Minimal Trades

Created by: KennyBoi

Team: 2023-24 Boston Bruins

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 14, 2023

Published: Jun. 16, 2023

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

Been seeing a lot of people on this site saying that the Bruins are in cap hell, which is not really the case. Two trades and a buyout and the Bruins can ice a pretty good cap compliant roster. Obviously depends on certain signings, but I think these are all pretty fair.

If BOS really wanted to deal Ullmark or Hall, it would be for a package resembling their value. Otherwise they'll just hold on to them if the right deal isn't there.

Also with the OEL buyout news, I remember him only allowing a trade to BOS or VAN. BOS couldn't afford his caphit, so VAN it was. Would be interesting to see if he's open to signing a league min deal for 1 year with BOS this summer.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Frederic, Trent	2	$2,500,000
Swayman, Jeremy	1	$3,000,000
Lauko, Jakub	2	$850,000
McLaughlin, Marc	2	$800,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Bergeron, Patrice	1	$1,000,000
Carrick, Connor	2	$800,000
Hathaway, Garnet	2	$1,750,000
Ekman-Larsson, Oliver	1	$775,000

Trades

BOS

Vaakanainen, Urho

ANA

Forbort, Derek

BOS

2024 3rd round pick (BOS)
2025 5th round pick (WSH)

WSH

Grzelcyk, Matt

Buyouts

Mike Reilly: $333,334

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	$83,500,000	$83,258,334	$4,500,000	$0	$241,666

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Marchand, Brad $6,125,000$6,125,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Bergeron, Patrice $1,000,000$1,000,000 C UFA	DeBrusk, Jake $4,000,000$4,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Hall, Taylor $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	Zacha, Pavel $4,750,000$4,750,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 4	Pastrnak, David $11,250,000$11,250,000 RW NMC UFA - 8
Merkulov, Georgi $925,000$925,000 LW RFA - 2	Coyle, Charlie $5,250,000$5,250,000 C, RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Frederic, Trent $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Lauko, Jakub $850,000$850,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	McLaughlin, Marc $800,000$800,000 C RFA - 1	Hathaway, Garnet $1,750,000$1,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Lindholm, Hampus $6,500,000$6,500,000 LD NTC, NMC UFA - 7	Carlo, Brandon $4,100,000$4,100,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 4	Ullmark, Linus $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Ekman-Larsson, Oliver $775,000$775,000 LD UFA - 1	McAvoy, Charlie $9,500,000$9,500,000 RD UFA - 7	Swayman, Jeremy $3,000,000$3,000,000 G RFA - 1
Zboril, Jakub $1,137,500$1,137,500 LD/RD UFA - 1	Vaakanainen, Urho $850,000$850,000 LD/RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Steen, Oskar $800,000$800,000 C, RW UFA - 1
Greer, AJ $762,500$762,500 RW, LW UFA - 1
Carrick, Connor $800,000$800,000 RD UFA - 1

Top Comments

Jun. 16, 2023 at 7:06 p.m.

SashaLavery

Joined: Jun. 2023

Posts: 87

Likes: 28

Because of the cap situation Boston is in, teams aren’t gonna bail them out they will need to pay to unload certain players or move a guy like Hall for a Bjorkstrand type deal or Pacioretty

Jun. 16, 2023 at 7:21 p.m.

KennyBoi

Joined: Jan. 2019

Posts: 1,724

Likes: 535

Quoting: SashaLavery

Because of the cap situation Boston is in, teams aren’t gonna bail them out they will need to pay to unload certain players or move a guy like Hall for a Bjorkstrand type deal or Pacioretty

The two trades I made resemble that though. ANA needs to reach the floor and Vaak has had struggles to stay healthy so his time in the NHL is running out. And Gryz should be fetching a low 2nd or high 3rd + a mid prospect, and this trade is a reflection of under balling Gryz's value to help alleviate cap.

Jun. 16, 2023 at 7:42 p.m.

Pensfan303

Joined: Jun. 2022

Posts: 1,464

Likes: 619

What is Ulmarks value anyway? because to me, hes probably most likely to go in order to bring back Bert or Orlov

Jun. 16, 2023 at 8:18 p.m.

KennyBoi

Joined: Jan. 2019

Posts: 1,724

Likes: 535

Quoting: Pensfan303

What is Ulmarks value anyway? because to me, hes probably most likely to go in order to bring back Bert or Orlov

Orlov is out of the discussion for returning, there's just no way BOS can afford him without doing major surgery to the roster.

If BOS wants to re-sign Bertuzzi, I would imagine it's Hall being shipped out first before Ullmark. And if that's the case, then other teams will weaponize that and we'll likely see Hall being dealt similarly to what Bjorkstrand got. That's why I believe BOS will just let Bertuzzi walk.

Jun. 17, 2023 at 9:49 a.m.

qc14

Joined: Sep. 2020

Posts: 3,348

Likes: 1,911

i don't think washington is the right team for gryz but for that price i'm sure someone would take him. if they need to move debrusk or hall though they would certainly be interested

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