Rick Middleton | Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 3-5-26
Monday Morning Podcast
All Things Comedy
4.7 • 34.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Bill rambles with hockey legend Rick Middleton about his time with the Bruins and his new documentary 'ICE GOLD'.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's going on? Everybody, it's Bill Byrne. It's time for the Thursday afternoon just before Friday, Monday morning podcast, and I'm just checking in on you. |
| 0:07.8 | And I have a guest, I can't even believe this guy is on my podcast. This is one of my heroes growing up, little Billy Freckles when I had my big orange afro back in the early 80s and I used to go down to the |
| 0:23.7 | Boston Garden and go around all the Bruins games. One of my favorite players of all time, |
| 0:29.1 | the one and only number 16 captain of the Bruins from 85 to 88. Mr. Rick Middleton. |
| 0:36.5 | What's going on? Hey, Bill, thank you so much for having me on your podcast. This is awesome. |
| 0:42.3 | Are you kidding? You have no idea. I get your jersey under my bed there. I used to play pickup hockey. |
| 0:48.3 | And I was just disgracing your name and number. So I had to put on my Jay Miller one. And then I couldn't fight. |
| 0:55.5 | You had to knock a few people around. No, I, you have no idea. Like I fell in love with hockey |
| 1:03.3 | and the Bruins in like 1980. And that was like, I saw the end of like the stand Jonathan, |
| 1:13.6 | Wensick, Wayne Cashman, those big bad Bruins. And then there was like the Peter McNabb, Barry Peterson, you, |
| 1:20.6 | both crowded. |
| 1:21.6 | When Barry came to the team, you know, my numbers and my production went straight up. He became my centerman and we took off. Yeah. You know, my numbers and my, you know, production went straight up. |
| 1:28.2 | He became my sentiment and we took off, yeah. |
| 1:31.0 | You know, I was going to ask you, you know, because I watched, you know, this year was |
| 1:34.2 | watching the Bruins, seeing like who's Daninoff coming from the third line up to the first |
| 1:39.3 | line. And like as much as pasta scores goals, his passes are on some of the best passes in the league. |
| 1:45.0 | He's had, and he can handle the puck and he sees the play. |
| 1:50.0 | As you know, it's all about not only being able to skate fast, but be able to do everything at that speed. |
| 1:57.0 | Everybody can skate fast. |
| 1:58.0 | But if you can't think fast enough to make a pass and see the lane, |
| 2:03.6 | and he seems to have that, and now they're moving them up the lineup. |
| 2:07.6 | How is that as someone like yourself, before we get into, you know, |
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