So the Bruins fired Claude Julien on the day of the Patriots Parade? Wow. Good on you, B’s management. Great job on firing the winningest coach in B’s history on the celebratory day of one of your fellow Boston sports teams. Yup, nice job, well done! But seriously, B’s management…
Did you really think we would not notice? Correction, let me rephrase, did you really think I would not notice? B’s management, you know how this works, don’t you? I call you on your misguided attempts to fool me and I berate you on my blogs, dating site profiles, on Felger and Mazz whenever I get through the “call screen” (which is not often!), and now, thanks to my friends at the Mass Media, I am able to get at you twice a month in at least one article.
You Bruins execs crack me up, you truly do. You had every opportunity under the sun to fire Julien at the start of this season, not to mention the ENTIRE off-season, but no—you chose instead to give the man hope and keep the winningest coach in team history behind the bench more than halfway through the 2016-2017 season.
Do you realize nobody in town believes a word that comes out of your mouths? I mean, you do know that, right? Don Sweeney, I always thought you were a stand-up guy; I grew up watching you play with the great Raymond Jean Bourque, for crying out loud! You went to Harvard, even! And got yourself a degree in business, or something like that; yet, here you are fumbling the ball (the B’s roster and coaching staff) like a first-year wide-out playing in his first NFL game.
You’ve been with the Bruins for nearly three decades now; you had a front row seat to the comedy of errors that occurred during the Chiarelli era. Coming into the GM job you knew exactly what not to do—you should be crushing it as GM with the amount of money that the Jacobs are willing to spend to improve the on-ice product.
Most NHL executives think the Bruins are in over their heads (and they aren’t wrong) with the kind of moves you’ve made thus far. Chiarelli may have been a little nuts at the end of his tenure there, but I don’t know what to make of whatever it is you’re trying to accomplish, and neither can most of the Bruins faithful, which is fleeting by the day—by the hour, really.
I know Sweeney is the sole one to blame for the Bruins’ woes (don’t get me started on Neely). I just don’t understand why we can’t trade under-performing GM’s for a few draft picks, a little cash, and a bottle of Jack. 
OK, you’re right, I wouldn’t pass up a bag of weed, either. 
In any case, the Bruins’ brass needs to make a drastic turnaround, from top to bottom, before this season ends. Otherwise, the whole lot of them should just “walk the plank,” with Sweeney as the first to go overboard.