Management Don Sweeney extended 2 years

[JCRO]

It’s a honey bbq supermeltdown.

4 for 4

 

[Mr. Make-Believe]

The outrage over the season ending press conference is another example of the weird realities fans live in. I thought they said everything they should say at that press conference and came in here expecting to see happy reactions. Instead everyone is outraged and I feel like I’m in bizarro world.

It must be me, because all you people seem to have the same story.

I’m with ya.

I read a bunch of reactions here before I had the chance to watch it. When I finally had the chance to boot it up, I had my torch and lighter ready.

Was everything answered as well as it could have been? Nah. I think the excuses made for Sweeney in 2015 at the draft were particularly lame.

But they said the goal was the Cup. They identified that the league was changing and they needed to change with it. They took responsibility for the bad year. Sweeney was even open when asked if his new head coach should have some NHL experience. He didn’t have to say anything there.

I was ready to join the mob. I ended up being critical of it.

 

[Clode]

Hello darkness my old friend

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

You've been clear for years you have zero expectations for this group to be successful in the play-offs. Making the play-offs is your bar, just like Jacobs it would seem. You don't care when the Bruins are favorites and get bounced. Underdogs get bounced.. Play-offs are hard, I know.

Yep, you understand me so well.

Every year, when the Bruins make the playoffs, mission accomplished! I go fly fishing in Montana when the playoffs begin. Just waiting for the next season to begin.

 

[KnightofBoston]

Hello darkness my old friend

now these are the posts Im here for

 

[BruinDust]

then allowed Matt f***ing Bartkowski to be a top 6 guy against the hawks lmao

Bartkowski didn't touch the ice vs. the Hawks.

 

[KnightofBoston]

Bartkowski didn't touch the ice vs. the Hawks.

really? who took his place? Redden?

Point stands, didn't fill that hole.

And what the f*** was Daugavins doing in the line up. Dude missed a wide open net that would have tilted the series heavily in the bruins favor

 

[PlayMakers]

Question: doesn’t the short length of the extension limit the head coaching pool? If I’m a potential coach I want a gm with longer term for job protection.

How can Sweeney offer more than a two year contract when he doesn’t know if he’ll be around????

Sweeney still has a year left, so this 2 year extension means he's under contract for 3 more years. I bet if you looked at every GM in the league most of them would have 3 years or less on their deals. Average term for an NHL GM is 4.7 years.

 

[PlayMakers]

It definitely was an awful press conference. But with the Press Conference and the Jacobs interview with the Boston Globe, what stuck out to me is how emotional Neely was in defending Sweeney and Jacobs was in defending both Sweeney and Neely.

Old Boys Club

That picture is too funny. That should be someone's ironic avatar.

 

[PlayMakers]

At one point in Game 7 Carlo, a defense-only D-man was on the ice for 3 consecutive goals against in a span of about 6 mins.

Bent over more like complete sabotage. Maybe the most overrated Bruin of all-time.

He did have that one butt-save.

 

[chrisab123]

Not sure why fans just can't understand the fact that its almost impossible to be on top of the league year after year and have big trade deadline days without depleting your prospect pool.

Picks don't win championships and neither do prospects, they are trade chips for any team that is always in a win now mode. Should we have more cups? yes, but that's on the players that chock and shit the bed when it matters.

To me having tons of picks high enough to draft impact players only means to me that you are not a good organization. I want to root for a Bruins team that will "go for it" every chance they get.

I want the best product possible at the NHL level, If you have some good prospect then great hopefully a few of them make it to the NHL.

DS did a masterful job at this last deadline, the first time he was pressured into making some difficult choices and he aced them.

The guy is good at his job, like him to hate him.

So they've been either last or close to last. There's teams who have been playoff contenders for years and still not last. I'm not asking for the team to be ranked 15th or 17th or whatever...but better than 30th is all I'm asking. Maybe like 20. This is where scouting comes into play. Hell Tampa has a better resume than the Bruins and they're ranked 24th I think. If the prospect pool was even in the mid 20s then fine. But its just been so woefully inept for a long time. He's great at trading. But piss poor at Drafting and signing Free Agents.

 

[GordonHowe]

Ha. Evan Maranofsky got it mixed up too. That's where I got that from.

It definitely was an awful press conference. But with the Press Conference and the Jacobs interview with the Boston Globe, what stuck out to me is how emotional Neely was in defending Sweeney and Jacobs was in defending both Sweeney and Neely.

Old Boys Club

I could make an unflattering observation here, but Cam has lost weight.

Plus, filching a page from The Book Of Sweenes, Bam Bam now affects (unsuccessfully) a professorial air,

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

really? who took his place? Redden?

