This is the skate podcast talking Bruins hockey with W.E.I. Bruins writers, Scott McLaughlin, Bridget Prue, and Brian D. Felice. Lace him up for some Bees Talk. It's Odyssey's The Skate Pod on W.E.E.I. Welcome in to episode 443 of the skate podcast.

I am Brian D. Feliz, joined by Bridgette-Peru and Scott.

Today is part two of our Boston Bruins' off-season mock-up series,

where we're going to focus heavily on the cap space we have remaining and how we're

going to allocate it throughout the UFA class, whether it's players that were on the Bruins

last year, the UFAs or just the open market.

But first, Scott, I know you and Bridget and myself probably have some loose ends to tie up

with some of the Don Sweeney contract extension talk.

Yeah, I kind of just had like one thing that I wanted to touch on just because it,

it feels like it's been one of the most, well, there's been a couple things like just talking to

friends that come up. And one is obviously like, what done so when he done to earn this and one point

I make to make the people and like not even really trying to defend him but I said on here before

it's like all right what are you asking him to do like him or a new GM or whoever you're asking

them to build a team that just missed the playoffs

into a Stanley Cup contender.

And they don't want this to be a decade's, you know, 10-year process.

They wanted to be short a turn.

All I point out to people is Don Swinney did do this.

He took over in 2015, a non-playoff team, and in four years had them in the Stanley

Cup final.

And that was, yes, with mistakes made along the way, and there's stuff he could have done

better that you hope he's learned from, specifically talking about the 2015 draft,

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