Alberta_OReilly_Fan
Bruin fan since 1975
Now that Minnesota has signed Eriksson this seems like it could be a possibility.
Backes and a 2nd for Rask.
Create $2m in cap space. See if Rask can bounce back. If not his buyout costs $1.33m against the cap going forward.
bruins cant afford either rask or backes but theres a pretty decent chance backes is about to end up on LTIR... once backes is available for a trade he will be owed way less real money than rask. whoever we deal him to will be a team that doesnt give a damn about caphit and is only concerned about real money.
if backes is going to remain on ltir to finish his career then hes much much much much easier to trade than rask.
theres no chance we are taking back a 4 mill cap hit in any trades. we will probably trade miller/moore once they get healthy enough to come off the ltir. we are overloaded at defense now and thats a good thing. once those guys are traded we would be able to keep backes and deal him at our convience
one concern that a lot of people havent mentioned yet is chara has a huge bonus this year. it will be penalized against next year's cap if we keep too many guys on ltir this year and max our cap