David Pastrnak roasts Bruins insider Joe Haggerty in front of media members.

The Boston Bruins are clearly having a lot of fun right now in the Stanley Cup Final and unfortunately for one member of the Bruins media that came out in a rather amusing way today.

As you would expect when it comes to any professional sports franchise the players that are a part of the team quickly become familiar with the men and women who cover them on a daily basis. Reporters do come and go but some of the more established names can stick around for the entire length of a player's career and that often results in a good rapport between journalist and player and other times it results in the complete opposite. When it comes to the Boston Bruins one such veteran reporter is none other than NBC's Joe Haggerty, and his good rapport with the players was on display Monday when he was the victim of roast from one of the Bruins' players.

Haggerty has been the target of jokes from the Bruins players in the past but this time around the burn on Haggerty seemingly came out of nowhere. In fact it was Sportsnet reporter Luke Fox who asked the question that promoted the mockery when he asked Bruins forward David Pastrnak about the impact his teammate Torey Krug was having on the Stanley Cup Final. Now this is the kind of question you would call a softball or a layup, but instead of giving some generic answer Pastrnak went on the offensive against what you might call an innocent bystander. 

"Do you still think we're better without him," asked Pastrnak while starring directly at Haggerty, smiling all the while. 

Now Haggerty is an innocent bystander in so much as he did not ask anything on the day that prompted such a response from Pastrnak, but it is also quite clear what Pastrnak was referencing here. Back in late March Haggerty published an article for NBC Sports in which he asked the question "Are the B's better off without Torey Krug?"

In hindsight that question of course seems absurd when you consider the fact that Bruins quarterback on the power play now has 16 points in 20 playoff games this season, including 4 in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final. According to Fox this was all in good fun and when you consider the fact that Pastrnak always comes off as a friendly and jovial type of personality, I would suspect that this was indeed very much the case.