Boston Bruins 2024-25 Roster and Salary Cap Discussion

[RiverbottomChuck]

If Reinhart is a free agent on July 1st, we should do everything we can to try to bring him on as our #1 center.

He isn’t even a real center but I guess neither are the current two top 6 guys slotting in there.

 

[KrugAvoy]

My dream.....

OUT: DeBrusk, Ullmark, Zacha, Grezelyck, Forbort, JVR, Shattenkirk

IN: 1 of Guentzel or Reinhart, Lindholm, Zadorov, Duhaime, Bertuzzi

Bertuzzi-Lindholm-Pasta
Marchand-Poitras-Guentzel/Reinhart
Frederic-Coyle-Geekie
Duhaime-Beecher-Brazeau
Boquist

Lindholm-McAvoy
Zadorov-Carlo
Lohrei-Peeke
Wotherspoon

Swayman
Bussi

 

[22Brad Park]

My dream.....

OUT: DeBrusk, Ullmark, Zacha, Grezelyck, Forbort, JVR, Shattenkirk

IN: 1 of Guentzel or Reinhart, Lindholm, Zadorov, Duhaime, Bertuzzi

Bertuzzi-Lindholm-Pasta
Marchand-Poitras-Guentzel/Reinhart
Frederic-Coyle-Geekie
Duhaime-Beecher-Brazeau
Boquist

Lindholm-McAvoy
Zadorov-Carlo
Lohrei-Peeke
Wotherspoon

Swayman
Bussi

That's a hell of alot better then this train wreck.Bring on Berube or Gallant to run it.

 

[RiverbottomChuck]

I do think Bert comes here at the very least, him and Marchand had too much kicking the shit out of each other for him to go anywhere else.

 

[22Brad Park]

I do think Bert comes here at the very least, him and Marchand had too much kicking the shit out of each other for him to go anywhere else.

have to wonder now much thread Marchand has left on tires with another summer looming

 

[RiverbottomChuck]

have to wonder now much thread Marchand has left on tires with another summer looming

I’m guessing he will play out his contract and retire

Also thinking about it, do any other teams have zero top 5 picks playing on their roster like the Bruins? Definitely no playoff team.

 

[22Brad Park]

I’m guessing he will play out his contract and retire

Also thinking about it, do any other teams have zero top 5 picks playing on their roster like the Bruins? Definitely no playoff team.

Good question.Canucks Pettersson drafted 5th overall I think. Lindholm 5th too

 

[RiverbottomChuck]

Be great if they could pry that 3rd OA from Anaheim and draft Cayden Lindstrom. Never gonna happen but he’s exactly what the B’s need.

 

[CDJ]

This. I dare someone to post Zacha's playoff points vs. DeBrusk's. Or Beechers. Or Brazeau. Or Carlo.

honestly I think a lot of the Zacha hate is just nonsense yapping, he’s got 3 points in 4 games and is a +2 this series where the goal diff for the team is -6. People are acting like he’s their worst player. Silliness.

Really only happens to European players, Tuukka being the biggest and best example where they get crap but the facts/stats just don’t match the crappers feelings

 

[Dizzay]

Marchy-XXXX-Pasta
Zacha-Coyle-Debrusk
Frederic-Poitras-Brazeau
Geekie-Beecher-(Tough guy)
Lauko

XXXX-McAvoy
Lindholm-Carlo
XXXX-Peeke
Wortherspoon

Swayman
Bussi

1. Get a f***in number #1 Center and put Marchy back together with Pasta
2. Get a nasty ass mother f***er to play with McAvoy
3. Insert some damn toughness on line 4RW and 3LD
4.

 

[bbfan419]

Why???

Reinhart is a much better player than E.Lindholm, who most are saying we should sign. Given the choice, I take Reinhart over Lindholm every time.

 

[bbfan419]

My dream.....

OUT: DeBrusk, Ullmark, Zacha, Grezelyck, Forbort, JVR, Shattenkirk

IN: 1 of Guentzel or Reinhart, Lindholm, Zadorov, Duhaime, Bertuzzi

Bertuzzi-Lindholm-Pasta
Marchand-Poitras-Guentzel/Reinhart
Frederic-Coyle-Geekie
Duhaime-Beecher-Brazeau
Boquist

Lindholm-McAvoy
Zadorov-Carlo
Lohrei-Peeke
Wotherspoon

Swayman
Bussi

I like it, but I keep DeBrusk over signing Bertuzzi, without DeBrusk, we do not beat the leafs. The rest looks really good though.

 

[KillerMillerTime]

Is that Providences roster, it sure looks like it. They will 27m in cap space and you are adding Merkulov, Lysell and Poitras. I will give you Poitras may be a decent NHL center at so.e point but the other two I doubt play 50 games combined for the Bruins.

Where is all the cap money and why are you bringing back DeBrusk?

With 27 million 8m to Swayman, 9 million to Lindholm, 1.5m to Duhaime, 5m for Marchesault, 3m to Joshua. Move Coyle ideally for picks, that's another 5m in cap Stamkos 5m,

Joshua-Lindholm-Pasta
Marchand-Stamkos-Marchesault
Joshua-Frederic-Geekie
Duhaime-Beecher-Brazeau
Lohrei-Mac
Lindholm-Carlo
Wotherspoon-Peeke

Is Joshua's brother NHL ready?

 

[LouJersey]

Marchand-Lindholm/Stephenson/Duchene/Monahan-Pasta
Zacha-Coyle/Poitras-XXXX
Freddy-Coyle/Poitras-Brazeau
Beecher-Geekie-Trenin/Duhaime
Lauko

XXXX-McAvoy
Lindholm-Carlo
Lohrei-Peeke
Wotherspoon

Swayman-Bussi.

