Quoting: PaulDunnill
C'mon ON3M4N that's a little harsh. Seguin has/had an attitude issue!!! I know about it first hand!!! In the playoffs when they played here in Toronto, he was out partying with old friends from Barmpton! How do you party when you're in the playoffs??? Lack of discipline, and Neely won't put up with that ****.
I put that on leadership upstairs and in the dressing room. He was a 21yr old kid and 30 miles from his hometown. Where was Chara and Bergy and Krejci and Jagr? Where were these guys that were supposed to be mentoring Seguin? The whole Seguin situation was a debacle that I pin partially on Seguin, but mostly on Boston leadership for not reeling the kid in. Here are a few direct quotes from Cam after Seguin returned to Boston to light us up for a hat-trick....
"I think looking back,
we probably could have done some things differently with Tyler. You’ve got a young kid coming in, maybe we could have handled his living arrangements a little different and stuff like that, that we’ve talked about over the years. It’s something we certainly are addressing currently, and in the future we will continue to address."
"It’s more about really, we talk about drafting and developing. And the
development piece really is a big part of it. You have to really work with these players and develop them in the professionals, and
that’s an area where we we’ve really improved in the last year or so,"
Again I put this on leadership as to why the **** with Seguin happened. The sad part is, at 21yr old he still had the opportunity to be molded and mature as a player. Instead Neely and Co. didn't want to deal with it and traded him. What's left from the Seguin deal....Absolutely nothing. Four years after trading what was a franchise players we have NOTHING to show for it...
Eriksson - left via UFA
Morrow - Non Tendered RFA
Fraser - No longer in the NHL
Smith - Traded for Hayes
So actually I take that back, we do still have something to show for the Seguin trade....we have about $1.4 million over the next two years in wasted cap space on a guy that is no longer on the team. I still stand by my analysis of what Cam does. Love him for what he did while playing for us, but he's ******* useless in a management role.