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

[DKH]

Waste of money at 31 and still barely gets to play is Ballsy for a different reason then yours

Typical Bruins management block a kid to play bum

You clearly don’t know the player

He’s the 13th guy more likely is strong gritty defensive player on cheap contract

Typical Bruins management comment

You lost me for good here

Ridiculous

A team with best record last 7 years

 

[UncleRico]

Crazy how the Bruins are able to acquire guys like Lindholm, Orlov, Bertuzzi as a few examples with so little to offer.

Curious

I think he’s implying the bruins currently have little to offer due to going out and acquiring bertuzzi and orlov last year.

 

[DKH]

If Lindholm isn’t signing and wants out the Bruins need to get in this

He makes squat right now so they could figure this out

Calgary would want picks and prospects

They got Wolff coming so forget a goalie

DeBrusk the Bruins need more and he’s a UFA something Calgary doesn’t want

They can wait it out but I would want him asap

The ideal for Boston is

1. Lindhom wants out
2. He won’t extend until after season unless Bruins

I give them 2-3 of Poitras, Lysell, Beecher and there 25 first - heck if I can get Hanifin with Lorhei & Frederic

Load up Sweens

 

[Blowfish]

Depends where you want to be weak I guess.

Exactly My thinking...Plus Debrusk contract expiring soon enough. Won't be cheap.

 

[LSCII]

He wasn't demoted in favor of Haula. Haula's play before the switch was way worse than Coyle's. Go back and look at it.

Yet Haula was on the second line. It’s revisionist history to try and say otherwise at this point. Coyle was not good in that spot and was removed.

 

[KillerMillerTime]

Yet Haula was on the second line. It’s revisionist history to try and say otherwise at this point. Coyle was not good in that spot and was removed.

You're 100% wrong. It was an attempt to get Eric Haula going as he absolutely was
horrible the first half of 2021-22. You're the one doing RH here not me.

 

[LSCII]

You're 100% wrong. It was an attempt to get Eric Haula going as he absolutely was
horrible the first half of 2021-22. You're the one doing RH here not me.

What line did Coyle play on for literally most of that season? Who was centering the second line in the playoffs, getting exposed as not a top 6 guy? Hint, it wasn't Coylev because he was centering the third line.

 

[The don godfather]

If Lindholm isn’t signing and wants out the Bruins need to get in this

He makes squat right now so they could figure this out

Calgary would want picks and prospects

They got Wolff coming so forget a goalie

DeBrusk the Bruins need more and he’s a UFA something Calgary doesn’t want

They can wait it out but I would want him asap

The ideal for Boston is

1. Lindhom wants out
2. He won’t extend until after season unless Bruins

I give them 2-3 of Poitras, Lysell, Beecher and there 25 first - heck if I can get Hanifin with Lorhei & Frederic

Load up Sweens

Poitras no way. Kid looks like a star.

 

[KillerMillerTime]

What line did Coyle play on for literally most of that season? Who was centering the second line in the playoffs, getting exposed as not a top 6 guy? Hint, it wasn't Coylev because he was centering the third line.

You don't know what you're talking about. Huala was brutally bad the first half of the season. The switch was far more getting Huala moving then Coyle being demoted. Huala clicked with Hall and improved his play, that's what hapoened, not your version.
You are categorically making shit up.

 

[NDiesel]

Yet Haula was on the second line. It’s revisionist history to try and say otherwise at this point. Coyle was not good in that spot and was removed.

Haula had 5 points in his first 26 games on line 3. Coyle had 14 on line 2. Id say it was a move made to get both guys going rather than to say Coyle sucked and was removed due to poor play.

 

[CDJ]

Yeah it’s simply not historically accurate to say Coyle was demoted for Haula because Coyle was slumping. Was actually the other way around and they made the switch because Haula was more or less useless playing on that 3rd line. Putting up Mowers-ian numbers

 

[NeelyDan]

Haula had 5 points in his first 26 games on line 3. Coyle had 14 on line 2. Id say it was a move made to get both guys going rather than to say Coyle sucked and was removed due to poor play.

where do you guys dig up stats like this, it would make me such a better troll

 

[NDiesel]

where do you guys dig up stats like this, it would make me such a better troll

Hockey Reference is great for that troll material

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

They were okay because Sinden saw the writing on the wall (that Orr's knee was cooked) and traded for Brad Park. Park at least filled the void for the most part even though he was no Orr, he got it done.
Who is Sweeneys Brad Park?

Whoever he is, he's not here yet.

 

[LSCII]

You don't know what you're talking about. Huala was brutally bad the first half of the season. The switch was far more getting Huala moving then Coyle being demoted. Huala clicked with Hall and improved his play, that's what hapoened, not your version.
You are categorically making shit up.

