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LouJersey said:
My hat is off to Donnie. Sadly he fell for it too and thought this team had what it took to go all the way.
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He was pot committed after the performance bonuses to Krejci and Bergeron. When the team started off the year the way they did and continued to play at a very high-level, he had no choice, but to go for broke and double down on this team at the TDL.
 
When do we hear from Mr Harvard?

He is in a sucky position. Gave up a ton of valuable picks. With a good possibility Bertuzzi and Orlov wont return.

Sort of in no mans land for next season. No capspace. No 1st round pick. Damn
 
rocketdan9 said:
When do we hear from Mr Harvard?

He is in a sucky position. Gave up a ton of valuable picks. With a good possibility Bertuzzi and Orlov wont return.

Sort of in no mans land for next season. No capspace. No 1st round pick. Damn
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Yeah difficult situation and are there really any prospects that are shoe in to make the team next season?He also really isn’t in the position to move players just for picks ,sell off kind of thing,how do you pitch that to your bosses,that we’re going from the best team ever to selling off.
 
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Bruinfanatic said:
Yeah difficult situation and are there really any prospects that are shoe in to make the team next season?He also really isn’t in the position to move players just for picks ,sell off kind of thing,how do you pitch that to your bosses,that we’re going from the best team ever to selling off.
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You can't. It will be an awkwarddd meeting.
 
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UncleRico said:
Just to think a lot of us including me were saying Cassidy got the raw deal and Sweeney/Neely should be gone. Now the Bs are possibly the best regular season team ever and Sweeney’s finally going all in
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What do you say now?
 
frankiess said:
What do you say now?
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I got duped. I bought the cheese and got duped. Same old choking core, who ended up being self serving and it resulted in a loss.

My apologies to Cassidy. He was right, this team is made of crybabies who got him fired (bergy, krejci, Debrusk). Then they finally get their way and their new coach and it’s the same exact result.
 
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gerrycheeversmask said:
Don Sweeney deserves to win GM of the year for the 2nd time in his career.


Neely is still breaking stuff.
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You know I've been hard on Sweeney in the past. But I agree, he did all he could to give the Bruins a real shot at the Cup this year. He went all in and I agreed with that and still do.

Of course, knowing what I now know, the cost is scary. But crystal balling it is easy.

That said, I am interested to hear his and Neely's perspective as well as "what now".

I wouldn't want that job right now.
 
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Number8 said:
You know I've been hard on Sweeney in the past. But I agree, he did all he could to give the Bruins a real shot at the Cup this year. He went all in and I agreed with that and still do.

Of course, knowing what I now know, the cost is scary. But crystal balling it is easy.

That said, I am interested to hear his and Neely's perspective as well as "what now".

I wouldn't want that job right now.
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I've also been critical of Donny, but he did his job this year and put them in a great place.

It's going to be vey interesting to see what move he makes, because they need cap space and they don't have much draft capital to unload someone..
 
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gerrycheeversmask said:
Don Sweeney deserves to win GM of the year for the 2nd time in his career.


Neely is still breaking stuff.
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Bergeron and Krejci should get it. Without them bailing him out of cap issues, this would be a completely different season. Given the outcome, maybe it would've been better :)
He did do a good job during the season though.
 
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If I'm Sweeney I have no regrets about the team that was built this past season. I guess it doesn't make much sense to say that given that the team blew a 3-1 lead and choked in the first round, but he gave this core the very best chance of winning a Cup given the circumstances that he could have humanly done.

Yeah, he did give up valuable picks at the deadline. What was he supposed to do? Go partially in like he's done multiple times in the past without a good result? He got a massive break when Bergy and Krejci came back on the cheap. He saw that the time is now. I've been very critical of DS because I feel like he rarely gave this core enough oomph in the roster to win a Cup. Well, he did his part his season, and then some. Coaches and players failed, pure and simple. Sucks they couldn't get it done. Sucks really bad.

DS achieved the one thing I've been wanting from him -- go for the Cup as hard as possible when building the roster. This roster was a masterpiece, spoiled by a coach and players crapping their pants at the worst time possible. DS had zero to do with that. He gave them the best opportunity to be successful. They failed.
 
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gerrycheeversmask said:
Don Sweeney deserves to win GM of the year for the 2nd time in his career.


Neely is still breaking stuff.
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Someone needs to ask him if he had any input on the goalie situation. Or if its up to goalie Bob.

I dont understand how its not the HC decision at the end of the day
 
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He should have kept the picks and gone for 7th or 8th seed in retrospect

Kraken & Panthers both advanced

Hopefully next season his target is 95 points

Season was nice but really boring just win after win / no big games no reason to check box scores.

Not complaining it’s fun to win but Panthers model is way to go
 
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I usually crap on Sweeney. Still don't think he's as good of a GM as some here make him out to be.

