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Bruins Boot GM!; Second-worst GM in league fired!
Topic Started: Mar 25 2006, 08:02 PM (142 Views)
The Third Man
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Can you guess who the first was? :letssee:

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TSN.ca Staff
3/25/2006 5:44:40 PM

Mike O'Connell has been fired as general manager of the Boston Bruins, with assistant GM Jeff Gorton named interim general manager.

O'Connell was named to the post in November of 2000, succeeding longtime Bruins boss Harry Sinden.

Entering the 2005-06 season, his teams won two division titles and compiled a 152-98-39-27 record and .585 win percentage during his tenure as general manager.

The Bruins struggled out of the gate early this season, and O'Connell raised a lot of eyebrows in November by trading captain Joe Thornton to the San Jose Sharks just three months after signing their franchise player to a three-year $20 million contract. In exchange, the Bruins received forwards Marco Sturm and Wayne Primeau and defenceman Brad Stuart.

O'Connell, who had just four players under contract after the NHL lockout ended, signed a wealth of veteran players that included Brian Leetch, Alexei Zhamnov, Glen Murray, Dave Scatchard, Shawn McEachern, Travis Green and Jiri Slegr.

The moves did not go well with the Bruins, with Leetch and Zhamonov spending time on the injury list, Scatchard traded to the Phoenix Coyotes and McEachern sent down to Providence of the American Hockey League. 

The team also shipped off soon-to-be-unrestricted free agent Sergei Samsonov at the March 9 trade deadline.

With Friday's 4-2 loss to the Devils, the Bruins fell 10 points behind Atlanta for the eighth and final Eastern Conference playoff spot with 11 games to go. The Bruins have lost three straight games and 14 of their last 18.

His final move as GM was signing netminder Tim Thomas to a three-year deal.

More to follow.


http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=160065&hubname=nhl
Yashin, you ARE the weakest link. Goodbye.
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You know what time it is... yeaaaa booy!
WTF took so long?
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milbury version 2.0 goneeeeeeeeeeee.
"We're not in a bind at all," Burke said. "I'd say of the 29 teams, we don't talk to Edmonton, so of the 28 other teams, there's plenty of interest in making this predicament go away. I could hang up the phone and solve this."
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TT, I thought of you first when he got canned. I know you've been calling for his head forever.
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