What?

Agreed. Now ask yourself why on earth boston would do that?

I agree. At the same time, there's zero chance Holland pays that price, not when he can go out and sign a UFA for similar money and performance.

Raanta is a UFA. Why would you protect him at all? Makes no sense.

AA isn't returning no 2nd round pick, We'll give you a 5th for him and you'll like it.

AA isn't returning no 2nd round pick, We'll give you a 5th for him and you'll like it.

I was making a tongue-in-cheek jab at @Copenhagen for under-valuing Broberg in the DeBrusk trade above.

Oh, he wasn’t, but oh.

Broberg seems to be progressing nicely. Honestly I think people forget that he's only about 3 months older than some of the 2020 draft's biggest names - Lafreniere and Rossi, for instance.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/philip-broberg-earned-invitation-stay-oilers-summer/

Good point, another hand shake deal like Larsson

UFA's usually are closer to their last legs than someone around McDavids age that we can lock up for a long time and become scoring machines. Just got to be choosy who it is and how durable they will be.

The reason why I said that is because they are expendable. Like i said above. Poolparty is not playing here PERIOD and therefore is nothing but a trade piece or draft pick

Could work. Raanta certainly has good enough numbers to pursue.

They are high on vaakaneinen to replace chara when he retires. We can already sign all of our players without this trade.

Okay, so let’s just think about this for a second.
You’re trading, from the bruins perspective, a good prospect, and two players that are healthy scratches for them, and the bruins have to give up a young top six winger.

Soooo the Stanley cup contending boston bruins trade one of their most important forwards, for two guys that aren’t going to play for them, and a prospect that might play for them down the road.

Now ask yourself, why on earth do the bruins do this?

Why to resign everyone in the next couple years. Why to upgrade their 3rd pair RD and 2nd RW side. Why to replace Chara with a stud D that is playing first line minutes with men already at 18 years old, no just 19 years old. Lots of reason why.
Most of your top prospects appear to be LW

By the way, good luck signing everyone, I like the Bruins and I love Marchand and Gallager (Canadians) I remember them on the same line at the Hockey championships I think it was and that line was chaos.

What? Okay. A lot of issues here. First off it appears you don’t know much about the bruins prospect system. Who are these LW prospects you speak of? Lauko. Okay i guess. No, the bruins top prospects are left D, and i guess center.

Let’s get a couple things straight though, Benning doesn’t see a shift for the bruins. He’s maybe their number 9 D. Benning and Puljujarvi provide legitimately no value to the bruins in the context of this deal. Wasted roster spots mitigated by upside in Puljujarvi I guess.

I think maybe you should take a gander at the bruins cap situation. They don’t really have any crunch coming this year. When it comes time to re-sign McAvoy, and Carlo and Debrusk are both off their current deals, maybe.

As for the chara thing, give Urho Vaakainanen a google.

Bottom line you’re asking the presidents trophy winning cup contender to trade a top six forward for a prospect that plays their strongest position when it comes to organizational depth. Value may be fine, but it’s just a horrible concept for boston that wouldn’t warrant a second of thought from Don Sweeney.

Bruins reject.

Lol what team need of the bruins does this address?

So obvious damn

I did look at their prospects before i did this, but just on the internet. Frederic, Lauko, Bjork are all left shot and probably only 1 makes it to the NHL and the odds of them being a center are not great. Same as the Oilers and all their prospects will not make it to the NHL.

Benning, I am not sure he would be the 9th D in Boston (During the last three seasons at 5v5, Benning has ranked 18th among NHL defenceman with over 2300 minutes played in goals for percentage with a 54.87 — a far cry from the next ranked Oilers D in Darnell Nurse, who ranks 75th with a GF% of 49.43.)

Vaakainanen we all know he is going to be a stud, but he still isnt Broberg material.

Each to your own, if the deal doesnt work it doesnt work. All things on this site are ideas and it is hard to make trades in the real world as well. I picked on Debrusk assuming he would love to play in his home town on the first line with McDavid.

I thought I went over that already.

Where? I see no description or anything

And if you except me to read 40 comments you are sadly mistaken

I am just informing you that the bruins reject, theres not much to discuss

Bjork is an NHL player. I don’t consider him a prospect anymore. Lauko is a kid that has 22 pro games. Promising, but that’s it. Then Frederic kind of looks like a sure fire bottom six center. Definitely doesn’t strike me as a wing though. Also, I kind of think Bjork is a better player on the right wing.

Anyway, the value is probably fine, it just seems like this is the kind of deal the kings might make if they had a 3rd year player like debrusk that wasn’t keen on re-signing. It’s just not a move a true contender makes from a logic standpoint.