Bearly On Topic: The Boston Bruins Podcast

This week, we talk about what the Bruins roster looks like heading into the first week of hockey. Who's filling in for Pasta? What does the defense look like? Will Jeremy Lauzon and Jakub Zboril stay in their spots or be moved around? We'll all find out together.

We return this week frustrated by some of the moves or lack of moves that Don Sweeney orchestrated. Was Zdeno Chara dumped? How much faith do we have in the team right now? We get it all out so we can all move forward.

This week VA and NIck wrap up the Bruins playoffs by talking about the Boston- Tampa Bay series. We're trying to make sense of things in a nonsensical time.

This week, VA wraps up her thoughts on Tuukka leaving the bubble. Nick learns a new word for "terrible person". We conclude our talk about teh first round and move on to the Lightning. Nick likes the matchup, VA is unsure. We send well wishes out to Claude.

This week Nick is flying solo. Mostly he takes on the subject that rocked most BostonBruins fans this week: Tuukka's decision to leave the playoff bubble to return home to his family.

It's time for the Boston Bruins to play games for realz! Their opponent is the Carolina Hurricanes. But we don't talk much about that, instead wrapping up the round-robin/ qualifiers and the 2nd phase of the draft lottery. Next week, we'll talk about nothing but the Canes-B's series. Enjoy the fact that the Leafs are out!

We waited until the Bruins played two games before we recorded again and...well, that was a decision we made. Are we concerned about teh Bruins play? Yep.

In this episode, VA and Nick talk about the rollercoaster ride that is the Unfit to Participate list during this reopening training camp. Bruce Cassidy told everyone to not read too much into it but we do our best to read just a little into it. Tuukka and Patrice are finalists. Woohoo! We wrap it up with a game of the week to be played in the not so distant future.

Hey, we're back. This week, it's VA and Nick talking about all sorts of stuff that's happened over the past month or so, including the NHL's Return to Play plans for Phase 3 and 4.

After taking last week off, the gang is back to talk about Bruins news of the last two weeks. Tuukka talks about continuing his career, Zdeno is keeping track of his cubs via Zoom calls, and the AHL calls their season. As we usually are after a break, we're all over the place in this one.

This week VA, Geoff, and Tim discuss the contract extension of Jaroslav Halak. After that we have a thought experiment about which players have captain material and which do not.

This week we recap the best moments of the Zoom chat between the Bruins 2011 Stanley Cup Champion team. We have some news from various chats with fans and media. And we end things by talking about my favorite subject: Bruins dogs!

This week we turn most of our attention to the apparent cap constraints for the next season and how to sign Torey Krug and the other UFAs/ RFAs. With a potential static salary cap next season, we look at how to sign everyone, with or without the "Get out of cap jail free card" of Compliance Buyouts. We also answer one of your listener questions.

This week we talk about the tragic death of Colby Cave, the prospect of summer hockey, Torey Krug's contract situation, Kevan Miller, and who we think should be the Seventh Player.

Theis week VA, Geoff, and Tim opine on one of the most popular topics of Boston media this week. We also tackle the impact of the NHL Pause.

This week, we sort through our feelings regarding fandom of a team run by terrible people. We also talk about a new Bruins signing and our favorite non-cup winning seasons.

Tim takes a victory lap. We talk about the new signings: Jeremy Swayman and Nick Wolff. Playoffs? Regular season? Which will be played and how? There's a player submitted schedule and we talk about that. We discuss the inadequate efforts of the Jacobs family to "compensate" their workers and wrap it up with a user submitted question.

It was inevitable that the world of sports would be touched by the coronavirus. Perhaps what wasn't expected was that the NHL would take an indefinite pause on the 2019-2020 season. We're here to make sense of all the news, talk about the Bruins last game against Philly, and to distract you from this scary new world we're living in. Don't worry, we'll be back again next week and we have a a plan.

This weeks we begin the final push of the regular season, the bananapants month of March. We talk about the games of the week and the bonkers things that happened within them. How are Ondrej Kase and Nick Ritchie fitting in? Why is a certain Boston sports media member wrong about Kase? We wrap up with the week's schedule. And yes, this was recorded before we knew that Torey Krug had an UBI.

This week, we're breaking down the multitude (read: two) deals the Bruins made at the trade deadline. Does this make the team stronger now or later? What about cap space? We also talk about the games of the week both played and to be played.