All true and due credit.
Adam Oates. Andy Moog. Reggie Lemelin. Dave Poulin. Gary Galley. Brian Propp.
Feel free to add favorites.
Now get out that fine toothed comb and run down the lengthy latter day list of awful free agent signings and Over the Hill Gang garbage heap acquisitions.
Al Iafrate anyone?
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Joe Mullen?
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Kevin Stevens?
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Raymond Bourque for who, exactly?
Yes, Brian Rolston proved valuable. The first round draft selection did not. Let's not forget that Harry took Raymond to arbitration, and that for years, Bourque's salary amounted to a soft cap for every other Bruins player,
One cannot blame Sinden for the lockout fallout fiasco.
Nor did he sign Martin LaPointe for 5 million, receiving basically nothing in return, except Marty's undeniably invaluable tutelage of a young Patrice Bergeron in the ways of becoming a true NHL professional.
Or let Joe Thornton go for nothing, save Marco Sturm. Nor the fact that O'Connell, inexplicably, did not signal Thornton's availability to half the League (to their lasting annoyance).
Let's not skip lightly over Harry's tendency to avoid accountability and deflect blame by hiring and firing coaches like a bodily function.
An oldie but a goodie,
To say nothing of Harry's penurious, Cromag approach to and shabby treatment of players and coaches alike. Look it up. The stories are legion.
Finally, to what ultimate end?
Why, a dead end, of course.
Always - *always* - at least three players away from true contention.
Thank God he's gone.
Good riddance to bad garbage.
that we are a legitimate threat.
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