NHL Draft lottery race - Bruins currently have 4th Pick

[BB88]

Who said anything about sacrificing the future?

Sacrificing the future is trying to again rush the process

You can build a roster that can challenge for a WC spot next year, but the ceiling of that roster is limited

Or you focus on rebuilding the prospect pool and find a legit 1C prospect in the next 2 drafts and go big time spending in the offseason of 2026. They have among the worst prospect pools in the entire league and a roster full of major holes

That combination is not a quick 1 offseason fix

 

[Mr. Make-Believe]

I agree with you but honestly I’m not doing that and won’t. I just would like them to have as good of a chance as possible to land a decent player and unfortunately that involves losing

The way I look at it is sometimes, like this time, you have to take a step back in order to go forward.
There is literally nothing to be gained by winning more games this year. There is however a better opportunity to gain something in this worthless year by losing out.
Will it be the be all and end all? Hell no. But you simply gotta start somewhere.

Tough pill to swallow. But thats the reality.

And to be clear, I don’t disagree with any of this.

But as long as they keep losing, I’ll be saving my cellies for draft day.

 

[22Brad Park]

I disagree. I actually see the effort (most nights). I think the roster just flat out sucks. Me personally I’m rooting for them to win as the game is being played. I just don’t get disappointed now when they lose. A top 5 draft pick is a small step in the right direction.

When you have a crappy pipeline and no centres worth talking about anywhere in the entire system,then a top 5 pick with good centres available is a bit more then a small step in right direction.To me it's huge.Yea it will still take time, but they don't grow on trees.We have saw how hard it is to get one since Bergeron retired.Teams simply rarely part with them.

 

[Gordoff]

I don't feel as if anyone thinks that our current draft position is some sort of panacea. It dam sure helps though. Look, I'll bet many of us will still support this team, even if it takes 2 steps back to move 3 steps forward in time.

It's time...

Yup, this was going to happen sooner or later. I kinda sorta expected it last season. But, it seems like this year was the perfect storm in so many ways.
Look, I'm 67 and health is iffy, I didn't particularly want it to be while I'm on this side of the grass but it is what it is.
Gives me more incentive to stick around for the next team
of destiny.
If this is all handled correctly, and I feel that it will be we'll be happy as clams in shit in a couple of years, maybe even next season.
Sweeney made some really ballsy moves at the TDL, ones that I didn't think he would make but he did.
Like so many here I've dumped on him mercilessly over the years but I think he's going to not only re-build a winning team, and he's also going to re-build a worried fanbase.

 

[22Brad Park]

Yup, this was going to happen sooner or later. I kinda sorta expected it last season. But, it seems like this year was the perfect storm in so many ways.
Look, I'm 67 and health is iffy, I didn't particularly want it to be while I'm on this side of the grass but it is what it is.
Gives me more incentive to stick around for the next team
of destiny.
If this is all handled correctly, and I feel that it will be we'll be happy as clams in shit in a couple of years, maybe even next season.
Sweeney made some really ballsy moves at the TDL, ones that I didn't think he would make but he did.
Like so many here I've dumped on him mercilessly over the years but I think he's going to not only re-build a winning team, and he's also going to re-build a worried fanbase.

FINGER'S CROSSED Hope you feel better to..

 

[RiverbottomChuck]

"Logical, Captain."

 

[Mr. Make-Believe]

I disagree. I actually see the effort (most nights). I think the roster just flat out sucks. Me personally I’m rooting for them to win as the game is being played. I just don’t get disappointed now when they lose. A top 5 draft pick is a small step in the right direction.

I get this too. In terms of… a win is a win. A loss is also a win. The loss itself isn’t a disappointment. It’s… what it is.

Where I’ll disagree, is with the effort. I think the effort is to lose. Keep the puck along the outside of the offensive zone. Ride the time out.

A team putting in a bunch of effort to win doesn’t struggle to hit a dozen shots per game. A team trying to win would challenge the clear offside in a close game. A team trying to win would be attempting to shuffle lines that aren’t working, and give young players with at least the potential of upside ice time in the NHL over Lettieri and Brown and (honestly) a guy like Beecher at this point.

They won two games coming out of the trade deadline and have since gone on a losing streak that ranks among the worst in the history of the franchise. That doesn’t happen by accident - it happens by design.

And that is for the strategy of having a better draft pick and it makes sense and it could end up with the Bruins getting to pick a player who will help them immensely in the coming years. But in the meantime, I’m not enjoying it. I don’t have the ability to enjoy it.

 

[Gordoff]

I get this too. In terms of… a win is a win. A loss is also a win. The loss itself isn’t a disappointment. It’s… what it is.

Where I’ll disagree, is with the effort. I think the effort is to lose. Keep the puck along the outside of the offensive zone. Ride the time out.

A team putting in a bunch of effort to win doesn’t struggle to hit a dozen shots per game. A team trying to win would challenge the clear offside in a close game. A team trying to win would be attempting to shuffle lines that aren’t working, and give young players with at least the potential of upside ice time in the NHL over Lettieri and Brown and (honestly) a guy like Beecher at this point.

