Former Bruins Brad Marchand traded to Florida, Brandon Carlo to Toronto

[Aussie Bruin]

He lied about the terms of the draft pick

The organization releasing “we did everything we could”

Anyways even if they make a right move they can’t man up and own it

Terms of the pick just comes down to details. If he got them a bit wrong at first, *shrug* I see no reason for the GM to deliberately lie about them when he knows they'll become public in a matter of hours. Why bother?

Not sure if Don actually said "best we could" or "everything we could", but regardless, define it. In his mind Sweeney may well think they did, because even "everything" still only implies "everything reasonable" and not literally everything. So I'm ok with that too.

Let the record show that I've criticized Sweeney and the Bruins management more broadly on multiple occasions. I'm no apologist for them. I simply don't see that they've done anything majorly wrong here. If the reports are accurate, they offered Brad more than I would have. But they still couldn't find a 'landing spot', as Don would say, so they parted ways. Which to my mind in this case is how it should be. That's really all there is to it.

 

[Aussie Bruin]

One other thing, at any point are we going to blame the architects of this team for this season?

I think they did a great job pulling the plug, but like usual with some groups I see players were out of shape, not focused, bad leadership, of course bad coaching, I mean they could only turn Geekie into a probable 25 goal guy and not Brazeau as well. Everyone should be catching strays here no?

To give Sweeney credit, in his presser he did say something along the lines of 'this is my fault/responsibility' or 'it's on me'. Which it is. But not just him. Plenty of blame to go around. From Neely to Monty to the other coaches to the leaders amongst the playing group, and probably more folk besides. Lots went wrong.

But it really looks like Don is going to get the opportunity to fix his mess. I'm 50/50 on whether he should but it is what it is. It is easy enough to assign the blame where it belongs but it doesn't necessarily mean that all those on whom it falls should be fired. What it shouldn't be is forgotten. If Sweeney and Neely do indeed survive this, then at the very least their amount of rope should now be significantly shorter. Turn the ship around, or be on your way. No more screw ups.

 

[Number8]

You think it’s over for him here ?

I’m confused where you stand on this.

Regardless, there is zero chance Marchy signs back with Boston. I usually like to use ‘IMO” in these cases but won’t here.

If he does come back, I will change my avatar to a sign that reads “I’m an arrogant dumbass”. That’s a promise.

Ask me how much sleep I’ll lose over the prospect of having to do that…….. Zero