Management Don Sweeney extended 2 years

[4ORRBRUIN]

The most obvious thing to happen to the Bruins in a while. No way he wasn't going to be extended.

 

[The don godfather]

More like doubles... and now we depend upon his atrocious drafting and his mindset of being the smartest in the room to carry the Bruins the next several seasons.

Are you kidding me he sold carlo for a possible 2026 1st round pick to go top 20 and a solid prospect fraser minton plus a 4th round pick that's milking the cow to the last drop. That's just one trade go to others ones and see how fleeced them all. I'm still in shock how he pulled all this off.

 

[Midship]

The Bruins are the absolute kings of mediocrity.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Are you kidding me he sold carlo for a possible 2026 1st round pick to go top 20 and a solid prospect fraser minton plus a 4th round pick that's milking the cow to the last drop. That's just one trade go to others ones and see how fleeced them all. I'm still in shock how he pulled all this off.

The Coyle trade and Frederic trades were excellent and one sided. Brazeau was excellent in that Lauko alone was good value in return. These are minor, minor impact trades however.

Carlo was viewed around the league as a high end top 4 right sided defenseman which are extremely valuable, with an extremely friendly contract.

Bruins received a very late 1st and a potential middle six center... fair if anything but hardly a fleecing.

Marchand trade is for a very distant late 1st round pick. Not much for Marchand.

 

[4ORRBRUIN]

The Bruins are the absolute kings of mediocrity.

Sure lol

 

[Sevendust]

Horton and Campbell
Ryder UFA
Seidenberg
Ference
Boychuk
Kelly
Peverley
McQuaid
Kaberle

Why do you think Chara chose Boston over more money from LA?

Savard signing, Rask deal.

Drafted Pasta.

Chiarelli was by far the better GM than Sweeney. It's not even debatable.

 

[Jim]

Expect to see a lot of those picks we have over the next 3 years traded away. They’re going to shoot for broke and try to make the playoffs next season, which I think is the wrong move for the overall health of the franchise. They’re going to longer you kick the can, the more drastic the rebuild when you simply can’t kick it anymore.

 

[4ORRBRUIN]

The Coyle trade and Frederic trades were excellent and one sided.

Carlo was viewed around the league as a high end top 4 right sided defenseman which are extremely valuable, with an extremely friendly contract.

Bruins received a very late 1st and a potential middle six center... fair if anything but hardly a fleecing.

Carlo is the most overrated player in the history of the sport. The Leafs got bent over.

Fair trade my ***

 

[chrisab123]

Seguin trade was awful, much like the Hamilton trade. Both GM's didn't seem to let a market develop.

History of hockey trades by general manager Peter Chiarelli - NHL Trade Tracker

The Seguin trade was an awful case of mismanagement but in that case I kind of get it because Seguin was having fun with Horton's wife (allegedly) and they probably wanted to get him out of town. That said they should have done better than Loui Erickson and Reilly Smith. If they didn't make that trade the locker room probably would have been much worse off and even though Horton's wife, lets be real, really tough to turn down, he probably should have. Had he not done that, who knows where Chia, Sweeney, Claude and the team would be now.

Hamilton I can't remember what bug he had up his ass. I think something to do with family or his brother or something in conjunction with being an RFA but to be honest I never had a problem with the value for him, sadly we all know what the Bruins did with #15 but if you end up taking Connor or Barzal that trade is looked at as a massive heist.

 

[chrisab123]

Carlo is the most overrated player in the history of the sport. The Leafs got bent over.

Fair trade my ***

I was on the trade Carlo train for 2 years. He's a bum.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

he made demonstribly worse moves though despite having a much better core and starting point. He had a ton of hall of famers in their prime, proceeded to not fix holes, traded the one young near elite center we had for a bag of crap, and overpaid guys that were absolute JAGs

it was a very worthy firing

Chiarelli imploded and became conservative after the Cup win but everything prior was tiers above what Sweeney has been able to do while riding the success of the Chiarelli core.

 

[Samsonov]

The Coyle trade and Frederic trades were excellent and one sided. Brazeau was excellent in that Lauko alone was good value in return. These are minor, minor impact trades however.

Carlo was viewed around the league as a high end top 4 right sided defenseman which are extremely valuable, with an extremely friendly contract.

Bruins received a very late 1st and a potential middle six center... fair if anything but hardly a fleecing.

Marchand trade is for a very distant late 1st round pick. Not much for Marchand.

Marchand was also injured and dictated where he wanted to go. They could have kept him and let him walk for nothing. At least it turned into a 2027/2028 1st.

 

[4ORRBRUIN]

The Seguin trade was an awful case of mismanagement but in that case I kind of get it because Seguin was having fun with Horton's wife (allegedly) and they probably wanted to get him out of town. That said they should have done better than Loui Erickson and Reilly Smith. If they didn't make that trade the locker room probably would have been much worse off and even though Horton's wife, lets be real, really tough to turn down, he probably should have. Had he not done that, who knows where Chia, Sweeney, Claude and the team would be now.

Hamilton I can't remember what bug he had up his ass. I think something to do with family or his brother or something in conjunction with being an RFA but to be honest I never had a problem with the value for him, sadly we all know what the Bruins did with #15 but if you end up taking Connor or Barzal that trade is looked at as a massive heist.

Every organization makes bad decisions with players and picks. The Bruins are held to a higher standard I guess.

I like the current situation we are in. Hire Donskov now and let the good times roll. AGAIN

 

[MattFromFranklin]

Hamilton I can't remember what bug he had up his ass. I think something to do with family or his brother or something in conjunction with being an RFA but to be honest I never had a problem with the value for him, sadly we all know what the Bruins did with #15 but if you end up taking Connor or Barzal that trade is looked at as a massive heist.

