What Big Changes to Bruins Player Development Means | Bruins Beat
On this episode of Bruins Beat, Evan Marinofsky and Conor Ryan dive into the new moves on Providence’s coaching staff. They also review the front office changes and talk about the new direction the Bruins seem to be heading in.
0:00 – Welcome back Conor!
3:10 – Looking at coaching changes with Providence Bruins
13:23 – Prizepicks
14:26 – Talking about Conor’s time in Japan
16:39 – Looking at Bruins Front Office changes
25:25 – Is Don Sweeney on the hot seat?
36:55 – Wrapping up!
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What do the recent changes in the Bruins front office mean for player development?
Well, no NHL GM has done worse at drafting & developing than Don Sweeney has since 2015
So hopefully these front office changes signal that the Bruins will actually start developing NHL players from their system & stop relying so much on trading for reclamation projects & making catastrophic UFA decisions like Elias Lindholm to build their roster
The PRIMARY reason the Bruins lack many young, talented cost controlled players is 100% Don Sweeney's terrible job at drafting & developing particularly from 2018-2023
Over those 6 drafts Don Sweeney drafted 32 players
Only 3 forwards played played more than 3 NHL games
Lauko-4th line turd & throwaway Sweeney threw away twice, who now plays in Europe
Beecher- 4th line turd & throwaway that Sweeney placed on waivers who'll also be in the AHL this upcoming season
Matt Poitras- A small, weak, not naturally gifted offensively player that has been banished to the AHL for two years
At defense only 3rd pairing, defensively challenged Mason Lohrei has played more than 50 NHL games & they were benching him recently in the playoffs for turds in Peeke, Jokiharju & Jordan Harris
So the return on those 32 draft picks from 2018-2023 today is… Drum Roll…
Mason fn Lohrei, that's it
Don Sweeney has made 72 total draft picks since 2015 & only 8 have played 100 NHL games for Boston
Debrusk: Gone, drafted 2015
Carlo: Gone, drafted 2015
Frederic: 4th line turd, gone, drafted 2016
McAvoy: drafted 2016
Swayman: Drafted 2017
Lauko: 4th line turd, gone, drafted 2018
Beecher: 4th line turd, gone, drafted 2019
Lohrei: Defensively challenged 3rd pair guy, drafted 2020
Since 2003, 30% of NHL draft picks have played at least 100 NHL games
Don Sweeney: 8 for 72 or 11%
If you add the 4 players that played 100 NHL games for other teams (Lauzon (2015) Vladr (2015), Lindgren (2016) Vaak (2018)
That'd still only be 12 for 72 or 16%
The only Don Sweeny draft pick drafted 2018-2025 to play more than 3 NHL games for Boston in the 2025-26 season?
ONE FN player, Mason Lohrei
The only Top 6ish forward Don Sweeney has ever drafted is Jake Debrusk and he was drafted 11 frigging years ago
The only two forwards drafted by Don Sweeney to play 100 NHL games since 2018?
Again, two turds who aren't with Boston any longer, Lauko & Beecher
Thus again, let's all pray these recent changes to the Bruins front office have a positive impact moving forward in terms of the Bruins actually developing their draft picks into NHL players because they've been absolutely dreadful at at since Don Sweeney took the GM job back in 2015
Their Farm System was bottom 5 ranked 2015-2024 because of Don Sweeney's failures
It's still a bottom 10 Farm System today becuase of Don Sweeney's failures as it only houses 3 real, sure fire NHLers in Hagans, Leterneau and Zellers today
Their next three higher rated prospects aren't locks to make the NHL & their NHL timeliness are all unknowns today in Will Moore, Liam Pettersson and Cooper Simpson
Once you get beyond those 6 prospects, outside of 2nd rounder Yuri Ivanov (a 5-7 years away Russian project goalie) every last one of the Bruins current prospects is a 3rd-7th round, developmental, long shot to play 100 NHL games draft pick
And before Bruins homers pencil Don Sweeney's current crop of 3rd-7th rounders into the NHL…
Don Sweeney has drafted 30, 3rd-7th round forwards
1 of the 30 played 100 NHL games: 4th line turd, Jacob Lauko
Don Sweeney has drafted 16, 3rd-7th defensemen
Only 1 of the 30 has even played a single NHL shift, Frederic Brunet, ONE lousy NHL game
So again, all Bruins fans better pray their recent front offices changes alter the course of their drafting & player development for the better because again, no GM and NHL team has done a more putrid job of drafting and developing than Don Sweeney and the Boston Bruins since Sweeney took the GMs job 11 years ago
And if the Bruins don't get exponentially better at drafting & developing they will never be a long term Stanley Cup threat again
Don Sweeney had his chance to grift of the Hall off of the Hall of Fame core he inherited and he won nothing with it in Bergeron Chara Pasta Marchand Rask Krejci Krug Lucic and Hamilton
He won nothing because he failed to add to that gifted hall of fame core & now he actually has to do his job and build a Bruins Cup contender made up of of his OWN players
Thus far his efforts to do so…
#terrible
Evan, despite your love and allegiance to Don Sweeney here are his results as GM
Bottom 5 Farm System 2015-2024
Bottom 10 Farm System today
9 of 10 years failed to win more than 1 playoff round
More Playoff DNQs as GM (2) than 2nd round series wins wins (1)
5th-7th worst roster in their own division today
Inherited the greatest core of talent any NHL GM has in the history of of the league in
Bergeron Chara Pasta Marchand Rask Krejci Krug Lucic and Hamilton
And all he did with that hall of fame core is win a bunch of meaningless regular seasons games off their backs
What an incredible NHL GM😂😂😂😂😂
No playoff winning
Rotten farm system due to his lousy drafting & developing
Roster is bottoming out now that his gifted hall of fame core has been whitled down to just David Pastrnak (their best player and of course not a Don Sweeney acquired player)😂😂
What would Boston ever do without the great Don Sweeney at the helm 😂😂😂
Good grief Evan
Good Grief😂😂😂😂