Sweeney teardown: a season too late?

[easton117]

It looks to me like there maybe was truth to the Marchant Pasternak rift rumour. Why else would Marchant be on the outs like this ?

You’re more likely to find out what’s going on in the bowels of the Vatican than you are getting an accurate rumour out of Boston.

I wouldn’t put much thought in to anything that gets put out there

 

[BayStBullies]

Not a teardown, He is going to try to rebuild on the fly

I think they created quite the "gap" in sentiment for players considering them.

 

[Leafs87]

Depends if they rebuild or retool. If rebuild they will need to meet the cap and those two contracts will help

 

[qc14]

As always it wasn't the strategic vision -- try to transition between generations by bringing in 2 UFAs at positions of need -- that was faulty. It was the tactical pro scouting decision to bring in Lindholm and Zadorov specifically. They go and get Pesce or Roy instead and it's looking a whole lot better.

 

[DieSendungmitderMaus]

As a Bruins fan, I'm completely fine with the timing. The point about avoiding last year's UFA deals is well taken- all through last season I was actually pretty optimistic about the Bruins future despite the lack of prospects due to the combination of the Pasta/McAvoy/Swayman core and a really clean cap outlook. Still, last year's team was too competitive to throw in the towel. It goes against two things I don't really like- one is the impulse to burn it down if you're not a top 5-10 contender despite teams going on cincerella runs all the time and the other is the corresponding mindset that 31 NHL team's seasons are abject failures and that enjoying the jouney as a fan even if it comes up short is loser stuff. Last seasons playoffs were nothing special for Boston, but it did give us a game 7 OT winner and another happy chapter in the Leafs rivalry. There's some fanbases that would kill for memories like these.

 

[LuGBuG]

They just came off an unbelievable regular season the year before. If they tore it down last year it would’ve been a gong show in Boston.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

As always it wasn't the strategic vision -- try to transition between generations by bringing in 2 UFAs at positions of need -- that was faulty. It was the tactical pro scouting decision to bring in Lindholm and Zadorov specifically. They go and get Pesce or Roy instead and it's looking a whole lot better.

Zadorov is hardly an issue. Lindholm is. Zadorov was the #5 defenseman when signed.

 

[qc14]

Zadorov is hardly an issue. Lindholm is. Zadorov was the #5 defenseman when signed.

I agree that Lindholm is the much bigger issue but you can't be giving a $5Mx5 to a #5 defenseman

 

[3074326]

I'm never going to be upset with a GM for trying to win if they think they have a legitimate shot. That's how it should be. It's easy to look back in time and see when the perfect moment was, but you simply can't just give up if the team is competitive. They weren't far removed from being really good.

 

[Fire Sweeney]

More like 5 years late. Should have liquidated guys like Marchand, Bergeron, etc. when they had high value and the team wasn't going anywhere.