Jones & Keefe: Is Don Sweeney the right guy to lead a potential rebuild?

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00:00Don Sweeney, his strength is adding at the deadline.

00:03His strength is trading a draft pick, because he sucks at drafting, for a roster player.

00:08And they have, you know, it seems a good, they're good with NHL personnel.

00:14Not so much with, you know, scouting junior hockey and college hockey, but they have a

00:19good evaluation at the NHL level for the trades they've made.

00:23Well now Sweeney's going to do the opposite thing.

00:25Now he's going to retool it and tear it down to a degree, or at least sell minorly and

00:30try to seek out prospects on other teams and pluck guys from this team here and identify

00:35which team he's going to get a better draft pick out of.

00:37And I don't know that that's his strength.

00:39So all right, fine.

00:40Let's say the Bruins realize they got to sell.

00:43Let's say they realize that they have to retool things, to use Cam Neely's words.

00:48Is Sweeney the guy to do that?

00:50And if it's not Sweeney, who's in charge, like who do you feel good about doing that

00:53for the Bruins?

00:54I mean, if you're in charge right now, and then you got Cam kind of, you would think

00:57kind of in lockstep with him, but also has more job security than Sweeney does.

01:02They bring in Chara for a role that I think we're still trying to figure out a little

01:05bit.

01:06Do you feel like that's looming over any of this in any way?

01:07I mean, I feel like Char's like six nights, but he's looming over everybody just at all

01:10times.

01:11Like he feels like a guy who would be looming.

01:12Yeah, he's looming.

01:13You know, to me it was, it was kind of odd timing that he kind of shows up.

01:19Like is, is that what he wants to do?

01:20Like, I don't even know what his thing is.

01:22Like, does he want to be a GM?

01:24Does he want to be a team president?

01:25Does he want to just be like in the hockey, like maybe longer term, but like, he's not,

01:29he's not pulling the strings on any moves at this deadline, I wouldn't think, or like

01:32influence anything behind the scenes.

01:34I wouldn't imagine he is, um, speaking of the trade deadlines, the last five years I

01:39was looking at their draft picks and it is, it's pretty amazing.

01:42So going back to 2020, they meaning like this is what they traded away.

01:46Right.

01:47So like what they didn't have that year.

01:48So they didn't have their first round or their fourth round.

01:51And then in 2021 they didn't have their second round pick.

01:54Okay.

01:55In 2022 they didn't have their first or their third and 23 they didn't have their first

01:59or their second or their fifth.

02:00And then last year they didn't have their second or their third.

02:03So like constantly trading at least two of their first four picks.

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