They won two games coming out of the trade deadline and have since gone on a losing streak that ranks among the worst in the history of the franchise. That doesn’t happen by accident - it happens by design.

And that is for the strategy of having a better draft pick and it makes sense and it could end up with the Bruins getting to pick a player who will help them immensely in the coming years. But in the meantime, I’m not enjoying it. I don’t have the ability to enjoy it.

I don't think anyone here is enjoying it. They used to say
"whistling by the graveyard."
It's a lot more palatable to laugh than to cry, and life being as it is, when it's not life & death it's all for shits & giggles.

 

[quietbruinfan]

Yup, this was going to happen sooner or later. I kinda sorta expected it last season. But, it seems like this year was the perfect storm in so many ways.
Look, I'm 67 and health is iffy, I didn't particularly want it to be while I'm on this side of the grass but it is what it is.
Gives me more incentive to stick around for the next team
of destiny.
If this is all handled correctly, and I feel that it will be we'll be happy as clams in shit in a couple of years, maybe even next season.
Sweeney made some really ballsy moves at the TDL, ones that I didn't think he would make but he did.
Like so many here I've dumped on him mercilessly over the years but I think he's going to not only re-build a winning team, and he's also going to re-build a worried fanbase.

I am 55, but kind of in the same boat, and have the same opinion about the Bruins. I pray that your health improves.

 

[Oates2Neely]

I get this too. In terms of… a win is a win. A loss is also a win. The loss itself isn’t a disappointment. It’s… what it is.

Where I’ll disagree, is with the effort. I think the effort is to lose. Keep the puck along the outside of the offensive zone. Ride the time out.

A team putting in a bunch of effort to win doesn’t struggle to hit a dozen shots per game. A team trying to win would challenge the clear offside in a close game. A team trying to win would be attempting to shuffle lines that aren’t working, and give young players with at least the potential of upside ice time in the NHL over Lettieri and Brown and (honestly) a guy like Beecher at this point.

They won two games coming out of the trade deadline and have since gone on a losing streak that ranks among the worst in the history of the franchise. That doesn’t happen by accident - it happens by design.

And that is for the strategy of having a better draft pick and it makes sense and it could end up with the Bruins getting to pick a player who will help them immensely in the coming years. But in the meantime, I’m not enjoying it. I don’t have the ability to enjoy it.

I don’t think the players and Sacco give a flying * about the draft pick. Most are fighting for jobs. Nobody is intentionally playing bad so they can pick 4th rather than 11th overall.

Now I CAN be convinced the GM would call up/ send down players accordingly to assist his draft pick placement.

 

[Kegs]

Zach Hamill was last time they used their own pick at 7 ? Been so long I can't remember what our own top picks were

ptsd activated. I think injuries derailed hamil though

 

[shelbysdad]

Seattle San Jose tonight
Let's get Kraken !!!

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

You been visiting those dispensary's again.

I don't think being competitive next season is out of the realm of possibility.

Much depends on the return of the old Swayman and a very good new coach.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Sacrificing the future is trying to again rush the process

You can build a roster that can challenge for a WC spot next year, but the ceiling of that roster is limited

Or you focus on rebuilding the prospect pool and find a legit 1C prospect in the next 2 drafts and go big time spending in the offseason of 2026. They have among the worst prospect pools in the entire league and a roster full of major holes

That combination is not a quick 1 offseason fix

How do you rush the process, by acquiring competent players now?

 

[GordonHowe]

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[GordonHowe]

Not with this group
They couldn't score in a woman's prison

"I'm a good shot."

"You?"

"You couldn't hit the ocean if you were standing on the bottom."

 

[GordonHowe]

While I do agree this is the NHL and anyone can catch a team off guard, I also think that since the trade deadline sell off added with the injuries on the team.. The team being iced is most likely the least talented roster in the NHL.

Pasta has double the points of Zacha (the second highest point scorer on the team). Beecher hasn’t scored a goal, that didn’t bounce off his ass, since God knows when and they keep trotting him out there.

It’s obvious what management’s intentions are here.

Well, hallelujah then.

 

[GordonHowe]

While I do agree this is the NHL and anyone can catch a team off guard, I also think that since the trade deadline sell off added with the injuries on the team.. The team being iced is most likely the least talented roster in the NHL.

Pasta has double the points of Zacha (the second highest point scorer on the team). Beecher hasn’t scored a goal, that didn’t bounce off his ass, since God knows when and they keep trotting him out there.

It’s obvious what management’s intentions are here.

 

[Alicat]

So just to clarify you’re hoping they go like 5-2 and pick 9th? Just so you can see some wins in meaningless games?

If they happen to win 2-3 games that would be great and if that means their pick is lower, oh well.

Me saying what I said earlier was intentional. Nothing like a lively discussion instead of the same doom and gloom bullshit.

