Less than an hour after Don Sweeney and his staff ripped off the Band-Aid and dismantled a hefty portion of Boston’s depth chart, the Bruins’ GM stressed that said fire sale wasn’t the start of an arduous rebuild.
“You start to look at draft capital that we had been spending over a course of most of the years, it starts to take its toll. And you have to have a little bit of a step-back approach at times,” Sweeney said on March 7, 2025. “Did we come in this morning knowing that we were making every one of these moves?