Speculation: Trade Deadline March 1st 3 PM ET - Bruins buyers or sellers?

[Beesfan]

Sell Belesky and Mcquaid at the deadline. Love Mcquaid, but we need to make room for McAvoy next year, and Colin has earned that 3rd pair slot. The defense has to be more mobile. Not expecting a King's ransom, but each should fetch at least a third.

Tell Chara next year is rebuilding, and see if he wants to waive. If he does, we could probably get a first for him.

Play McIntyre and maybe even Subban down the stretch to determine who is backup of the future.

 

[bbfan419]

Sell Belesky and Mcquaid at the deadline. Love Mcquaid, but we need to make room for McAvoy next year, and Colin has earned that 3rd pair slot. The defense has to be more mobile. Not expecting a King's ransom, but each should fetch at least a third.

Tell Chara next year is rebuilding, and see if he wants to waive. If he does, we could probably get a first for him.

Play McIntyre and maybe even Subban down the stretch to determine who is backup of the future.

I would rather deal K Miller over McQuaid, at least McQuaid can fight and play a bit of D, K Miller is a useless piece of trash trade him for whatever we can get.

To me Subban should be dealt in a deal for a pick, prospect or part of a package for a guy like Duchene, McIntyre I think will always be a #3 guy the AHL starter and occasional call up.

 

[Hamilton Brian]

I'm wondering if we can shut Rask down for the rest of the season. Ride with a tandem of Khudobin/Subban/McIntyre. Maybe even Bergeron. Just go and get healthy. Fight like hell to shed the non-factors on the team, and bring in some of the kids.

It really is throwing up the white flag, but damn it, we need some pragmatic leadership on this.

The schedule really is a difficulty. With the disparity in games played, there are questions about "should we sell, should we buy." But I don't buy this argument of, "if we get in, who knows what could happen." Just stop with it. There's no upside to getting into the first round and getting 2 home games. It just props up this false hope that the team is good. It would be 1996 all over again. Swallow some pride, have an honest conversation with Jacobs, and look forward.

 

[Ryan77]

Sell Belesky and Mcquaid at the deadline. Love Mcquaid, but we need to make room for McAvoy next year, and Colin has earned that 3rd pair slot. The defense has to be more mobile. Not expecting a King's ransom, but each should fetch at least a third.

Tell Chara next year is rebuilding, and see if he wants to waive. If he does, we could probably get a first for him.

Play McIntyre and maybe even Subban down the stretch to determine who is backup of the future.

The problem is the Bruins can't rebuild

Bergeron 31
Marchand 28
Rask 29
Krecji 30
Backes 32
Chara 39

This is your core without Pasta. All have NTC. How do you rebuild with this?? They need to win in the next 3 years. It's already been stated no one will waive.

Boston needs young players to step up and needs the GM to make a good hockey trade to significantly improve this club.

Good trades start with young talent and hope somehow you can add Hayes, McQuaid, K. miller and belesky into that mix. Even belesky has a limited NMC

Carlo
Mcavoy
Vatrano
Spooner
Krug (should not be traded but he falls into good and young)

Anything good coming back is costing 2 of these 4 with some picks and prospects. It's time to realize that we are not getting a good player for just a first and a prospect.

 

[Trap Jesus]

Stand pat and finish one spot out of the playoffs!

 

[Boston Bruno]

Is the question what do I want, or what will they do?

it seems, when it comes to the bruins, we agree to disagree far too routinely of late.

 

[bbfan419]

I don't think we will get the big guns needed without giving up a ton, so they should sell big time. With so few sellers right now outside of Colorado and Arizona, this could be a great time to sell players and get maximum returns, Krejci, Backes, Chara would bring back good to great returns and even guys like Beleskey and K Miller might get something half decent.

 

[LSCII]

Beleskey, Chara, Krejci, and Kevan Miller moved out and start planning for next year with a new coach.

 

[stick9]

The problem is the Bruins can't rebuild

Bergeron 31
Marchand 28
Rask 29
Krecji 30
Backes 32
Chara 39

This is your core without Pasta. All have NTC. How do you rebuild with this?? They need to win in the next 3 years. It's already been stated no one will waive.

Boston needs young players to step up and needs the GM to make a good hockey trade to significantly improve this club.

Good trades start with young talent and hope somehow you can add Hayes, McQuaid, K. miller and belesky into that mix. Even belesky has a limited NMC

Carlo
Mcavoy
Vatrano
Spooner
Krug (should not be traded but he falls into good and young)

Anything good coming back is costing 2 of these 4 with some picks and prospects. It's time to realize that we are not getting a good player for just a first and a prospect.

Bravo for getting it, seriously. All these threads are filled with pretty smart fans offering our garbage in hopes of getting a couple of top six forwards. That's not how it works.

