll use the word debacle calamity, if you will, whatever. I watched cam Neely and I'm sure you saw it to yesterday's media availability work recording here on Tuesday. Man, he looked like he hadn't slept in a month, right? Like he looked like this had been weighing on him, which it obviously has, because the public backlash, most importantly, the fan backlash of the Boston Bruins was significant. But so many questions in how this scenario with Mitchell Miller was handled or mishandled. You know, for me, a couple of things that jumped off the page, I thought cam was genuine in saying in answering questions to why they didn't reach out to the Meyer crothers family at any point. Why not? You know, and then apologizing to Isaiah and the family. I thought that that was legit. I thought that that was heartfelt. But then he reminds us that they've been working on this file since August. And they don't get around to talking to Batman in the National Hockey League until last week. That is a hockey operations fail for me. Like if you go to Batman because you think this kid is a decent hockey player, which by all accounts, it appears that he is. And you say commissioner, what does Mitchell Miller need to do that he hasn't already done? Do you not get the road map first before you engage? And then push it forward to a point where now you have to tell the commissioner and the league goes, sorry, he's ineligible and here comes the wave of backlash. Well, I think there's a step even before that. The first step for me is that Miller was drafted by Arizona. And then, of course, Arizona renounced the pick. So the first step to me would be dawn Sweeney or, you know, I'm using dawn Sweeney because he's a general manager as the point man to call Bill Armstrong in Arizona and say, hey, we're looking at this kid.
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"dawn sweeney" Discussed on The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"I got something way better. I'm going to invite a bunch of comedians that have some ties to Boston. And we'll do it, we'll do a two and a half hour show. So we started at the orpheum 26 years ago in Boston. It helped 2500 people. Eventually we were turning people away. We ended up going to the Afghanistan arena, which we were at 65 hundred. And then for the 20th 20th, Dennis goes, do you think that we could sell at the garden? And I said, well, let's give it a try. So we ended up moving it to the garden and we got 14, 15,000 people in here. You know, the one thing about cancers. Everybody's been touched by it in one way, shape, or form, unfortunately. So it's a great night. It's the longest running comedy benefit in the country has been for a number of years. A way to come in, laugh for a couple of hours and raise some money to help cancer patients and families. I mean, nothing gets better, mad. And we have a great list of comedians that, you know, God bless them. They donate their time to come and do it. And, you know, at early on, Venice said he'd have to call and beg people to come now. They're calling him sink right through the show, which is pretty cool. That's amazing. So millions of dollars have been raised over the 26 years and so how many years is this now? 6 years in the garden? Yeah, this will be the 6th year in the garden. That's amazing. Yeah, it really is thank you. All right. Well, we'll do our part here. Everybody leaves camping, which is nice. No questions. So we'll do our part on our social medias to get the link out where it can be supported in extension as well. Cam, thanks for doing this. It's always fun to catch up with you. Yeah, my pleasure. Ray, congrats on dialing it down a little good for you. All right, ray, we're going to raise a glass of fine chronicle series Canadian club to cam Neely the Boston ruins for joining us here on the podcast presented by our pals at Canadian club whisky. It is a final chronicle series, the 45 year old release arriving everywhere in the weeks ahead and should be available imminently. So I know we're all looking forward to that. But you think back to everything that cam Neely has been through. And he presents as the super professional, but clearly he's got a high level of compete still in him. But as you asked the question, I'm visualizing how intense he still probably gets, which is saying a lot when you kind of take in his demeanor right now because it feels like that's something he's probably working on. Oh, I've known camp since he was 17. I was 18. He came to the Portland winter hawks. We were both first year players and we had heard about this kid from maple ridge BC and he was going to play on the top line with Kenya ram chuck who was a Chicago Blackhawks first rounder and man he just like we couldn't believe it. He's so he was so quiet, but the ferocity that he played with and he was so tough. He scored 50 goals as 17 year old. Got drafted in the first round and we never saw him again. That was it, he went through the NHL. And you know, you'd go into the garden, you know, I asked him about the garden and, you know, you'd go into the garden or the spectrum in particular and those were like scary places to play. And they weren't very big and cam was very big. And you know, he'd shoot, you remember that slap shot, he kind of twirled his stick at the top and just like he was a dominant dominant player whose career ended much too quickly with a hip injury. And, man, he was an intense intense guy. There are certain guys you kind of like, or at least I would. I'd look and go, yeah, I don't really want to be in that area code too much. Just in case you got there at the wrong time. Like, he was frustrated about something. He