This is hilarious. You're talking only about production as if playing on the third line will allow you and afford you more opportunities to produce than playing on the second line with better finishers. What I'm talking about is actual play. Coyle was terrible that season. He was the only top 9 forward with a minus for the season and he couldn't buy a win at the dot with a sub .500 winning percentage (49%). While Haula was a plus 19, and was winning faceoffs at a 54% clip. He was outplayed by Haula and despite the slow start numbers wise for Haula they ended up with the same points. Keep in mind that Haula did have more goals, more even strength goals, more even strength points and he did it in 2 and a half less minutes per night.

So again, you can claim Coyle didn't get moved down because of his poor play, but in reality, he absolutely did. But thanks for a real high level look at just points. You're showing me why it's not worth discussing actual play here because of intellectual dishonesty and only considering points, which is deeply flawed.

 

[DKH]

Poitras no way. Kid looks like a star.

Looks like a star - Lindholm is

 

[EverettMike]

You clearly don’t know the player

He’s the 13th guy more likely is strong gritty defensive player on cheap contract

Typical Bruins management comment

You lost me for good here

Ridiculous

A team with best record last 7 years

 

[Dizzay]

Lindholm is going to be a UFA and he's stated (I believe) that he's not re-signing in Calgary. Leverage equals zero for them.

From a Bruins perspective, I still think we a new #1C, they can go for it again this season.
1. Best goaltending Duo in the NHL
2. Their top 3 dmen are top 5 in the NHL
3. Debrusk-Pasta-Marchand is an elite winger group

Lindholm + Hanifin is who I target from Calgary.

Who does Hanifin replace? Gryz + Poitras so he needs to be part of this deal.
Lindholm is going to cost you 2025 1st + Lysell +Frederic +Merkulov
Forbort likely has to go as well for cap purposes

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

If Lindholm isn’t signing and wants out the Bruins need to get in this

He makes squat right now so they could figure this out

Calgary would want picks and prospects

They got Wolff coming so forget a goalie

DeBrusk the Bruins need more and he’s a UFA something Calgary doesn’t want

They can wait it out but I would want him asap

The ideal for Boston is

1. Lindhom wants out
2. He won’t extend until after season unless Bruins

I give them 2-3 of Poitras, Lysell, Beecher and there 25 first - heck if I can get Hanifin with Lorhei & Frederic

Load up Sweens

Can the Bruins trade their 2025 first when their 2024 first is top 10 protected?

 

[Hookslide]

Would certainly be a good start

Addition by , who you subtracting ?

 

[BamBamCam]

0.0 they are trading DeBrusk

It’s like selling your car when you live 20 miles from work and your backup is a bicycle

Jake DeBrusk scored 37 goals last 82 games without prime time PP

The next best LW under 35 is Trent Frederic

The best LW in system is Lauko

Zero point zero

Then why is Jake playing RW if he's your 2nd best LW on the team?

 

[CellyHard]

Waiting to sign Lindholm until UFA next year means your bidding against a bunch of other teams, and your also wasting another Marchand year and he's not getting younger.

Terrible idea

Unfortunately, I think it's the only option they have. As things stand right now, the amount of teams looking for a top center is somewhat slim. The only two playoff teams would probably be the Bruins and Wild.

Mid tier teams you definitely have the Predators, Blue Jackets, Flyers looking for a 1C

Jets and Flames should probably go into a rebuild

Then again you could always have a rebuilding team like the Coyotes, Ducks or even the Blackhawks go after him. Blackhawks would actually be a great spot to compliment Bedard and they could throw a ton of money at him.

You could always have a team come out of nowhere somewhat like the Islanders did for Horvat and move things around to make it happen.

It's not a great plan but it might be the only option they have and they could fall back on Scheifele if he hits the market as well.

 

[Hookslide]

It's crazy what three 1sts and three 2nd rounders can get you at the deadline.

Sweeney is like the government spend ,spend ,spend your way out , Sweeney spends with draft picks and bad contracts..........

 

[BruinDust]

Sweeney is like the government spend ,spend ,spend your way out , Sweeney spends with draft picks and bad contracts..........

This year's free agency was the first year in awhile he didn't make a major blunder, because he didn't hand out term to anyone.

I'm cool if they completely stay away from trade deadline shopping for the next half decade. Maybe longer.

They went out this year and spent a bundle of picks, and while the team was better on paper, I don't think it translated on the ice and the team was in a constant state of flux from the trade deadline onward.

The year before, Lindholm never looked like he was comfortable once he arrived.

Player's aren't plug and play. Especially now with the systems teams use, the adjustment coming to a team late in a season can sometimes negate the benefits of upgrading on a player, depending on who is coming in and who they are replacing.

 

[BruinsJoe]

Like everyone else I hear the rumours of a trade for Lindholm or Schefeile but I don’t think there will be anything until the trade-off period in February. I believe that the organization will look carefully at what will happen in season and will see to exchange its UFAs like Grzelyck and Forbort. In addition, teams like Clagary and Winnipeg must think they will have a bigger return for their player wanting to leave. Without real center elite players on the front two lines, I plan a a tough season being in the east which is very powerful. The hopes remain on the signatures of the UFAs in the summer of 2024 for a retool and nothing assured in this regard, which leaves much concern for the coming years