I was on Bruce last week but stepped back and took a deeper look at it and the 2 big holes on roster would hurt any coach.
Its definitely not solely on Bruce. Sweeney has made errors and to be fair gotten some bad luck (Nash concussion and Kase), he’s seemingly turned it around and his one good year they went to the final…speaking of which…
But Bruce is failing to utilize and develop what he does have. Bruce has a history of being stubborn in making players play a certain way and putting them in odd positions to succeed. his decision making pre game and in game and between games is suspect. He gets flustered easily and coaches repeatedly out Fox him when it matters.
a different coach could theoretically make them better but;
a) I don’t know who that is and
b) the bruins aren’t winning a cup with or without Bruce. would take an absolute miracle run.
maybe in few years if sweeney keeps hitting on picks and makes some better pro moves, or gets fired and some other unknown savior comes in.
definitely a very milling about type situation where we aren’t close to a cup but can’t just blow it up and suddenly be contending again in 2 years.