Congratulations, Boston Bruins. In the span of three days, you put on an absolute clinic in how not to conduct yourselves as an organization.

And ‘organization’ doesn’t feel like the appropriate noun to describe a franchise that has been utterly disorganized in its complete bungling of the Mitchell Miller signing, from start to finish, seemingly every separate arm of the team operating independently of the other.

On Friday, hours after the Bruins announced the entry-level deal for Miller, GM Don Sweeney admitted, “I can’t categorically say this was the right decision.” Miller had been dropped by the team that drafted him in 2020, the Arizona Coyotes, in light of revelations that he and another student had repeatedly abused Isaiah Meyer-Crothers, an intellectually disabled Black student, and were charged with assault and a violation of the Ohio Safe Schools Act at the age of 14. Miller and the other student repeatedly used racial slurs and forced Meyer-Crothers to lick a lollipop that had been wiped against a bathroom urinal.

And Friday, after the Bruins decided to give Miller another chance, Sweeney admitted the team hadn’t reached out to the Crothers family.

You know who did? Reporters. And Crothers’ mother, Joni Meyer-Crothers, gladly came forward to offer that Miller’s lone attempt at an apology came last week, once the Bruins were well down the path of signing him, in the form of a Snapchat message after he’d subjected her son to “years and years of torture.” Seems like it would’ve been a smart idea to do some additional homework on the situation rather than simply taking Miller’s word that he had “apologized to the individual,” and “have come to better understand the far-reaching consequences of my actions,” as he said in a statement he released Friday.