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The big winner tonight was Bruins GM Don Sweeney who is also the GM of Team Canada. He decided to run with Jordan Binnington in goal and once again he won a championship at TD Garden.


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Montreal and Boston were excellent hosts for this tournament and hockey fans were rewarded with excellent games.
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Sweeney has done a good job overall. I am sure he’d like to have the 2015 first round back and I am sure he would like to undo this summer’s signings and deals, but overall good body of work considering, by all accounts, he is being asked to keep the team perpetually in the playoffs. Tough to do and it usually means trading futures and picking at the end of the rounds for the picks you do keep.
 
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Just a few days ago Canada loses and people ripping Sweeney for him failing to putting together a bad team and now Canada wins and apparently anyone could of rolled out of bed and do it.

You can't have it both ways.

This thread has and will expose Hypocrisy 101.

Footnote: I am not defending Seeney. I want him fired with Cam and new, outside blood in the front office.
 
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Fenway said:
The big winner tonight was Bruins GM Don Sweeney who is also the GM of Team Canada. He decided to run with Jordan Binnington in goal and once again he won a championship at TD Garden.


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The Big winner was the game of hockey and their fans, and you can thank the players for that with the immense skill and passion that all 4 countries shown. Don Sweeney was just part of assembling a team for the greatest and deepest hockey Country in the world.
 
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I'll give the players and coaches credit. Sweeney gets some as well obviously but it's the players and the coaches that control what's happening on the ice.
 
Not enough credit is given to the Bruins organization, the NHL and the Vegas Knights for players loaned when the Chicago Wolves dumped the Blues. I have now been able to watch former Providence Bruin Jordan Binnington clinch a Cup in Boston, but also win the Four Nations. Well done everyone

With the Blues playing the 2017–18 season without an AHL affiliate, St. Louis made an agreement with the Colorado Avalanche to send a goalie to their AHL affiliate, the San Antonio Rampage. The Blues chose Husso to send to San Antonio. With Hutton and Allen confirmed as the Blues' two NHL goalies, Binnington was at first reassigned to the Tulsa Oilers of the ECHL. Binnington balked at the assignment, refusing to report and went home to Richmond Hill. One of the organization's goalie coaches found a better situation for him, and the Blues sent him out on loan to the Providence Bruins.<a href="Jordan Binnington - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>21<span>]</span></a><a href="Jordan Binnington - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>31<span>]</span></a>
 
BruinDust said:
I think we as Bruins fans need to accept that regardless of the final outcome of this season, Don Sweeney is highly regarded GM across the league and is going nowhere.
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Sports is becoming like politics; people form an opinion and then only listen to sources that reinforce that opinion, so it's impossible for anyone to change their mind.
 
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He inherited these players though. Doesnt that further add to that narrative? :laugh:

On a more serious note, I just want some ****ing idea of direction. It'll be much clearer after March 7 but man its been annoying up to this point just listening and reading all of the same ****ing speculation for months now.
 
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PlayMakers said:
Sports is becoming like politics; people form an opinion and then only listen to sources that reinforce that opinion, so it's impossible for anyone to change their mind.
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I disagree.

Comparing being an NHL GM to a tournament GM is apples and oranges. If Canada DIDN'T win, which they were one OT shot away from, I also wouldn't blame Sweeney.

Being the GM of a team like this is as set it and forget it as it comes. Trying to equate success in an international tournament to NHL success is wildly insane, IMO.
 
Kate08 said:
I disagree.

Comparing being an NHL GM to a tournament GM is apples and oranges. If Canada DIDN'T win, which they were one OT shot away from, I also wouldn't blame Sweeney.

Being the GM of a team like this is as set it and forget it as it comes. Trying to equate success in an international tournament to NHL success is wildly insane, IMO.
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I agree with you on the credit/blame part, but you also don't get to be a GM in a tournament like this without having success and being highly respected. That was @BruinDust 's point.

There are a lot (majority?) of Boston fans and media who act like Sweeney is a dolt. The actual people who get paid to evaluate, manage and run the best hockey in the world think he's one of the best and brightest in the game.
 
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PlayMakers said:
I agree with you on the credit/blame part, but you also don't get to be a GM in a tournament like this without having success and being highly respected. That was @BruinDust 's point.

There are a lot (majority?) of Boston fans and media who act like Sweeney is a dolt. The actual people who get paid to evaluate, manage and run the best hockey in the world think he's one of the best and brightest in the game.
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Ah, that's fair.

I don't think he's a dolt. I think his time here has come and gone and the Bruins need fresh blood and fresh vision.

When Sweeney goes (because it's a matter of when, not if...all of these jobs are taken to later be lost), he won't be unemployed for long.
 
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The only good news is Sweeney did not put money directly into JJ's pocket so when they miss the playoffs this year he will be on the hot seat, hopefully his time in Boston is coming to an end. The sooner the better.
 
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