Joe Haggerty of CSN is joining us.

He's our CSN Bruins insider, joins us in the AT&T expert hotline. And Hags, I know everyone's talking about the Celtics and the Summer League and everything else, but important times for the Bruins. And I'm, like, pumped about hockey season already on the Bruins because of all these guys in the pipeline, Anders Bjork, who I saw with Notre Dame against UMass Lowell and the NCAA tournament on and on.

Hags, just thanks for joining us.

Happy Monday.

And what was it like there for development camp the past four days?

It was fun, Rochi.

It's enjoyable to watch the prospects.

I got to be honest, though, I don't think it's as fun as you ragging on the collars and just maintaining a wall and cone of silence from the outside. I want an echo chamber

in that studio between you and Hurley where you're just bouncing stuff off each other. You don't need

any of this outside negativity, Roach. I want a whole segment of you just destroying the callers.

Just keep pushing forward with this.

Don't let anybody call in, and we can continue with the interview now.

But I just want to give you some encouragement because I like where you're going.

Yeah, it's a new side of Dan we've never seen before.

I've always enjoyed dark and potentially evil Dan Roach, and I'm glad he's come out to play today. His goatee is growing in quickly. That's how you know it's the evil, Dan Roach. Well, it's like the Superman, right, when the stubble came in and the suit got darker and the Superman movie, and Roachie's just like that right now, the bad version of him. All righty then. So moving on now, Hags. Before I snap.

Right.

No, just what you're seeing, and maybe if you could, just put it in perspective of, you know, where the Bruins are at, where they're trying to get to, and maybe putting the gap together between the veterans like Bergeron and Chara and company to get to where they have so much youth and so much promise in the McAvoy's and the Bjorks of the world.

Yeah, and I think that's the perfect combination, right?

I mean, in any sport, you want to see that combo of veterans, battle-hardened vets, and grizzled guys that have, you know, been to the mountaintop that have won before that know how to get there and can provide the leadership and also, you know, step up their play in big moments and combine that with the influx of youth and exuberance and talents and have that perfect combination of the two.

And I think they're obviously starting to fill in. And we've already seen it over the last

couple of years with, you know, Posternak, the last couple of years, especially the breakout year last year, Randon Carlo comes in and becomes a top-parrying shutdown defenseman with Charle last year. And then McAvoy comes in in the playoffs. And you've seen other players start to push through as well. Noel O'Chari was very good towards the end of the year on the fourth line last year.

So, you know, you're... start to push through as well. Noel O'Chari was very good towards the end of the year on the fourth line last year.

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