Bourque trade wasn’t bad for the bruins, they got a proper return for him at the time and he was literally about to retire. They treated a franchise legend with the class he deserved, if anything you could argue it was a good deal for the bruins fanbase seeing him happy winning it all
@@bruinsdiehards Bruins are the only team in sports history to trade 3 different players at different times & have those 3 players win the playoff MVP & during their trail on the path of being the playoff MVP. Beat the Bruins in the process. Crazy thing is that they all played the same position! GOALIE'. Kenny Dryden in 71', Parent in 74' & Ranford in 90'!
I know we won the cup, but I never liked the Blake Wheeler trade. I thought we definitely could’ve kept him around and he would’ve been valuable for us to hold onto.
@@bruinsdiehards also yeah on another note and my opinion, the Joe Thornton trade has to be one of the worst ever. that’s like trading pasta for nothing. Thorton was essentially that same type of player back then then he went on to go and score like 120 points with San Jose. He was just such a great caliber player and the Bruins missed entirely on getting a good return.
Hamilton requested a trade. We didn't want to move him. He was also moved out of Calgary for the same reasons. He's a weird guy. B's getting Bourque a cup is not a bad trade. We took the hit, but we did him right which is all that matters. You don't see that enough. Joe Thornton was a terrible trade at the time, however if you watch the trade tree that Steve Dangle did on it, it actually turned out pretty good for us, and considering we won a cup and Thornton never did, I'd say we won in the end.
i couldnt argue more that bourque trade was the right choice. we werent going to win a cup, we needed to rebuild and we got an actual package (even if it was underwhelming) for someone we were trying to get a cup. every side of the deal won. we got to rebuild and got a package, col got a still elite LD and bourque got his cup similarly with Thornton while in a vacuume it is bad, with the added context that he was going to want a massive contract and u had bergy and krejci in the system about to take over, while what they got wasnt great it 10000% makes sense. one of the 3 was going to have to go and imo picking bergy and krejci over 1 thornton was correct considering SJS didnt even make a finals till he was near retirement and boston had already won a cup and been in another final AND had another final on the way. package sent back wasnt great but trading him was a great idea
Kevin Paul DuPont helped drive Thornton out of town. Questioned his heart in the Montreal series when the kid was playing with broken ribs and wrote the lead article to strip his captaincy.
remember the face off joe lost in the devils zone? i think it was NJ. they were trying to tie it...i dont really remember but i remember something about that and he was traded after that game.
@@ShaunAnderson_Sauce thats not true. i remember Joe was on the cover of the hockey news (i still have it) and he was dressed like the untouchables (crime movie). and he's traded. it was weird..i think someone diddnt think he had heart and wasnt what they thought and didnt like htat they just gave that big contract.
Al Secord for Mike O'Connell. Secord went on to be a 50 Goal scorer, O'Connell went on to trade away Joe Thornton, and probably was one of the worse GM's in Bruins history
Am I missing something? It is no secret why Seguin was traded, if I had been the Bruins GM I would have sent him packing as well. Indeed, it was a poor return. I would have taken a bit more time offering him in a trade. Peter shipped him off too soon,he could have waited.
I subscribed. Also like your mini Cheevers save in net and the goalie mask. Also Peter Mcnabb wasnt top worst but still a stupid trade. And Oates for speaking up sucked..Ranford for Moog backfired then we actually got Ranford back. Traded Moog for who was it John Caseys technicolor 5 hole? And who was the stiff goalie Washington dumped on us. Memories...oh Bruins memories😢 Thank God for Thomas and 2011 or we'd still be looking at 1972.😮
Jim Carey was the the goalie you’re thinking of and thank you for the sub. That goalie mask is one of my prized possessions. My dad got it when he played for the B’s but that is all I know of its origin
@bruinsdiehards Jim Carey, you nailed it. Actually won the Vezina for Capitals and they INSISTED we take him in that trade. God, he was terrible. We had a stretch there with some bad goalies - John Blue, couldn't even find someone as good as Marco Barron to man the net. Hows that for name dropping? Oh yea I've watched a lot of Bruins Hockey. I was at Mike Moffats last game vs Edmenton a 6 -6 tie Bs should have won 6 -3. Last time he was ever in net guy coame down wing, went around net and Moffat never moved. Stood there like a statue, and the guy just flipped it in. Steve Kasper and Gretzky both had 2 goals, I believe. Sorry, but I don't recall your Dad if he went by Renzi. When did he play?
@bruinsdiehards Ha! I do know the name. Lalond, short but tenacious, had to be to play at the end of the Lunch Pail AC Bruins era. That's cool. Hey, is that guy who filled in for Jack Edwards last year get the full time gig? I was not a fan. If we get him and then the Celtics have that kid taking over for Gorman - gross to both teams play by play. I'm not saying that just because I was so used to Jack and Mike, I just don't like the replacements style. Especially Celtics guy....cookie cutter off the assembly line of announcers. Lame.
@@bruinsdiehards This is a myth/folklore in the NHL but it goes that in a 1976 playoff game (vs Boston BTW) Leach showed up so plastered that he could barely walk. The coach was going to bench him that night and let him sleep it off in the dressing room but Bobby Clarke intervened. Leach not only played the game but scored five goals.
