Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli said on Salk and Holley Wednesday that the team will not fire Claude Julien as long as he is the general manager.

DJ Bean is joined by Mike Salk as the two discuss the state of the Bruins as they enter the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Rangers. Topics discussed include the Bruins' banged-up blue line, the disappearance of Tyler Seguin and the challenging task of beating Henrik Lundqvist.

[0:03:38] ... I look at the of those Peru and practicing today and icu. Wade Redden skating around a little bit before practice starts and getting off the ice I see no interference -- no Dennis Seidenberg. Without ...
[0:05:16] ... defense -- -- on him all the time or maybe you designate Chris Kelly or militarily or whatever way you wanna handle someone Michael that is now want him on the ice against them all the ...
[0:09:09] ... season the question is what the hell do you have after that. Patrice Bergeron was heroic. In in game seven absolutely how -- Sagan -- yet to show up I mean. I'm here and people saying ...
[0:11:45] ... the end of the day it's also a matter of of beating Henrik Lundqvist in those guys are gonna pack it in so maybe you'll still see you. Those numbers were Sagan attempts a bunch of ...

Pierre McGuire joins Mut and Tom Caron to discuss the Bruins dramatic Game 7 win, the inconsistency the team has shown, and discusses the Rangers.

[0:03:46] ... -- seven games in the series against the Rangers but how does Claude Julien get him to flip that switch. I know yesterday. You know Peter Shirley said there's no switch she can't just Obama saying ...
[0:04:51] ... to rebound if you remember the first game after was against the Buffalo Sabres. And they didn't win the game and you could -- guys were ready to cry after the game Italy they let the ...
[0:05:49] ... are better defensively than -- The Rangers have a much better goalie Henrik Lundqvist it can be argued that blunt criticism about school in the NHL right now. Based on his play this season especially the ...
[0:06:24] ... The Wall Street players have helped change the entire fabric of the New York Rangers they really have much more depth. They play a much harder game. And much more skill and -- changed the entire dynamic ...

NBC hockey analyst Pierre McGuire was a guest of the Mut & Merloni show Wednesday to talk about the Stanley Cup playoffs.

McGuire said “only in youth hockey” has he seen a comeback like the Bruins’ miracle against the Maple Leafs in Monday night’s Game 7.

“I’ve never seen anything like that with 12 minutes or less to go in an NHL game — in a playoff game, a deciding Game 7,” McGuire said. “Never seen that before.”

McGuire said the tide started to turn in the Bruins’ favor when Tuukka Rask stopped Matt Frattin on a breakaway in the third period with Toronto leading 4-1.

“Boston got urgent. Boston really felt better after Frattin missed the breakaway. You could see there was a huge surge after the save was made by Tuuka on Matt Frattin’s breakaway. And you could see the better players for the Bruins every other shift were starting to take over momentum,” McGuire said.

“So, it was a combination of Frattin misses the breakaway, Boston starts to amp it up, their star players really start to amp it up and they get the feel. Then all of a sudden they put the lunar eclipse in front of James Reimer, that is Zdeno Chara, and [Patrice] Bergeron with a seeing-eye shot makes it all equal. Then they go into overtime and win.”

Looking at the Bruins’ inconsistency, McGuire said some of it can be traced to the post-Marathon fallout.

“The thing that’s impressed me the most about this Bruins team: I think that this team was emotionally hurt, like most of the city of Boston was, after the Marathon tragedy,” McGuire said. “I really mean that. I was there to do their game following the Marathon tragedy, and you could sense the emotion, you could sense how these guys felt terrible for the families, for the victims, for the entire city. It was a huge blow. It took time for these guys to rebound.

“If you remember, the first game after was against the Buffalo Sabres, and they didn’t win the game. You could sense that guys were ready to cry after the game; they felt like they had let the city down. So, I think there’s been a lot of emotion that’s gone into the season for the Bruins. Let’s remember, it was a 48-game schedule, there was a lockout, a lot of players were saying stuff they probably shouldn’t have said or didn’t want to say but it was out of character, but emotion got involved. And I think this has been an emotional roller coaster for this team all year.

“Do I think they can flip the switch? Absolutely. I respectfully disagree with Peter Chiarelli — I do think this is a team that can flip the switch because of their depth down the middle. When you look at it with [David] Krejci, with Bergeron, with [Chris] Kelly, with [Gregory] Campbell. I truly believe, when you have that kind of depth down the middle, you can flip a switch.”

Next up for the Bruins are the Rangers, who also underachieved in the regular season. Although the Rangers finished one point behind the Maple Leafs in the standings, McGuire indicated the Bruins should expect a stiffer challenge in the second round.

“The Rangers are better defensively than Toronto,” McGuire said. “The Rangers have a much better goalie in Henrik Lundqvist. It can be argued that Lundqvist is the best goalie in the NHL right now based on his play this season, especially the last 25 games and the first seven games of this playoff season, he was phenomenal for the Rangers. It’s a big reason why Washington didn’t win the series is because Lundqvist was just so good in the series.

“I think the one thing that changed from the Rangers’ standpoint was their trade at the trade deadline, moving Marian Gaborik out to Columbus and bringing back John Moore, Derek Dorsett and Derick Brassard. Those three players have helped change the entire fabric of the New York Rangers. They have much more depth, they play a much harder game and they have much more skill. That’s changed the entire dynamic of their team.

“And the other thing is New York has a huge shutdown tandem that Toronto did not have. And that is Ryan McDonagh and Dan Girardi. Those guys are as good a shutdown tandem as any shutdown tandem in the league.”

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