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These guys know how to connect with you about Boston sports.

This may feel strong, but you people are stupid.

OMG, it's Phil Grimmaz, 905, the Sports Hub.

It is satisfying to me.

You know, it really is.

I'd be lying if I didn't say it so that the Bruins weren't before San Jose.

You know, that was a controversial trade.

We knew that it was going to cause a lot of waves.

And, you know, eventually it probably cost you my job.

But so it is, you know, and I don't think, you know, and you might differ with me,

I don't think the Bruins would have won the Stanley Cup if they had Joe Thornton on this team.

It's our number three, Felgren-Maz, presented by Draft Kings on a reentry Monday, presented by East Coast Metal Roof.

And coming from our Town Fair Tire Studios in Dorchester. Michael Connell on with us in 2011 after the Bruins won the Stanley Cup. Michael Connell, the former Bruins' GM, who traded away Joe Thornton. And you love that piece of sound. That piece of audio is now what? 8 years old. And I still can't believe he said it.

Well, because it's so refreshingly honest. I mean, it's when he says, I don't think the Bruins would have won the Stanley Cup of Joe Thornton was on this roster. Wow. You know, and you might differ with me. I don't think the Bruins would have won the Stanley Cup if they had Joe Thornton on this team. and now according to Joe

McDonald, the Bruins are considering Joe Thornton on this team.

Yuck.

I know where you're going on this. Well, first is I set it up by saying for years and years, I've been no on Thornton. I mean, no on him back here. I've watched him in a lot of settings. I've watched him in Stanley Cup playoff games with the sharks. I've watched them in the Olympics. I've watched every time I've watched Joe Thornton in a big game.

I haven't

seen him. He has this unbelievable propensity in big games to be invisible for a guy so big and so

dominating on the puck. I watch him in big games and I say, actually, where is he? I don't notice him. And so I've always felt that way about him. I agree with Mike O'Connell. They would not have won the cup with Joe Thornton at that time, just as San Jose has not won the cup with Joe Thornton in his time. But what I take him back now is a rental? Yeah, I would. I would. Yuck. And here's a couple different rules. One, I think it's, do you at all believe in Karma Murray? Or like, redemption stories or, come on. Every dog has his day. You don't ever believe in that? Something for the networks to try to get ratings. I've seen it my whole life. This guy will never win. This guy will never win. This guy will never win. Oh, he just won. I've seen it my whole life. And, you know, the more you write somebody off, the more eventually they're going to break through. Tuka Rask is never going to win. He's never going to win. he's never going to win. Oh, he just won. Now what do we do? I've had to do that with most athletes in my life, in fact, because most of them who are any good eventually have their day. Eventually they do. Now, there's some who don't, but for the most part, Peyton Manning, Arod, Alexander Ovechkin, Sergio Garcia, we've had this conversation a million

times. The guy that can never win, he ultimately wins. And those are good stories.

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