Bruins Mock #2

Why would Boston sell low on McQuaid. Have I missed something?

To get out of the contract. He's played an average of less than 70 games each year, so no-one is going to pony up a great offer for an injury prone guy who's over 30 years old IMO. He played his most games (77) last year, but missed some playoff action too, so thats factored in as well. If we can get a 4th or even 3rd for him I'd completely applaud Mr. Sweeney for his actions. I did this mock potentially winning a trade and somewhat losing a trade, even though I still think they are all fair, I just went up a round or down a round based on approximate value.

Trading him is more about how he's like a lesser version of Kevan Miller and that we don't need both of them. The only way we keep McQuaid IMO is if Kevan Miller plays the left side, which he's not great at or McAvoy plays the left side instead. If that happened our pairs would likely be Chara Carlo, Krug McQuaid, Miller McAvoy. That could happen I guess, but then we'd be at the cap ceiling which would make it hard to add someone at the deadline if we're in good shape to make the playoffs, if we do the signings that I've done for the real Boston Bruins. Now if we don't sign any forwards it clearly wouldn't be a problem to keep McQuaid at all, but I expect us to spend around 3M atleast especially if we can Trade Jimmy Hayes. If we can get a 5th for McQuaid it's still a good pick for us. Bjork, O'Gara and Wiley Sherman were 5th round picks and Matthew Benning, Zane McIntyre and Anton Blidh were 6th round picks, so we're good at drafting in that range too. Every pick doesn't have to be a top 3 round pick to make a difference. Sure those picks have a better chance to materialize into something good, but we've just recently started drafting a lot better in the later rounds so a 5th round pick is nothing to sneeze at for us. I believe we already signed 5th round pick Joona Koppanen from the 2016 draft to a contract as well, so he may amount to something too. A 5th rounder is useful in the Boston Bruins hands, it's not the absolute most we could get for McQuaid in every given situation, but when someone gets the absolute most from every team they deal with and sign every guy for the absolute minimum they'd take; it kinda seems like a joke to me, you know, something that would never happen in real life. So I did potentially lose that deal by maybe a round or 2, but I feel like I won the Spooner / Subban trade by getting 2x second rounders for 2 guys we don't even want very much. Don't sleep on getting a 5th for Jimmy Hayes and a 7th either, I haven't seen us draft many good 7th rounders lately, as Emil Johansson is really our one guy and he's not a lock to ever do anything. Trotman was okay I guess as well, but we let him go for nothing if I remember right.

Pretty good work here. Ideas are good. However.......

1) Williams and Gagner may command a little more money.
2) Not sure why we sign and trade, just trade their rights and let them sign them to whatever they want!! And for picks, can we give up the 2017 picks and take maybe 1 2018 pick instead? A first round? Or even a second?
3) I doubt Montreal takes on Hayes - maybe find a Western Conference team that's had less exposure to him and his down-side (lack of scoring ability)

Good job though!!