You need some scoring on those wings, and PP QB, 1st pair LHD. Top center can be one of those guys or a trade.

Lots of work to do.

 

[CheerstoBeers]

honestly I think a lot of the Zacha hate is just nonsense yapping, he’s got 3 points in 4 games and is a +2 this series where the goal diff for the team is -6. People are acting like he’s their worst player. Silliness.

Really only happens to European players, Tuukka being the biggest and best example where they get crap but the facts/stats just don’t match the crappers feelings

Zacha is serviceable at best. He's not a big game player, he's not worthy of centering a guy like Pasta. He has zero career playoff goals. This is acceptable to you for our top line center?

 

[KillerMillerTime]

My dream.....

OUT: DeBrusk, Ullmark, Zacha, Grezelyck, Forbort, JVR, Shattenkirk

IN: 1 of Guentzel or Reinhart, Lindholm, Zadorov, Duhaime, Bertuzzi

Bertuzzi-Lindholm-Pasta
Marchand-Poitras-Guentzel/Reinhart
Frederic-Coyle-Geekie
Duhaime-Beecher-Brazeau
Boquist

Lindholm-McAvoy
Zadorov-Carlo
Lohrei-Peeke
Wotherspoon

Swayman
Bussi

You're a player short and I doubt its under cap.

 

[CDJ]

Zacha is serviceable at best. He's not a big game player, he's not worthy of centering a guy like Pasta. He has zero career playoff goals. This is acceptable to you for our top line center?

He’s not worthy of centering a guy like Pasta because he’s ideally a winger. I am not going to blame him for not producing like a bonafide 1C when everybody in the world knows he’s not that

As a Bruin he has 11 points in 18 playoff games. Thats about what his usual ppg pace is (50 points) idk what to tell you

 

[Hookslide]

X - Poitras - Pastrnak
DeBrusk?/X - Merkulov - Frederic/Lysell
Marchand - Coyle - Lysell/Frederic
X - Beecher - Brazeau

Heinen and Lauko maybe are back. I think the Bruins should move on from Zacha and sell high on Geekie.

Poitras and Merkolov, would really relish playing in this series, brilliant, which gets knocked out of the lineup first.

 

[KillerMillerTime]

I’m guessing he will play out his contract and retire

Also thinking about it, do any other teams have zero top 5 picks playing on their roster like the Bruins? Definitely no playoff team.

Luke Schenn for Nashville only thing that puts them into your criteria. Glass is #6 overall though.

 

[BTO]

More than ready to move on from the 1A/1B goalie tandem.

I’ve said it multiple times before but too many fans love the goalie hug it seems.

You pick a goalie and run with him in the playoffs. You can’t tie up significant cap in a guy to ride a bench in a winner take all best of 7.

Series comes down to game 7 and you have 6-7 million tied up in a guy opening the bench door all night while the other team has an impact player out there skating a regular shift.

It just doesn’t make sense. No doubt this rotation helps pick up pts in the regular season, but we are seemingly trying to reinvent the wheel to make it work in the playoffs

You have to move on from Ullmark and give Swayman the net. Time for the kid to shine.

In any case, you can’t go into the playoffs every year (assuming they even do make the playoffs next year) wondering who should be in net every single game. Give it to Swayman and let him run with it. And that’s not even taking cap considerations into account.

X - Poitras - Pastrnak
DeBrusk?/X - Merkulov - Frederic/Lysell
Marchand - Coyle - Lysell/Frederic
X - Beecher - Brazeau

Heinen and Lauko maybe are back. I think the Bruins should move on from Zacha and sell high on Geekie.

I agree: suck hard for Gavin McKenna.

Edit: no DeBrusk tho.

 

[Hookslide]

My dream.....

OUT: DeBrusk, Ullmark, Zacha, Grezelyck, Forbort, JVR, Shattenkirk

IN: 1 of Guentzel or Reinhart, Lindholm, Zadorov, Duhaime, Bertuzzi

Bertuzzi-Lindholm-Pasta
Marchand-Poitras-Guentzel/Reinhart
Frederic-Coyle-Geekie
Duhaime-Beecher-Brazeau
Boquist

Lindholm-McAvoy
Zadorov-Carlo
Lohrei-Peeke
Wotherspoon

Swayman
Bussi

You can throw all the "HOT COMMODITY" names out there but you have not mentioned how you are going to pay them, what is their contracts going to look like, help me out enlighten me.

 

[KillerMillerTime]

Zacha is serviceable at best. He's not a big game player, he's not worthy of centering a guy like Pasta. He has zero career playoff goals. This is acceptable to you for our top line center?

I see half this place having Zacha back and DeBrusk gone. Move Zacha for draft capital and resign DeBrusk for $1.25M more than Zacha.

 

[gerrycheeversmask]

have to wonder now much thread Marchand has left on tires with another summer looming

It Marchand could simplify has game a little bit (think Mark Recchi), I'm confident Marchand could play until the age of 40 if he wants to.

 

[KillerMillerTime]

You can throw all the "HOT COMMODITY" names out there but you have not mentioned how you are going to pay them, what is their contracts going to look like, help me out enlighten me.

He is short one player also. Doubt it fits.

 

[CheerstoBeers]

I see half this place having Zacha back and DeBrusk gone. Move Zacha for draft capital and resign DeBrusk for $1.25M more than Zacha.

I'm all for that.