Were Bruins Right to Fire Chiarelli?

    Exactly four days after the Boston Bruins missed the playoffs, their GM seems to have taken the majority of the heat for that disappointment. Their GM Chiarelli was shown the door by the Bruins as they look to move on from last season. As of now, Cam Neely will step into the driver's seat of the franchise but a search for a permanent successor to Chiarelli is eminent. It seems, however, thaf he is the only of many people who is getting the finger pointed at him. It seems as though the entirety of Boston and all its supporters seemed to have immediately forgotten all the positive changes he brought to Boston with him when he first arrived.
   Just starting out in Boston from the Senators in 2006, it seemed he could do no wrong. One of his first actions as GM was to sign free-agent Zdeno Chara, a former Senators defenseman. Chara is clearly a key player for the B's, he gets more ice time than anyone else on the team. He also boasts the record for hardest slapshot in the NHL and you would be crazy to mess with this 6"9' monster. With Chara as his captain, Chiarelli led the team to the Stanley Cup in 2011, as well as reaching the final in 2013. Also, he won the President's Trophy in the 2013-14 campaign. Some other big names he brought in were the likes of David Krejci, Patrice Bergeron, Brad Marchand and Tuuka Rask. One move that he caught criticism on, however, was his choice to let Tyler Seguin go to the Dallas Stars, where he became an NHL top 10 scorer. All of his good, though, was forgotten over the course of one poor season.
    It mostly started when the Bruins got into salary cap trouble in the previous summer and were Chiarelli was forced into selling Johnny Boychuk, a Boston fan favorite. He went to the Islanders where he them rise, and his absence was keenly felt on the ice of many games. Krejci, another of the Bruins most important players, was missing for quite a portion of the season due to injury. All of this added up, along with a Bruins side that seemed to not want to skate after the first period led to a poor season for Boston. With a track record like Chiarelli's we can assume he won't be out of a job for very long. Still, the question poised in Bruins' fans' minds remains: Was it the right decision to fire Chiarelli?