Point stands, didn't fill that hole.

And what the f*** was Daugavins doing in the line up. Dude missed a wide open net that would have tilted the series heavily in the bruins favor

The guy who played 6 games and only 8:30 a night is a weird axe to choose to grind.

Don't forget Chiarelli did make an impact move that deadline, Iginla. Hard to blame him for Iginla pulling a major diva move at the 11th hour and nuking the deal

 

[BruinDust]

really? who took his place? Redden?

Point stands, didn't fill that hole.

Torey Krug (15 playoff games) took over as 6th D-man during the Rangers series in the 2nd round.

Prior to that, the role of the 6th D-man was shared between Hamilton (7 games), Bartkowski (7 games) and trade deadline pick-up Redden (5 games). Both Seidenberg (18 games) and Ference (14 games) missed some time in that year's playoffs.

Daugevins and Soderberg were the extra forwards and didn't see much time at all until Campbell broke his leg in Rd. 3 blocking Malkin's shot.

 

[PlayMakers]

O'Connell drafted Bergy and Krejci.

And Jeff Gorton signed Chara and Savard.

 

[MarchysNoseKnows]

It’s interesting how different fan bases react to coaches.

If Rod Brind’Amour coached in Boston he’d have been fired long ago. 8 seasons of being one of the best teams in the league and 7 straight second round losses. Fans would be saying he can’t win in the playoffs. Carolina only cares about making the playoffs… People here would lose their f***ing minds over the ‘lack of accountability’ for him not being able to win it all.

I'll do you one better - how about Jim Nill? Everyone (including me) would take him as the GM in a heartbeat.

But he's been the GM since 2013-14. Only 5 seasons where he's won a playoff round. 4 DNQ. 3 Conf Finals, but one was Covid. If you calibrate back two years to align with Sweeney's tenure length, he'd have only 4 years winning a playoff round. Other than the bubble year, he had 3 seasons in his first 9 where he won a playoff round, with 4 DNQs.

It's a results league right? Dallas should have fired him long ago I guess.

 

[chrisab123]

And Jeff Gorton signed Chara and Savard.

Why they never pivoted from Sweeney when Gorton was available I'll still never understand...

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

O'Connell drafted Bergy and Krejci.

And signed Tim Thomas.

 

[KnightofBoston]

The guy who played 6 games and only 8:30 a night is a weird axe to choose to grind.

Don't forget Chiarelli did make an impact move that deadline, Iginla. Hard to blame him for Iginla pulling a major diva move at the 11th hour and nuking the deal

I have a question

why do you have a guy playing such limited minutes at all in an SCF?

you're proving my point

who ate the minutes Redden should have had?


to iginla, sure, absolutely, but maybe have a better back up plan than the corpse of Jaromir Jagr

 

[EverettMike]

now these are the posts Im here for

I literally posted the whole f***ing song hours ago!

 

[BlackFrancis]

The outrage over the season ending press conference is another example of the weird realities fans live in. I thought they said everything they should say at that press conference and came in here expecting to see happy reactions. Instead everyone is outraged and I feel like I’m in bizarro world.

It must be me, because all you people seem to have the same story.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

And Jeff Gorton signed Chara and Savard.

If you believe in fairy tales.

In reality it's no secret that Chiarelli was working despite the "no work" period he was supposed to be in.

Let's be honest, Jacobs isn't letting an interim GM spend 30% of the cap on 2 players while his newly hired GM is stuck in Ottawa

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

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Why would we be excited about Sweeney having a haul of picks to make given his track record at the draft?

 

[PlayMakers]

He inherited an elite core and tweaked while always, always leaving gaps aside from the one historic season where in hindsight perhaps he tweaked too much and the team imploded despite the high asset costs he paid.

Again with hindsight it is clear Chiarelli was the more impactful GM and Sweeney is vastly overrated.

It's crazy how history always repeats. When Chiarelli was let go, folks here hated him. And the message then was the same as the message now. He didn't actually build the Cup team, O'Connell drafted the big forwards, Gorton signed the big free agents. I didn't think it was fair then and I don't think saying Sweeney inherited the 2019 team is fair either.

Wasn't that defense mostly Sweeney? McAvoy was our best D, Carlo was a big key to that run, Krug was recruited by Sweeney, even Grzelcyk was good on that run. Clifton was a Sweeney guy. Up front, DeBrusk had a great playoff. Sweeney traded for Coyle and Johansen. That line with Heinen was the best 3rd line in the playoffs that year. Kuraly, Acciari and Wagner were beasts and all Sweeney guys...

 

[OldScool]

All I know is we better hope the Bruins lose wifi during the draft and they are forced to autopick.