Tyler Seguin, Rich Peverly sent to Dallas for Loui Erikson: What happened to cause this star to fall apart

Towards the end of last week, rumors surrounding an impending Tyler Seguin trade flew out of Boston like little fire crackers. Mere days later, even after those rumors were forcefully silenced, they have sprung up again this time looking to be far more distinct than petty roomers or little firecrackers. On this steamy 4th of July, fireworks of news have flown out the mouths and articles of Bruins insiders reporting one consistent story. The Boston Bruins and Dallas Stars are prepping for a mega trade, the sheer number of players involved breaking records in it of itself.

Nevertheless with the basics of the trade following the skeleton of Seguin to Dallas, and Loui Eriksson back to Boston, we had to know that at least the Bruins half was coming. You remember mere days ago when Bruins GM Peter Charelli called out Seguin saying: "He’s got to commit his mind and focus to the one task at hand. He’s got to become more of a professional. You know what? I can say that about a lot of 21-year-olds. I know he got criticized for playing on the periphery and all that stuff. He did. He’s got to commit to being a professional and focusing on the game: simple as that. He does that, we don’t expect him to be crashing and banging. Just play your game."

Now in the immediate wake of that and with Seguin still in Boston, speculations arose. Was this just a fear tactic: trying to scare Seguin into shaping up and becoming a better player? Did Boston not really get any good offers, or was nobody really that interested in Seguin? Well as all that has gone down in the past few hours, the Bruins have proved that NONE of those above reasons for Seguin staying in Boston was correct. Tyler Seguin stayed in Boston because he stayed in Boston, and now he is leaving Boston because the Bruins are done with him and well, Loui Eriksson is a pretty good player.

Nevertheless, the main reason for this mega trade is not the name coming to Boston, it is the money that is leaving. You see with the cap going down to 64 million dollars next season, the Bruins have been treading dangerously close to the ceiling all season long and a big part of that has been the contracts binding Seguin and Peverly meaning that by unloading them to Dallas, the Bruins will now have crucial money available to put towards resigning guys like Tuukka Rask and Patrice Bergeron.

Regardless of that, while Eriksson HAS managed to put up 4 25 goal seasons and scouring wise may be somewhat comparable to Seguin, Bostonians cannot help but feel a small slice of remorse about Seguin's departure.

After being drafted, 2nd overall back in 2010, the mighty speed of Seguin caught eyes especially in an explosive 2011-2012 season with 29 goals the biggest of which won game 6 of that Washington sires in OT to force a game seven (which Boston went on to loose).

Nevertheless as the lockout began, Seguin exploded over in Europe scouring 22 goals in 29 games and prompting many fans to project a similar performance once he made the switch back to American ice. We could not have been more wrong. By the midpoint of the year Seguin had put in just 5 goals one of which wasn't even on a goaltender (Seguin scored his first goal of the year on an empty net) and when the regular season came to a crashing halt on the 28th of April, this guy who was supposed to carry the Bruins had scored just 16 goals and 32 points (4th on the team).Yet by the time the playoffs rolled around, scouring was the least of the Bruins worries about Seguin more an more reports came out stories surfaced, the most prominent of witch being a report that multiple times during the Bruins first round sires against Toronto, Seguin was caught partying late at night thus prompting many Bruins officials to conduct a "sit down" with Seguin all to no avail.

You see, it has long been known that Seguin is a Gronkowski comparable guy who loves to "have fun" IE partying or drinking and it has seemed that up until this playoff year, that sleepless lifestyle hadn't really taken its tole on young Seguin. Well, his luck ran out this playoff year as with the exception of one single goal in the Rangers series, Seguin saw his goal column remain empty despite taking 70 shots on goal throughout his 22 playoff games.

"Just play your game." Peter Charelli said in that verbal dart directed a Seguin last week and well, while Seguin may finally learn to play his game, it won’t be in Boston.

The Bruins were never a good fit for Seguin, he does not hit, he does not take hits so by default he was never free of the scrutiny that Bruins fans relentlessly bombarded him with. Tyler Seguin was never a true Bruins and at just after 3:30 PM on this July 4th, he was no longer one on paper.