Don Sweeney has only added 10 players worth a crap to the Boston Bruins in his 10 draft years spanning 58 total draft picks going back to 2015 Debrusk: 1st round pick Carlo: 2nd round pick McAvoy: 1st round pick Frederic: 1st round pick Beecher: 1st round pick Lohrei: 2nd round pick Poitras: 2nd round pick Swayman 4th round pick He also drafted two more that turned out to be good NHLers Jeremy Lauzon (2nd round pick) but Sweeney gave him away for nothing in the expansion draft to keep Matt Grzlyck who they just kept benching come the postseason He also drafted Ryan Lindgren, a Top 4 D-man but he was the ask by Jeff Gorton (former Bruins interim GM) b7 the Rangers to take on the rest of Matt Belesky’s crap UFA contract. Lindgren was a part of the Rick Nash deal but the 1st round pick was the price for Nash. Lindgren was the cost to take on Belesky’s and the rest of Ryan Spooner’s contracts, thus he was pissed away He also drafted Uro Vaakanainen (1st round) who was used in the Hampus Lindholm trade. Vaak hasn’t been able to crack ANA’s crap roster consistently since being moved and Hampus Lindholm may have been one of the worst playoff d-men Boston has ever employed Sweeney also drafted Axl Andresson (2nd round) but like Vaak he was moved to deal to ANA and like Vaak, he has also busted out in ANA too. It’s worth mentioning that Axl Andersson was moved along with Backes and a 1st round pick to get out of the rest of Backe’s crap UFA contract so Axelsson, like Lindgren before him, was pissed away to fix a UFA mistake by Don Sweeney. Lindgren was the cost to fix the Belesky mistake and Axelsson and a 1st round pick were the cost to fix the Backes mistake After that Bruins Homers and Don Sweneey defenders, Sweneey has produced next to nothing via the draft Don Sweeney has drafted 33 forwards or d-men in the 3rd to 7th rounds since 2015 The games played leaders at forward drafted 3rd to 7th round: Jacob Lauko (83 games)- 4th liner. No longer with the organization Oscar Steen (34 games) - 4th liner. No longer with the organization Joona Koopanen (5 games) - 4th liner. No longer with the organization The games played leaders at defense drafted 3rd to 7th round: ZERO. Not a single d-men Don Sweeney has ever drafted from the 3rd to 7th round has ever played a single shift in the NHL for Boston or any other NHL team The Bruins Farm System has never been ranked better than 26th in any year of Don Sweeney’s tenure as GM going back to 2015. It’s currently universally ranked 28th - 32nd and dead last EVERYWHERE!!! There are two reasons for this: ONE: The vast majority of NHL players come from the 1st and 2nd rounds and the Bruins haven’t been drafting in those rounds too often since 2018. Since 2018, so 7 draft years…. The Bruins have made only 3, 1st round picks and only 3, 2nd round picks Those players? Beecher, Lysell Letorneau (1st round) Axl Andersson, Lohrei, Poitras (2nd round) Andersson is a bust and not with the team, Lysell and Letorneau are unknowns, Beecher is a 4th line guy. Poitras and Lohrei look for real but neither has come close to playing even 82 regular season NHL games yet TWO: When Sweeney has drafted outside of the top two rounds at forward and defense he’s yielded NOTHING!!!!! Steen, Lauko and Koppanen, THAT’S IT!!!! Also before you homers chime in, almost every goalie in the NHL that’s drafted, is drafted in late rounds,. Jeremy Swayman too. Proof? How many goalies were drafted in the 1st round in 2024? ZERO. The 3rd - 7th rounds? NINETEEN goalies were drafted in the 2024 draft from the 3rd to 7th rounds!!! So can we stop that getting Swayman in the 4th round was some miracle when the VAST MAJORITY of NHL goalies are taken in the 3rd - 7th rounds. Goalies are drafted in late rounds due to their long development curves, Swayman was no different Great, Sweeney hit on Swayman but goalies are different draft animals than forwards or d-men and even the 2024 NHL draft proves that So in total: 58 draft picks and these are not just the “best” guys he’s drafted, they’re the only ones that have had and will likely ever have real NHL careers besides maybe Lysell and Letorneau Debrusk: 1st round pick (no longer with the organization, walked for nothing in return) Carlo: 2nd round pick McAvoy: 1st round pick Frederic: 1st round pick Beecher: 1st round pick Lohrei: 2nd round pick Poitras: 2nd round pick Swayman 4th round (goalie) 1st and 2nd round Don Sweeney Busts: Zboril, Senyshen, JFK, Studnika Vaak (bust in ANA too), Anderson (bust in ANA too) 2nd round picks pissed away in Salary Dumps for nothing but Cap Relief: Ryan Lindgren (the cost to get rid of Matt Belesky’s crap UFA contract). Axl Andersson & a 1st round pick (the cost of getting rid of David Backes’ crap UFA contract) Don Sweeney’s management of their draft capital has been worse than his actual drafting and development as most of his 3rd to 7th round picks have done nothing in the NHL but that’s the norm for all NHL GMs It’s the too many busts in the 1st and 2nd rounds and his pissing away of too many of their 1st and 2nd round draft picks chasing playoff chokes and or fixing UFA, Salary Cap and or Drafting mistakes that have burned Don Sweeney and the Bruins But the results stay the same either way, the Bruins Farm System and Prospect Pool stunk when Don Sweeney took over. They were ranked around 26th in the league when he took over as GM in 2015 Today the Bruins Farm System is universally ranked 28th to 32nd and dead last in the NHL EVERYWHERE!!! So have things gotten much better in terms of their prospect pool and farm system under Don Sweeney’s leadership? Um, the actual results say, “not really”. In fact they say Sweneey has made their prospect pool and farm system worse than the day he took over But Homers will ignore the mountain of bad draft picks and all the pissing away of draft picks as well every other fact while they scream dumb crap like McAvoy and Swayman Yes. like all GMs’, Don Sweeney hit on a few guys. Unlike all good GMs in the NHL, Sweeney missed on far too many of them while also pissing away a crap ton of high draft capital trying to fix his far too many mistakes BOTH of the above statements are 100% TRUE!!!! And homers, 99% of you have ZERO idea who Sweeney has even drafted. Here’s a link to go educate yourselves, not that any of your Sweeney apologists will ever use stats, facts or actual history to back up your nonsense and litany of Don Sweeney excuses…. www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/teams/dr00004919.html
@@zachhaist6426 there's a crap ton of apologists & excuse makers for Don Sweeney on the interwebs The local media is at the top of that list led by Joe Hagerty, king of Don Sweeney excuses & Conor Ryan is a close second but there are others like Steve Conroy at the Herald & Kevin Paul Dupont at the Globe as well These media guys care morw about their access to players, coaches & management than they do about telling the truth Ty Anderson might be the only local media guy that actually criticizes Don Sweeney on any kind of regular basis Look at this podcast. Conor Ryan is acting like Don Sweeney is the greatest GM of all time for drafting Swayman in the 4th round but he forgets or chooses to ignore almost every real NHL goalie was a late round draft pick or an unsigned not drafted guy The 2024 draft just happened. Total number of goalies taken in the 1st round? ZERO ROUNDS 3-7? 19 goalies were drafted See where goalies get drafted, yet Conor Ryan is painting finding an NHL goalie in a late round as some kind of genius move by Don Sweeney when the reality is, about 90% or more off all real NHL goalies are taken late or signed as undrafted guys And if I posted this comment on a Bruins Facebook post I'd get 1,000 Don Sweeney Apologists yelling at me about how wrong I am with their opinions none of them can back up with facts stats or history Meanwhile I onku post facts, stats & history I. E. What actually happened I assure you, go on Facebook or Twitter The Cult of Don Sweeney is very much alive & kicking It just seems more normal humans engage here on TH-cam for some reason You'd think that the Bruins failing to win more than 1 playoff round in 8 of Sweeney's 9 years as GM while the farm system & draft capital rotted away in the process would wake these dolts up but Don Sweeney excuse makers don't have much time for stats, facts or reality so....
Honestly I don’t mind debrusk pick but I would of went with freddy, his growth, over his last 3-4 years has been crazy, and I think he can be a true PWF if he’s given the chance with a proper 3rd line or even a shot on marchys off wing
A lot of people doubted Freddy after his first season or two and I never agreed with it. He’s got a great shot with a nose for the net. Although I don’t think he’s the toughest guy in the league he still plays tough, he’s big and isn’t afraid to take a punch. He was 2 goals shy of hitting 20 last season. Think he’s just a late bloomer but he’ll get there.
