2019-20

The Bruins won't likely take Connolly back as he was mostly underwhelming in his time in Boston. He pretty much sucked imo and the team gave up on him because of it even after spending 2x 2nd round picks on him (Chiarelli, who else would have done that lmao).

He was awesome. The current general manager just stinks. He’s a rock solid gritty player that can play anywhere in the lineup. Oh, and chiarelli built a Stanley cup winning team from scratch in Boston. Edmonton fans should be able to give it to him, but bruins fans doing it makes said bruins fans look really, really, really dumb.


As for the post, find some room for Studnicka, and Chara

Lmao Chiarelli was brutal.

Look at his drafting between 2007 to 2013 It's pretty much all garbage because the only good players were Seguin and Hamilton who had to be traded because of Character concerns lmao. He was frivolous with his picks trading the pick that became TJ Brodie for Andrew Ference and the pick that became Jamie Benn for Adam McQuaid. Litterally the more he F'd up the luckier he got; trading Blake Wheeler and Mark Stuart for Rich Peverley And Boris Valabik. Then he traded Joe Colborne (his 2008 1st round pick) + The Pick that became Rickard Rakell + a Conditional 2nd That I believe ended up being Chris Tierney For The Corpse of Tomas Kaberle who was complete garbage, that guy sucked so hard and was carried to a Stanley Cup, but the Bruins won despite how effing terrible he was. The Bruins won despite Chiarelli making crappy deals. He litterally lost more trades than he won as a Bruins GM and the entire reason he had success was inheriting Bergeron and Krejci and signing Chara.

The biggest takeaway was that Chiarelli didn't learn anything from any of these failings. Instead he figured that he was smart and knew the recipe for success, so he did all the same things in EDM that he did in Boston, but this time he didn't have dumb luck on his side. And if you're going to give him credit for building the team, you have to give him credit for destroying it as well when he traded Seguin and Boychuk for mediocre returns. And then missing the playoffs 2 consecutive years with pretty much the same core he won with and the core they have now (Bergeron, Krejci, Marchand and Chara).

@Bcarlo25

lmao the jamie benn **** is the stupidest thing i've ever heard. He was a 5th round pick that 30 other teams passed up at least four times in the draft. (same thing with bringing up Brodie) If you're trying to make a relevant point, using stupid evidence doesnt help your case. Ference was great for us and was a big part of the cup run. Pevs was also great for us, obviously it hurts to see what Wheeler is doing now but we got a cup out of it, at the end of the day thats all that matters.

Yikes. Lots to tackle here. First, I think you’re a little bit too liberal with your use of the acronym, “Lmao,” either that or you have a really low standard for humor. Second, you’re misspelling literally. One t. Now, onto the content. Get this idea that it matters who a team winds up picking with a traded pick out of your head. The bruins didn’t trade Jamie Benn for Adam McQuaid. They traded a 5th rounder for McQuaid...that’s a great trade! Seems like you’re a bruins fan, so let’s say at the deadline the bruins traded a 4th rounder for panarin..and that 4th rounder turned into the next Crosby....that’s still an awesome trade for the bruins.

So, drafting: in his first draft chiarelli got Lucic, Kessel, and Marchand...not bad eh? On top of that through the draft he added: Colborne, Hutchinson, spooner, seguin, trotman, ogara. Hamilton, benning, Grzelcyk, Subban, cehlarik, Pastrnak, donato, heinen, and Bjork....that’s petty darn good considering the team was a contender trading away picks and drafting at the end of rounds.

So from the current team, chiarelli either drafted, acquired, or extending the following players: Marchand, Bergeron, Pastrnak, Krejci, Krug (they’re five leading scorers), heinen, grizz, Chara, cehlarik, Miller, and Rask....kind of important guys, wouldn’t you say?

From the cup team, chiarelli either drafted, acquired, or extended the following players: Lucic, Krejci, Bergeron, Horton, recchi, Chara, Marchand, Ryder, Seidenberg, Campbell, seguin, Thornton, boychuk, McQuaid, ference, pails, Savard, Kaberle, peverley, Kelly, hnidy, Tuukka, and Thomas....in other words, every player on the team. Every trade he made worked perfectly, every guy he brought in in ufa produced....his time in Edmonton was crap, but he was the best gm the bruins ever had.