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Boston's best hockey shop, 1303, Mass Ave in Arlington. Good morning. How are you? Morning. All good. A little challenge getting here, but that's all right. Oh, yeah. Did Ken not tell you about the road construction and everything being shut down? No, that's okay. Unfortunately, my chopper was not available today for me to just kind of drop in. Well're redoing the whole thing over here and they're doing a fine job on it but it is it's inconvenient so I'm glad you finally made it in and I mean interesting week for the Bruins I was I was there Saturday I think I brought him good luck no Hillman drinks they beat really good hockey team. And then you go to Edmonton, all of you, and you are atrocious and you get blown out. And then you come back and beat the Islanders. So what is this team from your perspective now here? I think we're still trying to find that out. You know, the sample size is getting a little bit bigger, so now they've played 12 games. You know, and if you look across the 12 games, you mention the game in Ottawa. That's the one game where the Bruins were not competitive, and it was almost a flashback to the season before. And the way that the first period started against the Islanders, you're down

two nothing in the first five minutes. So now you start to think, okay, what do we have here? And they

were able to bounce back and score five unanswered goals. So I think, you know, Greg, in answer your

question, I think that they're a team that's still trying to find its identity, which is how to

play hard defensively and being that

hard out. We had the GM Don Sweeney on the other day, and one of the things that he talked about

is they're still as a team having problems with the system that Marco Sturm is putting in place.

And at this point, I think he feels like the onus is on the players, both individually

and collectively, to be able to pick that up.

So let's see how they respond.

Can the Bruins finish this month of October with a couple of wins against the

Sabres?

You're going to see Carolina here on Saturday afternoon.

That would move you back to 500 and still keep you in the mix. The rumors about Pavel Zaka, the Canucks, have interest in him. I know the Bruins have come out and said that they see Pavel as a long-term guy here. Where do you fall on that? Pavel Zaka is a really valuable player. He's a top six forward who can play center and wing. He can check.

He's skill. He can play on both your special teams units. He's going to generate a lot of

attention around the National Hockey League and provide a lot of value. I think the team that,

listen, Elliot Friedman is one of the most respected guys in our business and the name that he

connected to to was the Vancouver Canucks. And apparently these conversations have been taking place since last summer.

Listen, most of these general managers, they're talking about all sorts of players with all

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