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Originally Posted by mikephoen
Is there a website that would list all of chiarelli's moves as Bruins GM?
We know the Seguin trade was awful and that the Bruins have had cap problems for the last couple years, but has he made other mistakes? Did he win the cup based solely on the signing of Chara, or did he make other good moves to get them there?
As long as edmonton doesn't pick up a Chara equivalent for free, they still have a long way to go to even be a playoff team.
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The issue with Chiarelli isn't just his mistakes, but also the fact that pretty much the entire Bruins cup winning core was in the organization before he actually started the job. Bergeron, Krejci, and Thomas were all in the organization well before him, and Rask, Kessel (which turned into Seguin and Hamilton), Lucic, Marchand, and Chara were all brought in after he'd agreed to the job but before he'd actually taken over duties. Interim GM Jeff Gorton handled all of those acquisitions.
How much influence did he have on those moves? Well technically he wasn't allowed contact with the Bruins' organization and was specifically barred from any draft discussions until mid-July so Chara is probably the only one you could attribute to him, and even then, Chiarelli has noted how he found out about the signing while watching TV from the Senators' war room on July 1st.
Doesn't mean he's not a good GM, but he certainly didn't build that Bruins team and he made some brutal mistakes near the end.