The Arizona Coyotes are rumored to trade the third overall pick in tonight's draft. Teams rumored to be interested are the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Winnipeg Jets, and even the Boston Bruins. Sources state that the Bruins have talked to the Coyotes to move up to the third overall pick and reportedly are enamored with Boston College defenseman and Boston native Noah Hanifan.
Reports are that the Bruins would offer 22-year-old up-and-coming future star defenseman Dougie Hamilton as part of the deal. It would be ridiculous to trade a future star like Hamilton, a no. 1 defenseman, which is hard to come by, for what would be an 18-year-old rookie defenseman. Rookie defensemen usually struggle early on (unless you're Aaron Ekblad) and aren't no. 1 defensemen for at least a couple of seasons. Even our no. 1 Rasmus Ristolainen struggled a little early on.
Hanifan has potential to be a no. 1 but also has been listed as a potential bust as well. There are no guarantees with defensemen as there are with forwards. If I were to make this deal, I'd do it to move up for a no. 1 center in either Dylan Strome or Mitch Marner. Although Patrice Bergeron is a good no. 1 center, they need to find a younger possible replacement for him. They are also looking to move on from Milan Lucic and Zdeno Chara.
The Bruins are in cap trouble and might not be able to sign Hamilton, who is a restricted free agent. Boston and Hamilton are far apart in their contract negotiations. The Bruins have been a joke this decade trading away star forwards like Joe Thornton, Phil Kessel (say what you will about his effort which isn't great but he produces point wise), and especially Tyler Seguin. They essentially traded Kessel for Seguin as they traded Kessel for Toronto's first round pick, which ended up being the second overall pick and Seguin.
Those moves have come back to bite Boston in the rear, especially the Seguin deal. Yes they won the Cup in 2011 and went to the finals in 2013. Then they traded Seguin and have looked ridiculous in that trade as they got hosed by Dallas. Seguin looks like a star while no one in the trade has done anything for Boston. That's why Peter Chiarelli is the GM of the Edmonton Oilers right now. They were eliminated in the first round in the 2014 playoffs and missed the playoffs entirely last season and continuing to look like they're falling even farther. I couldn't be happier. Heck, Hamilton, helped get Boston in the playoffs last season before getting hurt and they struggled without him and missed the playoffs.
Boston President Cam Neely and new GM Don Sweeney want Boston to be even tougher than before and continue to be intent on trading skill for tougher players to be even tougher. Isn't that why they got into this mess in the first place? Well continue to be stupid and stubborn Boston while the rest of your division, and the Sabres, continue to lap you and laugh at you and your decisions.
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