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Created by: canes2006

Team: 2020-21 Boston Bruins

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 8, 2020

Published: Sep. 8, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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First thing, bury Nick Ritchie, biggest bust since the Don signed Belesky.

Let Torey walk, it’ll hurt to have never seen him win in Boston after two really good chances, but it is what it is.

Jake’s time in Boston is up, the window to win is still there but it’s closing as each day passes with marchy and bergie getting older, the FA market is very deep with RW who can finally play alongside Krejc in his last year with the Bs, dump the disaster that was the 2015 NHL draft for the bruins for a solid bottom 6 player and draft picks and use the cap space to bring in one of those highly rated RWs on the market.

Bring back Zee for one final season as a 7th d who rotated in and out of the lineup, staying around Charlie, Brandon and Urho, helping them develop into the future of the Bruins D line. Sign a solid middle of the pack Dman like Edmunson to bolster the back end and really help retool and almost perfect Bruins team into a true cup contender.

Lastly, the moves in this offseason wouldn’t handcuff us for next offseason, you’d still have space for Kase and Carlo’s contracts and space to bring in a bridge goalie.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Grzelcyk, Matt	5	$3,900,500
Kuhlman, Karson	2	$1,000,000
Cehlárik, Peter	2	$900,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Chara, Zdeno	1	$900,000
Toffoli, Tyler	6	$6,500,750
Edmundson, Joel	4	$4,325,000

Trades

BOS

Kempe, Adrian
2020 2nd round pick (VAN)
2020 2nd round pick (VGK)
2020 4th round pick (CGY)

LAK

DeBrusk, Jake [RFA Rights]
Senyshyn, Zach [RFA Rights]
Zboril, Jakub [RFA Rights]

BOS

Madsen, Merrick [RFA Rights]

ARI

Moore, John ($1,250,000 retained)

Retained Salary Transactions

David Backes: $1,500,000 (25%)
John Moore: $1,250,000 (45.45%)

Buried

Nick Ritchie: $423,925 ($1,498,925)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$82,350,231	$964,222	$1,675,000	-$850,231

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Marchand, Brad $6,125,000$6,125,000 LW NMC UFA - 5	Bergeron, Patrice $6,875,000$6,875,000 C M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	Pastrnak, David $6,666,667$6,666,667 RW UFA - 3
Toffoli, Tyler $6,500,750$6,500,750 RW, LW UFA - 4	Krejci, David $7,250,000$7,250,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1	Coyle, Charlie $5,250,000$5,250,000 C, RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 6
Bjork, Anders $1,600,000$1,600,000 LW, RW UFA - 3	Kempe, Adrian $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Kase, Ondrej $2,600,000$2,600,000 RW UFA - 1
Lindholm, Pär $850,000$850,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Kuraly, Sean $1,275,000$1,275,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Wagner, Chris $1,350,000$1,350,000 RW, C UFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Vaakanainen, Urho $894,167$894,167 ($425,000$425K) LD/RD RFA - 2	McAvoy, Charlie $4,900,000$4,900,000 RD UFA - 2	Rask, Tuukka $7,000,000$7,000,000 G UFA - 1
Grzelcyk, Matt $3,900,500$3,900,500 LD UFA - 4	Carlo, Brandon $2,850,000$2,850,000 RD UFA - 1	Halák, Jaroslav $2,250,000$2,250,000 ($1,250,000$1M) G UFA - 1
	Clifton, Connor $1,000,000$1,000,000 RD UFA - 3
Edmundson, Joel $4,325,000$4,325,000 LD/RD UFA - 4

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Lauzon, Jérémy $850,000$850,000 LD/RD UFA - 2
Kuhlman, Karson $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW UFA - 2
Chara, Zdeno $900,000$900,000 LD UFA - 1

Sep. 8, 2020 at 9:29 a.m.

Shane_Kelly

Shane Kelly

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Studs?, also vaak is not ready for the top mins role

Sep. 8, 2020 at 9:41 a.m.

Leafs_and_Sens_Fan

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Big Z is willing to come back but not as a 7th D. The lowest you can play him is on the 3rd pairing.