wouldn't like this, but for me, and just for me, I put him in on a level of almost hockey royalty in terms of having conversation. You know, when you sit down, if you're fortunate enough to have a ten minute conversation with Mario Lemieux, I do more listening than I do talking, of course. I would say the same of gretz, maybe mascara is in that category. But cam is in that category where I just want to listen to him. I want to hear his stories. I want to hear how he kind of envisions today's version of the Boston Bruins and all the work that's gone into it. He's just, he is, he's one of the many members of hockey royalty. He really is what's really cool is like so a guy retires, you know, nobody's really sure where you're going to end up. He ends up, you know, as he mentioned on the business side with Boston and working with the CFO and then transitions himself now a dual role where he's helped, he works with dawn Sweeney, the general manager. And that bruins team, this is over a decade. That they've been among the very best teams in the league. Because they want the cop in 2011. They were really good just before that. They've had these iconic players, you know, like they just had a Zidane O char a night and they'll certainly have a Patrice Berger on night. You know, it's like they've been able to build around real foundational pieces and the real trick is going to be, can you get David posture and oxide? Because if you can, you've got posternak and mcavoy as your younger guys to become the next part of your foundation. They've really done a remarkable
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"dawn sweeney" Discussed on The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"Is the same. The garden, old Chicago stadium, buffalo, the odd, even when I was a Vancouver and I came into Boston. I was like, oh my God, this is going to be a battle. So I felt that as a visitor and he certainly know it as the home team that you do have some kind of advantage to playing in that building. How different did it have to did your brain have to click over as the games evolve. Now you're helping shape, not just the current bruins, but the future bruins and you and dawn Sweeney and your staff and that, how do you look at the game now and what you need to be successful compared to what you did even when you guys were in the cop. Well, you know, when you're a player, you really just focus on yourself. You have to be very selfish, right? In my position now, you know, you certainly want to look at your club, your depth of your club, what do you have in your system, what you need, not just for your current club, but what you need moving forward. And you look at kind of charting a path to try and feel some of those voids you see coming up, but for me, it's really, I try to just make it very simple for the players. They have to compete. You have to go out and compete. You may not play well every night, but you can compete well every night. That's one thing for me is, you know, I want players that are going to compete for each other. Yeah, I'm Neil, joining us on The Rain drags podcast bridge era's again just momentarily here. Three time 50 goal scorer with a Boston ruins Austin Matthews scores 60 last year. So is that a strong indicator? I mean, the game is completely different. But is that a strong indicator that we are going to, again, see more 50 goal scorers on an annual basis? Well, I think it is. I mean, you see a lot of skill out there across the league. Goaltending certainly that position has changed dramatically, the equipment has changed a lot. But the skill of the players, I think you see more skill throughout the NHL now, even with 32 teams. So I do see goal scoring going up a little bit. I mean, you know, obviously, you know, coaches, they can teach defense more easily than they can often. And so that's what you're going to see from a lot of coaches. But we had a 7 5 game in Ottawa and we're like, oh, we've got to tighten up and get tight enough, but I'm fearless about the plan. We had two of those a week. Back in the day. Hey, you mentioned earlier Drake's brought up Jim Montgomery and we decided to move on from a really good coach in Bruce Cassidy. You open up a, you know, you open up a search. And how does that exactly play itself out? I mean, there's obviously lots of qualified people. There's also lots of people that would like to talk to you. And the Don Sweeney, like, how does that play out? Do you make an initial list or you obviously have to have some list to start somewhere? I think it's something that you really paid a close attention to, you know, obviously who's coaching the lead, what coaches maybe just recently got let go. And then who are some up and coming coaches, whether they're an assistant coach in the league or their head coach somewhere else. I think you have a pretty good idea of who's out there to begin with even before you make a coaching change. And that wasn't an easy decision for Don at all to make Butch as you mentioned is a really good coach, but unfortunately I think time is not on coaches side as far as longevity in one city for length of time. I mean, we were blessed we had clothed for ten years and Butch for 6, which is kind of unusual. But yeah, you have a pretty good idea of who's out there who's maybe deserves an opportunity who may be deserves another opportunity. Meaning like their second or third or who deserves their first. So it was an interesting process to go through. We met a number of really good candidates. That's for sure. I read an article this past week or so about Luke robitaille, who is one of my favorites and great fabulous teammate who's, you