That's bad asset management. Who replaces Carlo at his salary or less? Hall was playing on the Bruins' third line, made $6M, and the Bruins were lucky to fully get out of his cap hit without any retention or anything else going to Chicago. Some teams so far haven't been as lucky. A 50pt player in Smith returned a 4th. Bruins at least got two defensemen that have had some NHL experience. It's easier to replace someone on the 3rd line than it is replacing the team's third best defenseman.
Who’s your second pairing defenseman on the right side?
I'm not sure that it's people not realizing this as much as it is that people are angry with the reason why this team had to trade Hall and weren't able to sign Bertuzzi. Why was it that the Bruins had to fill out a lot of roster spots with limited cap space? Bad free agent signings, attaching assets to move said bad signings, and poor drafting leading to very very few quality prospects making the jump - all big reasons why this team had to go dumpster-diving on a very small budget. There was no realistic way to make it work because this team made more bad decisions than good since 2015.
Right, but Hall and Bertuzzi were at the bottom of the list on the blame pie. Can't believe people think they are making the PO after losing Hall, Bertuzzi, Bergeron and Krejci.
Its kind of fun thou don't U think ?. I mean i see it that way any ways. I mean Treliving has came in and is laying his ground work to bring the cup to Toronto and he's trying to go through Boston first and foremost. He brings Reaves in after the Bruins bring Looch back and now he signs x bruin Bertuzzi who the Bruins gave up next years first for. Without question he has made the leafs better but its too bad they still have no one who can stop the puck. Sweeney hopefully is sitting back and saying "Game On !" Because its his move !
See, this is a fair and warranted critique.
For sure, they were very good in the playoffs (Hall 2 Ways, Bert 1 way)
If they didn’t go all-in last year people would have thrown a bitch fit. They should have and did. They just choked. Sucks but thems the breaks
The worst part is they paid these picks to essentially scratch Grzelcyk and Frederic. (Why it wasn't Forbort and Foligno instead I still have no idea)
Exactly. Would’ve been crucified.
Sweeney's good decisions were very good. It's just his bad decisions were very bad, and there were more of those.
Bing best post of the day you win. Let's go! JVR hes gonna surprise all of you.
