Bruins re-sign Kevan Miller?

Dummy Hoy

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This just makes me sad. It's such a gigantic bummer.

It's such a stupid move for so many reasons:
a) Miller is a 4/5 defenseman. No need for 4 years -or- $2.5m AAV. Certainly not both.
b) His skillset does not fit the direction the league is going
c) His skillset is redundant given that we have a nearly identical player also locked up
d) This team has cap issues

I'm now worried the Bruins will end up like the Phillies of a couple of years ago, when you could say "29 teams think this, and then the Phillies"

Just a colossal downer. I was holding out hope for these guys, but I'm just so crushed by this.

 

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I've finally settled somewhere between being not entirely surprised and horrifically angry.

Eta: That Felger gif just about sums it up.
 

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I don't care about the money, I really don't. The years are a back breaker.
The money still matters tho. In my opinion a 2 year 5 million dollar deal is still terrible for him. He's a replaceable player. You don't pay those kind of guys 2.5 million a year.
 

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Did the salary cap get voided while I was following baseball season? As my coworker pointed out to me, I guess he'll be a good chunk of salary to expose in the expansion draft but that's a quark thin silver lining on a contract that in a better world would have the entire FO posting resumes on Indeed before the draft.
 

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Did the salary cap get voided while I was following baseball season? As my coworker pointed out to me, I guess he'll be a good chunk of salary to expose in the expansion draft but that's a quark thin silver lining on a contract that in a better world would have the entire FO posting resumes on Indeed before the draft.
Signing a stiff for four years just to have someone to you can expose to the expansion draft is such mind numbingly terrible management that I wouldn't rule out that that's what they were thinking, but it's more then likely they just suck at evaluating talent.
 

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Even giving credit to Miller for improving over the course of the season, WTF are they thinking? Bring back the same guys on D because they were so freaking good on D last year?

Mind boggling, unless they are going to tear it down by looking to move Chara and Seidenberg.
 

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This is a brain dead move by the clown show on Causeway St., they just don't get it. A waste of $2.5M against the cap on a yearly basis for 4 years when we need to trade and pay for a #1 D, sign Marchand to a multi year deal and add RW talent. Just a dumb ass, inexplicable decision by Sweeney.
 

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Who is gone so they can sign Troy Brouwer to a 5/30 deal? Because playoff goals.
 

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This is Haywood Sullivan-level incompetence. I can't remember being more bewildered by a series of moves since Chris Wallace was running things on the other side of the building.
 

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From the Claude thread
I look at K Miller as filling the Shane Hnidy role as the 6th / 7th defenseman. Good guy to spot start and give 15-16 minutes against tough physical teams. That said, I would not be shocked to see him get $2.5-$3.0 million on the open market as a UFA which should price him out of the Bruins plans.
I called the number, but the term and the fact that the Bruins did it when they already have McQuaid extended is baffling. At the very least tell his agent to go field offers once FA opens and get back to us. Total freakin' incompetence. Tommy Cross will give you 90% of what Miller offers at less than half the cost. O'Gara and Carlo are likely by 2017 to give you more at 1/3 the cost. I'm not nearly the Miller hater many are, but this is mind numbingly stupid.
 

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MCQuaid didn't live up to their expectations of a 4 yr, $11 million defenseman, so they decided to take another shot at one.
 

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I've been too angry to speak on this coherently, but the only plausible explanation for this that I can come up with is the hope that the B's have moves in place for McQuaid and/or Seidenberg.

If they go into 16/17 with Chara/Seids/Krug/McQuaid/Millar/whoever again though....fire them all.
 

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I've been too angry to speak on this coherently, but the only plausible explanation for this that I can come up with is the hope that the B's have moves in place for McQuaid and/or Seidenberg.

If they go into 16/17 with Chara/Seids/Krug/McQuaid/Millar/whoever again though....fire them all.
Be careful what you wish for. Who knows what debilitating pieces they'll agree to take back in such deals.
 

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Seidenberg is going to have to be a buy out. Never say never and all, but I can't see that contract being movable without taking an equally shitty contract back in return.

The thing that pisses me off the most about this asinine Kevan Miller debacle is that, basically since Sweeney took over, they've pounded home that they want to be a draft and develop team. Fine. Except you've now locked up 2/3's of the right side of the defense for 3-4 years and have thus put blocks up in front of guys like Colin Miller, Zach Trotman and Brandon Carlo.

What a farce.
 

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Three weeks ago, the Air Force put a no contact order on me towards my best friend, because she is getting a divorce and her husband blamed me, even though he has been an abusive piece of shit for the last 10 years and she finally got the courage to leave. So now she is out there dealing with that mess and the first sergeant's won't even let me float her money to help with a lawyer, or contact her through them. At all.

I really didn't think my summer could get worse.

And then I saw this thread.

WTF, just kill me.
 

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Except you've now locked up 2/3's of the right side of the defense for 3-4 years and have thus put blocks up in front of guys like Colin Miller, Zach Trotman and Brandon Carlo.

