Chiarelli to fans: I feel your frustration

Well at least Chirarelli tells it like it is…

No lofty talk or any of that crap. It’s looking pretty dismal if they don’t turn things around with the guys they have… An okay stretch before the break doesn’t mean anything right now. And it’s going to be compounded by how much Chara has been playing both NHL and Olympics…

I’m glad they loaded up on 2nd and 3rd rate defensive players but that’s all… Just glad. But not for long if they don’t pull things together.

For years paople have said the Bruins were cheap and didn’t really care about winning. I never believed it and I always defended the B’s approach. Not anymore. What happened yesterday was a direct slap in the face to Bruins fans.

It’s not that any B’s fan thought there was a real chance that any one of these single moves was going to magically bring a Cup to Boston. What a trade would have signaled yesterday was that management was as invested in this team as the fans. That is clearly not the case. What the Bruins have is a bunch of draft picks over the next couple of years which are nothing more than scratch tickets. But even if they hit on some of those, these players will not be ready to contribute for another few years anyway. There is a saying that soccer is the sport of the future and always will be. Well IMO the Bruins are the team of the future and always will be. All that means is that have a whole lot of currency (draft picks) but are still the same where it counts; on the ice. Hey, maybe the Providence B’s will be the best team in the history of the AHL with all these draft picks coming. Great.

Chiarelli spent all his time following his Harvard business model and never once thought of the value of HOPE; which is all the fans ever have to hang on to until the real thing comes along. Where is the hope in standing pat, throwing up your hands and saying to the fans, “I know we can play better”? Tell that to Marc Savard, who still doesn’t have anyone to dish the puck to. Tell that to Chara, who plays his ass off and knows the team is going nowhere.

Cam Neely doesn’t get off the hook on this one either. I remember clearly some years ago when Neely acknowledged his frustration as a player when he felt Harry would never add that one last piece that would put the team over the top. What say you now Cam? Because this is no different. What do you say to the players and the fans who feel like this is just same old same old? How is it any different, and what is your feeling now that you are a sifnificant part of management? Where is that same outrage that you as a player felt when you thought management let you down and deprived you of a chance to win the Cup? I’m not sure it’s any different so please don’t try to spin it like it is.

Yesterday was just another slap in the face to a fan base that for years has been expected to just shut up and take it, and a real wake-up call to someone that defended the team for so long. Clearly the joke was on me. What a shame that Bruins management has ignored the one thing that fans hang onto more than anything else and they obviously have no use for; HOPE.

I agree with Higgs. To not make a big trade is just telling us fans that management doesn’t give a crap about us. Even if a big scorer wouldn’t bring us a Cup this year it would give us hope and show all the fans that they at least care about all of us. As far as I am concerned all but Rask and Savard should have been available to trade. I keep hearing about all our draft picks. BIG DEAL look at some of our pat draft picks Thornton gone and MVP same year, Samsonov gone Kessel gone we wont keep anyone we draft and Chirelli will trade them for 3rd tier players. I was at the game Tuesday and It has nothing to do with no trade but why the hell was Savard centering Recchi and Paiet( I know it is spelled wrong)is he being punished. But I guess I should be relieved that what I told my friend on the way home would happen I figured they would get Tkatchuk 10 years too late and tell us he is the answer

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