Midpoint Arb Awards

Created by: bruinsdude77

Team: 2023-24 Boston Bruins

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 31, 2023

Published: Jul. 31, 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

If Swayman and Frederic both come in at their midpoints, the Bs will be in trouble with getting to a 23-man roster under the cap, especially if they want to upgrade the forward group too. One potential way to do both:

1. Trade for a cheap defenseman likely to be lost of waivers. A team with cap space might prefer to get something rather than nothing even if they have to retain salary. There are a few options, but I went with McIsaac. Uphill battle to make the Wings and is no longer waiver-exempt.

2. Invite a UFA to camp and give him a minimum deal (with bonuses if applicable). Still an outrageous amount of options out there. I went with Bailey for the veteran presence and something to prove, but strongly considered Kessel, Parise, Staal, Brassard, Stastny, Suter, and Comtois. Any of them would bolster this forward corps and provide some lineup flexibility.

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Swayman, Jeremy		1	$3,400,000
Frederic, Trent		2	$2,150,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Bailey, Josh		1	$775,000

Trades

BOS

McIsaac, Jared ($393,750 retained)

DET

Steen, Oskar
2026 5th round pick (BOS)

Additional Details:

Conditional pick based on games played

Buyouts

Mike Reilly: $333,334

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$83,389,584	$4,500,000	$500,000	$110,416

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Marchand, Brad $6,125,000$6,125,000 LW M-NTC 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
DeBrusk, Jake $4,000,000$4,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Coyle, Charlie $5,250,000$5,250,000 C, RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Frederic, Trent $2,150,000$2,150,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
van Riemsdyk, James $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Geekie, Morgan $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, RW RFA - 2	Bailey, Josh $775,000$775,000 RW, LW, C UFA
Lauko, Jakub $787,500$787,500 LW, RW RFA - 2	Beecher, John $925,000$925,000 C RFA - 2	Lucic, Milan $1,000,000$1,000,000 ($500,000$500K) LW, RW NMC UFA - 1
	Boqvist, Jesper $775,000$775,000 C, LW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Lindholm, Hampus $6,500,000$6,500,000 LD NTC, NMC UFA - 7	McAvoy, Charlie $9,500,000$9,500,000 RD UFA - 7	Ullmark, Linus $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Grzelcyk, Matt $3,687,500$3,687,500 LD UFA - 1	Carlo, Brandon $4,100,000$4,100,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 4	Swayman, Jeremy $3,400,000$3,400,000 G RFA - 1
Forbort, Derek $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1	Shattenkirk, Kevin $1,050,000$1,050,000 RD UFA - 1
McIsaac, Jared $393,750$393,750 LD RFA - 1	Zboril, Jakub $1,137,500$1,137,500 LD/RD UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Pastrnak, D.		Zacha, P.		DeBrusk, J.
	McAvoy, C.		Marchand, B.

Power Play 2
Bailey, J.		Coyle, C.		van Riemsdyk, J.
	Shattenkirk, K.		Lindholm, H.

Penalty Kill 1
	Frederic, T.	Coyle, C.
	Forbort, D.	Carlo, B.

Penalty Kill 2
	Marchand, B.	Geekie, M.
	Lindholm, H.	McAvoy, C.

Top Comments

Jul. 31, 2023 at 2:24 p.m.

bhavikp27

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 12,583

Likes: 5,455

McIsaac isn't really special. At least not enough to trade a potential bottom-6 F and another pick. Most importantly, let's just take care of our own cheap defensemen who could be lost on waivers (Mitchell, Walsh and Regula) and all three have been better than McIsaac recently.

Personally, I prefer a young player with upside over a declining veteran in Bailey. Beecher isn't ready.

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Jul. 31, 2023 at 2:29 p.m.

Spaceman

Joined: Dec. 2017

Posts: 1,804

Likes: 852

Wings pass. This is an AHL deal. McIssac offers guidance to the up and coming Defence in GR. Steen won't help GR much. And we would definitely not retain on McIssac.

Jul. 31, 2023 at 2:43 p.m.

DeadWingsv2

PlusMinus is stupid

Joined: May 2018

Posts: 7,319

Likes: 7,154

Detroit doesn't want Steen. Keep him.

Jul. 31, 2023 at 2:54 p.m.

rhhockey96

Joined: Jan. 2023

Posts: 11

Likes: 0

A third line of JVR, Geekie, and Bailey may be the worst 4th line in the NHL. Bruins needs to find a way to get a 1C or 2C to shift Coyle down to 3C. Otherwise, this forward group has no depth.

Aug. 1, 2023 at 1:53 a.m.

Billy12Bob

Joined: Sep. 2020

Posts: 5,588

Likes: 3,001

Detroit is not going to use a valuable retention slot on an AHL player with a fully buryable contract.

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