Hockey Trade

[X-Longshot-X]

Another move a dumb boston team makes to prevent them from winning a championship

[Favre[4]]

So boston made a bad trade? How good are the other players and how good is this one player?

[GeoffM]

Thornton will be on Team Canada, possibly a first or second line center, the 3 going the other way won't be playing in Turin. Enough said.

[ChipFish]

Right... Because Boston was well on their way to winning a Cup this year?
Or next? Or the year after that?
They saved $1,6 mil on the cap which makes it a great trade...
They are in the "pre"Re-building stages... Expect some hard times in Beantown.

When Thornton left he was quoted as saying: "I guess I was the problem" sarcastically refferring to the Bruins horrid season thus far and recent slump.

Didn't Boston WIN Thornton's first game out, and the 3 newbies first game in?

[GeoffM]

You can't judge a trade by 1 game. At face value, this is a horrid trade. Boston's #1 centre now has 0 goals so far this season (Zhamnov). Bottom line, they traded their best player and certainely could have gotten much more in return.