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

[shelbysdad]

What are you talking about? It's a one year deal.

Dude, if Lucic, Shattenkirk and JVR shit the bed they are stuck with all 3 of them!

Wally has repeatedly explained why they are not stuck with them

 

[ON3M4N]

The good news is when Sweeney is fired, the Bruins have plenty of highly capable GM here on HFB to choose from.

 

[KrejciMVP]

1 game away in 2019 and you would have had a don sweeney poster in your room.

ok but since then not much

 

[Trizz617]

Sky isn't falling. One thing thats been reaffirmed this past yr is all you need to do is get to the dance. Anything goes after that. Roster clearly not being what it was just a few months ago, this team isn't that bad on paper. Would rather a 7/8 seed that wreaks havoc in the po's, than the historic reg season team fumbling the ball in the 1st round.

I've lowered any expectations I may have for this upcoming season. Shaping up to be an interesting one. Though it wouldn't surprise me, if this team surprises pleasantly on ice. (I.e I dont wear blinders..lol).

 

[KillerMillerTime]

You act like he just signed that deal

Clearly no team valued him at a long term deal like that.

My guess is somewhere along the way, Bruins offered 3 or 4 years at 4.5/5 mil a year. Agent thought better was out there, and it wasn't.

Once they realized long term wasn't a thing, Bruins had used their space to fill out the roster.

Hard to fault Sweeney here.

Sweeney was the guy who signed Forbort and Reilly to those contracts, so it still accrues to him.

 

[The don godfather]

ok but since then not much

What has dubas trievling have done? I can list loads of Gm who haven't had a sniff of anything come playoff time. Donny has done a solid job but has bad luck you need hockey gods or a ryder glove save to win this yeti mug.

 

[BlackFrancis]

The good news is when Sweeney is fired, the Bruins have plenty of highly capable GM here on HFB to choose from.

They need to go with Chuck Fletcher. That way, we can all complain. All the time.

Except for the terminally contrarians.

 

[CDJ]

Wally has repeatedly explained why they are not stuck with them

he was being tongue-in-cheek, ignoring that Bertuzzi got paid more than what we filled 4 slots with and that you can’t just bury 5.5

That said Bertuzzi won’t be washed up next year, the only risk with him for the leafs is injury. Good piece of business for both sides imo and I think the people slamming Bert’s agent are nuts. Even if he does get banged up next year he’ll still find offers with term in next years market with teams having more money. He just can’t have a catastrophic injury. That’s the only way it goes wrong for him and Toronto

Or covid comes back hard lol

 

[TCB]

Sweeeny has also lost in the 1st round 2 years in a row and hasnt won anything

Sweeney has been in a win now mode since he's taken over and he hasn't won. His time may of finally come where his Can is staying home no more kicking it down the road. In the last six years the Bruins have had 2 first round picks and next year they don't have any of their top 3 picks. He's also made some terrible Free Agent signings that just put the Bruins in Cap hell, but outside of these faults I think he's a Great GM.

 

[The don godfather]

Sweeney was the guy who signed Forbort and Reilly to those contracts, so it still accrues to him.

Reilly was bad forbert is a warrior and played very well last year . Hes valuable if he stays.

 

[Hookslide]

Bert should fit in well with Toronto's lack of interest in backchecking.

Oh he will get his points to increase next years contract negotiations , but Toronto's defense and goaltending will be even more challenged ..................Bruins lose Hall and looks like Toronto from the sounds of loses Nylander , both better players than Bertuzzi......

 

[shelbysdad]

How did Sweeney not Match that?

how do you know he didn't? how do you know he didn't offer better? it's up to the player to accept, you don't get everyone you make an offer to

 

[bbfan419]

This right here.

They could have it they trade Gryz and Forbort.

 

[shelbysdad]

Regardless of how you feel about the players they signed, they still needed to fill out a roster.

I like Bertuzzi, I like what he brought, and I wished they made it work.

There was no realistic way to make it work given how many roster spots they had to fill, while moving a few big salaries out, attaching picks they didn't have, or attaching even more futures putting them in a worse position.

Again, not sure what people expected here.

if you keep making sense like that people will block you....lol

 

[TCB]

Coyle will destroy any 3rd center they have at the moment. Who do they have jarnkrok?

Problem is Coyle are first Center

 

[KrejciMVP]

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What has dubas trievling have done? I can list loads of Gm who haven't had a sniff of anything come playoff time. Donny has done a solid job but has bad luck you need hockey gods or a ryder glove save to win this yeti mug.

2019 was a favorable path for Boston but besides that Sweeney has never made it past the 2nd round.

 

[The don godfather]

Problem is Coyle are first Center

Have bergy and dk announced their retirement?

 

[bruinmann77]

I would be happier if we had a 1st

 

[The don godfather]

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2019 was a favorable path for Boston but besides that Sweeney has never made it past the 2nd round

Many teams get luck to reach you need it. Lots of teams get favourable paths in their history .

 

[KillerMillerTime]

Again, what do you expect the GM to do here?

They offered whatever they offered, agent says no we want more money/term. They go to UFA, don't find it, take best situation to try to cash in next year.

Sweeney smartly pivoted to actually fill out the rest of the roster.

This isnt playstation with the cap off.

Signing 34 year old JVR and 34 year old Shattenkirk along with 35 year old Lucic isn't smartly pivoting.

 

[LouJersey]

when you give up multiple assets for rentals you should really have a plan to keep them

Evan Gold, cap master.

 

[wintersej]

The only fan base that has seen more wins (regular season + playoffs) in the cap era than us is the Pens. Most regular season wins and third most playoff wins. Rival fan bases envy that the Bruins always find a way to get in the picture. This place always feels like we are fans of the Minnesota Wild or something.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

They need to go with Chuck Fletcher. That way, we can all complain. All the time.

Except for the terminally contrarians.

I disagree.

 

[KillerMillerTime]

No, it didn't. But many of us have been hoping Sweeney would be axed for 8 years now. We've seen him long enough to know who he is, and unfortunately the moments of false hope disguised that for some people.

I'm not here to re-hash the past, but I've been counting down the hours since the night of June 26th, 2015 waiting for Jacobs to figure out what some of us knew all along.

The Lindholm and Ullmark deals along with #37\46 being incredibly unselfish will protect him for a couple of more years.

 

[LouJersey]

Exactly...I would have loved Bertuzzi back too, but he signed elsewhere...there's no way of knowing if he would have even considered 1 year with the Bruins.

I believe it was reported he circled back to the Bruins but they had just finished their Walmart shopping excursion.