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Boston Bruins 2023-24 Roster and Salary Cap Discussion IX

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Hearing the D market is being held up until Chris Tanev is moved and the GMs know the market.

Maybe thats a reason we have not seen a cap relief move yet?

Remember, Don was all in on a signed Elias Lindholm. He had to have been moving cap space somehow to make room for that.
 
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Gee Wally said:
as of now only 87K.


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Is there a reason they have not put Poitras on the LTIR yet? Maybe they did have to fill up the roster first before they could do that. Not that if gives the Bruins much space, but I think it should be enough space to call up their choice of minor league guys
 
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Carl Hungus said:
Where you think he'll go? Toronto? Vancouver?
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Very good question. Pundits all seem to be saying the same thing that he is a hot commodity right now and is tying up the trade market for D. All the teams that need him are up against the cap. It might come down to an overpay by a wild card team or a genius cap move by one of the big ones like you mention.
 
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wintersej said:
I mean if there was a deal out there where they needed the cap, sure. But them dealing him for the hopes of using the cap would be silly.
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How so?
4 mil cap space is better than Gryz no?
Can't even call up the best option from Providence so tight against the cap
 
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goldnblack said:
I respectfully disagree. But also disrespectfully call out some horse poop when I see it, lol.

The owner doesn't care...and what, has a sinister plot to have the GM and President put teams on the ice that aren't tough? lol The owner hired the biggest tough guy hot head in Neely, who was OBSESSED with drafting tough over skill. To the point that we kept busting picks.


When we started drafting skill we finally got good again. Not sure you noticed.

But regardless of that, this is not OWNER stuff. The owner pays Neely and Sweeney to go do their best to put a winning squad on the ice. And those 2 obsess over that to a degree where honestly sometimes I fear for the strength of their hearts.

Honestly your world is a bizarro world where you've invented a story man. Thats it. There's no second shooter on the grassy knoll. Winning sells more for everything, and makes franchises more valuable. Every owner spending to the cap WANTS to win. It makes you more money.
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See most recent post per Jacobs. As noted in that post, I'm primarily addressing Sweeney's performance.

Mark Divver. Steve Conroy. Kevin Paul DuPont. Mick Colageo. Joe Haggerty. Conor Ryan. Evan Marinofsky. Jim McBride. Ty Anderson.

What do these names have in common?

They all cover the Bruins in one way or another.

And they all say the same thing. The Bruins lack physicality, and have for years.

I'll leave it there.
 
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TobanWest said:
How so?
4 mil cap space is better than Gryz no?
Can't even call up the best option from Providence so tight against the cap
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Say what you want about Gryz, but he is an NHL defenseman. Giving him away so you can call up a slightly better 13th forward option doesn't seem right to me. Especially with Forbort ailing and a risk to LTIR again and render this penny pinching moot.
 
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Bumper said:
Merkulov was great, much like Boqvist. both showed better than Beecher, albeit in much shorter stints. I very well grasp the timid-team identity issue, but even in the playoffs it is more important to win games than it is to win faceoffs and fights. if Pastrnak's turnovers and blunders and mistakes and spills and gaffes and oopsies and other confounding moments outweighed his goal production, he'd get the grief, too. Beecher runs minus while his replacements (except Brown -- now confirmed as worse after his last outing) are plus players. it is an easy call to keep Beecher simmering elsewhere. he'll be back next year nearly for sure. he's close. I would strongly consider Merkulov in for Lauko or Steen. another Beecher look would be fine, but as a check-in experience, not expecting him to stay. the time to make some decisions is here. I don't want to see multiple weeks of coasting with the current forward setup, that is for sure.
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I don't know what Mekolov you watching, But heard a lot of hype before he came up and must tell you I saw nothing.
 
GordonHowe said:
See most recent post per Jacobs. As noted in that post, I'm primarily addressing Sweeney's performance.

Mark Divver. Steve Conroy. Kevin Paul DuPont. Mick Colageo. Joe Haggerty. Conor Ryan. Evan Marinofsky. Jim McBride. Ty Anderson.

