Not that anyone cares for a Bruins fan perspective, but I can’t help myself.
It’s quite a coincidence that Peter Chiarelli was making the same type of mistakes in both places, with two completely separate groups of people. Also funny how he would get so annoyed with the media when getting questioned on some of these terrible moves. He always tried to speak of the moves as if they were logical, while getting annoyed with the media at the same time for questioning him. Hard for me to believe that he was taking all of this heat and continuing to be knowingly misguided by other people. Also, even if he is being truthful (he isn’t), he is just confessing to be an extremely weak leader. You think your team is screwing up, and as the head guy, you keep your mouth shut? Even if that somehow proved logical, he would still be a horrible GM for being such a pansy.
As soon as PC left Boston, all of the sudden the philosophy shifted to a game focused more on tempo than system. Team started working with young players rather than demonizing and giving up on them. New GM suddenly was not afraid to make a real deadline move instead of digging up bottom line players that were already in excess or maxed out. Felt like we could actually win trades again...
Seems like the same thing is happening in Edmonton now.
It would all be quite a coincidence if PC was wronged by others in both places and it had nothing to do with him. Either way, he proves incompetent to be an NHL GM.