I know they need a rebuild and I know the draft is important but I am not going to act like getting the 4th pick is a lock and I'm not going to pretend that whomever we pick is going to be on the opening night roster. I've seen us get screwed before and we all know about this team's draft history. I don't trust the current regime to not f*** things up and I sure the hell don't trust the league from messing with the lottery to screw us over.

 

[BB88]

How do you rush the process, by acquiring competent players now?

Because it’s really not possible

Nashville and Boston were the big spenders last offseason, both teams fell of the cliff

There’s only 1 player that’s good enough to make it a 1 offseason plan and it’s Marner& that’s not happening.

You can’t fix a flawed core/roster via UFA market, that’s how you end up with declining Lindholm as your 1C

They have to find a legit 1C prospect, it has to be franchise level or it’s a failed project from the start. That’s the beginning of all

The second part is finding another Pasta, the next 2 drafts gives you the best chance to address those issues, not the UFA market.

Thirdly, with how bad the prospect pool is they aren’t in a place to be trading from their high picks to add players now. The prospect pool needs to be rebuild and they can’t be competitive in a trade market anyways for Pasta caliber players

So again you get back to the draft, 2 top 5/10 picks to address the high end talent on F, spend big in the offseason of 2026

Florida, Barkov, Tkachuk, Reinhart, Bennett
Tampa, Kucherov, Point, Guentzel, Hagel
Ottawa, Stutzle, Tkachuk, Cozens
Etc

Boston? Pasta, x, x, x

How do you fix that talent difference in 1 offseason?

Edit

Even Montreal is building a strong core with Suzuki, Caufield, Demidov just from the Atlantic

 

[Alicat]

I’m not Ali, but I do believe I understand (to an extent) where she’s coming from.

It’s not about the record right now. The record sucks. They’re finishing in the bottom of the NHL. It’s a cinch.

It’s the whooping and hollering for every goal against. It’s the lack of effort to even attempt to be competitive. It’s the same shit we’d be laughing at Habs fans for doing if the situations were reversed.

Finishing with a higher pick doesn’t guarantee anything other than more options at the time of choosing. It would be one thing if we saw a team fighting for wins and coming up short, but seeing flashes of potential for the coming year. But I’m not doing cartwheels watching the team getting f***ed in the ass 7-2 every god damn game.

I’m also a Browns fan who saw a bunch of Clevelanders throw a parade for an 0-16 season. It’s embarrassing. And that was with a 1OA pick waiting in a sport where the draft is far more consequential and easier to find contributors.

This place is almost my entire social media…. Presence, if you will. It’s difficult to engage with fellow fans who are blasting confetti at every embarrassing f***up and every lousy goal against.

It just sucks.

All of this especially the bolded. I have ZERO tolerance for this type of shit.

 

[N o o d l e s]

If they happen to win 2-3 games that would be great and if that means their pick is lower, oh well.

Me saying what I said earlier was intentional. Nothing like a lively discussion instead of the same doom and gloom bullshit.

I know they need a rebuild and I know the draft is important but I am not going to act like getting the 4th pick is a lock and I'm not going to pretend that whomever we pick is going to be on the opening night roster. I've seen us get screwed before and we all know about this team's draft history. I don't trust the current regime to not f*** things up and I sure the hell don't trust the league from messing with the lottery to screw us over.

I love a little pot stir, nice work

 

[DKH]

I hope the go on a win streak just to fu k with everyone who wants them to tank the rest of the season,

Nice

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Because it’s really not possible

Nashville and Boston were the big spenders last offseason, both teams fell of the cliff

There’s only 1 player that’s good enough to make it a 1 offseason plan and it’s Marner& that’s not happening.

You can’t fix a flawed core/roster via UFA market, that’s how you end up with declining Lindholm as your 1C

They have to find a legit 1C prospect, it has to be franchise level or it’s a failed project from the start. That’s the beginning of all

The second part is finding another Pasta, the next 2 drafts gives you the best chance to address those issues, not the UFA market.

Thirdly, with how bad the prospect pool is they aren’t in a place to be trading from their high picks to add players now. The prospect pool needs to be rebuild and they can’t be competitive in a trade market anyways for Pasta caliber players

So again you get back to the draft, 2 top 5/10 picks to address the high end talent on F, spend big in the offseason of 2026

Florida, Barkov, Tkachuk, Reinhart, Bennett
Tampa, Kucherov, Point, Guentzel, Hagel
Ottawa, Stutzle, Tkachuk, Cozens
Etc

Boston? Pasta, x, x, x

How do you fix that talent difference in 1 offseason?

Edit

Even Montreal is building a strong core with Suzuki, Caufield, Demidov just from the Atlantic

Acquiring some competent players this off-season?

Of course it's possible.

 

[Alicat]

I love a little pot stir, nice work

Every now and again I like to spice things up. The points made by everyone are valid. At this point all you can do is wait and see how things play out in real time.