know, bridging the business side and the hockey side and he mentioned that he's, you know, he's talked to you a little bit about it. How do you balance the business side of an original 6 franchise in Boston and the crowded competitive market there? Celtics Red Sox patriots. And the hockey side, like, is one more fun than the other, or is it? Is there anything that's, I don't know, I don't know if it's fun or it's just enjoyable work or what is it? Like how do you make that work? Well, this challenge is a question. You know, when I first got back with the team, I became very close with our CFO. I think, you know, he was very helpful in kind of helping me along and understanding the business side a little bit, but obviously what happens on the ice drives everything, right? So if your team's successful, then business is going to be good. It's when you have a little downturn where that's when things become a lot more challenging. We have to understand who our fan base is, what their expectations are, which we should know that. Obviously, highly focused on what happens on the ice, but what happens after the ace on the business side is extremely important to me. And I like being involved in it. I really do. During the pandemic, that was very challenging. There was things I had to do that I never dreamt in my wildest years that I would be doing as a president of a hockey club and it was challenging for everybody, but fortunately we were able to get through that. Are you at all calmer yet? Like in the press box, generally. No, no, I mean in general, you don't get everyone for a while. Wires touched. You know, you run a little. We all do, I think. Yeah, the emotions get cranked up, but that's why I really try to just get away in August and recharge the batteries and enjoy my family and friends, not think too much of what hockey. Isn't it awesome though you feel recharged at the Edna August and then camp rolls around and everybody's like, you see guys like three weeks into the season, nobody slapped everybody's dressing. Yeah, it's a beautiful sport. All right, Kim, we'll let you go with this, but you know, you've your entire career as a player and now is an executive in hockey. You've always kept a handle on been a strong influence in the community. So we'd be remiss on the podcast. If we didn't ask you about cam's comics, come home. And that's a charity fundraiser, which you and Dennis Leary founded. It's an event, the TD garden on November 12th, and the essence of it is to raise money for cancer patients and their families. So talk a little bit about that before you leave. Yeah, I became friendly with Dennis years, years and years and years ago, and I'd asked him, I said, listen, Dennis, would you have any interest in doing a comedy benefit for my foundation? I thought it would just be him on stage for an hour and we'd raise a few bucks and he was like, well, let me think about it. And he came back to me and he goes,
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"dawn sweeney" Discussed on The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"Ray Ferraro, getting ready for game two of the week on ESPN and Philadelphia. And you know, we've got a lot going on this week, ray, and when we're doing two podcasts as we are per week this year, we got a chop top. Let's get going, right? No fooling around. This is all on you. If it's organized, it's you, if it's not, it's probably going to be that I've screwed it up. Well, look, normally we do the preamble. We talk about how things have gone and all of that off the top of the show and then we divert in the headlines, but we're going to maximize our efficiency here. We're going to right in the headlines, brought to you by Boston pizza, and I don't know, there's highlights, and there's low lights to this point of the regular season because there's only been a few games played this week. The Toronto Maple Leafs and going into the game in Montreal on sports center, I said, look, all the leafs have to do is keep this clean. A clean win. Keep the noise down a little minimum because you know that leafs nation is going to be ready to pounce. If Matt Murray is a bad game, if things just don't go well. Well, they didn't go well. They turned the puck over, which was unsettling for Matt Murray and just as unsettling for Toronto's defense. And ray, I mean, I remember talking about this in setting up the regular season. You saying, look, like Toronto, I just wonder about that defense and game one, you know, the ugly already appeared. Yeah, so I view teams differently all the time because of where they are. So for example, I don't know where the flyers are going to score goals, but I don't have any historical reference because some of their young guys might score goals. I think it's going to be a problem, but still they're young and you've got to build some leeway into that. We've seen this defense. It's the same 6 guys. Maybe in different roles or spots and spurts. But I just wonder if it's going to be strong enough for them. And last night it wasn't. And so while it is game one and Walmart Murray got beat three times over the glove, which is, you know, it's a thing. Something to keep when I say it's a thing. You got to keep an eye on it. Is that what becomes the norm? The fact that they lost the game. Look, they're going to lose 25 games this year. And each one's going to be a catastrophe. To start the block out of the blocks like that, sloppy, and that seemed to really strike a burr with Sheldon keefe. And he doubled down again today being Thursday. So you can tell that his patients is paper thin for any lack of effort, lack of compete, mental mistakes. That's pressure, too. You darn right. There's no way he can't feel it. And they've had really excellent regular seasons chopped up as the first one or two was, but they feel the pressure. Of course they do. And now they get Washington that comes in in Washington loses to Boston and I don't know how long dawn Sweeney should
