member 96824
Guest
Whenever you can add a guy with 24 points to your top 9 you absolutely HAVE to do it
I wonder if other boards are debating on how they can get Sean Kuraly from us.
Whenever you can add a guy with 24 points to your top 9 you absolutely HAVE to do it
Backes isn't in my lineup for the upcoming season, so the question is who does Miles Wood replace. It's probably Nordstrom, which Wood is an upgrade over but by how much? and is that upgrade worth extending the Bruins "dead money" situation?
I think that Schneider's contract is even more unmovable than Backes. It doesn't even have the real salary dollar benefits and goalies historically aren't worth much on the market.
Even with a bounce back year, it's going to be difficult to find a taker for a 34 year old goalie making $6M in real salary and $6M in cap who has been absolutely terrible since the moment he turned 30.
I'm a little lost on where the fascination with Miles Wood came from. He's alright...
Cory Schneider has a worse contract than Backes its a year longer. No way I go near him.
I mean the price for Wood and them to take Backes is gonna be so high that you aren't gonna have to add much to get Hall instead of Wood.
Their team sucks and I have to think Hall is going to be moved for assets they likely have no shot to resign him unless they seriously overpay him hes hitting UFA next July. His cap hit matches Backes's.
We'd almost certainly get the best season of Hall's career out of him dude might score 50 and have a year like Dollar Bill did before he went to Dallas. I could get behind the idea of loading up and then letting Hall and likely Krug walk so we don't have long term cap issues.
I wonder if other boards are debating on how they can get Sean Kuraly from us.
But here's the thing, are you going to play Backes or is he a $6 million fan? Most people don't have Backes in the line-up at all. With Scheider you'll get 35-40 starts or how many ever you want out of him. Even as bad as he's been his number over the last 3 years rank as a fringe starter. So at worst you're getting a fringe starter with the upside of a former #1 work horse....for a guy who no one even has in their line-up.
I'm going to get crucified for this one, but different take on moving Backes contract.
To New Jersey: David Backes + Jaroslav Halak
To Boston: Cory Schneider + Miles Wood
I think Schneider is much better than his numbers the last 3 years have shown and even then his SV% is right there with guys like Martin Jones & Jonathan Quick. If you look at Schneider when he's on, he's a very good goalie that can put up Vezina like numbers. His last 3 years of products are not far of from where Halak was when he came to Boston...
JH - 2.82 GAA / .913 SV%
CS - 2.90 GAA / .907 SV%
The 3 years prior to this, CS was a completely different goalie:
CS - 2.14 GAA / .924 SV%
So who knows, maybe he can pull a Halak and improve his numbers. With the team built here, I think he could. And maybe he gets back to his playing form from his first 3 years in New Jersey. If it doesn't work out, you buy him out in the off-season 4yrs @ $2 million per.
As for the rest... Halak gives the Devils a solid goaltender coming off a good year and can pair with Blackwood. They also would not be committed to Halak long term and could target someone like Holtby should he make it to FA.
Boston may need to add for Wood to come back, but the way I was looking at it...
Backes Contract > Schneider Contract (Because its 1yr less and less real money owed)
Halak would be an upgrade over Schneider
Is this enough to justify Wood coming back? no idea.
Again, just another idea. Angrily reply away.
The proposal is essentially extend Backes’s contract one year while downgrading the quality of our goaltending, so we can add a 10 goal LW to play behind Marchand, DeBrusk, and Heinen.
Again, I’m just not seeing the benefit.
Schneider is, well, umm, just awful
You mean there's a chance?I've been away for the last 20 hours or so. Did Backes get bought out?
I've been away for the last 20 hours or so. Did Backes get bought out?
The proposal is essentially extend Backes’s contract one year while downgrading the quality of our goaltending, so we can add a 10 goal LW to play behind Marchand, DeBrusk, and Heinen.
Again, I’m just not seeing the benefit.
The buyout is nonsense (why do I keep reading articles suggesting it?) but I'd do backflips in the nude if there was a retirement announcement.
The buyout is nonsense (why do I keep reading articles suggesting it?) but I'd do backflips in the nude if there was a retirement announcement.
I think a Bruins/Rangers deal for Kreider went up in flames once Panarin committed. Now instead of having tons of cap space, they are looking to shed contracts. They want to move out Kreider for a haul of picks and prospects. Boston is looking to unload cap space as well, so a deal between these two teams has no doubt been tabled. If Boston moved a bunch of cap to another team in order to afford Kreiders contract without giving cap back to the Rangers, then I think we see a deal get done. But the cost to both free up our cap and then get Kreider would be expensive on pics and prospects. I just don't see Sweeney robbing the future that much for the now. Kreider would be a good fit on the team however, IMO.
The proposal is essentially extend Backes’s contract one year while downgrading the quality of our goaltending, so we can add a 10 goal LW to play behind Marchand, DeBrusk, and Heinen.
Again, I’m just not seeing the benefit.
Whenever you can add a guy with 24 points to your top 9 you absolutely HAVE to do it