RÉACTION aux Bruins TRADING Taylor Hall | Battre les Bruins

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1. Edited 1 an ago

   Next is Reilly and they’ll be 14 million in cap space to sign Swayman, Hathaway, Frederic, and possibly bretuzzi

2. bobby vicente 1 an ago

   I believe that they want to try and keep Sway, Hathaway, Trent and Bert. But they still need to sign Lauko if he's not a trade chip to get a first round pick. He and Riley might be part of a deal.

3. robert forte 1 an ago

   Everyone wants to throw Don Sweeney a parade for trading Taylor Hall so that he can sign Tyler Bertuzzi

   I guess we're forgetting that due to Don Sweeney's terrible drafting and developing these past eight years they don't and haven't had enough cheap, young talent to augment their roster

   So year after year it's over paying John Moore, Mike Reilly, Derek Forbort, David Backes, Matt Beleseky Nick Foligno…..

   Do Bruins fans realize that in just a couple of years that Don Sweeney gave a total of $23M to these three stiffs: Derek Forbort, John Moore and Mike Reilly

   $23 F.N Million…..

   Moore: Over paid, stunk, gave them nothing, forced Sweeney to piss away a 2nd round pick to get Anaheim to take him

   Reilly: Over paid, stunk, gave them next to nothing, rots away in the AHL because no other team wants him. Could only be traded if the Bruins eat salary or add a pick or prospect which they won't do. Will have to be bought out

   Forbort: Overpaid, limited, allergic to the puck, PK, shot blocker only that isn't very good defensively and lousy at transition. No other NHL team is trading anything for Forbort at $3M. The only way to trade him would be to add a pick or prospect to the deal which they won't do. The only other option would be to buy Forbort out

   So when you waste $23M in Cap Space on 3 players that give you nothing, you wind up having to trade a good player like Taylor Hall for pennies on the dollar and lousy return of nothing but Cap Space. And again, people want to credit Don Sweeney for this move. Are you F.N. kidding me?

   And eventually all of those bad contracts catch up to you and force more decisions to fix past bad decisions

   So Taylor Hall has to be given away for ultimately what looks like a fairly shallow return and why?

   So Sweeney can sign someone else. Or in other words an asset has to be pissed away because of bad asset management

   So this is just like the David Backes trade in a way.

   Backes wasn't traded to "win". Backes was traded along with the Bruins highest draft pick from 2017, 2nd round draft pick Axl Ancersson, for one thing and one thing only, Cap Space

   Because Sweeney signed Backes to such a crap contract it was strangling the franchise to the degree where they just had to piss away a 1st and their highest drafted player from a draft, just to rid themselves of Backes' money

   The Bruins didn't wind up with the NHL's worst salary cap situation, worst draft capital situation and having one of the NHL's worst Farm Systems because Sweeney traded more draft picks at this year's deadline

   They are here in this rotten state because of eight years of terrible asset management and drafting, not because Orlov, Hathaway and Bertuzzi were traded for at this year's deadline

   And was all if this worth it? Um, nope

   7 of the last 8 years Don Sweeney's Bruins have failed to win more than one playoff round (87% of the time)

   4 of the last 8 years Don Sweeney's Bruins have either posted a playoff DNQ (2017) or a 1st round loss (2016, 2022, 2023) – 50% of the time

   So…..

   NHL's worst salary cap situation

   NHL's worst draft capital situation

   One of the NHL's worst farm systems

   Nothing but playoff fails and chokes to show for it

   But sure give Don Sweeney another GM of the Year award because he had to just give away another asset for nothing in return, just so that he can fix more of the cap management problems he created in the first place

   Good grief

4. BigDogGames 1 an ago

   Carlo and Grizzy are going to get a Center. They will play Mason Lorieri and Zorbil. They will be fine on the backend. Or zoribl gets traded and Mitchell gets spot.

5. Dennis MacDonald 1 an ago

   I like it GO BRUINS

6. RICARDO FRANCO 1 an ago

   BRING BACK LUCIC

7. Mikael Jönsson 1 an ago

   A bit underwhelming return but capspace is at a premium. Now we need to sign a center and fill out the bottom 6. My guess is they try get Sway for a 1 year and then next year sign him long term and then also trade Ullmark.

8. Chadwick Barry 1 an ago

   I am a little surprised they didn't get a return on a Hart trophy winner that being said he has not played at that level in years. My first intuition was to sell high on Marchand and keep Hall but I would find it easy to trust the Bruins brass on this one Marchand could still be key to the second cup. Good luck at the draft Bs the third round and beyond still has nuggets of gold buried in them. 🛶

9. Odd Sparrow 1 an ago

   Sad – Still think Hall is a good Cup player but maybe to faire – we have to many no Cup player and we seems to add more of this light setup play of style. If they put money on Fredric insted of Betruzzi and start to build it with more physical and ugly players this year it could be interesting.. My guess for the cup final was Vegas vs Boston and that if Boston did add the nastiness and weight (I did that prediction in october/November) – but they didn't. They didn't have the player for playing Cup hockey – I know about the record but that is two totally different things, this 82 match serie vs go out and kill for winning every night to get the Cup. And it is really strange that they don't get ride of Montgomery because he proved not be a bad cup coach. He lost the first round, but I'm not sure that they even had got to the Final with the 22/23 team. Look on the 2011 match serie and you will see what is missing in this team now. Or even better take a look on Vegas – they did play Bruins Hockey, a blend of 2011 and Cassidy hockey