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PostPosted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 10:42 am 
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Presumably as a nod to the Boston Blood fans now that Milan is gone.

Don and Cam are on the hot seat.........however Julien is now guaranteed to be gone before Christmas.

I can handle the Lucic trade and even Dougie but resigning McQuaid, the lame character attacks and drafting the way they did is disturbing.


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Boston Bruins
What the Hell Is Wrong with the Bruins?
Abandon all hope. This team is in free-fall.
By Kyle Clauss | Boston Daily | June 29, 2015, 5:54 p.m.


These are the darkest days this franchise has seen since Mike Milbury clubbed a fan with his own shoe.

It’s as if rookie general manager Don Sweeney opened Twitter, saw the frothing apoplexy, and said, “Yeah? Watch this.”

After trading away 22-year-old cornerstone defenseman Dougie Hamilton to the Calgary Flames for a first-round pick and two second-rounders, dealing Milan Lucic to Los Angeles for a first-rounder and two spare parts, failing to bundle and flip said picks to land Boston College sensation Noah Hanifin at No. 3, taking second-round talent with three consecutive first-round picks instead, and extending glass defenseman Adam McQuaid to a four-year, $11 million contract, Sweeney did the unthinkable—he made things worse.

The Bruins announced Monday that they sent a 2017 third-round pick to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for center Zac Rinaldo. Rinaldo, 25, is by all accounts a miserable hockey player, who has found himself serving a suspension more times than he’s found the back of the net. If Sweeney were a clever man, this trade would’ve been announced Friday, during the single greatest window for a news dump in modern history, with fans fixated on marriage equality and captured fugitives. Instead, the turd with eight career goals is floating in a lukewarm punch bowl, and now we all must stare at it.

Sweeney’s moves are not part of some grand, Frank Underwoodian scheme that will unfold before our impatient eyes. He is not unloading cap space to sign a sexy get in free agency—the Bruins are now on the hook for $6.3 million in salary between Rinaldo, McQuaid, and Lucic, and the free agent market for forwards is quite barren. This is not a team that will contend for a Stanley Cup next season, or the next five seasons. This is a team poised to squander the primes of Tuukka Rask, Patrice Bergeron, and David Krejci, and whatever Zdeno Chara has left in the tank. This is bad, and it’s only getting worse.

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