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

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Considering the bruins have been holding onto the Bergy and Krecji announcements since may, and seem to be scheduling these things around offseason events and players personal lives they have probably hired someone and are waiting for the retirement dust to settle before making the announcement out of respect.
 
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Patdud said:
Considering the bruins have been holding onto the Bergy and Krecji announcements since may, and seem to be scheduling these things around offseason events and players personal lives they have probably hired someone and are waiting for the retirement dust to settle before making the announcement out of respect.
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Or out of spite. I get the sense Sweeney doesn't care much for the media or the fans. Maybe that's just my own bias.
 
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PlayMakers said:
Or out of spite. I get the sense Sweeney doesn't care much for the media or the fans. Maybe that's just my own bias.
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I don’t think the fans are an issue - he’s been here for 40 years and was around a good 20-25 years of no championships from 1986-2001 and no social media

He knows Boston fans

The media it’s easy to figure out he likes Steve Conroy, Joey Mac- and Mick

The rest he knows would screw him

Human nature at play here
 
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Patdud said:
Considering the bruins have been holding onto the Bergy and Krecji announcements since may, and seem to be scheduling these things around offseason events and players personal lives they have probably hired someone and are waiting for the retirement dust to settle before making the announcement out of respect.
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No the players dictated times

Bergeron was working out hard like he was going to play but knew it was time

Krejci was overseas and was coming back for McAvoy wedding and officially retire

They weren’t sitting on this
 
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EverettMike said:
I'm told this isn't that big a deal.



What about just losing Bergeron, Krejci, and Hall?
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It’s not because
1. The regular season isn’t that important as the Bruins have 4 Prez Trophies and 0 Cups those years - while LA Kings parlayed 5th & 8rh seeds into Cups

2. Bruins were 3-1 with Zacha & Coyle and no Bergy & Kreech. They were 0-3 with Bergeron & Krejci

They were good Bruins but it’s Geekie, Merkulov, and Poitras time to grab a center spot over next 15 months
 
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The PO's should be about the teams with the best regular season record east and west.

Of course that wouldn't garner as much revenue. So here we are.
 
DKH said:
It’s not because
1. The regular season isn’t that important as the Bruins have 4 Prez Trophies and 0 Cups those years - while LA Kings parlayed 5th & 8rh seeds into Cups

2. Bruins were 3-1 with Zacha & Coyle and no Bergy & Kreech. They were 0-3 with Bergeron & Krejci

They were good Bruins but it’s Geekie, Merkulov, and Poitras time to grab a center spot over next 15 months
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I already said I've been told this isn't a big deal!
 
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DKH said:
It’s not because
1. The regular season isn’t that important as the Bruins have 4 Prez Trophies and 0 Cups those years - while LA Kings parlayed 5th & 8rh seeds into Cups

2. Bruins were 3-1 with Zacha & Coyle and no Bergy & Kreech. They were 0-3 with Bergeron & Krejci

They were good Bruins but it’s Geekie, Merkulov, and Poitras time to grab a center spot over next 15 months
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Dan I love ya. I was with you all last season when it was doom and gloom and you and I both knew the team was special.

But "losing Bergeron and Krejci doesn't matter because we have Georgii Merkulov" is precisely what I'm talking about.
 
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Mr. Make-Believe said:
Dan I love ya. I was with you all last season when it was doom and gloom and you and I both knew the team was special.

But "losing Bergeron and Krejci doesn't matter because we have Georgii Merkulov" is precisely what I'm talking about.
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Not disagreeing with you here and saying we arent in trouble without those two...but were Bergy and Krejci ever considered top prospects before they broke into the top 6?

I was too young to pay attention to that stuff at the time...but if one or two guys out of Merkulov/Locemelis/Poitras/anyone else can develop into a top 6 C, even if it takes another season of development, all of a sudden things are looking a lot less gloomy.
 
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Ok David and Patrice are gone....... make a move for Lindholm or Scheifele now please :)
 
NDiesel said:
Not disagreeing with you here and saying we arent in trouble without those two...but were Bergy and Krejci ever considered top prospects before they broke into the top 6?

I was too young to pay attention to that stuff at the time...but if one or two guys out of Merkulov/Locemelis/Poitras can develop into a top 6 guy, all of a sudden things are looking a lot less gloomy.
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Agreed. And I'm a big fan of each of these of guys. When people complain about Sweeney's ineptitude in drafting, I just flat-out disagree. I think considering where we've been picking, the scouting crew has done a marvellous job of grabbing high-interest high-upside players. And on top of that, they've done a great job supplementing their drafts with College signing like Merkulov. I'm looking forward to following their careers.

But it's absolutely no guarantee and honestly, we'd be getting pretty lucky if any of these guys are killer top-six talents in the end. And none of it matters anyway for THIS season.