What a farce.
Between that, Zboril's tough year in Saint John, and the forever sliding Sharks pick, the Lucic trade just keeps getting worse.
 

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Well, the reaction on Twitter and elsewhere online seems to be universally negative... in a really really negative way, which is nice. Still doesn't undo the awfulness of that deal, but good to see the overwhelming and overly abundant reaction is that they made a horrible horrible (if not incompetently predictable) choice.

I still hate everything, and I've started drinking now that I am home, but I want the hate to proliferate. I want riots and burning buildings. I want chaos. They must be made to understand that we cannot abide by this bullshit.

This is my favorite fucking sports team you fucking pricks. STOP FUCKING WITH IT! FUCK. Somebody hire PSK, Myt1 and myself. We can fix this. Fucking goddamn it. Fuck. This is just so depressing and infuriating all at once. Alcohol is probably not the solution here
 

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Are we sure it wasn't the cause?

Fluto seems to like it though. So there's that

I can translate that:

"I stopped actually pursuing my leads with this team and have a enjoyed tweeting about food so much that I need to kowtow to them now so I can still have a job and stuff and get a story now and then... Also, have you TRIED this new noodle place in Toronto?! It's just THE BEST!"
 

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The only thing I'm shocked about is how shocked you all are. Did last summer teach us nothing, or did we collectively give them the benefit of the doubt on that? Because that's not traditionally a phrase that should be applied to Bruins front offices, and this move is par for the course IMO. Nothing we haven't seen before (nothing we haven't seen within the last year, even).
 

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I've been too angry to speak on this coherently, but the only plausible explanation for this that I can come up with is the hope that the B's have moves in place for McQuaid and/or Seidenberg.

If they go into 16/17 with Chara/Seids/Krug/McQuaid/Millar/whoever again though....fire them all.
Don't worry, they'll probably dump Krug for a caveman because he's not snarly enough.

Will be fun when next season also ends terribly and they try to blame Chiarelli again, claiming they had to clean up the cap he left them with. The only contracts of his they cleared off the cap are one year of Lucic(and really only half), two years of Reilly Smith and Dougie Hamiltons' future contract. None of those were bad contracts. They used the savings for 4 years of Adam McQuaid, 4 years of Kevan Miller, 3 years of Jimmy Hayes and 5 years of Matt Beleskey. Three of the four are terrible, and Beleskey is maybe zero value at best.

Even with that, Cam Neely will keep cruising on down the road scot free from the media since Felger is the guy that has the biggest voice for hockey, but he's a guest on his show so he's still screaming about Chiarelli. I heard him say today that this was a Sweeney move, Cam wouldn't be involved in a move at this level. Keep on skating Cam!
 

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Fluto's a fucking idiot, unless he means room to grow in the sense that Miller is now free to grow fat and happy with this absurd contract he just signed.

Haven't felt such disdain for management since Tito was replaced by Valentine. Poor Bergy.
 

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I hate the "it's the market value" argument. If he was an FA, it isn't impossible that a team would offer him a similar deal. But the Bruins already have a virtually identical player locked up for the same cash...it's not getting good value to sign him for that price.

And let me again reiterate a hearty Fuck You to Fluto, whose work has gone steadily downhill, with the exception of 1-2 longer pieces each year. I blame Dupes 100%.
 

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The Sinden pic is unfair. Harry would never overpay a guy like Miller just got overpaid. He'd tell them to go yodeling instead.

Waiting for the next shoe to drop. Trading Rask for a bag of magic beans when he struggles behind these "core" guys of Miller and McQuaid as top 4 d-men?
 

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I can translate that:

"I stopped actually pursuing my leads with this team and have a enjoyed tweeting about food so much that I need to kowtow to them now so I can still have a job and stuff and get a story now and then... Also, have you TRIED this new noodle place in Toronto?! It's just THE BEST!"
He's morphing into Cafardo before our eyes. Maybe it's something in the water on Morrissey Blvd.
 

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Plus Khristich was acquired via a trade, and then was told to go pound sand after winning his arb case. Harry never paid him.

(And Harry was right: Khristich was really shitty over the next three years).
 

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Plus Khristich was acquired via a trade, and then was told to go pound sand after winning his arb case. Harry never paid him.

(And Harry was right: Khristich was really shitty over the next three years).
Sorry I missed the yodel reference. I was thinking of Harry telling someone to pound sand.

Harry in his prime was actually a really good GM.
 

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He was a good gm and had a knack for identifying great talent. However, he was incredibly cheap and wouldn't pay anyone. Hell, he teally struggled giving the money to pay Ray Bourque at times.
 

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But Ray always got paid. Always.

IMO Harry would be viewed far differently today if Wesley puts that fucking backhander in the net in OT.

We're getting far afield now. Although Harry in his prime was doing a helluva lot better job assembling the Bruins than Cam and Donny are.