News Article: Bruins Front Office ranked top 5

[LouJersey]

One could also argue you don't have McAvoy with those forwards taken, and thus have a hole at 1RD instead of 2RW.

It's like playing "what if" we kept Thornton and saying they'd have both Chara and Savard still, doesn't work like that

none of those guys would have contributed in 2016 so it would not have changed anything.

 

[NDiesel]

none of those guys would have contributed in 2016 so it would not have changed anything.

Surely they could have used one of those guys over trading for Stampniak to play in the top 6 or giving Hayes/Connolly a chance? You think there is no chance they impress in camp at all in this alternate universe?

Maybe they even feel they can afford to trade their 1st at the deadline because of those guys in the pipeline and the hole at RW.

Sorry but complete BS to say with any amount of certainty nothing would change.

 

[NDiesel]

When someone is given a layup and decided to pass on it because they think they are smarter then everyone else, then it had better work out. If it doesn’t they should absolutely be fired; that’s how the world works everywhere except for the bruins front office.


Well it cost us 1 cup for sure and probably 2; so yes I would say yes that easy

I just can't agree that better picks guarantees you anything other than a better longterm outlook, and I'm not really sure how anyone can believe a cup is guaranteed for any reason after watching the historic season choke that we saw.

 

[EverettMike]

Still amazes me how much Don Sweeney's GM reputation owes to Nazem Kadri specifically.

 

[NDiesel]

Still amazes me how much Don Sweeney's GM reputation owes to Nazem Kadri specifically.

Because him being an idiot is a big reason we beat Toronto in 2019 is what you're getting at right?

 

[LouJersey]

Because him being an idiot is a big reason we beat Toronto in 2019 is what you're getting at right?

Pretty sure he got booted the year before as well.

 

[LouJersey]

Surely they could have used one of those guys over trading for Stampniak to play in the top 6 or giving Hayes/Connolly a chance? You think there is no chance they impress in camp at all in this alternate universe?

Maybe they even feel they can afford to trade their 1st at the deadline because of those guys in the pipeline and the hole at RW.

Sorry but complete BS to say with any amount of certainty nothing would change.

I mean they didn't deal any of the 3 first rounder they made for instant help plus the team sucked. I don't think any of those guys played for two years... maybe Connor IIRC, but to say someone drafted in that draft would have affected the 15-16 season to me is more of a reach than what I was saying.

 

[JoeIsAStud]

One can argue not taking one of those forwards cost them the 2019 cuo, since they were a top 6 forward short. One can also argue messing up pick 15 (Jake and Jake imo made sense that year) wasn't that big of a deal since they got to game 7 at home SCF four years later.

The Bruins ere the better team and should have won in 2019. Maybe 1 more forward would have helped, but who knows. They should have won and didn't .