Sep. 8, 2020 at 9:43 a.m.

canes2006

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Quoting: Leafs_and_Sens_Fan

Big Z is willing to come back but not as a 7th D. The lowest you can play him is on the 3rd pairing.

I’m sure he’ll be happy to be back at all. If anything he’ll appreciate taking less, useless, heavy minutes in the season so he’s fresh and capable for a more important role in the playoffs.

Sep. 8, 2020 at 9:45 a.m.

canes2006

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Quoting: Shane_Kelly

Studs?, also vaak is not ready for the top mins role

Urho and Zee will rotate the top pairing minutes. It’s a formula that can work. Urho has huge upside. Studs, Trent and Lauko can all fight for a spot on the top squad but I don’t see them making it over anyone here. They’ll come in here and there throughout the season, they’ll be black aces.

Sep. 8, 2020 at 9:46 a.m.

Leafs_and_Sens_Fan

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Quoting: Rosatoa1367

I’m sure he’ll be happy to be back at all. If anything he’ll appreciate taking less, useless, heavy minutes in the season so he’s fresh and capable for a more important role in the playoffs.

Is being a 7th D really being back? It's like when Spezza was being benched by Babcock, he was very unhappy.

At minimum he plays on the 3rd pair or he retires or goes to a contender that needs him.

Sep. 8, 2020 at 9:53 a.m.

ON3M4N

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So your plan is to trade a 23yr old that is top 20 in 5v5 goals among all LW's over the last 3 years? The same 23yr old that is top 60 in 5v5 goals among all forwards over the last 3 years? He's got the same amount of 5v5 goals as guys like Barzal, Toews & Tarasenko. He has more 5v5 goals than guys like Tkachuk, Rakell, Zucker, Patches, Larkin, Kreider, Palmieri, Landeskog & Hoffman and you want to trade him for a 3rd liner?

DeBrusk - 43G / 83pts
Toffoli - 36G / 82pts
Coyle - 30G / 78pts

The two guys you have on the 2nd line have been worse at 5v5 production over DeBrusk, how is this making the team better?

WOW!

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Sep. 8, 2020 at 10:25 a.m.

bhavikp27

Joined: Jun. 2016

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Chara will be a regular if he returns. Cehlarik has signed in Europe, he's gone.

Jake's time is up??? Kempe has been better on wing unless I'm wrong and even if I am, he's a 3rd liner at the moment and Bruins already have Coyle there. Keep #13 there, it's where he's at his best. Kase in the top6. Toffoli isn't LW and this contract is too much for him. Studnicka in the NHL.

Vaakanainen is not ready for top pair duties. Edmundson sucks, you don't give him this contract nor you sign him. Don't see ARI taking Moore, they have enough Dmen and they are tight against cap.

Sep. 8, 2020 at 10:26 a.m.

bhavikp27

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Quoting: Leafs_and_Sens_Fan

Is being a 7th D really being back? It's like when Spezza was being benched by Babcock, he was very unhappy.

At minimum he plays on the 3rd pair or he retires or goes to a contender that needs him.

Chara will play regularly. 3rd pair or 2nd or whatever but he'll play. Maybe less and maybe not back-to-back but it's up to him/Cassidy. He won't be a 7th D.

Sep. 8, 2020 at 10:37 a.m.

Leafs_and_Sens_Fan

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Quoting: bhavikp27

Chara will play regularly. 3rd pair or 2nd or whatever but he'll play. Maybe less and maybe not back-to-back but it's up to him/Cassidy. He won't be a 7th D.

I agree. He'll play less but he definitely won't be a 7th D.

Sep. 8, 2020 at 10:50 a.m.

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OldNYIfan

Once a Kings Fan Too

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We'll give you the Las Vegas second for DeBrusk but the rest of that suggested trade is a no-go. Kempe is our DeBrusk; exchanging them makes little sense.

Sep. 8, 2020 at 11:19 a.m.

#11

MMBzFan

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Sweeney wouldn’t do either trade.

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Sep. 8, 2020 at 11:58 a.m.

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Silkysmooth42

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Bruins easily reject both trades. Thats that

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