{"id":548371,"date":"2026-04-09T01:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548371\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T01:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:02:13","slug":"michael-felger-shreds-bruins-rookie-james-hagens-on-radio-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548371\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Felger Shreds Bruins Rookie James Hagens On Radio Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-bruins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a> fans received the news they were anxiously awaiting when the <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-bruins\/news\/boston-bruins-sign-james-hagens-nhl-contract\/89777f995d6dee952747a8ad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">team announced it had signed<\/a> Boston College forward and 2025 NHL first-round draft pick James Hagens to an entry-level contract.<\/p>\n<p>Most of Bruins Nation was elated, but not 98.5 The Sports Hub\u2019s flagship host, Michael Felger. Felger\u2019s expectations for what the 19-year-old who nearly led the NCAA in points scored this season are extremely low.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just prepared to be disappointed on James Hagens. I am. Call me defeatist or whatever,\u201d Felger said. \u201cI think the kid\u2019s gonna suck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Felger then changed his tone. Saying that it is nothing personal against the Hauppauge, NY native, because he has never seen him play. Like\u2026 ever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is worse than Mazz and \u2026 Cooper Flagg. (Mazz) watched him for two minutes on YouTube and said \u2018This kid doesn\u2019t have it.\u2019 I haven\u2019t watched that on James Hagens,\u201d Felger said. \u201cI\u2019ve watched zero James Hagens. Zero, zero, zero. I never saw him at BC. I didn\u2019t watch him at all at Providence. I haven\u2019t watched a clip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you heard it here first, that kid\u2019s gonna suck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What does Felger think of James Hagens?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that kid is going to suck.&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FelgerAndMazz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@FelgerAndMazz<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IBndlpVkbr\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/IBndlpVkbr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 98.5 The Sports Hub (@985TheSportsHub) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/985TheSportsHub\/status\/2041999814443872504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Boston, I guess. If Felger is trying to prepare the teenager for what it\u2019s going to be like in the Boston sports media, I suppose he is doing a good job.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who has actually paid attention to Hagens on his path to TD Garden, I am excited about the prospect of what the young point scorer can bring to the Bruins. He made a habit of setting up his linemates to score at Boston College and in Providence, and I see no reason why that wouldn\u2019t continue during his late-season stint with Boston.<\/p>\n<p>More NHL:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-bruins\/news\/boston-bruins-sign-james-hagens-nhl-contract\/89777f995d6dee952747a8ad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins Sign James Hagens To NHL Contract<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, Boston Bruins fans received the news they were anxiously awaiting when the team announced it had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5099],"tags":[154,95,5132,530,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-548371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-boston","9":"tag-boston-bruins","10":"tag-bostonbruins","11":"tag-bruins","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116372055188427782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}