That being said, he gave the team a huge chance to win at the deadline. Players fell short and unfortunately injuries hit this team at the wrong time.
 
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rocketdan9 said:
Someone needs to ask him if he had any input on the goalie situation. Or if its up to goalie Bob.

I dont understand how its not the HC decision at the end of the day
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At the end of the day why have a goalie coach if you aren't going to trust his expert opinion on things?

If Bob said Ullmark is healthy, looks good enough to play then it's hard to fault Monty for trusting in the word of the guy who has been here for 18 seasons.

They likely both deserve some fault in the decisions made, but one guys job is to worry about the entire team and one guys job is specifically to work with goalies.

Given that Rask also played injured a few seasons ago with Essensa here I think you need question why this same issue occurred again.
 
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missingchicklet said:
If I'm Sweeney I have no regrets about the team that was built this past season. I guess it doesn't make much sense to say that given that the team blew a 3-1 lead and choked in the first round, but he gave this core the very best chance of winning a Cup given the circumstances that he could have humanly done.

Yeah, he did give up valuable picks at the deadline. What was he supposed to do? Go partially in like he's done multiple times in the past without a good result? He got a massive break when Bergy and Krejci came back on the cheap. He saw that the time is now. I've been very critical of DS because I feel like he rarely gave this core enough oomph in the roster to win a Cup. Well, he did his part his season, and then some. Coaches and players failed, pure and simple. Sucks they couldn't get it done. Sucks really bad.

DS achieved the one thing I've been wanting from him -- go for the Cup as hard as possible when building the roster. This roster was a masterpiece, spoiled by a coach and players crapping their pants at the worst time possible. DS had zero to do with that. He gave them the best opportunity to be successful. They failed.
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I dont think Sweeney should regret the team he established this year, but as someone who has never been overly critical of him, you have to start to wonder if his "blueprint" for building a winning team needs to be adjusted.
 
gerrycheeversmask said:
Montgomery was a great hire. Would you have prefered the original front runner, David Quinn? The reason I'm pumping Sweeney's tires is that the GM of year award is based on regular season success, no?
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Yeah, sure, give Sweeney any trophy that you want. Well, except for one.
 
rocketdan9 said:
Someone needs to ask him if he had any input on the goalie situation. Or if its up to goalie Bob.

I dont understand how its not the HC decision at the end of the day
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Goalie Bob made all the calls just ask Monty:sarcasm:

Never liked Monty saying we will see what goalie bob has to say, when it was more than apparent Ullmark wasn't himself. A bad look and it looks even worse now.

Edit: except for that one time when Monty saw that twinkle in Ullmarks eyes.
 
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NDiesel said:
At the end of the day why have a goalie coach if you aren't going to trust his expert opinion on things?

If Bob said Ullmark is healthy, looks good enough to play then it's hard to fault Monty for trusting in the word of the guy who has been here for 18 seasons.

They likely both deserve some fault in the decisions made, but one guys job is to worry about the entire team and one guys job is specifically to work with goalies.

Given that Rask also played injured a few seasons ago with Essensa here I think you need question why this same issue occurred again.
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I wonder how many goalie coaches around the league decide what goalie is playing on any given night? I can't imagine very many, if any.

My question is, if he could do 6 straight, why couldn't he play 7? What did goalie Bob see? What changed?

This isn't rocket surgery.
 
NDiesel said:
I dont think Sweeney should regret the team he established this year, but as someone who has never been overly critical of him, you have to start to wonder if his "blueprint" for building a winning team needs to be adjusted.
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Hopefully I can post here, even though its a resurrected thread....

ABSOLUTELY the blueprint needs to be adjusted. We were all surprised by the teams performance at the beginning of the season and throughout. However, the very things that has sent us home packing the last handful of playoffs plagued us again. Sweeney tried at the deadline to fix his poor design but it was too little too late.

We need a defense that can sustain a constant an aggressive forcheck, and clear infront of the net, win 50/50's along the boards - This is still a major gap for us and if it was clear as day to many of us at the beginning of the season, you bet your ass its clear as day to an opposing coach who has watches film on how to beat this team.

Start with Clifton/Grz... Bottom pairing Dmen CANNOT be smurfs. GTFO

Make your bottom D 1million dollar rugged pylons that don't bring much to offense, but aren't a detriment to your back end and can take a punch or too while they hold the line until your top D gets back on the ice. PERIOD. Your top D should be pushing 25+ minutes a night, McAvoy barely got to 25 mins a night, Orlov - 23, Lindholm 21. WHAT THE f*** ?

I'll still say it till it sticks, we wanted 1 Puck moving Dman in 2011. Now our whole Dcore are PMD's. How many times do we have to watch our team get manhandled in our own end for it to click?

When it was clear our goaltending wasn't going to hide all our mistakes, we folded like a cheap tent and our Defense was nowhere to be found.
 
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