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

[The don godfather]

Pageau sucks move along. Just sign Peter Stastny for 775 k for a year and hope poitras makes it next year . Trading debrusk for pageau is a pink slip offense.

 

[ON3M4N]

We’re calling DeBrusk an elite scorer now?

Depends on what you consider to be elite

 

[MarchysNoseKnows]

Pageau sucks move along. Just sign Peter Stastny for 775 k for a year and hope poitras makes it next year . Trading debrusk for pageau is a pink slip offense.

Not sure he’d give up retirement from Parliament for one year but worth a shot I guess.

 

[Fenian24]

We’re calling DeBrusk an elite scorer now?

No the rumor was stating that the Islanders want an elite scorer for Pageau. I would still like to think the Bruins could get more for DeBrusk than a 30-35 point third line center making 5m a year for 3 more years at 30.

 

[ON3M4N]

Got this from a buddy today. Due to this picture some folks are saying that Bergeron is retiring. Apparently people are saying that the letter on Marchand's jersey is a "C" and not an "A" thus confirming that Bergeron is retiring

IDK how anyone can tell what letter is on there, I can't make out anything

 

[KrejciMVP]

Pageau is too old, have to rebuild

 

[MarchysNoseKnows]

Got this from a buddy today. Due to this picture some folks are saying that Bergeron is retiring. Apparently people are saying that the letter on Marchand's jersey is a "C" and not an "A" thus confirming that Bergeron is retiring

IDK how anyone can tell what letter is on there, I can't make out anything

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Already debunked

 

[ON3M4N]

Already debunked

you got a link so I can forward it to my buddy and he can stop freaking out

 

[McGarnagle]

Got this from a buddy today. Due to this picture some folks are saying that Bergeron is retiring. Apparently people are saying that the letter on Marchand's jersey is a "C" and not an "A" thus confirming that Bergeron is retiring

IDK how anyone can tell what letter is on there, I can't make out anything

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Stills from the shoot were released that clearly show an A. Which is now causing people to go the other way and go SEE BERGY IS COMING BACK BECAUSE MARCHY IS STILL AN A. In the end it means nothing either way.

 

[Gee Wally]

That makes no sense, why would we trade Debrusk for a worse 3C than the one we already have?

it doesnt.
from production to contract to age.

Im calling bullshit

 

[Lord Ahriman]

All I ask is: no cap penalty next season.

 

[SPLBRUIN]

That would be a terribls trade, Sweeney surely isn't that stupid.

 

[GordonHowe]

it doesnt.
from production to contract to age.

Im calling bullshit

I'm agreeing with you.

The Bruins are not trading Jake for a 3C.

He's finally on the right track and becoming a genuine force for the B's.

No sense trading him now.

 

[Knight]

Trading debrusk would be a braindead move

 

[KrugAvoy]

Got this from a buddy today. Due to this picture some folks are saying that Bergeron is retiring. Apparently people are saying that the letter on Marchand's jersey is a "C" and not an "A" thus confirming that Bergeron is retiring

IDK how anyone can tell what letter is on there, I can't make out anything

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That has to be an old picture. No TD Garden ad on the helmet and no Rapid 7 ad on the jersey. Plus the team is rebranding with new logos and jerseys this season

 

[Gonzothe7thDman]

All I ask is: no cap penalty next season.

Mike Reilly buyout counts against the cap next season.

 

[ON3M4N]

Here is how this became a rumor:

- Kevin Kurz who covers the Islander for the Athletic said:

"GM Lou Lamoriello hinted at the potential for more “hockey trades” during his press conference on July 1st."

- NYI Hockey Now writer runs with this statement and writes and article basically saying:

The Islanders could open trade talks by offering a package of Pageau and Wahlstrom to the Bruins in exchange for DeBrusk because DeBrusk asked for a trade a couple of years ago

So its just some random writer throwing stuff against he wall to generate articles for their crappy website. The funny thing is Rosen also writes for NYI Hockey Now.....the same place that the "rumor" started from. This is also the same company that has Boston Hockey Now with Jimmy Thin Skin as their superstar writer. That should tell you just how much credibility they have.

 

[Deal Law]

Here is how this became a rumor:

- Kevin Kurz who covers the Islander for the Athletic said:

"GM Lou Lamoriello hinted at the potential for more “hockey trades” during his press conference on July 1st."

- NYI Hockey Now writer runs with this statement and writes and article basically saying:

The Islanders could open trade talks by offering a package of Pageau and Wahlstrom to the Bruins in exchange for DeBrusk because DeBrusk asked for a trade a couple of years ago

So its just some random writer throwing stuff against he wall to generate articles for their crappy website. The funny thing is Rosen also writes for NYI Hockey Now.....the same place that the "rumor" started from. This is also the same company that has Boston Hockey Now with Jimmy Thin Skin as their superstar writer. That should tell you just how much credibility they have.

Any web site that wants me to actually pay to read Haggs and imparts to me only knowledge regarding the volume of "mature singles in my area" and a single "simple trick" to rid myself of belly fat, is not worth my time, or any person not in a coma/vegetative state.

 

[GordonHowe]

https://thehockeynews.com/news/2023-24-prospect-pool-overview-boston-bruins

 

[TCB]

The other day on NHL center Ice they were throwing around the idea if Pageau being a good fit for the Bruins. It basically was centered around the Isles having so many centers

 

[MarchysNoseKnows]

https://thehockeynews.com/news/2023-24-prospect-pool-overview-boston-bruins

As covered in the Prospects thread, what an embarrassingly poorly written and edited article.

 

[Absurdity]

The other day on NHL center Ice they were throwing around the idea if Pageau being a good fit for the Bruins. It basically was centered around the Isles having so many centers

They could trade us the center they would rather play on the wing.

 

[Dr Hook]

Calgary

He was in the back pocket - Sweeney joke

 

[UncleRico]

If you said every single season that they should have traded _____ for ______ reason, for any single team in the league, and used the benchmark of them not winning the cup as being correct, then you're going to be correct pretty much every time, since teams rarely win multiple cups anymore.

If I'm understanding you correctly here, you are saying, as an example, that they were better off in 2019 trading Chara and Krug to recoup assets and not even making a cup run than they were getting to game 7 of the cup since they didn't win anyway?

But the thing is if they do what you wanted them to do they would have had no chance at the cup, likely for multiple years, which by your own logic it is a failure to not win the cup?

I just think when you have a top team like they have this past decade you dont blow it up and hope you can someday be good again. It's being offered a mystery box and a boat but taking the mystery box because it could be better than a boat.

This is the issue, you and others are under the assumption that if chara is moved one year or if krug is moved another then it would have automatically made them worse and they wouldn’t have even made it to the cup in 2018. All while completely disregarding the potential return that could have helped them out.

I wasn’t really talking about krug, I’m more referencing players over the age of 35 that I would move on from. Especially a 2015 team that missed the playoffs with chara. He would have 100% been traded.

However we can see how the current model of keeping players into and past their mid 30s has faired and it hasn’t been a winning formula.

And yes it’s a failure to not win the cup for a team in the bruins situation. When you spend out the ass yearly to win with an aging group, any year you don’t win is a failure because you’re not building towards anything except a championship. Sure it’s a different convo for a team say like the devils who are on the rise and have gone from rebuilding to now competing, getting closer with a younger team and are building, but now their window is starting. Where as the bruins window is ending.

 

[The don godfather]

Not sure he’d give up retirement from Parliament for one year but worth a shot I guess.

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Woops paul. Peter was solid though one of the best.