Chris Gasper seldom writes about the Bruins and it appears he dislikes Sweeney getting extended.
He has a valid point about Cam and Sweeney refusing to address the media until a NHL-mandated media call next week in Montreal.
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Here are a few items taking up bandwidth in my brain in a streaming of the sports consciousness:
1. The best power-play execution by the Bruins this season belongs to pals and coach-killing coconspirators president Cam Neely and general manager Don Sweeney. The duo convinced the Jacobs family that coach Bruce Cassidy was holding back the Spoked-Bs, not a roster peddling Erik Haula as a second-line center and serving up young players who arrive dead on the vine.
Bottom line: Cassidy was far better at his job than Sweeney, who received a multiyear extension Monday, has demonstrated to be at his since ascending to GM in 2015. Cassidy became a convenient fall guy for the Bruins’ glaring inability to get their prospect pipeline flowing. That was supposed to be Sweeney’s strength when he replaced Peter Chiarelli, architect of the only Bruins Stanley Cup winner post-Nixon presidency.
Instead, we have the infamous/calamitous 2015 draft and an endless parade of pedestrian prospects. The knock on Cassidy’s predecessor, Claude Julien, was also that he couldn’t maximize young talent. Maybe the problem isn’t the bench boss, but that these Maybe-Bs just aren’t good.
Sweeney has hits like blue-chip blue liner Charlie McAvoy and goalie Jeremy Swayman. But not nearly enough of them relative to the teams that are, to borrow the Bruins’ latest buzz phrase, “best in class” in the NHL. Sweeney has essentially coasted on the core he inherited.
2. It sure would be nice to hear from Bruins ownership on their rationale. The overall direction of the franchise feels rudderless. Are they rebuilding on the fly or loading up to take another Cup run with Patrice Bergeron & Co.? The GM gets a multiyear extension during a fork-in-the-road offseason and no one from the Boston’s First Family of Hockey can hop on a Zoom to explain? Disappointing.
If something is written that the Jacobses don’t like, they’ll let you know at light speed. It would be nice to see the same alacrity displayed in explaining major decisions.
He has a valid point about Cam and Sweeney refusing to address the media until a NHL-mandated media call next week in Montreal.
Don Sweeney has to take a share of blame for Bruins’ problems, and seven other thoughts - The Boston Globe
The bottom line is that fall guy Bruce Cassidy was better at his job than Sweeney has been at his since ascending to GM in 2015.
www.bostonglobe.com
Here are a few items taking up bandwidth in my brain in a streaming of the sports consciousness:
1. The best power-play execution by the Bruins this season belongs to pals and coach-killing coconspirators president Cam Neely and general manager Don Sweeney. The duo convinced the Jacobs family that coach Bruce Cassidy was holding back the Spoked-Bs, not a roster peddling Erik Haula as a second-line center and serving up young players who arrive dead on the vine.
Bottom line: Cassidy was far better at his job than Sweeney, who received a multiyear extension Monday, has demonstrated to be at his since ascending to GM in 2015. Cassidy became a convenient fall guy for the Bruins’ glaring inability to get their prospect pipeline flowing. That was supposed to be Sweeney’s strength when he replaced Peter Chiarelli, architect of the only Bruins Stanley Cup winner post-Nixon presidency.
Instead, we have the infamous/calamitous 2015 draft and an endless parade of pedestrian prospects. The knock on Cassidy’s predecessor, Claude Julien, was also that he couldn’t maximize young talent. Maybe the problem isn’t the bench boss, but that these Maybe-Bs just aren’t good.
Sweeney has hits like blue-chip blue liner Charlie McAvoy and goalie Jeremy Swayman. But not nearly enough of them relative to the teams that are, to borrow the Bruins’ latest buzz phrase, “best in class” in the NHL. Sweeney has essentially coasted on the core he inherited.
2. It sure would be nice to hear from Bruins ownership on their rationale. The overall direction of the franchise feels rudderless. Are they rebuilding on the fly or loading up to take another Cup run with Patrice Bergeron & Co.? The GM gets a multiyear extension during a fork-in-the-road offseason and no one from the Boston’s First Family of Hockey can hop on a Zoom to explain? Disappointing.
If something is written that the Jacobses don’t like, they’ll let you know at light speed. It would be nice to see the same alacrity displayed in explaining major decisions.
