Confirmed Signing with Link: [BOS] Bruins sign Charlie McAvoy to extension (8 years, $9.5M AAV)

[nbwingsfan]

Not super related to this extension but whats the Bruins plan long term? No prospects, Bergeron might retire. Seems like they might not be great next year

Why would Bergeron retire while he’s still a 70+ pt player?

 

[nbwingsfan]

it didn't say anything specific about McAvoy. Every team is gonna get their cap upped. doesn't mean everyone should be paid much more than their value.

imo Mcavoy should sign for bw 7.5 to 8.5 not 10!!!

In everyone else’s opinion you are very, very wrong

 

[Mr Positive]

Why would Bergeron retire while he’s still a 70+ pt player?

I suppose the question is whether he'll stick around through an eventual decline or go out on top like Krejci

 

[Rabid Ranger]

I'm not sure how "big" this contract really will be. Pelech and Pulock have kinda set a decent range for top-pairing, "defensive" defensemen.

I think McAvoy is elite, but he doesn't have the raw production to really be in the outer stratosphere of comparable defensemen contracts.

Who do you view as his comparables? He had 30 points last year playing extremely hard minutes without the benefit of a ton of PP time.

 

[Foppberg]

Why would Bergeron retire while he’s still a 70+ pt player?

Dunno. But Friedman has mentioned him retiring on the podcast a few times. Expects him to be on a year to year basis after this season.

 

[nbwingsfan]

I suppose the question is whether he'll stick around through an eventual decline or go out on top like Krejci

The cases like Krejci are incredibly rare. Especially for players from NA.

 

[mouser]

McAvoy will be the age that Petry is right now at the end of his 8 year extension. The cap will continue to go up - in fact, it will go up marginally during Petry's deal but MASSIVELY during McAvoys. And, yes, McAvoy is absolutely better than Petry. Petry is underrated, but McAvoy is, too.

I wouldn’t be so confident about that. We may be looking at 2026-27, 2027-28 or 2028-29 before the cap sees anything more then a $1m year over year increase.

 

[crowi]

Well certainly not offensively

Even defensively petry proved he's a monster.

I know he's super under rated but he was better than McAvoy last year

Pretty tiring to watch SOME fans barge in and talk about their old d-man [Petry] in a thread about McAvoy.

 

[The Devilish Buffoon]

I wouldn’t be so confident about that. We may be looking at 2026-27, 2027-28 or 2028-29 before the cap sees anything more then a $1m year over year increase.

I may be off in my understanding of things, then - my thought was it was expected to basically flatline til 2025-2026 and then start to jump from there on out - so basically halfway through McAvoys deal. I am certainly far less informed than you, though - especially on that front.

That said, even with a stagnant cap, I suspect McAvoy will earn his keep so long as he's in the range of the other D contracts signed this year.

 

[mouser]

I may be off in my understanding of things, then - my thought was it was expected to basically flatline til 2025-2026 and then start to jump from there on out - so basically halfway through McAvoys deal. I am certainly far less informed than you, though - especially on that front.

That said, even with a stagnant cap, I suspect McAvoy will earn his keep so long as he's in the range of the other D contracts signed this year.

Personally I was originally optimistic it could jump in 2025-26. After collecting more information and number crunching I’m becoming increasingly pessimistic it’s going to take longer.

 

[The Devilish Buffoon]

Personally I was originally optimistic it could jump in 2025-26. After collecting more information and number crunching I’m becoming increasingly pessimistic it’s going to take longer.

What caused the change of opinion?

 

[mouser]

What caused the change of opinion?

The escrow debt balance the players owe to the owners turned out to be larger then I was expecting. $1.1B to $1.2B entering this season.

And it appears the payback is going to take longer then I originally projected as so many teams are continuing to spend to the cap or exceed it with LTIR.

I’m still crunching a lot of numbers. Plan to post some best case/worst case scenarios on the Business of Hockey forum sometime in the next week.

 

[Pure Slaughter Value]

Pelech & Pulock combined for 1 more pt than McAvoy last season.

Worst season statistcially of Pulock's career. Prior to that, he and McAvoy basically average the same amount of points.

That being said, I think McAvoy's a much better player. I would think 8x8 would be enough but after some of the contracts handed out he's got every right to look for more.

 

[bossram]

Who do you view as his comparables? He had 30 points last year playing extremely hard minutes without the benefit of a ton of PP time.

Heiskanen probably is what he's going for. I don't think he'll be able to break the $9M barrier without the raw counting stats.

 

[KrisLetAngry]

I wouldn’t be so confident about that. We may be looking at 2026-27, 2027-28 or 2028-29 before the cap sees anything more then a $1m year over year increase.

There is some rumors that in 3 or 4 years that it might hit 90 million.

Projections and predictions everywhere are wild.

 

[5cotland]

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

I guess this ends the streak of Bruins deals well under market value. I don't think he'd get much more than this on the open market frankly. Solid player that they had to lock up and fair deal but no discount here.

 

[GermanSpitfire]

I’m not even going to lie - Thats ALOT.

 

[Koivu11]

It’s more than I thought he’d get.

 

[KingsCourt]

 

[maxbme]

Worth every penny. Under 10 and I was gonna be happy. Lets gooooo

 

[grewalwings]

 

[Ryuji Yamazaki]

Insane.

Ekblad looking like a freakin steal right now.

 

[I Hate Philadelphia]

Insane.

Ekblad looking like a freakin steal right now.

Same deal as Seth Jones who is 4 years older and much worse. I have no problems with it.

 

[The Devilish Buffoon]

Fair signing. Give every team in the league 9.5mil in compliance buyouts and a feee Charlie McAvoy (at 9.5m) and every team takes that deal and improves significantly.