What do these names have in common?

They all cover the Bruins in one way or another.

And they all say the same thing. The Bruins lack physicality, and have for years.

I'll leave it there.
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That has nothing to do with wanting to win...

The Bruins were a game from a cup in 2019 my friend. And you'd have nothing to post. One game. 2013 was probably one key injury.

It's a game of inches and over that sample side, we lost some inches. But there's no conspiracy. Everyone wants to win when winning makes you MORE MONEY.
 
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Say what you want about Gryz, but he is an NHL defenseman. Giving him away so you can call up a slightly better 13th forward option doesn't seem right to me. Especially with Forbort ailing and a risk to LTIR again and render this penny pinching moot.
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Makes sense, hopefully with a pending Lucic cap relief as well as Poitras they will be able to make a move or two.
 
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goldnblack said:
That has nothing to do with wanting to win...

The Bruins were a game from a cup in 2019 my friend. And you'd have nothing to post. One game. 2013 was probably one key injury.

It's a game of inches and over that sample side, we lost some inches. But there's no conspiracy. Everyone wants to win when winning makes you MORE MONEY.
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It has everything to do with FAILING to win. Repeatedly.

Think what you like. Finished with this exchange.
 
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The Bruins failed to win a game 7 because the owner didn't want to make a tough enough team because he didn't want to add value to his franchise (which rings do) because he didn't really want to win.

Ok you're right, exchange finished. It's too weird.

Chara, Boychuk, Marchand, Ference, Lucic, Mcquaid, Seidenberg, Thornton lost the cup finals to the Blackhawks because they weren't tough! Not at all because they had trouble scoring goals while guys like Kane skated circles around them...
 
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Hookslide said:
I don't know what Mekolov you watching, But heard a lot of hype before he came up and must tell you I saw nothing.
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Merkulov is one of those players who are good enough to dominate at the AHL level but not good enough to stick around in The Show.

Basically, he's Bruce Boudreau (when he was a player).....
 
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goldnblack said:
That has nothing to do with wanting to win...

The Bruins were a game from a cup in 2019 my friend. And you'd have nothing to post. One game. 2013 was probably one key injury.

It's a game of inches and over that sample side, we lost some inches. But there's no conspiracy. Everyone wants to win when winning makes you MORE MONEY.
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Ok but they didn’t win because the blues wore them down and bullied them. So you’re are speaking in purely hypotheticals
 
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UncleRico said:
Ok but they didn’t win because the blues wore them down and bullied them. So you’re are speaking in purely hypotheticals
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After Berube cried the Broad Street Bullies could have came back and not drawn 2 mins .Everything changed after Berube pressor.Still remember Acciari getting mauled no call and them winning game off it.Fk the Blues.
 
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Number8 said:
So you're telling me that all McAvoy has to do is fight once and you're good? I'll let him know.

I'll also let him know that he needs to grow 8 inches, put on 45 lbs, get, be a first ballot HHOF, and have his number retired in the rafters. You know, if he's going to be like Big Z and all.

Truly dumb post....
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Ok, he should continue to turn the other cheek it’s a great look.

CDJ said:
It’s literally on video, you see him injured. He was playing before that attempted hit and now he’s not, but sure it was the hit he received 2 months ago just because you want it to be lol. f*** reality

This is being willfully ignorant to sell a nonsense narrative half of you want to run with about this injury after it was blatantly proven wrong.


And again I want them to add sandpaper, this has nothing to do with any of that though. A kid tried to hit a man and ran into a wall. It’s actually the opposite of your narrative, he was trying to play with sandpaper and grit in his game and he got hurt lmao
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The countless hits he took all season had nothing to do with his injury? Yeah, ok.
I guess I won’t let your personal attack bother me.
 
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Ozzy Osbourne said:
Ok, he should continue to turn the other cheek it’s a great look.
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You know what? It doesn‘t make sense to ………………

Oh, screw it.

You do you Ozzy. Not worth the effort to talk with someone who thinks he actually on the Crazy Train.
 
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