Hey Skulldog & Kronheim...It's not so much O'Connell or Sinden's doings. It goes higher than those two - all the way up to the absent ownership of Jeremy Jacobs. They are just keeping the spending down (keeping their jobs) so that guy can turn a profit.
Harry has made some great trades in the past, including Oates, Tocchet & Ranford for a couple of unknowns like Allison, Anson Carter (and Jim Carey was in that deal also)
Harry robbed Vancouver in getting Neely for an old injured Barry Pederson too. He had his stinkers too. You B's fans remember Bill Derlago from Toronto? Ouch.
I'm just saying as Bruins fans, we have to stick together and NOT GO TO THE FLEECE CENTER any more. As long as 12-14 thousand people put their a$$e$ in those canary yellow seats, it will always be that way. Here in Mass, NESN is free almost everywhere so we can watch all the games without dropping too much cash.
I will get off of my soap box after this. This B's team looks decent to start the season but come playoff time (if they make it) poor Robbie Ftorek will be crying for a top quality player/scorer like Allison and all us B's fans know right now that there won't be any marquee players coming to Boston at the trade deadline.
Ahh the deep emotional scars of being a Boston fan