Chia or the Based Sween, who was the REAL architect of the 2009-2014 Bruins?
In today's episode of bye week leaving ole u/JonnyBox with too much time to think up tin foil theories:
With Chia exposing himself for being wildly inept in Edmonton, and Sweeney's Wild Ride ^^^TM going swimmingly, is it possible that contrary to what we were thinking at the time, that Don Fucking Sweeney actually the brains of the operation, trying to guide Chia a long despite himself? That the hairbrained trades and woeful cap management were what he couldn't stop?
Posted Jan 12, 2018, 5:20 PM UTC
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Neither, it was Jeff Gorton and Mike O’Connell. They drafted or signed the major pieces of our championship, with Chiarelli filling in some of the role players.
Chia did sign Chara and trade for Horton
Gorton signed Chara while he was interim GM.
The story I always heard was that Chia brought him with him from Ottawa
And traded -Stuart who became Kobasew (later Paille) and Ference. Pretty sure he brought in Boychuk, got Seidenberg too and Kelly. The biggest problem was low return on Wheeler. It was after 2011 that Chia really went downhill with the extensions and the seguin trade. The labeled cup run deal was mystifyingly bad too
Didn’t peverley come in the wheeler trade? He was pretty crucial in the cup run.
I don't have a problem with Peverly as part of the return per se- but Wheeler was originally a fifth-overall pick and Peverly was regarded as a bottom six guy- he probably can be said to have exceeded expectations with us. The real problem was Valabik as the rest of the trade- he wasn't adequate to even equate with Mark Stuart straight up. It should have been Peverly-plus coming back to Boston..
It was a low return on Wheels but to be fair he wasn’t even close to what he is now, how much of that is on us not letting him develop properly (cough CLAUDE cough cough) is still up for debate though.
This is the correct answer. Chiarelli did make some decent moves, but he didn't sign or draft the best players.
Definitely responsible for their ruination by the end of his time, though.