All right. Joe Haggerty is a man who covers the great game of hockey for NBC Sports Boston.

How about this? You actually have a team now. It's exciting again. This is something I've been wanting for a while.

They're healthy and they're playing well.

Oh, yeah. What do they've won? Four out of five?

Five out of six. Five out of six. And they just beat the best team in the league last night. Yeah, the Tampa Bay was very lethargic in the first, but you can't take anything away from the Bruins. First of all, a little blowback on this, I'm getting, I think, Hagsgs I don't think Rass played well last night

I agree with you well first of all let's Riley Smith I hope he gives you guys the proper credit

for making that goal happen Riley Nash I made the same mistake but you're right we said the same

thing too Riley Smith was a guest of this program for a while, but like all other guests, got traded. Yeah, and Riley Nash, now that he's a regular guest, we'll probably get traded as well. It's the Tudor and Rich Curse. But, yeah, that was, I mean, he had a hell of a game, and it was indeed just because he was on our show yesterday. Indeed, you know, it doesn't take Torital. just like me he was at all the Fred toucher I hope you realize

yeah well I on our show yesterday. Indeed, you know, doesn't take Torital. Just like me, he was at all the Fred Toucher. I hope you realize it.

Yeah. Well, what I do is I make careers, ask Dan Routts. All right. So, yeah, Rask is

bothering me. That was a game where you saw a goaltender in Tampa Bay,

keep them in that game almost by himself,

and then you saw Rask almost throw away a game by himself.

Go ahead.

I think this is going to be a process with Tuka.

You know, I don't think overnight he's going to get it all back and he's going to become, you know, the confident red hot goaltender that's going to be able to carry you. And, you know, we've had this conversation before. I think, you know, the days where he's going to be a real, real top-end elite goaltender that can carry you, I think they may be over. And I, you know, I've said all along, I think, or at least I've said this season that after watching him and after watching the last couple of years, that he's not as good as he used to be, at least in my eyes, and that I don't think they're going to ever win a cup with him. You know, and this is a problem for another day.

This is a problem for a few years from now. But I do think they need to eventually, you know, find the next goalie of the future, the next kind of answer between the pipes, because I'm not sure that Tuka is going to be it. But, you know, as far as now, he's the best goalie that they have. they have their site set on the playoffs as they should.

You know, he's the one that's going to take them there or get them there if they do get in the playoffs. He's by far the best option that they have and the best goalie they have. So, you know, it's going to be a process to get him back on track, I think. And last night was a good step. I agree with you that, you know, he wasn't certainly wasn't spectacular.

He looked very shaky on that Tyler Johnson drive to the net that

ended up getting called no goal because it went off the post and bounced out. He got a really

good bounce on that, but he was out of position. He was not aggressive on that play. And, you know,

that could have really gone badly for him as other things have this season.

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