Management Don Sweeney

[DKH]

Oh please, we all know that's lip service. What more does Bergeron have to prove at this point? Another cup on a team that's never going to get it? I like Bergeron a lot, but 2019 was his best shot and the team blew it, which I think he's coming to the sobering realization of. This team has no chance to get back there as long as tweedle dee and tweedle dum run the front office and with Monty behind the boards as coach after that train wreck of a coaching job when they had the Panthers dead to rights leading 3-1 only to gag it away. Why put off retirement one more season if it's just going to be a repeat of this past year? At some point, you got to know when to walk away. Now is as good of a time as ever for Bergeron to do that and still do it on top.

Your passion alone makes it impossible not to like you

 

[Riverfront]

an influx of youth on the 4th line and 5th & 6th defensemen will serve the bruins
well over and 82 game season.
a rookie 4th line and 2 young guys playing 5th & 6th defensemen. If the bruins
learned anything this year. Just make the playoffs weather its 1st in conference or
8th in conference. ( Florida panthers & Seattle Kraken ) prime examples of saving
your best hockey for April, May & June.

 

[rocketdan9]

Its funny how many "strange" things we have seen in the Don Sweeney GM era

Now includes a former coach winning the Cup in his 1st season with new team.

Sometimes I wonder if Don should be fired... just for the sake to "sage" the room. But ..watch he joins a new team, and pulls a Bruce...

Not looking forward to this upcoming offseason/cap hell. It's not going to be easy imo

 

[finchster]

Its funny how many "strange" things we have seen in the Don Sweeney GM era

Now includes a former coach winning the Cup in his 1st season with new team.

Sometimes I wonder if Don should be fired... just for the sake to "sage" the room. But ..watch he joins a new team, and pulls a Bruce...

Not looking forward to this upcoming offseason/cap hell. It's not going to be easy imo

A lot of people talk about coaches having a shelf life, but why not GMs? The average tenure of a GM in the NHL is eight years- something Sweeney has just hit.

Having said this, I feel like he did his job and the players came up short this year. Although, one could argue he waited too long to go all in and should've tried to max out the Bruins core earlier. I don't think firing him would do much, the Bruins core pieces are just too old.

 

[KnightofBoston]

Oh please, we all know that's lip service. What more does Bergeron have to prove at this point? Another cup on a team that's never going to get it? I like Bergeron a lot, but 2019 was his best shot and the team blew it, which I think he's coming to the sobering realization of. This team has no chance to get back there as long as tweedle dee and tweedle dum run the front office and with Monty behind the boards as coach after that train wreck of a coaching job when they had the Panthers dead to rights leading 3-1 only to gag it away. Why put off retirement one more season if it's just going to be a repeat of this past year? At some point, you got to know when to walk away. Now is as good of a time as ever for Bergeron to do that and still do it on top.

Bolded the biggest flaw of your post

 

[Babajingo]

Its funny how many "strange" things we have seen in the Don Sweeney GM era

Now includes a former coach winning the Cup in his 1st season with new team.

Sometimes I wonder if Don should be fired... just for the sake to "sage" the room. But ..watch he joins a new team, and pulls a Bruce...

Not looking forward to this upcoming offseason/cap hell. It's not going to be easy imo

I think he should be fired. Let me preface by saying I thought he did a great job going all in during this season. But looking at the current state:
- No draft picks for the next few years
- one of the worse ranked prospect pool
- no cap space
- lots of roster spots to fill

All but the draft picks issue were there at the beginning of the season. I think he has been riding the coattails of the core players for years. None of which were his acquisitions, other than McAvoy and Carlo. Too early for Swayman.
Basically, Bergeron, Marchand, Pasta, Chara, Rask, Krecji were "masking" his mismanagement for years.
He hasn't been horrible, I just think he has had the same performance that another GM on another team would've gotten fired over.
You're probably right, Chicago will pick him up and he'll win a cup with Bedard.

 

[BlackFrancis]

I think he has been riding the coattails of the core players for years. None of which were his acquisitions, other than McAvoy and Carlo. Too early for Swayman.

I'd ignore the dude who's going to win the Vezina as well.

 

[UncleRico]

Does that top group have more playoff wins with the bruins than that bottom group though?

 

[Babajingo]

I'd ignore the dude who's going to win the Vezina as well.

Nice catch. I was mainly highlighting the draft picks. For FA, nice work with Linus and Hampus. Hall was a layup.

The more I think about it, the more I am convincing myself that its time for a change from ownership on down. But what do I know?

 

[Babajingo]

Does that top group have more playoff wins with the bruins than that bottom group though?

Also, the last two names are gone. And I'd like to see another year of this version of Zacha to declare him the second coming.
Oh and he also signed Moore, Smith and Haula in the first place.

 

[BlackFrancis]

Nice catch. I was mainly highlighting the draft picks. For FA, nice work with Linus and Hampus. Hall was a layup.

