UncleRico
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- May 8, 2017
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Well it would be nice to be on the winning side of a trade with one of Boston's best assets this year but Sweeney failed. There is no easy way to sugar coat this one. His track record in trades is not very impressive at all. (Zacha, Coyle and Hall trades were his top moves) Many of his moves have us giving 1st and 2nd round picks like giving out candy. That's not a good look, especially when he can't get good draft picks in return on his deals. Letting UFA players walk for nothing is not good either. (Lindholm, Chara, Krug, Bertuzzi, Orlov, DeBrusk, etc.) Taking on reclamation projects is not winning formula, especially when they have cap implications. ( Kase, Ritchie, Rielly, and now Korpisalo) This would include signing UFA's that have come back to bite ( Backus, Beleskey, Rielly, Moore).
So good luck with the 25th overall pick in a week draft. We know how some of our top draft picks have made out (Senyshyn, Zboril, Studnicka, Anderson, Vaakanainen,). So after 10 years of Sweeney has Boston done very well. That would be questionable.
I guess the thing for me is I don’t even care if we won or lost the trade. If we got a top 9 forward or even a defender that we could confidently look at and be like “alright this guy will improve our playoff roster” then I would have been happy “losing the trade”
This team isn’t struggling in the regular season. Best regular season team in the league the last decade and they’ve made it past the 2nd round of the playoffs once.
They needed to pick up a playoff contributor or cap space to go out and get a playoff contributor. They did neither of those things.