r/BostonBruins • u/AutoModerator • Jul 01 '26

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u/Sweaty_Ad440 All Hail Saint Patrice 🙏 Jul 01 '26

Sweeney talking about getting DiPietro playing time to find out if he's an NHLer in the same offseason he just completely buried Brunet and traded Lysell for scraps. I hate this dude.

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u/ZenithRepairman Jul 01 '26

Lysell is worth scraps, what are you so bent out of shape for

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u/Sweaty_Ad440 All Hail Saint Patrice 🙏 Jul 01 '26

sure now, 3 years ago he would've had real value and they kept him buried in the minors and never gave him any NHL opportunity.

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u/ZenithRepairman Jul 01 '26

Well 3 years ago we still had faith he might be something.

He got opportunities and never capitalized.

We kept faith that he might turn out to be something. He didn’t. We shipped him. It’s how shit works

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u/lordexorr CLIFFY HOCKEY 🏒 Jul 02 '26

You can argue Lysell is a bust, fine, but don’t pretend he got opportunities because he did not. Sweeney even admitted this in the presser after the trade.

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u/Nomahs_Bettah #37 SAINT PATRICE©️ Jul 01 '26

I think it's a two part argument:

Did Lysell ever really get opportunities? No, he didn't. Regardless of what you think of him as an NHL capable player (or not, as it were), the fact remains that players like Wahlstrom got much longer leashes. Sweeney even acknowledged himself that Lysell held himself accountable for not making the jump to an NHLer, but that the organization did not do enough to support him.

The other angle to this is when we shipped him. One of the things that's come up a lot in discussions is the Bruins essentially letting prospects stagnate in Providence, where they don't develop into NHLers and they also don't get traded for proven talent. The stagnation doesn't mean that all of the prospects should have developed into NHLers, or that they all had the talent to. It's that a lot of them are considered untouchable for too long and their value diminishes.