The more I think about it, the more I am convincing myself that its time for a change from ownership on down. But what do I know?

Ownership will change relatively soon, at least from a literal perspective. Charlie looks to be committed to accepting the Bruins as his domain once Jerry leaves the mortal realm for negotiating in the afterlife.

Not sure we're going to see much of a difference/change unless Charlie experiences a financial crisis forcing him to sell the banana stand.

And I'm not sure we'd want to, honestly. Aside from JJ's hero worship of skinflint Sinden and the gaffes of his successors, ownership has hit the cap every season, not been complete cheap bastards on bonus money, built a new stadium without holding the city hostage and watched them win one of the three post-war Cups for the franchise. I'm sure they could do better, but they could absolutely do worse.

 

[EverettMike]

 

[Over the volcano]

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Failure to win a Cup or even seriously contend for one this year isn't on him the way it was in previous seasons. A+ job by him.

 

[EverettMike]

Failure to win a Cup or even seriously contend for one this year isn't on him the way it was in previous seasons. A+ job by him.

Okay I'll cancel the banner.

 

[Over the volcano]

Okay I'll cancel the banner.

I don't get the joke. He put them in as good a spot as humanly possible. There's zero denying he's done an amazing job this year.

 

[EverettMike]

I don't get the joke. He put them in as good a spot as humanly possible. There's zero denying he's done an amazing job this year.

You don't get the joke? That doesn't sound like you...

 

[Over the volcano]

You don't get the joke? That doesn't sound like you...

Now that IS funny because "I don't get the joke" was the only part that was me - the rest were quotes from you in this thread after you saw that post the first time.

What changed? Did your doctor get you on a high salt diet this week?

 

[Babajingo]

I don't get the joke. He put them in as good a spot as humanly possible. There's zero denying he's done an amazing job this year.

Did an amazing job during the season, but this whole season was based on the fact that Bergeron and Krecji gave him a big present. He had no cap space and no No1 and 2 centers.

 

[EverettMike]

Now that IS funny because "I don't get the joke" was the only part that was me - the rest were quotes from you in this thread after you saw that post the first time.

What changed? Did your doctor get you on a high salt diet this week?

LOL you're amazing.

 

[Therick67]

Donny was banking on Monty to take this team deep..now he has a problem.

 

[Patdud]

Should have used DeBrusk and traded for McDonagh and Miller in 2018. Sigh...

 

[UncleRico]

Failure to win a Cup or even seriously contend for one this year isn't on him the way it was in previous seasons. A+ job by him.

Ruining two futures drafts worth of assets and using $4m+ in future cap space to not make it any further than the season before gets him an A+?

So are we looking past the whole entire issue of him not being able to identify the problem?

 

[chizzler]

Ruining two futures drafts worth of assets and using $4m+ in future cap space to not make it any further than the season before gets him an A+?

So are we looking past the whole entire issue of him not being able to identify the problem?

You were saying this at the deadline? I doubt it.

I think he should be fired. Let me preface by saying I thought he did a great job going all in during this season. But looking at the current state:
- No draft picks for the next few years
- one of the worse ranked prospect pool
- no cap space
- lots of roster spots to fill

All but the draft picks issue were there at the beginning of the season. I think he has been riding the coattails of the core players for years. None of which were his acquisitions, other than McAvoy and Carlo. Too early for Swayman.
Basically, Bergeron, Marchand, Pasta, Chara, Rask, Krecji were "masking" his mismanagement for years.
He hasn't been horrible, I just think he has had the same performance that another GM on another team would've gotten fired over.
You're probably right, Chicago will pick him up and he'll win a cup with Bedard.

So when you become a GM, you should trade every good player because you didn’t draft him? What GM does this? You take what you have and adjust. The problems you mention in your list is due to a successful team. They all go through it. Then you rebuild or retool.

 

[UncleRico]

You were saying this at the deadline? I doubt it.


So when you become a GM, you should trade every good player because you didn’t draft him? What GM does this? You take what you have and adjust. The problems you mention in your list is due to a successful team. They all go through it. Then you rebuild or retool.

No I praised him for at least having the balls to try but said so with caution. It’s a results driven league and he wasted years worth of assets to make it just as far as the team did the year before.

That’s a full blown disaster.

I’ve been saying for years I wanted him to move on from the core. I’ve commended him for having the balls to make the moves at the deadline, most GMs wouldn’t do that. He pretty much put his job on the line with that one and it’s most likely going to cost him now.

8 years of roughly the same results for sweeney, used $4m+ in future cap and drained two draft years worth of assets for yet another first round exit.

He needs a miracle the next two seasons to keep his job. The cupboard is bare, they haven’t got any return on any assets to improve the future of this team as it looks like their deadline acquisitions will all be gone.

The next two years will be the most challenging of his GM career.

 

[Over the volcano]

This time last year people were making the same doom and gloom predictions for the job he had infront of him.