Love orlov. Would have loved Chychrun more, especially for an extra two seasons at a ridiculous number. I mean the joke is on the coyotes, but also the teams that didn’t wait maybe? Like I said before tho we don’t exactly know what went down, but it’s clear questionable contracts cost them if they wanted Chychrun (obviously they did considering Dom gas reported they have been on him for two years)
Every team has questionable contracts. More than half the league has less than $1m in cap space right now. More than a 3rd has 0 cap space and nearly half the league is using LTIR to do anything at the deadline. This narrative that Sweeney or the Bruins have a disproportionate number of bad contracts is just false. There are teams (many of them good ones) with much worse contracts. The Bruins worst contracts have been overpaying by a million here & there on depth guys like Reilly & Smith. Two guys who are at least medically cleared to play hockey and could easily be regulars on multiple NHL teams.
When you are perennially in top 10 teams in the league and your worst contracts are ones like Reilly, Smith, Moore & Beleskey then you're actually doing
good. Sweeney's worst contract by far was the Backes one and that was signed
7 years ago. And he paid a little extra and got out from under it. No big deal.
Oh and by the way through all this he has the team in a position to possibly break the single season wins record and
was still able to add 2 impactful players.
Seriously. I get that Sweeney's first couple years were rough and gave us all some PTSD but it's time to take a step back and realize that he has been killing it as GM for at least the last 3 years.