Oct 26, 2026 · 42 min · 23 segments
Pucks with Haggs host Joe Haggerty hosts a Hagg Bag mailbag edition of the podcast where he talks about the Khusnutdinov contract extension and lauds the Bruins for the very successful youth movement…
Joe HaggertyHost
The plus-20 goal differential is the best number for any team in the entire NHL.
They've got, I think, it's like six, seven, eight guys somewhere in there that are on a 20-goal pace for the season.
Really nothing to complain too much about, although we may get some of that in the questions about complaints or nitpicks.
The real interesting things, I think, from a news perspective over the last week or so have been, you know, we talked, I think, last time about the Nikita Sidorov scandal.
Like the governor has been pulled back a little bit on his game and he's playing a little tentative or a little safe and is worried about going over the edge and is not playing with his usual sort of menace, intimidation, physicality.
And maybe that was the point is they wanted a little bit less of that, but it does seem like it's a little bit of a muted Nikita Zdorov for me anyway.
that we've seen recently, which I don't know if that's going to make him more effective.
The plus-20 goal differential is the best number for any team in the entire NHL.
They've got, I think, it's like six, seven, eight guys somewhere in there that are on a 20-goal pace for the season.
Really nothing to complain too much about, although we may get some of that in the questions about complaints or nitpicks.
The real interesting things, I think, from a news perspective over the last week or so have been, you know, we talked, I think, last time about the Nikita Sidorov scandal.
Like the governor has been pulled back a little bit on his game and he's playing a little tentative or a little safe and is worried about going over the edge and is not playing with his usual sort of menace, intimidation, physicality.
And maybe that was the point is they wanted a little bit less of that, but it does seem like it's a little bit of a muted Nikita Zdorov for me anyway.
that we've seen recently, which I don't know if that's going to make him more effective.
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