As an outsider I have to suggest that Leach was not the best player AT THE TIME of the deal. Carol was. Bruins needed a guy like Carol badly. While not fancy. He was good and Bruins were in win now mode
@@bruinsdiehards I am old and Carol helped the bruins more at the moment then Reggie did. I love Leach. But the Bruins D at the time was beaten up and Carol was a horse when it came to staying healthy
The front office screwed Thorton and the coaching, he was to young to get the Captain's C and they wouldn't let Mike Sullivan (who was an amazing coach) build his own team. I think the front office screwed the pooch in those years. They also did it with Tim Thomas, 3 head coaches and 2 gm's tried to replace Tim Thomas. The system has only become effective since they let the gm and coach do their jobs in recent years. My 2 cent
i am a bruins fan myself they're my second favorite team and i honestly think that the joe thornton trade shouldn't be a big deal since they were able to win a cup without him and nearly did so again in 2019 and ofc came 2 wins short in 2013 and if he had stayed who knows if those things would've happened since the rosters in those upcoming years might not have been the same. Thornton would eventually become the face of the franchise in san jose playing a much bigger role there than he ever would've in boston so i honestly don't understand why people are still so upset about that trade
I agree with all but these two, Thornton had to go ,too expensive and disappeared in playoffs and he always was. I. Sorry but that trade was awful but it paved the way for Chara , HUGE upgrade! Seguin was also not good on the surface but same situation too much money and did do much in playoffs. They should have gotten better deals. One older Bad deal I would add was the Bourque deal to Colorado , they burned us bad , just because we all wanted To Him win a cup. Oh well, the Bruins had many more good deals, so Im cool with it.
I haven't finished the video yet but i had to comment based on the thumbnail. Don't you dare say the bourque trade was a bad trade. We traded him so he could go get his Stanley cup which he DESERVED. I refuse to view that as a bad trade when we did right by one of our best defenseman ever
@@ShaunAnderson_Sauce lol. i remember watching with two friends from work at the bar. my second favorite team to the bruins was the red wings at that time. i hate them now. they had the sickest wars with colorado back then. BOS and FLA are heading for that.
so many dumb trades.always getting rid of so many great forwards for defensemen.maybe do another video on trading geoff courtnall,joey juneau,the horrible al secord trade to chicago for midget mike o'connell and lastly glen murray trade for i don't know who?how about the sinden blunder of not taking brian bellows for injury prone gord kluzak?these are the main reasons this team's only won 6 cups.the reggie leach one for vadnais one was painful as rick smith was thrown in that deal and was a way better defenseman than vadnais!
@@bruinsdiehards another bad pick whp had potentail but fled to sweden.the bruins had 7 top picks in 2 rounds in one of the deepest draafts in history and no one was fired for incompetence.no all they do is trade 1st rd picks and think rhis is the way to win a stanley cup-?what a joke!
i dont agree with hamilton. ive heard a lot about him being a nut. my cousins are devils fans and they dont want hamilton. remember when he ducked from ovie in the playoffs? i was a huge ray and joe fan. saw the ray trade coming but joe. shocking. and then you hear the Bs could of got Zetterberg or Datsyuk. LOL. really? mike oconnell is the worst. trading billy ranford and geoff courtnall for andy moog kinda sucked for different reasons.
yep i agree.hated that sucky trade as they lost a top goal scorer and bill ranford won a cup and mvp for edmonton.moog was pretty good but overrated.ranford was a great drat pick and much better!!!
Rick MacLeish for Mike Walton. Nice, he played one year for Boston, jumped to the WHA and exploded with a 50 goal season. At least the Bruins got Bobby Schmautz from Vancouver when the traded for Walton future NHL rights. Here is another Early Bruins blunder Bernie Parent for, "Clearing my throat" Um .... Nothing Left unprotected got picked up by the Fliers in the Expansion draft. The Bruins donated quite a bit to the Fliers early success. Now the Bruins need to find a way to get rid of Coyle.
You cannot even put the ray bourque trade because they would of done it for a bag of pucks just so he could WIN pretty sad we won in 2011 just way ro late 😢 i cried when joe sackic let him take rhe cup first my father cried also! My hero and my hero as a child
He would have been traded to Philadelphia if they had done it for a bag of pucks. They had offers from many teams and Colorado gave the best offer. I have met Ray many times and can say he is 100% an amazing person
@bruinsdiehards ray is the best! I wonder what Philly did offer I'm glad he went to Colorado because he got his cup he deserved it more then any other player from that era he was So talented, but he did not put himself out there, like a All Star, he treated everybody the same. That's what I love about. Ray. That's what makes him the best captain in bruins history I believe awesome video, by the way
@bruinsdiehards Oh, there's been a ton of crazy bad trades, but a lot of people say to me, well, what did joe Thornton ever win? A lot. He just never won a stanley cup.I mean, trading him did open the doors for us to sign savard and chara But you imagine him being on that team, we could have won multiple Stanley cups like the La. Kings, chicago blackhawks of that era with jumbo joe still on the team bruins would of been Unstoppable
