Kudos on actually trading away premium assets to acquire talent. That puts you in the top 1% of this site

All trades seem reasonable and fair from both sides, and it would improve the second line by a ton. Truly a contender with these lines

hard pass as a bruins fan on any of these.

Better win this year because you destroyed the team for years afterwards.

I think its too much for Kreider, prob take out Bjork. value wise the trades are fine but the bruins arent the team to just throw out 1st rounders
i also see no reason to give up assets for Toffoli. Heinen is already better
Scrap everything, give up what you gave up for Kreider and go after RNH (if hes available) maybe add a little more or a condition or something
One of Kuhlman, Bjork Steen etc will develop to be a perfect middle six player year

Thank you ?

I meant to retain on the Kreider trade thats why I overpaid I just forgot. You have to keep in mind that almost every playoff team that wants a top 6 addition is going to be looking into him so you have to over pay to get him or at least more than the other teams are willing to give up.

I think you are wrong about Toffoli. He would do much better than Heinen with Krecji and Kreider. He is also a good goal scorer on a good line. Last time he was on a good line was 2015-16 and got 32 goals. It also gives them bottom 6 depth. DeBrusk-Coyle-Heinen

RNH is not an option Bruins already have a 2C and RNH likes playing center. He will go somewhere where he can play center.

Not really. They'll have money to pick up Hoffman or someone like that and resign a lot of other guys. This team has the foundation to be a dynasty. When you are a contender you have to go all in. I think they learned that last year

Good luck winning a cup with what you have.

Are you being sarcastic?

They uh.... went to the Stanley Cup Finals with majority of their current roster.

we were literally just there. only players subtracted were johansson and acciari. I think acciari has been replaced fine. johansson we will see.

Uh...... Why do you think they lost?, Bad luck?
They need a RW who can put the puck in the net. Toffoli can do that on a line with those guys. Krieder is a really good edition which gives them a great top 6 and allows extra depth adding DeBrusk-Coyle-Heinen as a 3rd line.

If David Backes waives, It's for a contender. Not a joke of a team in Ottawa.

Well I'm sure he is tired of being scartched and I'm sure it will be easy for him to get ice time in Ottawa

They lost...........

They lost...........

You have a couple years left from Bergy, Krejci, Marchy in their prime. In a salary cap league you need to build through the draft to have good young cheap talent to supplement highly paid players. Those without early picks suffer. Teams that are good for long periods of time and pick late struggle to keep a farm system stocked, see Chi and Pitts.

You have Krug, Coyle, Toffoli, Kreider, Chara, Wagner, Nordy, Millar, Halak all UFA’s.

You have Debrusk, Kuhlman, Grizz, Ritchie and a handul of AHLs RFAs.

You can’t sign 2/3 of then as is and yet you think they have $ to go sign a Hoffman and others? Lol

You have a shallow farm system already. And no you have no draft for two years.

Ya....screwed. It’s absolutely horrible business. Ask Columbus. They will be paying for last season for years. Or if you don’t want to wait go look at Minny. They went all in for 1 year and pissed away a pair of drafts. They now have one of the weakest farm systems in the league and the team is a mess.

Bad call maybe.

It’s amazing you think a team that was that close needs drastic upgrade. ?

What’s your point? Literally the most irrelevant argument ever. It’s sports. The best team does not always win. The best team has been sitting at home while the finals were being played the last 2 years. If they are good enough to get there they are good enough to win it. It would be one thing if you were talking about the NFL or NBA where the best team usually does win most games. Hockey and baseball there are way more variables and anyone can literally beat anyone on any given night. Hell did you watch last night? Dallas completely outplayed Boston for 2/3 of the game...who won though? They did not fail to win the Cup because of their roster. And if there was a place to blame it was lack of a physical presence not a lack of offense. Could it be better? Of course. It always can. Would it guarantee a Cup? Ask Tampa. All you can ask is to be in contention. What happens happens. I’d rather the front office put them in contention for the next 10 years than load up for 1. Again...see Columbus. If Sweeney did this and failed to win the Cup he’d go from GM of the year to Chiarelli of the year. He won that award through shrewd re-signings and a couple of good trades made that did not give up the future to do it. You want to undo it in one fell swoop because they were one game short? No. Let them go. Give them 40-60 games to see what they have. Maybe the don’t need to do anything. Maybe Kuhlman/Ritchie.Heinen score 60 goals. Maybe Backes has his best season as a Bruin and they need nothing. Maybe nothing they can do will help so why waste the picks. Or maybe they just need to make a MoJo type of move. Time will tell. But the sky is not falling.

It’s one thing if you are making the moves with a long term plan that upgrades now. It’s another to do it just to overreact with little thought as to the impact. Yes it’s a really nice team and a better one. But it’s incredibly short-sighted,

The point is to have the upgrades and the depth to have a better chance of winning it.

Really bad call? You guy got shut out the cup winning game, get real dude.

So you think this team is fine as is to win the cup without any additions at all?

You guys weren't the best team lol not even on paper. Marchand wasn't performing great towards the end and your players couldn't top the Blues and lost fair and square.

You don't need to type 1672678 letters to get your point across....


Dean Lombardi is a perfect example. Kings had the foundation to be a dynasty and Dean did everything he could to keep that going. Yes he traded away good assets picks and prospects, but it worked for 3 years and we got 2 cups. Could of had more if are cores supporting cast didn't get all crazy. Voynov, Stoll, Richards, ect.

I did not say they were the best team. Tampa was. Where were they in the finals? That’s the point. Anything can happen in the NHL. Loading up for 1 year while destroying your future is bad business.

They did not get shut out. 1 game does not define a team. So small minded to think that way. There may not have been a game 7 if the refs call the tripping penalty. Bruins may have won it in 6. Maybe you should get a clue. They went to game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals and yet you think they are not good enough to win it simply because they did not? That’s absurd. It’s hockey. 1 bounce, 1 call, 1 break, hot goalie can steal a game. You could replay game 7 10 times and get 10 different results with each team winning multiple times. You act as if it’s an absolute.

Fans are so over-reactionary and myopic. 2 games into the season and fans are already saying their #1 goalie needs to be replaced as he has struggled etc. it’s comical.

Personally i think the Bruins overachieved each of the last two years. They had a lot of luck in their run last year as well having the Bolts and Caps eliminated and not facing them.

Are they going to be one of the favorites to win it all with this roster? Doubt it but time will tell. Can they win it all with this roster? Of course. Would they have a better chance with your roster? Absolutely. Guaranteed? No such thing. Not worth screwing yourself over long term to try. History proves that.

Tampa is not the best team either. There system would not match up well with a defensively sound team.