I'll have fun watching the team like I always do. Plenty here that's easy to cheer for. But I have very little in the way of expectations for it.
 
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Mr. Make-Believe said:
Dan I love ya. I was with you all last season when it was doom and gloom and you and I both knew the team was special.

But "losing Bergeron and Krejci doesn't matter because we have Georgii Merkulov" is precisely what I'm talking about.
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Bruins last year were the Valedictorian of a 500 class at a good school. Today they are a solid B student.

Today

However in 3 of the 4 primary areas they excel

GOAL- top 5 (I’d put them 1 but doing top 5, 10, half (16), bottom half (17-32)

DEFENSE- top 5 (again I got them 1)

WINGERS - top 10 however - it’s really only the four wingers making up first two lines and they jump top 5 because Pasta, Marchand and DeBrusk are a trio that can beat pretty much every threesome )

CENTER- bottom half(17-32) . However, I they have good olayers here - good enough to beat the bag out of Florida when 37 & 46 out

They also have 6 months to assess and if need be acquire someone

DEPTH - top 10 (actually they are 5 to me but I’ll go 10 to not be a fan boy)

Aside last 3 years here my preseason point total was below all 3 actual years and aggregate 31 points below

Right now the B student Bruins I have 98 points below JFresh & Athletic formula guys who both had them winning division

But considering Passive Donny has swung hard for Nash, Orlov, Ullmark, Bettuzzi, Lindholm and Hall, history shows he will go get someone big

98 now
108 by the time he’s done
 
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Mr. Make-Believe said:
Agreed. And I'm a big fan of each of these of guys. When people complain about Sweeney's ineptitude in drafting, I just flat-out disagree. I think considering where we've been picking, the scouting crew has done a marvellous job of grabbing high-interest high-upside players. And on top of that, they've done a great job supplementing their drafts with College signing like Merkulov. I'm looking forward to following their careers.

But it's absolutely no guarantee and honestly, we'd be getting pretty lucky if any of these guys are killer top-six talents in the end. And none of it matters anyway for THIS season.

I'll have fun watching the team like I always do. Plenty here that's easy to cheer for. But I have very little in the way of expectations for it.
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Oh no doubt the odds of one of their guys hitting is pretty slim, but some young blood will be entertaining at least
 
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I really think everyone needs to stop looking at last year's record as though it's some sort of baseline. They could replay last season with the exact same rosters a thousand times and not come within 20 points of what they did. It was an anomaly. They simply were not as good as their record indicated. and that's fine! Sometimes you just have a magical (regular) season where everything goes right, everyone has career years, and you seem invincible. But that doesn't mean you were. And you can't ever really repeat it.

The 2001 116-win Seattle Mariners followed that up with 93 wins in 2002. And they didn't lose the talent the Bs just did.
 
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EverettMike said:
I really think everyone needs to stop looking at last year's record as though it's some sort of baseline. They could replay last season with the exact same rosters a thousand times and not come within 20 points of what they did. It was an anomaly. They simply were not as good as their record indicated. and that's fine! Sometimes you just have a magical (regular) season where everything goes right, everyone has career years, and you seem invincible. But that doesn't mean you were. And you can't ever really repeat it.

The 2001 116-win Seattle Mariners followed that up with 93 wins in 2002. And they didn't lose the talent the Bs just did.
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Did the 2008 Patriots lose as much talent swapping Brady for Cassel as the Bruins just lost this off season?

Interesting to think about.

As far as I’m concerned, regular season and overtime regular season wins can basically be disregarded since games in the playoffs are not decided by Savanah Bananas level gimmicks.
 
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DKH said:
No the players dictated times

Bergeron was working out hard like he was going to play but knew it was time

Krejci was overseas and was coming back for McAvoy wedding and officially retire

They weren’t sitting on this
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Was reported Bergeron's financial adviser, each summer over the past few years, was told by him "I'm done", in more words.
 
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smithformeragent said:
Did the 2008 Patriots lose as much talent swapping Brady for Cassel?

Interesting to think about.

As far as I’m concerned, regular season and overtime regular season wins can basically be disregarded since games in the playoffs are not decided by Savanah Bananas level gimmicks.
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Considering the importance of the QB position I think they lost more. And that team won 5 less games (but was considerably worse since they couldn't beat good teams).
 
DKH said:
It’s not because
1. The regular season isn’t that important as the Bruins have 4 Prez Trophies and 0 Cups those years - while LA Kings parlayed 5th & 8rh seeds into Cups

2. Bruins were 3-1 with Zacha & Coyle and no Bergy & Kreech. They were 0-3 with Bergeron & Krejci

They were good Bruins but it’s Geekie, Merkulov, and Poitras time to grab a center spot over next 15 months
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Why do you continue to say this when it is factually wrong? Krejci played in games 1 and 2.
 
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