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Marshand's shot saved by Appleby.

He covers up and Johansson reaches to his face as Marchand went tumbling through.

You always have to be concerned that a player might catch the blade of somebody skating a collision like that

Marchion goes for the puck and then that flying vicious right elbow as he's fighting his way trying to get to that second chance jersey looking for a penalty on the play

well that is the guy that you're Boston Bruins have right now.

The dude that Brad Marchand elbowed in the head ending his 2017, 2018 regular season.

Marcus Johansson, winger for the Devils.

The trade was made yesterday in exchange for a 2019 second round draft pick and a 2024th rounder.

And we had Ty Anderson on yesterday and he is joining us once again on the Volkswagen expert hotline.

And yesterday, Ty, you were kind of hot on them making a huge deal. Obviously, like Mark Stone, who is it? Mark Stone was the guy that you wanted. But I mean, obviously, you couldn't have matched what the golden... Well, they could have. The question is, did you have, and Haggerty brought this up?

They could have matched it. The question is, did Don Swinney have the appetite to, and the answer was no. Okay, so first of all, just to start off, basically, what did you think of the trade yesterday? The Johan trade or the Stone trade? Because I thought the, the Johansen trade, I mean, it's, it is what it is. I don't love the price you've paid.

I thought that you look at the second tier rentals. You see what was paid. I think it's a lot of second and third rounders. I think Johansson giving up a solidified second rounder and a fourth roundard, the going rate, I don't love it. But at the end of the day, I guess you have to give something up to add something. But I look around and I see Zucarillo for a second and the third, although he's now injured. I look at Nyquist for a second and the third. That would have been nice. You know, so you get Johansson. He's kind of the weakest of that group, in my opinion.

So a second and the fourth, it's the market rate. I don't love it, but I guess you have to do something at the end of the day, right? Sure. And the thing is about Johansson. So he right now is in the middle of a season where he's got 27 points. He's had 12 goals, 15 assists. However, he's a minus 15 rating during that frame of 48 games that he played.

How do you see him being used? Tell us a little bit about where you think he's going to be. Because he could be a center or a winger, right? I mean, he's kind of like, what's his name that we just got? Coil. Yeah, he's kind of like Coil. But how do you believe the Bruins are going to use him? So it's actually ironic that he, that is plus minus. I mean, the plus minus is bad because the devil's is a train wreck this year. He's actually a pretty good defensive forward. You'll notice this tonight if he does play that he's pretty solid defensively. 200-foot game, like he mentioned, he can play all three, four positions. So you can put in the left, center, right. It really doesn't matter. He's a left shot, which I know they have a ton of already, but you have options there. I think to get the most out of him, you should put him on the creaky line. maybe try him on the right side there, have Debris stay on the left side

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