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Boston Bruins 2023-24 Roster and Salary Cap Discussion VII

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If any team has an under-sized, ultra-soft defenseman available I would fully expect Sweeney to be in on it. Anything else, not so much. I don’t want to be a Debbie Downer, but he only trades at the deadline. I have little faith in that, too since the dumb Nash trade.
 
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CDJ said:
Has anybody outside of Murphy reported it and if not then why exactly are we giving it the time of day?
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He quoted Dreger who was talking about teams that could be needing a center. It's just speculation because the Bruins still need a #1C.
 
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Ozzy Osbourne said:
If any team has an under-sized, ultra-soft defenseman available I would fully expect Sweeney to be in on it. Anything else, not so much. I don’t want to be a Debbie Downer, but he only trades at the deadline. I have little faith in that, too since the dumb Nash trade.
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You mean like Orlov? Lindholm?
 
Would love to get Jake Middleton here, wonder if Minny sells if they keep falling. He has 1 more year after this at roughly $2.5 could easily play in our top 4.

I think they wait and see if Lindholm and Hanifin make it to FA
 
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Saturday night’s game pitting the Boston Bruins against the St. Louis Blues was odd in that it brought back very few memories of the teams’ 2019 Stanley Cup series. The heartache of a young generation of Boston fans was all but forgotten amidst cataclysmic changes to both squads. It actually...
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Unless the Boston Bruins are willing to trade Linus Ullmark to Minnesota for, say, Joel Eriksson-Ek or to Calgary for Elias Lindholm, they are going to have to continue improving their faceoff and puck-possession game with in-house, on-the-job development. Is impending free agent Jake DeBrusk a chip? Perhaps but not by himself to solidify the center position.

A center who can play a sturdy defensive game and win key, defensive-zone faceoffs would be welcome, but the belief here is that the Bruins are committed to their path.

The Boston Bruins need a physical, snarly, left shot to pair with Charlie McAvoy and ease the game for their do-it-all defenseman. They could also use a physical, snarly forward to inject some intimidation into the forecheck and distract if not discourage opponents’ puck retrievals.

The premise guiding any sense of confidence that such acquisitions can be made is based on a team out of the playoff race and probably in the Western Conference, presumably looking to get younger and willing to move established talent, especially if said target is nearing the end of his contract.

Minnesota defenseman Jake Middleton, 28, would make an excellent complement to McAvoy.

Middleton has one more year remaining after this one on a modest contract that earns him $2.45 million per season, then he’ll hit the open market after the 2024-25 season. Acquiring Middleton to skate in the top four opposite McAvoy would require serious compensation, as in Minnesota GM Bill Guerin needs a goalie.

By the way, where is Parker Wotherspoon’s ceiling? Chosen 112th overall by the N.Y. Islanders in the 2015 draft, Wotherspoon was the victim of a numbers game and at age 25 escaped AHL purgatory by signing a one-year, $775,000 deal with Boston. On July 1, he will be a restricted free agent with arbitration rights. According to CapFriendly.com, he is with Boston on emergency loan.

The 6-foot-1, 190-pound left shot has shown he can play either side of the ice. He skated nearly 19 minutes in St. Louis and is averaging over 17 minutes. Wotherspoon more than mitigates the loss of Connor Clifton and continues to show upside so that, when Brandon Carlo returns, he may gets some reps with McAvoy just to see what it looks like.

In the meantime, Derek Forbort is on LTIR with a lower-body injury that goes back to last season. His predecessor in the lanky, left-shot, penalty-killing role, Jarred Tinordi, is carrying a $1.2 million cap hit in his final year with Chicago. Another name to think about: Jan Rutta, the former Tampa Bay defenseman (now with San Jose) who has one more year remaining at $2.75M.

I await an email for Las Vegas bookmakers on which superstar will be first to sustain a season-changing injury because his team is skating him too many minutes.

Players who refused to take less money against the NHL’s flat cap are finding that their employers are looking to mitigate their resultant lack of roster depth by requiring their salaried superstars work longer nights.

Nathan MacKinnon is a joy to watch play hockey, but will his 23:01 ATOI catch up with him? What about the 27 minutes David Pastrnak played in Arizona? Is that a factor in his sloppy puck handling of late?
Would you package Matt Poitras with DeBrusk in order to pry away Elias Lindholm from Calgary? You’ve got to give to get.

Ed. Note: No Mick, I would not package Matt Poitras in any deal, at least as yet. JDB, yes.
 
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Skelen said:
Would love to get Jake Middleton here, wonder if Minny sells if they keep falling. He has 1 more year after this at roughly $2.5 could easily play in our top 4.

I think they wait and see if Lindholm and Hanifin make it to FA
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Problem with Minnesota is they are tight to the cap as well and can't take back any money to speak of. I would love Middleton here, and he can bring Brendan Duhaime ir Marcus Folignobwith him but I can't see it working from a cap perspective

Ozzy Osbourne said:
Every defenseman we have falls under one category. Some both.
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I like Wotherspoon.
 
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