Rate Bruins management for the 2015 trade deadline

[ranold26]

1 - Being terrible.
5 - Being great.

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[Shaun]

-1000000000

F----

Fire Neely
Fire Chiarelli
Fire JFJ
Fire them all

 

[Yeti34]

1- Terrible

 

[Ivyy13]

Garbage. Don't let the door hit you on the way out Chiarelli and company.

 

[RustyBruins72]

He didn't buy, he didn't sell.

IMO he didn't improve the team for today or in the future and didn't help the D, again.

I'll give them a 1.5

 

[SPV]

I'm going to go out on a limb and give them a 2.

I really like the Connolly deal; and have hopes he can be a top 6 or at the very least top 9 guy this year, and more going forward. Good asset management here.

I am glad that he didn't get into a bidding war and overpay for some of the guys that were moved; but based off the market, I'm surprised he didn't try to sell a few guys and re-tool the roster for next year. That was the move IMO.

and I really don't understand the Talbot pick up. Guy makes 1.75 million next year, and we are already in a cap crunch for next year and need to be purging guys like that, not getting another one of them.

 

[Fire Sweeney]

1.

Fire Dumb & Dumber.

 

[KuralySnipes]

2 - Failure to upgrade blue line guarantees this team a 1st round exit, if they even make the playoff. Only reason I don't give it a 1 is because the Connolly trade could work out.

 

[Wilhelm Scream]

3.

Both trades were good, but didn't help enough to make a difference. We are technically better today than we were yesterday.

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

He didn't buy, he didn't sell.

IMO he didn't improve the team for today or in the future and didn't help the D, again.

I'll give them a 1.5

This is exactly the issue.

Chiarelli made no better indication today as to the direction we are taking this year or next than he has the last number of months.

It's all just up in the air. Very little has been accomplished.

By the way...just a fair warning. I am willing to verbally rip anyone who comes in here as a Chia apologist and says anything along the lines of "typical overreaction by the board."

For the record I voted "2" because Connolly has a SLIGHT chance of working out in the long run.

 

[dtam83]

for this season, 1.

for future, 1.25

still not sure why they lost cunningham for nothing

 

[Over the volcano]

In a vacuum 3, in context of a team that needs a clear direction 1.

Hopefully that new direction comes in the off season- right now we're sitting in limbo.

 

[Neely2005]

3. Didn't overpay, got a promising prospect who is NHL ready and added some depth. Didn't address the D.

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

3. Didn't overpay, got a promising prospect who is NHL ready and added some depth. Didn't address the D.

Did I miss something?

I wouldn't call Brent Connolly a prospect.

 

[Absurdity]

Adding Connolly was a good move but please tell me where: Smith, Spooner, Pastrnak, Ferlin, Connolly, Kelly, Paille, Campbell, and now Talbot fit in with the open spots below.

Lucic - Krejci - X
Marchand Bergeron - X
X - Soderberg - Eriksson
X - X - X

 

[ranold26]

nevermind

 

[ap3lovr]

1

The prices being paid, you either buy or you sell. Sitting on your hands and making deals for depth players is a joke. The Tampa deal could turn out to be a steal in a few years, and was likely a good hockey move. High reward type deal. However it does nothing right now. I'm really upset.

 

[Neely2005]

Did I miss something?

I wouldn't call Brent Connolly a prospect.

Okay, I would.

 

[HuskyBruinPride]

Not impressed

Connoly Trade: B (like it, good upside deal, 2nd and 3rd would have been ideal to give up)
Caron/Talbot: C- (Talbot > Caron but he's making 1.7M next year - gross amount for a 4th liner. If we can dump him in the off-season for even a 5th then this doesn't look as bad)

 

[KuralySnipes]

Adding Connolly was a good move but please tell me where: Smith, Spooner, Pastrnak, Ferlin, Connolly, Kelly, Paille, Campbell, and now Talbot fit in with the open spots below.

Lucic - Krejci - X
Marchand Bergeron - X
X - Soderberg - Eriksson
X - X - X

My guess.

Lucic - Krejci - Pastrnak
Marchand - Bergeron - Connolly
Kelly- Soderberg - Eriksson
Paille - Campbell - Smith
Extra: Talbot

Spooner demoted.

 

[Boston Bruno]

Laughing stocks of the nhl.. i am on my way torch in hand!, someone break out the stocks and rotten tomatoes
Lets have a Stoning!

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Fite the ****er.

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

Max Talbot is literally going to replace Caron. He will be a given a spot night in and night out, through the playoffs, no matter how bad he is.

There isn't a single other team in the league which operates like that.

 

[Dellstrom]

4, based on the poll options, but really a 3. I liked the Connolly deal. Helps us now and in the future. Talbot is ok, but he's redundant and signed for another year. Still, he'll be a decent player for us. Good character guy, will definitely buy into the system and help us out in the bottom-6. Lost Cunningham for nothing. We got stronger, but not NEARLY as much so as Montreal... and we might be playing them first. We needed a defenseman and didn't get one.

We improved. Not by much, but we improved. So 3. For the entire season? 1. And changes need to be made for sure. I have a hard time seeing Chiarelli as our GM next year, and I wouldn't be surprised if we clean house.

 

[LouJersey]

Same people will come in as apologists... others will be lower the hammer...

But let's be honest he did the worst thing possible.. stayed the course, and added salary next year for another overpaid 4th liner after getting nothing for our current overpaid UFA 4th liners.

Like the Connolly move... I like Talbot as a player, if Campbell goes bye bye now.

Guess like always Ferlin and Spooner are out when DK gets healthy...

The sin of it all is he sold out on Boychuk for peanuts, then didn't do more with his dead weight when he could have, in a sellers market... coulda made some nice room for next year...

Hope the players bail him out.