Like I said....smear campaign.
Joe Thornton was a cancer? Really?
That's a pretty liberal use of the word, don't you think?
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Joe Thornton was a cancer? Really?
That's a pretty liberal use of the word, don't you think?
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Trade deadline time is the funniest time of the year.
Trade deadline time is the funniest time of the year.
That trade set us up to win the cup and also allowed a young man from Quebec to step in and lead the franchise.
The trade was literally do we build around Joe or do we build around that young man from Quebec.
I think they chose wisely.
And choking Joe couldn’t lead a team to a cup, it was a wash.
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Not baloney.
Been plenty written about it over the years.
For Patrice Bergeron and the Bruins to rise, the Joe Thornton trade had to happen | Boston Sports Journal
Read the last two sentences of that article. Patrice is right.
Besides, if we were handing the keys to Bergeron, why did we make the Savard move?
You can't have it both ways.
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Yea that was the plan when they traded him waz it? Ali you know better then that .And it took years and alot more help.You think they win Cup without Chara or Thomas or Horton or even Ryder who had huge goal vs habs 1st rd in overtime tying series. Etc ?
There is another article from the Globe that goes more in depth.
That trade was done for many reasons, one being that they decided to build around Bergeron and not Thornton.
The point of the deal was to build around Bergeron and acquire enough assets to get there. They did, it just wasn't overnight.
There were other factors I'm sure but this was a huge part of it.
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Neely’s career was cut short by injuries, not by lack of heart, and he now has a cup.
Lindholm is the team's reserve center and has proven he can fill that role adequately and more importantly he fits in well with Cassidy's system, and he's cheap. Studnicka can come up if things get really desperate. While yet another C would be great that sort of depth is not something any team can afford under the Cap without making serious, untenable concessions elsewhere.
There is not a single practical reason why Thornton should join the Bruins. The roster has 2 needs - secondary scoring and left-side defensive depth - and signing Joe wouldn't help with either of them, not does his style gel with the way this team plays. It's not happening.
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it was a false choice, though. Bergeron was 19 and there was no reason to rush him.
They could have kept Joe and still signed Chara and made him the C. They went out & signed Savard and that didn't hold Bergeron back. Hell, missing a whole season and then basically being the 3rd line C for a year didn't hold him back either. Bergeron was an instant legend who wouldn't be denied. There's no reason to believe having Joe in the lineup would have held back Bergeron. If anything, having such a steady 1st line center like Thornton would have made the Bergeron concussion years a lot less difficult. the idea that Bergeron needed the Thornton trade to happen so that he could become the player he became is just false IMO...no offense intended.
Joe vs Savard is the real choice here and I think in the long run you can make a case for Joe, but obviously with the benefit of hindsight and knowing the butterfly effect I wouldn't change anything and risk giving up that Cup.
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