Okay. Let's start off by saying that every team had to lose someone. If I'm looking at this right, only 7 teams out of 30 made trades with Vegas to protect certain players. The Bruins elected to keep Kevan Miller, who has played extremely well this season, and was coming off a good 2nd half and a great playoff (he was huge for the team, despite the loss. He played over 25 minutes a night for them) at the time of the choice to keep him. Either way, you were going to lose a good defenseman. Colin would have been blocked here by McAvoy and Carlo. He was not going to get the chance he's getting in Vegas. Despite the good offensive numbers from him, he's still a wreck defensively. The point still stands regardless of the results. Every team had to lose a player.
I'm going to give you it because it's a legitimate reason why he wasn't dealt. Teams don't usually trade their UFA(s)-To-Be when they're in the hunt. St. Louis may have dealt Shattenkirk, but they had an in-house replacement for him in Parayko. Also, there are more examples of teams keeping their UFA's than dealing them, when they're trying to make the playoffs (or are going to make the playoffs and want to try and make a run). They missed the playoffs by what, 1-2 point(s)? I get it helps your argument to ***** and moan that they didn't deal Eriksson but at the end of the day, plenty of teams don't do what you're crying about.
Keeping Soderberg wasn't even a Sweeney move. That was Chiarelli's last Trade Deadline here. Do you ever fact check, or just shoot at the hip? Sweeney is the one who dealt him for the conditional 6th. Once again, despite your crying about how they should trade UFAs while in the hunt, they were in the hunt this season as well. See above. You rarely see it happen. You know why? It sends a bad message to the team.
Doesn't count. You said, "Gave players away for nothing". Rinaldo trade was bad. Oh well, GM's make bad trades. Supposedly Neely was big behind this one as well.
Doesn't count. You said, "Gave players away for nothing".
Doesn't count. You said, "Gave players away for nothing". Khokhlachev is still apart of the Bruins organization. Revisionist history to say he should have been moved years ago. Saying stuff like that doesn't help your argument. It weakens it.
Don't reference them. You said "X". I want examples of "X". Not examples of "X" and throwing in "Y" to try and bolster your weak point. That was easy. Thank you.
Who has had a better year this year, Carlo or Colin Miller? I would've rather kept Colin Miller than Kevan Miller. Colin Miller is 5 years younger and has a higher ceiling. Plus Adam McQuaid and Kevan Miller are similar enough players that you do not need both. (why they signed both at the numbers they did, is beyond me).
Also you could've made a move to protect Colin Miller, then moved Krug and saved a bunch of money that you could've done something else with, while keeping the same offensive output. Krug is a better playmaker than Miller, but for the salary difference, it'd be worth it. Miller and Krug's wreckness defensively offset eachother.
Well I was on the "move Eriksson you idiots" train that whole year so I get to gloat after the fact when I turned out to be right. Even if they made the playoffs, that wouldn't have been worth keeping him as opposed to moving what could've been another first round pick.
My bad on the Soderberg thing, I stand corrected. It was hard for me to differentiate between all of Chiarelli's NHL level roster moves and Sweeney's. I don't think Sweeney has made a single good move at the NHL level other than signing Pastrnak for under 7 million. Stafford was a pretty good move I guess, he contributed at the cost of only a 6th, and that playoff experience was worth it to see McAvoy, so I'll give him that as a plus as well.
You can't do the "oh well it happens" with Rinaldo. There isn't another person alive who would make that deal besides Sweeney. Totally brainless, and don't get me started on Neely. I'm not a fan of his work in the front office either.
Ok so they didn't give them away for 0, they gave them away for 0.00000001. I stand corrected.
Khoklachev isn't revisionist history, I was saying it at the time, a lot of people were. He's still part of the organization but it's highly unlikely they'll get anything even remotely useful for him at this point, whereas when he was still a "prospect" he could've at least had some value to some idiot.
First off Khoklachev is still Bruins property and him spending time in the KHL instead of being lost to waivers may benefit us in the long run. Colin Miller would be the 8th D on this team and you think we should have traded assets to keep him? Rinaldo was a bad trade, we lost a 3rd round pick, it happens.
The rest of the guys you mentioned were either key players on a bubble team or were rentals literally the definition of something you pay for and give up again with nothing being returned. Does this team need more 2nd to 5th round picks? I just don't see how you can look at both the success the team is having and the depth of the prospects and think, man Sweeney has really screwed some things up.
Sweeney has done a great job with prospects (other than the total blunder of Barzal). I'm happy overall with the young guys, it'd be impossible not to be. The rest of my responses to basically this are above.
