Neeley's comments are pure Bruin's bullshit spin designed to win support from fans. They play this type of game too frequently and it's never actually accurate. It's real easy to say that they offered him X amount of money over X number of years. Without seeing the terms, it's really hard to determine if this was a legit offer. Remember, this is the same organization that played semantics games with previous free agents by saying vague shit like they offered to pay a guy more, but he chose to go elsewhere. And then you hear it was a slightly higher AAV over half the term, so the "offer" wasn't really an offer.
Until I hear the terms, I call bullshit in a big way. It's called Bruins. Where winning a PR battle is more important than winning a cup.