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"dawn sweeney" Discussed on The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"You're David pasternak, the rules to signing David to me are different than their signing somebody else. One of my favorite players in the NHL, I think one of the best goal scorers in the NHL, I think David pasternak and that contract is and this is no luck man. And this isn't news to dawn Sweeney and the bruins. It's of ultimate importance to them. If you decide you're not going to meet whatever they're asking prices and you move David pasternak, you are in full rebuild. Full rebuild. The guy's a star. If you let him go, then you spend the next ten years looking for David past or not. Agreed. No. All right, let's wrap up headlines real quick. You bring up the 72 series of the summit series, Paul Henderson. Should he be in the Hall of Fame or honored some other way with the number 19 retired internationally? That's sort of thing. I've been really consistent with this and it makes me feel better reading Paul's feelings on it. I don't think he should be in the Hall of Fame. To me, the Hall of Fame is not about a time frame of amazing, amazing achievement. We're really talking about 8 games. We're talking about the last three where he scored the game winning goal, which is just beyond remarkable. But Paul Henderson doesn't think he should be in the Hall of Fame. I've not thought he should either, only by, I think the Hall of Fame's for my criteria would be if I were voting. It's for the great. It's not for the very good. And that is achievement should be honored. I mean, of course it should be. It's the most, I was in the building when Sidney Crosby scored in 2010. It was amazing. Amazing. And the percentage of Canadian people watching the game was astounding. The 72 goal was bigger. It was more important in a global the wrong word. I mean, Canada, Soviet world. It was far bigger. It was unknown. We were playing, you know, the whole circumstance of the whole thing was amazing. Henderson's performance, among others, was off the charts, but I don't think he's a Hall of Famer. Excellent. There you go. Terrific way to wrap up headlines and once again, thank you to our good friends at Boston pizza.
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"dawn sweeney" Discussed on Poke the Bear
"And welcome into episode one O one of the poke the bay of podcast. I'm your host, Connor Ryan, writing solo this week, our esteemed host Evan Marino ski, good friend is soaking up the sun in Cape Cod this week. He's out and about might still be stuck on traffic. And over at the sagamore bridge, who knows maybe catching some rays, going to Sunday school, getting an ice cream. Who knows what he's doing? But regardless, not on the podcast this week, unfortunately, you just stuck with me. But all of them considered if it's a solo show, it actually works out pretty well because what do you know? There's still not a whole lot of tangible news to talk about with the bruins these days. For as much as it came nearly talked about the fact that Don Sweeney was going to have a contract extension all wrapped up. It's been 5 weeks and we have not had a press release yet. Don't really know what's going on with Don Sweeney. The draft is in about two weeks. I still have no clarity on who's exactly steering the ship. I assume it is dawn Sweeney, but you'd probably like to have it in writing somewhere as to who's actually making these personal decisions. So nothing to report there. Bruins search for their next head coach is still ongoing. They are taking their time in terms of interviewing candidates and trying to determine who's kind of the best fit for this team moving forward, that it's kind of at a crossroads, right? We don't really know who exactly what path they're going to take, whether it's running it back, whether it's rebuilding, retooling, if treasury is going to be back. A whole lot of stuff still up in the air. It feels like there's still one or two dominoes that need to fall for this team before the off season really starts to ramp up. And we haven't really had that yet, right? We don't have any indication quite yet as to whether or not Patrice bergeron is going to come back, which I think is going to set in motion which path the ruins end up taking. And so yeah, no clarity, I don't know, coach. You're starting to see other coaches get plucked up around the league. Obviously, palmar east goes to Florida, which is an interesting situation last week, John totoro goes to Philly, which will be the content will be fantastic for that. That's all I'll say to that. For what he'll do for that team. But for the bruins, yeah, nothing really to report on. In terms of who they're identifying, we heard reports last week that Jay leitch was a favorite David quin was a favorite. We discussed the coin situation a little bit on bruins beat earlier this week and not really buying into it for David quin in terms of how exactly he fits with this team. It's one of those ones where sure you kind of look at his reputation and he's known as a guy that gives younger plays a little bit more of a rope is a little bit more of a positive voice in the room. There's not just say that Bruce Cassidy was doom and gloom, but it was very blunt and candid in terms of what he wants and what he expects out of this team..
