If Backes wants to play next year it will be tough to move him still. Most teams won’t take him without retention. The teams that want him for cap floor, he won’t go to. Best hope is he decides to retire but not file the paperwork and they place him on LTIR.

They may sniff around Panarin but he has no interest in Boston anyway. MoJo was brought in as a pure rental. If he proves to be a great fit or puts up crazy numbers they may rethink that. Doubt it. They will focus internally.

Mojo might be a rental but like you said if he plays really well they may make an effort to resign the guy.

Backes might just retire anyways and it'll be interesting to see what or how much of a recapture penalty will be given. There could be loopholes too which Don Sweeney is clearly smart enough to figure out given that he went to college at Harvard. It's really nothing to worry about until the time comes in the first place. All you'll do thinking about it is make yourself stressed out because you don't know which direction they'll go in until it actually happens and unless you plan on going through the entire CBA you won't be able to determine if there is a loophole that would work. It might also happen that if you looked over the entire CBA and possibly found a loophole, yet couldn't confrim it because of a lack of the appropriate information to tell if it'd work so it'd most likely be a waste of time until someone with inside knowledge sits down to do it when they get closer to making a decision this offseason.

For now it's time to up your belief factor in the Bruins and just have fun watching the games and know they did what they could with-in reason to improve the team for this years playoffs. That's really all a fan can ask and I in no way feel like they gave up a big part of the future. Donato may be good, but he wasn't going to help as much this season as Coyle and it wasn't a pure rental so the value is pretty solid. MOJO's deal is good. I think I'd have rather gotten Wood and it might have been you who mentioned it in my thread that you thought MOJO would be the option they'd give us. Good call on that.

I’m happy with what they did. The issue has been 3rd line and secondary scoring and a 3rd center and they just filled it. Without breaking the bank.

I’ve heard all sorts of things on Backes to the point i don’t know what to believe as far as a recapture penalty. I’ve heard none. I’ve heard 2m. Still better than his buyout cost.

He is frustrated. I think he wants out as much as we want him out. I just don’t know if he’ll have the desire to play next year really. So let;s win the Cup, put his name on it, and put him out of his misery. And ours.

Ya i’d rather had Wood to. He was signed long term and cheap tho. Prob was me that called MoJo as Devil we’d get if we did. I said it on more thsn one post. Lol.