COMMENTARY
A new two-year contract extension does not necessarily represent a long leash for Bruins GM Don Sweeney.
More than anything — and as Cam Neely noted to The Boston Globe earlier this week — putting pen to paper on a new deal for his GM assagued some of the optics of an executive pitching a fruitful future in Boston to a new head coach … while operating on an expiring deal.
“For me, it was like, ‘OK, if I’m comfortable with his plan moving forward, it can’t just be for one year, in my opinion,’” Neely told the Globe’s Jim McBride.