To the surprise of absolutely no one, the Bruins announced on Monday that general manager Don Sweeney was re-signed to a “multi-year” contract extension.
That comes over a month after team president Cam Neely said that he planned to sit down with Sweeney and hammer out a deal. Eventually, it got done, three days before Sweeney’s contract was set to expire.
Despite the down-to-the-wire timing, there was little doubt over this past month that Sweeney would be back. Upon former coach Bruce Cassidy’s firing, Neely said in a statement that he had confidence that Sweeney was the man to conduct the ongoing coaching hire.
