At his post-spending spree press conference last week, Bruins GM Don Sweeney made a comment that seemed innocuous at the time, but is a bit more troubling given recent events.
“As you can see from several of the signings and the approach that we took, the center ice position...a little bit by committee,” he said on Wednesday. “We’re going to have to do that and allow some players to get into spots and hopefully perform to the level that they’re capable of.”
At the time, many of us (myself included) thought “yeah whatever, David Krejci will be back so I’m not too worried about the committee.