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"dawn sweeney" Discussed on The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"Show about men's mental and physical health, hosted by me, Dan Murphy, with a guest list that includes John herdman, Kelly Rudy Dallas Smith and many more. Our goal is to have real conversations about the things so many of us don't prioritize, lowering stress, eating healthier, getting active and the impacts of not taking care of ourselves. Don't change much as about encouraging men to make simple changes. Better health doesn't have to mean overhauling your lifestyle. All right, Bruce gasket now joining us on The Rain breaks hockey podcast and Bruce, what a wild couple of weeks it's been for you, but you know, was it instantaneous? As soon as you kind of got over the media shock of being let go by the Boston ruins, you're like, all right, well, I know I want to be on an NHL bench next season. So let's just see what the interest is. Yeah, Darren, that's the way it worked. I wanted to go right back to work. I mean, you need an opportunity to do that. So, you know, that's something I put out there right away. Obviously, you know, it has to be a good fit. You know, both professionally and for your family. And likewise, for the team that's, you know, reaching out to you. So that was definitely my intent and I was able to get it done. So when dawn Sweeney comes to the house, not really thinking that this is maybe what's going on, although when he shows up, maybe you got an idea..
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"dawn sweeney" Discussed on Poke the Bear
"To poke the bear episode 96. Number 96 Connor, no more players. Done. Let someone becomes number 96, which would be pretty incredible. But I'm a Marino ski. That is Connor Ryan Connor. How you doing? I'm doing okay. How you doing? Doing okay. I'm not a grave and doing okay. I can take it. I'm doing well, doing well. You know, I think bruins fans are not maybe doing so hot. And I think I'm going to infer that. Why are you saying that? I don't want to introduce someone. I don't want to infer for people how they feel. I shouldn't be there. They're spokesperson. But I'm going to be. Because I do think people are upset or annoyed on this Thursday afternoon when we record this after every exit interview has been done with players. Bruce Cassidy, Don Sweeney, and today on Thursday, this cam Neely. And people are a little upset. And I don't blame them because they've been saying this for a while. Dawn Sweeney spoke on Wednesday, Camille spoke Thursday. And basically confirmed, we'll start the show off with this. The Sweeney will be back. Don Sweeney will be back as general manager. And not just for one year, but they're going to try to try to hammer out a pretty solid extension. I don't think it's going to be, I think it would be definitely more than one year. I don't think you're just going to be like, oh, here's another year. Let's try this again. What is your initial reaction to that? I mean, I'm not necessarily surprised by it. I think you could you could look and see it his situation, whether it be kind of his status as, I guess, kind of a lame duck GM going into this season or kind of the valid criticism he had and be like, all right, well, there's over time to make a move. It'd be now, which again, I think that's a very valid decision, but in terms of I'm viewing it from the bruins perspective and management, which I'm sure will be talking about quite a bit in this episode and probably in the weeks, months ahead. From their perspective, it seems like it's one thing where they want to see what Sweeney can do in terms of forging that kind of next chapter for this organization, which is kind of a scary thought. Again, I think Sweeney, it's one of those ones where there's obviously the criticism is there in terms of the drafting development, not supplementing this core in place with adequate talent. And then you can also make the argument that he's done a good job in terms of retaining talent with below market deals. Acquiring guys like lindholm, which very well could have I think maybe saved his job..