Friedman wrote that Sweeney rushed the Hamilton trade and that other GM's were upset that they weren't informed that Hamilton was available, as they would've made offers. James Mirtle of the Athletic said that other teams offered "much higher" firsts than 15th overall, but Sweeney turned them down. If that's true, my guess is those offers didn't include 2nd round picks. Friedman mentioned that things were very close with Colorado, so they likely offered the 10th overall pick for him.

 

[chrisab123]

Donny hit grand slams on trade deadline this year he deserves to finish this. Good.

What about the last 9 years says he "deserves" anything? Great with trades. Terrible with drafting and FAs. You can understand why the team did it, like I get it, I hate it but I get why. But he honestly deserved to be let go at the end of the season. Now if you did that you could sell everyone on a new beginning etc...but that didn't happen at the press conference so now you're looking at a lame duck GM. Its basically a joke organization that is trying to give off the vibes that they're serious but they're going to go with a candidate thats not a serious candidate at this point because all the good ones are more or less off the board. Thus leaving you to pick from Strum (probably the best of the bunch) Leach (who I think was the end game the entire time), Sacco or Woodcroft who was terrible in Edmonton.

 

[4ORRBRUIN]

I was on the trade Carlo train for 2 years. He's a bum.

I was never a fan, Guy is a butter soft. Him and Coyle gone was an amazing day for me.

 

[quietbruinfan]

Well, I don't like it as I think Sweeney and Neely should have been fired years ago. As PBF and others mentioned, this was a double down move so that could actually attract an NHL coach and possibly a free agent.

Of course, free agent x will probably be here longer than two years.

After ten years of bungling-with a couple of exceptions-Sweeney did have a very good part one of the trade deadline. We shall see if he can pay that off with good draft picks and trades.

 

[GordonHowe]

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Hey, I like Paul McCartney as much as the next guy

But what, exactly, are you trying to say here?

 

[chrisab123]

Every organization makes bad decisions with players and picks. The Bruins are held to a higher standard I guess.

I like the current situation we are in. Hire Donskov now and let the good times roll. AGAIN

Well they're held to a higher standard to be fair because they've been down at the bottom of the prospect rankings for years now. Also in the last 9 years can you name 5 free agents that worked out? 3? If other teams are mediocre yet you're holding yourself to a standard that compares to them it breeds mediocrity. Should have sacked Sweeney for someone like Mathieu Darche who comes from a different organization and has been critical to helping build a sustainable winner in Tampa. But he never played with Cam so... boom goes the dynamite.

 

[shelbysdad]

Well that's a great way to spoil a day. First round pick will now be ranked 273rd overall from Bunker Hill Community College

You can always burn your Bruins jerseys and become a Leafs fan

 

[chrisab123]

Friedman wrote that Sweeney rushed the Hamilton trade and that other GM's were upset that they weren't informed that Hamilton was available, as they would've made offers. James Mirtle of the Athletic said that other teams offered "much higher" firsts than 15th overall, but Sweeney turned them down. If that's true, my guess is those offers didn't include 2nd round picks. Friedman mentioned that things were very close with Colorado, so they likely offered the 10th overall pick for him.

Can you imagine drafting Zboril 10th overall?

 

[PB37]

Chiarelli imploded and became conservative after the Cup win but everything prior was tiers above what Sweeney has been able to do while riding the success of the Chiarelli core.

If we're following this " who gets proper blame/recognition because of what players were still around ", Chia was riding the success of the O'Connell players Bergeron, Krejci and Thomas. At least Sweeney was part of the management team during the Chia years.

 

[Dr Quincy]

Maybe because if you look at things objectively, he built contending rosters for years, including three top tier rosters. The whole thing where if you don't want to fire Sweeney you're satisfied with just making the playoffs is a lame strawman Lou. That's not how it works.

Yeah when he signed Savard and Chara, made the Thornton deal, traded Kessel for picks, drafted Bergeron, Marchand, Krejci and Lucic and traded Raycroft for Rask, he showed everyone how good he was.

 

[Mr. Make-Believe]

Yeah I’m fine with this?

I’ve been on record in the past as wanting this management crew fired. But they’ve… I don’t know? I think they earned another shot with the deals they pulled off at the deadline. I certainly don’t love every decision they make. But by and large, we’ve been able to cheer for a very good team for the majority of their tenure.

This gives Sweeney the freedom to make bold moves without having his head in the lame duck guillotine. Now go out and make them. I want to see the plan.

 

[ElmegTheWise]

The truth is somewhere in the middle: he’s not nearly as bad as some make him out to be, not nearly as good as some make him out to be. I believe if you put anyone in Donald’s position over the last 10 years, you would see very similar results, which I suppose is the definition of average.

Much of the success came from players who were already in place, and the failure of this last season, came from the players who were actively acquired - without the crutch of an inherited core, outside of an already drafted Pastrnak. But the deadlines and free agencies have been to service that core, and they’ve done a solid job at that over the years. Unfortunately, it has not lead them to meet the goals they set out for, and those are the ones that show on the scoreboard. My only criticism of that part is they always were just a piece short and playing someone too high in the lineup as a result, outside of the incredible roster they built in 2023.

I believe Don would find work elsewhere, but that’s not a prerequisite for job security. Jim Montgomery, Claude Julien, and Bruce Cassidy found jobs elsewhere very quickly as well.

But after the last 12 months of moves and failure to even come close to the goal they set out for, I found myself shocked to read this news this morning. It’s not good to leave key staff twisting in the wind, but I did believe Cam Neely when he said he needed to wait and see at the press conference. Smart for the Bruins that if it turns out poorly, it’s not a long commitment.