Why are the Bruins prospects getting overlooked? | Pucks with Haggs

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1. Pasta has proven himself, COME ON!

2. Joe you are 100 percent corecct on Pasta and Mac Avoy! worth every penny and the contract will age well. Mick on the other hand you aged out!!!

3. Not many players are as good a guy as Pasta and sit at 45 50 and one time 60 …… he is a legit star in the league .

4. He was talking about swayman not pasta …wake up.people.

5. None of the Bruin prospects are impact players.

6. Bruins don't overhype their prospects. They keep them off the radar and decide when and how much value they're going to have.

   Unless it's the covid, revenues are down and you have this University of Maine fan favorite, that sells lots of #1 goalie jerseys.

   Other than that, they don't hype them up much… it controls their value

   Sway doesn't want to come back to Alaska – it seriously sucks here for anyone who's anybody…

   Nasty place. he doesn't belong here

7. I’m fine with what the Bruins are doing with their drafting and player development. I’m also fine with the folks who rank the Bruins 32nd in the NHL in drafting and player development. The mainstream NHL world doesn’t see what the Bruins see, and they don’t value players’ skills and personalities the same way the bruins do. Our organization has a tradition of great defensemen and great defense, and this influences every aspect of how the organization is managed. You’re a great scorer? Terrific. Can you back-check and be responsible in all 3 zones? Because if not, we have less interest in you. If people are saying the Bruins’ system is 32nd in the league, let them write that. I admire this organization because they value different things in players than teams like Toronto or Pittsburgh or Dallas.

8. The Al Iafrate thing happened a couple years AFTER the "he should go learn how to yodel." Mick mixed up the story. Harry Sinden made the comment at the end of the Olympics IIRC in 1990? Joe Juneau got traded in 1994. BIG time difference Mick!

9. Lewis Gross wants ATM: ALL THE MONEY!! Greedy agent is misleading his client.

10. The negotiating smells like Harry Sinden

11. Goalies are a different animal, they don’t sign that big deal after their first entry level deal. Almost always they need a couple of seasons in the AHL, a couple seasons backing up in the NHL and full time duty if you’re good enough. Swayman is good, maybe great but he wasn’t anointed the #1, he’s always had the safety net of Linus Ullmark and he hasn’t played 50 plus games in a season. None of this is his fault but how can you lock him up with a 8 x 8 deal when you have question marks?

12. How many teams make the move of shipping Joe Thornton to build around Bergeron as your star? The Bruins evaluate talent from a different point of view than some other teams. Could we have sold out a few times over the years and maybe grabbed another cup or 2? Perhaps, but that's risky. Success can not only be measured in Stanley Cups IMO. Sure it would be great to dominate and have a few more cups like Detroit did but do we then want to go close to a decade or so without even making the playoffs? We had 2 more shots at a cup in 2013 and 2019 and if we had won those we would still be where we are now. We don't have a great winning percentage in the Finals. Can't blame our draft system for that.
    
    Also one should consider the Bruins have brought in players who were drafted high such as Hall #1 or Zacha #6. Both were struggling and both turned their game around while here. Lindholm coming in and he was a #5 pick. Hampus was a #6 pick as well. Lots of folks practice hindsight when the evaluate our draft picks.
    You have to finish at the bottom to get the big draft picks consistently. Is that what we want? LOL We have lost a few tight series the last few years. It's going to happen. What you don't want happening is your team turns into Toronto LOL

13. Lysell is overrated big time