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Originally Posted by Hustle
I'm not going to sit here and pretend like I know exactly how things operated in Boston's front office. I do remember an interview with Jim Benning when Weisrod was hired in Calgary saying that Weisbrod was helping to drive that bus (along with Benning) and that Calgary got a great guy to supplement their management team.... but who knows if that was just Benning being complimentary to a former colleague.
At the end of the day, maybe i'm drinking the kool-aid but i do think the guy is a good hockey mind based on what he's said and the early stage development of some of the guys coming in the pipeline. That said, what these guys built on the NHL roster this year was horribly misconstructed so who knows.
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Its possible but Lucic, Marchand, Krecji, Bergeron were all drafted before Weisbrod got there. Chara and Thomas signed before he got there. That seems to be the foundation of the Boston team and the drafted guys seem to be the biggest pro's that most people have in terms of talking about the Boston success.
It is possible that Weisbrod did something to help develop them and that he had a role in bringing in secondary guys like Horton and Ryder but it does seem like most of the work in building that Bruins team was done before he even arrived there so tough to give him a ton of credit.
I think the Benning comments were both him complimenting a former colleague and him believing Weisbrod is a smart guy.