Were you born after Peter chiarelli’s tenure?
Chiarelli won the cup. Then proceeded to run the team to the ground. When he left the team was a shell of its cup winning days. I love chiarelli. But he wasn’t better with salary cap management. And he wasn’t better at trading. That’s just my opinion. Sweeney has kept this team a top team the entire time he has been here including his first season when he traded away some bad contracts and turned the team into a winner again.
Chiarellis brought chara. He also added Nathan Horton at the trade deadline. He signed Tim Thomas I think? Savard was a beauty too. But after they won the cup he made some bad trades and the team got a little worse every year. I was mad they fired him. But looking back they made the right choice.
Besides. Sweeney drafted this beauty….