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Good morning.

Good morning. You know, driving in, I thought I would have heard

the little Booker T and the M.G. Since Steve Cropper passed away. Yes. I guarantee you Shime has no

idea who Booker T and the M.G. I know who Booker T. The wrestler was. Can you play some of his

tunes? I can probably find his walkout music. You probably would know green onions. Oh, absolutely. Everybody knows green onions, but. I always take them off my plate. Oh, I definitely know green onions. I know this. Legendary guitarist. All right. I mean, played with the Blues Brothers. He was around for a long time. Yeah, and they backed out. They were like the Booker T and the MGs was the, like the backup band for Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett and some of, wow, bringing the music knowledge with this morning, Judd-Sor-on. I love it. I absolutely love it. So this team,

we were talking the other day, needs to stop spotting their opponents a goal or two in the

first period of these hockey games. Would you agree with that? I would agree. I think they just

need to get off to some better starts, Greg. You know, I was thinking about it the other day. So,

you know, everybody, we hear about it all the time. You know, you want to play a 60-minute game. But how a team plays in the National Hockey League in that first period, and yes, you'd like to have a lead, but it really sets the tone for the rest of the game. And the Bruins certainly did not get off to the start that they wanted to in Detroit. You know, and in the big picture, especially with the injuries that they have and they've got

four defensemen that are out of the lineup, they have to play a certain way in order to be successful. If they stray from that, they're going to have some problems. We saw that the other night in Detroit, and they're not built, especially with the injuries, to outscore some of their problems. When you look at this team and you talk about some of those injuries, especially on the

defensive side, it seems like that a lot of goals that they give up comes from right in

front of the goalie, right in the crease. So either they're not moving guys out of there

or not bodying guys, what's the issue with them defensively and a lot of those goals that happen right in front of the goalies? Well, I think some of the issues we saw the other night, it was puck management. You can't have turnovers in certain spots or even the first goal. James Van Ramesdite gets behind Andrew Peek. That was one of the things that the coaches talked about in their pre-scout to Detroit.

As soon as they get the puck, they like to fly a guy out of the zone. They were able to spring James Van Riemstike. And Wiggi, I don't know if you're reading the analytics, but if you look overall... He's not. No.

Well, you've been able to pick it up because basically the Bruins have allowed more high danger

chances than any team in the national hockey league.

But with the goaltending that they've gotten, and I understand Jeremy Swamman was not at the

level that we had seen him throughout November, with the goaltending that they have gotten

all season long from Swam and Corpuselho, they're one of the

best teams at denying some of those high danger chances, but they've got to cut down on that

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