The Ferland Solution

Created by: bruinsdude77

Team: 2022-23 Boston Bruins

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 4, 2022

Published: Oct. 4, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

With Marchand, McAvoy, and Grzelcyk on the LTIR to begin the season, the cap is not an issue for the Bruins. However, it becomes one as all three get healthy, assuming no one else is on the LTIR. The Bs cannot carry a 23-man roster that includes those three and stay under the cap without making a trade - even if the likes of Foligno, Nosek, and Wagner are all buried in the AHL as a means to activate the LTIR group. It is possible that one of those three is claimed and that would solve the cap problem, but why wait and hope?

The Canucks are looking to move the contract of Michael Ferland, who is no longer healthy enough to play, and are willing to give up more to move him. Seeing as the Bruins are already going to be in the LTIR to begin the season, it makes a ton of sense to add Ferland for free. This would allow the Bs to go over the cap by Ferland's $3.5MM all season. Not only would that allow the team to avoid risking Nosek on waivers, but they could even keep Foligno on board without going over. Or in my opinion, you still send Foligno to the minors and give guys like McLaughlin, Steen, and Lysell some looks over the course of the year and then use the extra Ferland space to add at the deadline. With the roster below, the Bruins could send McLaughlin down (no waivers necessary) at the deadline and add a forward worth up to $3.55MM. The Bruins will be hard pressed to accumulate that amount otherwise. Seems well worth taking on Ferland's salary. No brainer in my opinion.

Trades

BOS

Ferland, Micheal
2023 2nd round pick (VAN)

VAN

2023 4th round pick (BOS)
2023 7th round pick (BOS)

Buried

Nick Foligno: $2,675,000 ($3,800,000)
Chris Wagner: $225,000 ($1,350,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$83,337,917	$0	$4,650,000	-$837,917

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Marchand, Brad $6,125,000$6,125,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 3	Bergeron, Patrice $2,500,000$2,500,000 ($2,500,000$2M) C NMC UFA - 1	DeBrusk, Jake $4,000,000$4,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Hall, Taylor $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Krejci, David $1,000,000$1,000,000 ($2,000,000$2M) C NTC UFA - 1	Pastrnak, David $6,666,667$6,666,667 RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1
Zacha, Pavel $3,500,000$3,500,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Coyle, Charlie $5,250,000$5,250,000 C, RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4	Smith, Craig $3,100,000$3,100,000 RW UFA - 1
Frederic, Trent $1,050,000$1,050,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Studnicka, Jack $762,500$762,500 RW, C RFA - 2	McLaughlin, Marc $883,750$883,750 C RFA - 1
	Nosek, Tomas $1,750,000$1,750,000 LW, C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Lindholm, Hampus $6,500,000$6,500,000 LD NTC, NMC UFA - 8	McAvoy, Charlie $9,500,000$9,500,000 RD UFA - 8	Swayman, Jeremy $925,000$925,000 ($150,000$150K) G RFA - 1
Grzelcyk, Matt $3,687,500$3,687,500 LD UFA - 2	Carlo, Brandon $4,100,000$4,100,000 RD UFA - 5	Ullmark, Linus $5,000,000$5,000,000 G NMC UFA - 3
	Forbort, Derek $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2
Reilly, Mike $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD UFA - 2	Clifton, Connor $1,000,000$1,000,000 RD UFA - 1
Zboril, Jakub $1,137,500$1,137,500 LD/RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Ferland, Micheal $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Pastrnak, D.		Bergeron, P.		DeBrusk, J.
	Krejci, D.		Marchand, B.

Power Play 2
Zacha, P.		Coyle, C.		Hall, T.
	McAvoy, C.		Grzelcyk, M.

Penalty Kill 1
	Zacha, P.	Coyle, C.
	Forbort, D.	Carlo, B.

Penalty Kill 2
	Marchand, B.	Bergeron, P.
	Lindholm, H.	McAvoy, C.

Top Comments

Oct. 4, 2022 at 5:32 p.m.

mv21227

Joined: Jul. 2020

Posts: 10,187

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Doubt the Canucks add a 2nd to move Ferland. If it costs that much it makes more sense to keep him and stash him on LTIR ourselves

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Oct. 4, 2022 at 5:33 p.m.

DefenseFirst

Joined: Aug. 2022

Posts: 5,519

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This is not a fit.

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Oct. 4, 2022 at 5:33 p.m.

majormoose007

MajorMoose

Joined: Feb. 2019

Posts: 3,425

Likes: 2,602

Canucks won't add a 2nd to dump an LTIR contract with how weak our prospect pool is

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Oct. 4, 2022 at 5:41 p.m.

Canucks123

BigMeech

Joined: Mar. 2022

Posts: 1,556

Likes: 349

that is a false claim lol

Oct. 4, 2022 at 5:53 p.m.

BestGMBenning

Joined: Oct. 2021

Posts: 2,117

Likes: 483

So here’s the report from Seravelli. He said they are looking to move on from his contract due to other teams having injuries and not having cap space and looking for that cap flexibility. (So it just sounds like Vancouver is trying to take advantage of teams in cap crunches here). The only thing there is to that is Ferland is owed $2.75M in cash which would be the only reason Vancouver would have to pay a little bit to a team to take his contract but at the same time it may not cost anything at all.

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