Boston Bruins 2023 Off-Season CAP, Trade Rumors and Free Agent Talk III

[dugg133]

Playing around with the armchair Gm tool on capfriendly and came up with this.

- Sign Bertuzzi for Hall money (6 mil AAV, given him the extra years to make it work)
- Buyout Reilly
- Carlo to Cal for Lindholm (I would prefer Scheifele, but Lindholm has a better cap hit)
- Gryz and a 7th to LA for their 2nd
- Re-sign Hathaway for vet minimum
- Sign the three new RD's to league minimum deals
- Sign Freddy and Swayman for 2-3 mil each.

Marchand-Lindholm-DeBrusk
Bertuzzi-Zacha-Pasta
Lauko-Coyle-Lysell
Greer-Freddy-Hathaway
McLaughlin

Forbort-McAvoy
Lindholm-Mitchell
Zboril-Regula
Walsh

Ullmark
Swayman


It's kinda gross, and it barely fits under the cap, but I don't know what else we can realistically do.

Trade Ullmark and not completely gut the defense.

 

[Bodit9]

Are any of these young D gonna crack the roster? They all seem like tweeners.

 

[ON3M4N]

Are any of these young D gonna crack the roster? They all seem like tweeners.

Sounds like Reilly could. From what NJD fans were saying he was basically blocked due to the Devils RHD depth. They think he could be a good 3rd pairing OFD though.

 

[bruinmann77]

Rather get a draft pick that two RFA who might not be more the minor league guys

 

[Deal Law]

My guess is we want 5 years he wants 7-8 years.

That's when you split the difference at 6 if both sides really want to get it done.

 

[bruinmann77]

Can’t wait till the news that our Veniza goalie is moved

 

[smithformeragent]

Until we know what’s going on down the middle at center, the whole picture remains cloudy.

Can’t really evaluate any of the moves they’ve made in a vacuum. Have to see what the finished product looks like.

I’m anxious to see what happens as the dominos begin to fall.

I hope Sweeney went into today knowing the fates of 37 and 46.

 

[WhalerTurnedBruin55]

I doubt it. Why would Chicago want him when they could take Forbort for one year and a lot less money instead?

Send them the Miller contract too while we are at it. Their PR issues seemed to go away, too. Somehow.

 

[JoeIsAStud]

Rather get a draft pick that two RFA who might not be more the minor league guys

I get that, but they also need to field a team next year, and needed to add a a few cheap defensemen in order to do so.

If their scouts actually like a couple of these guys, an think they can at least be in the 5-7 range at the NHL level next year, than that is way more valuable than a #2/#3 pick who might challenge for a role in 2027 if things go well

 

[BamBamCam]

So one stop shop with Calgary? Anyone feeling it. Lindholm and hanifin to bruins for debrusk and ullmark?

Please tell why Calgary would want a goalie with 6 million tied up in Markstrom??????????

 

[TCB]

Maybe Sweeney will move Ian Mitchell in the deal with Calgary considering he's an Alberta boy.

 

[WhalerTurnedBruin55]

Boston became weaker

Yes. I mean... everyone expected that after the past dominant season, right?

We knew last season was all-in. If we thought we were walking into next season with a stacked 130+ point team again, I would not put money on that.

Next season is likely a retool on the fly rather than scorched earth.

Of course IF they have horrid start, I'd say absolutely nothing is off the table as desperate GM's make desperate moves...

And we're off....lol

Retained with Reilly + Forbort at bare minimum going the other way... otherwise.... why?

Like... hasn;t Sweeney blown his load on LD the past x years?

 

[WhalerTurnedBruin55]

I agree we lose if it’s hall for bertuzzi. Worse if Bertuzzi moves to another team

We. Need. Cap. Space.

Hall with a positive return (albeit less than it could be)) is what the team needs.

Shedding actual players we want to get rid of is going to cost assets.

Hall was a player we don't want to get rid of, but if we can get value back, so be it.

EDIT: I thought we got a positive return, but turns out it wasn't.

 

[Ace0813]

The Krug thing from NRD, and the Lucic shit... are we about to do this last dance thing again?

 

[smithformeragent]

The Krug thing from NRD, and the Lucic shit... are we about to do this last dance thing again?

No, thank you.

 

[SPV]

If we buy out Reilly, that leaves us about 13-14 million, is that enough to re-sign Bert, Freddy, Hathaway, and Swayman? Fill out the bottom six with Providence guys…Lauko, Mac, Steen, Merkulov, Lysell.

 

[Bodit9]

Sounds like Reilly could. From what NJD fans were saying he was basically blocked due to the Devils RHD depth. They think he could be a good 3rd pairing OFD though.

Sounds like a cheap Cliffy replacement competition.

 

[Hookslide]

How does Hall to Chicago make sense??? Cmon.

On face value it doesn't , but maybe there is something else.

 

[Fair Warning]

Until we know what’s going on down the middle at center, the whole picture remains cloudy.

Can’t really evaluate any of the moves they’ve made in a vacuum. Have to see what the finished product looks like.

I’m anxious to see what happens as the dominos begin to fall.

I hope Sweeney went into today knowing the fates of 37 and 46.

I’d be very surprised if DS doesn’t already know the fate of both — my guess is they’re waiting until after the Awards ceremony to make any formal announcements.

 

[Hookslide]

Yes what is DS move to replace him ?

Good question

 

[ON3M4N]

If we buy out Reilly, that leaves us about 13-14 million, is that enough to re-sign Bert, Freddy, Hathaway, and Swayman? Fill out the bottom six with Providence guys…Lauko, Mac, Steen, Merkulov, Lysell.

I gave Lauko & Mac $900k deals in CF ACGM. Added them along with the guys you have and bought out Reilly. There is now roughly $9.2 million in cap space to sign those 4 guys. You'd be sitting at a 22 man roster, so would likely need to have a 7th d-man signed as well.

 

[Hookslide]

I really hope this trade wasn't to sign bertuzzi and I'm a bertuzzi fan

I like Bertuzzi , but I just don't know if I would move Hall for him

 

[BamBamCam]

Rather get a draft pick that two RFA who might not be more the minor league guys

Your draft will take 5 years to be not more that minor league players

 

[Hookslide]

How many of the 16 teams he could be traded to do you think have cap space for a $6M winger? This is the NHL landscape right now. Remember Vegas trading Pacioretty for nothing last year?

I ask you what is Bertuzzi going to cost you to sign

 

[TCB]

I like Bertuzzi , but I just don't know if I would move Hall for him

I like Bertuzzi a whole lot. I think at this stages in their career he's an upgrade over Hall. I just feel if Sweeney going to spend the cap he just created it should be on a top 2 Center, but then again he'd have to give up assets, so maybe there's a hockey trade out there where the salary's are pretty much a wash and he can bring in that center and get Bert signed.