If the Bruins don't feel they can make a good hockey trade then they should sit back and wait until the offseason. I assume once the Spector of the expansion draft appears teams will be more willing to move decent pieces. So for now move a Spooner and a lower end prospect and pick up a decent NHL backup goaltender. Maybe they get lucky and someone wants a McQuaid or Nash & Charlie Mac joins the team once he finishes up at BU.

This duck is crispy...

 

[KnightofBoston]

Sell guys who aren't part of the team going forward.

Buy guys who might be able to help you in the future.

That would be my strategy.

Sound strategy

I question Sweeney and Neely'a ability to work together and identify NHL talent at this point though.


Hopefully they just find takers for guys like Hayes and sell off a bunch of pieces, last night's game should indicate how unlikely it will be they make the playoffs. Just not their year again, claw their way back and still lose 6-5 to the team they literally can't afford to lose to

 

[missingchicklet]

Management waited way too long to do something to fix the mess it created with the roster. A couple fixes early on could have the team in a better position, but management stood idly by while the ship sank. If by some miracle the team does make the playoff it still is not anywhere close to good enough to win the Cup.

I will be beyond pissed if management does not attempt to get rid of the dead weight on the team. I will be even more pissed if management, in a delusional state, keeps everything as is and also decides to go out and get declining/aging vets in a last-ditch effort to salvage the season. Enough with ineffective moves to get the Liles and Stempniaks of the world on the team and acting like your helping things out.

Sell, but not players that are good and have a future here. Get rid of the mediocrity, the fat cats who don't give a ****, and aging vets on the decline. The return is not that important at this point. Get what you can and start moving the ship forward. There is a core here that can be built around. Could have started two years ago, but instead the mess has been made worse.

 

[KnightofBoston]

I was all for Sweeney initially because I saw him as one of the only guys that didn't want to just ship Seguin off and I felt like he doesn't have an ego, is good at developing young talent, and has a sound hockey mind


Now I feel they should have gone after someone outside the organization and had Sweeney in charge of player development and a head voice for scouting and making the final call on picks.


This organization is a mess and it may take another few years for anything to improve

 

[Gee Wally]

For the love of everything :

 

[Beesfan]

The problem is the Bruins can't rebuild

Bergeron 31
Marchand 28
Rask 29
Krecji 30
Backes 32
Chara 39

This is your core without Pasta. All have NTC. How do you rebuild with this?? They need to win in the next 3 years. It's already been stated no one will waive.

Boston needs young players to step up and needs the GM to make a good hockey trade to significantly improve this club.

Good trades start with young talent and hope somehow you can add Hayes, McQuaid, K. miller and belesky into that mix. Even belesky has a limited NMC

Carlo
Mcavoy
Vatrano
Spooner
Krug (should not be traded but he falls into good and young)

Anything good coming back is costing 2 of these 4 with some picks and prospects. It's time to realize that we are not getting a good player for just a first and a prospect.

Rebuild was the wrong word because it means hitting bottom. Instead, I'd say we need to transition to a post-Chara era, where the emphasis will be on mobile, skilled defense.

San Jose made it to the Finals last year with Thornton and Marleau, who were 36 at the time. The key is that they moved in some effective young players on fair contracts. In our case, Carlo and Colin have already emerged as good players. We need McAvoy and one more d to emerge from Morrow, Lauzon, Zboril and even Johannsen. Up front, we just need a good third line. Hopefully between Heinen, Bjork, JFK, DeBrusk, Spooner and Cehlarik we can do that.

We also need a reliable backup.

To summarize, I don't think we need to rebuild. I think we have the players in the organization, but we need to move them in.

 

[don]

Didn't vote. I want to see who is selling what before I decide. At this point, I'd rather wait until the off-season before the expansion draft. If I do make a trade now or later, it's for a 1st pairing LD. My second trade is for a 1st pairing RD. Fowler and Trouba would be my choices but there are others who fit the bill.

 

[Bruinfanatic]

The problem is the Bruins can't rebuild

Bergeron 31
Marchand 28
Rask 29
Krecji 30
Backes 32
Chara 39

This is your core without Pasta. All have NTC. How do you rebuild with this?? They need to win in the next 3 years. It's already been stated no one will waive.

Boston needs young players to step up and needs the GM to make a good hockey trade to significantly improve this club.

Good trades start with young talent and hope somehow you can add Hayes, McQuaid, K. miller and belesky into that mix. Even belesky has a limited NMC

Carlo
Mcavoy
Vatrano
Spooner
Krug (should not be traded but he falls into good and young)

Anything good coming back is costing 2 of these 4 with some picks and prospects. It's time to realize that we are not getting a good player for just a first and a prospect.

Very good post ,not saying they should move all those players,problem is they really can't move any off them.

 

[Gordoff]

Sell Sell Sell, but lets hold on to all the guys that have helped us make the playoffs these past three year

EVERYBODY should be made available ,EVERYBODY.