Don Sweeney has only added 10 players worth a crap to the Boston Bruins in his 10 draft years spanning 58 total draft picks going back to 2015
Debrusk: 1st round pick
Carlo: 2nd round pick
McAvoy: 1st round pick
Frederic: 1st round pick
Beecher: 1st round pick
Lohrei: 2nd round pick
Poitras: 2nd round pick
Swayman 4th round pick
He also drafted two more that turned out to be good NHLers
Jeremy Lauzon (2nd round pick) but Sweeney gave him away for nothing in the expansion draft to keep Matt Grzlyck who they just kept benching come the postseason
He also drafted Ryan Lindgren, a Top 4 D-man but he was the ask by Jeff Gorton (former Bruins interim GM) b7 the Rangers to take on the rest of Matt Belesky’s crap UFA contract.
Lindgren was a part of the Rick Nash deal but the 1st round pick was the price for Nash. Lindgren was the cost to take on Belesky’s and the rest of Ryan Spooner’s contracts, thus he was pissed away
He also drafted Uro Vaakanainen (1st round) who was used in the Hampus Lindholm trade.
Vaak hasn’t been able to crack ANA’s crap roster consistently since being moved and Hampus Lindholm may have been one of the worst playoff d-men Boston has ever employed
Sweeney also drafted Axl Andresson (2nd round) but like Vaak he was moved to deal to ANA and like Vaak, he has also busted out in ANA too.
It’s worth mentioning that Axl Andersson was moved along with Backes and a 1st round pick to get out of the rest of Backe’s crap UFA contract so Axelsson, like Lindgren before him, was pissed away to fix a UFA mistake by Don Sweeney.
Lindgren was the cost to fix the Belesky mistake and Axelsson and a 1st round pick were the cost to fix the Backes mistake
After that Bruins Homers and Don Sweneey defenders, Sweneey has produced next to nothing via the draft
Don Sweeney has drafted 33 forwards or d-men in the 3rd to 7th rounds since 2015
The games played leaders at forward drafted 3rd to 7th round:
Jacob Lauko (83 games)- 4th liner. No longer with the organization
Oscar Steen (34 games) - 4th liner. No longer with the organization
Joona Koopanen (5 games) - 4th liner. No longer with the organization
The games played leaders at defense drafted 3rd to 7th round:
ZERO. Not a single d-men Don Sweeney has ever drafted from the 3rd to 7th round has ever played a single shift in the NHL for Boston or any other NHL team
The Bruins Farm System has never been ranked better than 26th in any year of Don Sweeney’s tenure as GM going back to 2015.
It’s currently universally ranked 28th - 32nd and dead last EVERYWHERE!!!
There are two reasons for this:
ONE: The vast majority of NHL players come from the 1st and 2nd rounds and the Bruins haven’t been drafting in those rounds too often since 2018.
Since 2018, so 7 draft years…. The Bruins have made only 3, 1st round picks and only 3, 2nd round picks
Those players?
Beecher, Lysell Letorneau (1st round)
Axl Andersson, Lohrei, Poitras (2nd round)
Andersson is a bust and not with the team, Lysell and Letorneau are unknowns, Beecher is a 4th line guy. Poitras and Lohrei look for real but neither has come close to playing even 82 regular season NHL games yet
TWO: When Sweeney has drafted outside of the top two rounds at forward and defense he’s yielded NOTHING!!!!! Steen, Lauko and Koppanen, THAT’S IT!!!!
Also before you homers chime in, almost every goalie in the NHL that’s drafted, is drafted in late rounds,. Jeremy Swayman too.
Proof? How many goalies were drafted in the 1st round in 2024? ZERO.
The 3rd - 7th rounds? NINETEEN goalies were drafted in the 2024 draft from the 3rd to 7th rounds!!!
So can we stop that getting Swayman in the 4th round was some miracle when the VAST MAJORITY of NHL goalies are taken in the 3rd - 7th rounds. Goalies are drafted in late rounds due to their long development curves, Swayman was no different
Great, Sweeney hit on Swayman but goalies are different draft animals than forwards or d-men and even the 2024 NHL draft proves that
So in total:
58 draft picks and these are not just the “best” guys he’s drafted, they’re the only ones that have had and will likely ever have real NHL careers besides maybe Lysell and Letorneau
Debrusk: 1st round pick (no longer with the organization, walked for nothing in return)
Carlo: 2nd round pick
McAvoy: 1st round pick
Frederic: 1st round pick
Beecher: 1st round pick
Lohrei: 2nd round pick
Poitras: 2nd round pick
Swayman 4th round (goalie)
1st and 2nd round Don Sweeney Busts:
Zboril, Senyshen, JFK, Studnika Vaak (bust in ANA too), Anderson (bust in ANA too)
2nd round picks pissed away in Salary Dumps for nothing but Cap Relief:
Ryan Lindgren (the cost to get rid of Matt Belesky’s crap UFA contract).
