This is the skate podcast talking Bruins hockey with W.E.I. Bruins writers, Scott McLaughlin, Bridget Prue, and Brian D. Feliz. Lace him up for some Bees Talk. It's Odyssey's The Skate Pod on WEEEI.

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Welcome into episode 415 of the skate podcast.

I'm Bridget Pruheer with Scott McLaughlin.

Brian, not here.

We're recording in a weird time, so he can't make it.

We're recording at night.

Xerxes is here, though.

Xerxes is here if you didn't already see him.

He's going to help me because I i'm sick so he might take over

for a little bit here um if you can't already tell i've been on the struggle bus with this for the past

few days and today it's been the worst um but anyway next man up xerxes next man up he's here

and he's probably going to bite me.

But, all right.

So we're recording right after the Bruins lost to Ottawa, and they're not going to go undefeated since the trade deadline.

So there's that.

I'm going to need you to take over.

Yeah, I'll go right into my opening shift because it's about the Bruins first period Thursday, which was not nearly good enough, and Jeremy Swayman and Net was not nearly good enough.

Nikita the Dorov during his pregame interview with Nesson that he did on the bench during warmups

called this the biggest game of the season and he's not wrong right like Bruins suddenly find

themselves right back in the middle of this playoff race after two big wins over Tampa and

Florida Ottawa is one of the teams that they're chasing although really they're more chase over Tampa and Florida.

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