This core group is polluted and have excepted being losers regardless of what they say in front of a mic.

Will the owner let them sell, though?

Not sure they're willing to kiss playoff revenue goodbye.

Keep- Bergy/Marchand/Z/Pasta/Vatrano/Carlo/C Miller/Krug

Probably forced to keep but I hammer on the door of DK/Beleskey and ask them to waive

No point asking Backes, he`s going nowhere yet

The rest...............see ya, some I move due to being useless, others I move such as a guy like Moore because I can see his value on a team that could challenge for a Cup and a team would likely pay a bit for him

So the mandate is to make the playoffs? And yet they've let them go on without a legitimate top4 D and top6 winger for how many years now? Incompetence from top to bottom.

So help me god if they buy again this year

Help me even further when they do and we fast forward 3 months when a group here is saying "well that's hindsight you couldn't have known they needed to sell."

Sound strategy

I question Sweeney and Neely'a ability to work together and identify NHL talent at this point though.


Hopefully they just find takers for guys like Hayes and sell off a bunch of pieces, last night's game should indicate how unlikely it will be they make the playoffs. Just not their year again, claw their way back and still lose 6-5 to the team they literally can't afford to lose to

The past 3 years have been sickening, and I'm sick of the dead weight on the ice, the apathy, the overuse of Rask.
I'm sick of the coach not making strategic moves because his prevent style is all he knows or believes in. I'm sick of Cam Neelys poor attitude, one that can't have a simple conversation without becoming indignant and combative. I'm sick of the UNprofessionalism of "Behind The B" and nonsense like making the music so loud at the "Garden" that one can't be entertained simply by the on ice product. I'm sick of their faces!

 

[Ratty]

Didn't vote. I want to see who is selling what before I decide. At this point, I'd rather wait until the off-season before the expansion draft. If I do make a trade now or later, it's for a 1st pairing LD. My second trade is for a 1st pairing RD. Fowler and Trouba would be my choices but there are others who fit the bill.

I' add Dumba to that group. Agree on waiting. Teams that trade now are looking to make the playoffs and need a quick fix, a veteran who might have enough left in the tank to offer some help, like Liles and Stemniak.

If you wait for the season's end, you're dealing with thirty teams. You only trade now if you can acquire a player with a future on this team, like Dumba, Landeskog, or, as you noted, Fowler or Trouba.

 

[JAD]

The problem is the Bruins can't rebuild

Bergeron 31
Marchand 28
Rask 29
Krecji 30
Backes 32
Chara 39

This is your core without Pasta. All have NTC. How do you rebuild with this?? They need to win in the next 3 years. It's already been stated no one will waive.

Boston needs young players to step up and needs the GM to make a good hockey trade to significantly improve this club.

Good trades start with young talent and hope somehow you can add Hayes, McQuaid, K. miller and belesky into that mix. Even belesky has a limited NMC

Carlo
Mcavoy
Vatrano
Spooner
Krug (should not be traded but he falls into good and young)

Anything good coming back is costing 2 of these 4 with some picks and prospects. It's time to realize that we are not getting a good player for just a first and a prospect.

The quoted post above, well written with valid points, addresses what many desire ...
There are some who want Sweeney to do something to improve the team immediately via trades because of a core group of players who are not getting any younger. Some repeatedly demand that Sweeney do something to win "now".
Question for those who are demanding action ...
(Not what you feel should have been done in the past but as of today) ...
4 part question:

A) what player or players do you want Sweeney to aquire?
B) who or what are you willing to give up in the trade(s)?
C) how will these moves impact next year's Bruins team when considering expansion draft and salary cap?
D) how will these moves impact Bruins long term success (4, 5, 6 years out)?

 

[Absurdity]

 

[Gordoff]

OH MYyyyyyy

 

[BruinDust]

I'm starting to think Michael Scott is running this team.

 

[BruinDust]

Sweeney gave this group a chance last year when the writing was on the wall that it wasn't a good team and their placement in the standings at the time was purely smoke and mirrors.

And they failed in epic fashion.

So here we are a year later. This team will be in the Eastern Conference basement by the time March 1st rolls around.

The sellers market has never been more shallow. Prices are going to be high.

Selling isn't just the right option, it's the only option at this point. This group doesn't deserve to see more of the organization's future mortgaged to give them another chance to make the playoffs.

 

[Absurdity]

OH MYyyyyyy

It's from the show The Office. Cringe/deadpan comedy at its finest.

I'm starting to think Michael Scott is running this team.

Stanley's reaction is gold. He's one of my favorites on the show.

I wouldn't doubt it.

 

[Blowfish]

Wow very clear fans are ready for BIG changes. With that said team may as well sit the trash and allow some NHL exposure for Debrusk and Cehlarik Grant and O Gara.