Axl Andersson & a 1st round pick (the cost of getting rid of David Backes’ crap UFA contract)
Don Sweeney’s management of their draft capital has been worse than his actual drafting and development as most of his 3rd to 7th round picks have done nothing in the NHL but that’s the norm for all NHL GMs
It’s the too many busts in the 1st and 2nd rounds and his pissing away of too many of their 1st and 2nd round draft picks chasing playoff chokes and or fixing UFA, Salary Cap and or Drafting mistakes that have burned Don Sweeney and the Bruins
But the results stay the same either way, the Bruins Farm System and Prospect Pool stunk when Don Sweeney took over. They were ranked around 26th in the league when he took over as GM in 2015
Today the Bruins Farm System is universally ranked 28th to 32nd and dead last in the NHL EVERYWHERE!!!
So have things gotten much better in terms of their prospect pool and farm system under Don Sweeney’s leadership?
Um, the actual results say, “not really”. In fact they say Sweneey has made their prospect pool and farm system worse than the day he took over
But Homers will ignore the mountain of bad draft picks and all the pissing away of draft picks as well every other fact while they scream dumb crap like McAvoy and Swayman
Yes. like all GMs’, Don Sweeney hit on a few guys.
Unlike all good GMs in the NHL, Sweeney missed on far too many of them while also pissing away a crap ton of high draft capital trying to fix his far too many mistakes
BOTH of the above statements are 100% TRUE!!!!
And homers, 99% of you have ZERO idea who Sweeney has even drafted. Here’s a link to go educate yourselves, not that any of your Sweeney apologists will ever use stats, facts or actual history to back up your nonsense and litany of Don Sweeney excuses….
www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/teams/dr00004919.html
Are there many Sweeney apologists though? Most comments I've read and heard, he is not well liked.....I say at least he's not Rob Blake or Kevyn Adams
@@zachhaist6426 there's a crap ton of apologists & excuse makers for Don Sweeney on the interwebs
The local media is at the top of that list led by Joe Hagerty, king of Don Sweeney excuses & Conor Ryan is a close second but there are others like Steve Conroy at the Herald & Kevin Paul Dupont at the Globe as well
These media guys care morw about their access to players, coaches & management than they do about telling the truth
Ty Anderson might be the only local media guy that actually criticizes Don Sweeney on any kind of regular basis
Look at this podcast. Conor Ryan is acting like Don Sweeney is the greatest GM of all time for drafting Swayman in the 4th round but he forgets or chooses to ignore almost every real NHL goalie was a late round draft pick or an unsigned not drafted guy
The 2024 draft just happened.
Total number of goalies taken in the 1st round?
ZERO
ROUNDS 3-7?
19 goalies were drafted
See where goalies get drafted, yet Conor Ryan is painting finding an NHL goalie in a late round as some kind of genius move by Don Sweeney when the reality is, about 90% or more off all real NHL goalies are taken late or signed as undrafted guys
And if I posted this comment on a Bruins Facebook post I'd get 1,000 Don Sweeney Apologists yelling at me about how wrong I am with their opinions none of them can back up with facts stats or history
Meanwhile I onku post facts, stats & history I. E.
What actually happened
I assure you, go on Facebook or Twitter
The Cult of Don Sweeney is very much alive & kicking
It just seems more normal humans engage here on TH-cam for some reason
You'd think that the Bruins failing to win more than 1 playoff round in 8 of Sweeney's 9 years as GM while the farm system & draft capital rotted away in the process would wake these dolts up but Don Sweeney excuse makers don't have much time for stats, facts or reality so....
Honestly I don’t mind debrusk pick but I would of went with freddy, his growth, over his last 3-4 years has been crazy, and I think he can be a true PWF if he’s given the chance with a proper 3rd line or even a shot on marchys off wing
A lot of people doubted Freddy after his first season or two and I never agreed with it. He’s got a great shot with a nose for the net. Although I don’t think he’s the toughest guy in the league he still plays tough, he’s big and isn’t afraid to take a punch. He was 2 goals shy of hitting 20 last season. Think he’s just a late bloomer but he’ll get there.