For Don Sweeney's Bruins, it's the ugliest domino that falls first

The 2016 offseason is far from over, but it's off to a familiarly shaky start.

Trading Dougie Hamilton, a young cornerstone talent on the blueline, signaled the first major move in Don Sweeney's tenure as general manager of the Boston Bruins. The trade, horrendous, subtracted arguably the teams top defenseman whilst bringing nothing back to help the roster in 2015-2016. Far from an ideal, or intelligent, way to begin the 2015 offseason.

In 2016, Sweeney doubled down. Instead of trading a rarity in the league -- an elite right-handed defenseman under the age of 25 -- Sweeney resigned a replaceable bottom-pairing defenseman, Kevan Miller, for a cap hit twice the value of what the player's…