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Created by: charles_entertainment_mcavoy

Team: 2021-22 Boston Bruins

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 14, 2021

Published: Jun. 14, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Krejci and Hall sign for cheap after both saying they want to stay and win in Boston

Rask signs a short, cheap deal, knowing he'll be out until at least February, and the Bruins can discuss a new (likely larger) contract next summer. Anderson is signed as insurance in case Vladar/Swayman falter, but likely stays in Providence.

Bergeron, Marchand, Pastrnak, DeBrusk, Coyle, Smith, Frederic / McAvoy, Grzelcyk, Carlo / Vladar are protected from Seattle, leaving Ritchie exposed. The Bruins then trade DeBrusk+ for Graves to shore up their LD and give Seattle a young scorer, something they won't really be able to get from the expansion draft.

The NYR trade is made to ensure the Bruins can get Aatu Raty--he should fall to 16th, and I think the Bruins' development team could help him realize the potential seen in him before 2019-2020, while Studnicka and Zboril both require waivers but aren't good enough to be NHL regulars just yet, and fill holes in NYR's prospect pool. The value might be a little off but I can live without Berard coming back.

Lauzon is traded to EDM after Caleb Jones is taken in the expansion draft, the Oilers have plenty of 4th liners to spare leaving Archibald available for trade.

The other UFAs vastly upgrade Boston's depth. Coleman and Goodrow were the exact players who took Tampa to the next level, Hyman played at an elite level this year and fits Krejci perfectly, and Hakanpaa is a perfect fit with the offensive Reilly.

With all these additions I have a hard time seeing this team losing to anyone but the Avalanche or Golden Knights in the playoffs next year, the only real weakness is goaltending but hopefully Rask recovers well in time for the playoffs and Swayman can keep the team afloat until then.

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Carlo, Brandon		1	$3,500,000
Frederic, Trent		2	$1,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Hall, Taylor	5	$4,000,000
Krejci, David	1	$4,000,000
Rask, Tuukka	1	$2,500,000
Anderson, Craig	1	$750,000
Coleman, Blake	4	$4,250,000
Hyman, Zach	5	$6,000,000
Goodrow, Barclay	2	$2,000,000
Hakanpää, Jani	2	$2,750,000
Reilly, Mike	2	$2,750,000

Trades

BOS

Berard, Brett [Reserve List]
2021 1st round pick (NYR)

NYR

Studnicka, Jack
Zboril, Jakub
2021 1st round pick (BOS)

BOS

2021 3rd round pick (SEA)

Additional Details:

Ritchie is taken in the expansion draft, DeBrusk and Vaak are traded to Seattle in exchange for Graves and a 3rd

SEA

BOS

Graves, Ryan

COL

BOS

Archibald, Josh
2022 3rd round pick (EDM)

EDM

Lauzon, Jérémy
2022 5th round pick (BOS)

Buried

John Moore: $1,625,000 ($2,750,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$79,927,341	$1,956,507	$125,000	$1,572,659

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Marchand, Brad $6,125,000$6,125,000 LW NMC UFA - 4	Bergeron, Patrice $6,875,000$6,875,000 C M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1	Pastrnak, David $6,666,667$6,666,667 RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2
Hall, Taylor $4,000,000$4,000,000 LW UFA - 4	Krejci, David $4,000,000$4,000,000 C UFA	Hyman, Zach $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 7
Coleman, Blake $4,250,000$4,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 6	Coyle, Charlie $5,250,000$5,250,000 C, RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 5	Smith, Craig $3,100,000$3,100,000 RW UFA - 2
Goodrow, Barclay $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, LW UFA - 6	Lazar, Curtis $800,000$800,000 RW, C UFA - 1	Archibald, Josh $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Graves, Ryan $3,166,667$3,166,667 LD UFA - 2	McAvoy, Charlie $4,900,000$4,900,000 RD UFA - 1	Swayman, Jeremy $925,000$925,000 ($125,000$125K) G RFA - 2
Grzelcyk, Matt $3,687,500$3,687,500 LD UFA - 3	Carlo, Brandon $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 6	Vladar, Daniel $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 2
Reilly, Mike $2,750,000$2,750,000 LD UFA - 3	Hakanpää, Jani $2,750,000$2,750,000 RD UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Frederic, Trent $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2		Rask, Tuukka $2,500,000$2,500,000 G UFA - 1
Wagner, Chris $1,350,000$1,350,000 RW, C UFA - 2
Clifton, Connor $1,000,000$1,000,000 RD UFA - 2

Taxi Squad
Anderson, Craig $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) G UFA - 1

Jun. 15, 2021 at 9:11 a.m.

#26

Gofnut999

Joined: Jan. 2017

Posts: 19,801

Likes: 8,841

Edited Jun. 15, 2021 at 9:47 a.m.

Quoting: pharrow

this is how fans think,
Guys paying what 7-8% more in taxes on 5+ mil for 4 years. It's over 1.5 million in savings. Now I'm sure the numbers work out different. But that's a lot of scratch.

Overall State and local tax burden by % of income in Mass is 9%. Washington. 8.2%. Barely a difference. Mass ranks 19th in tax burden. Wash 18th.

Jun. 15, 2021 at 7:21 p.m.

#27

BroadwayBlueshirts

Joined: Jul. 2017

Posts: 1,264

Likes: 705

Quoting: Dekes

i don"t see rangers needing a center lol, strome, mika, chytil and they are even going after eichel what makes you think they would draft a center? studnicka plays center and right wing aswell and kappo hasn't really shown much wow factor yet. and how zboril is worse then tarmo blows my mind zboril played a full season tarmo played 4 games, bruins defence was top 5 in the league and rangers was barely top 15 so i think that means zboril would be better considering he slotted in on a team that had a much better defence overall.

Mika and Strome are both UFAs next year. They've needed a center in their prospect pool for years now, they've had high end prospects at every position but center. Studnicka's upside looks to be bottom 6 and Kaapo had one of the best seasons for any forward in the NHL defensively this past year. They also don't need Zboril, as he won't fix their problems defensively. I never said Tarmo was better than him, I said he's an in-house option. They likely get a UFA LHD to pair with Lundkvist on the bottom pair or let Jones have it.

Jun. 15, 2021 at 8:40 p.m.

#28

Dekes

Dekesaladekes

Joined: May 2021

Posts: 2,933

Likes: 1,060

Quoting: BroadwayBlueshirts

ahh okay i see, i think studnicka's potential is more like 2nd line center/winger the kid was a star in the ahl and for canada wj's a few years ago i believe, he just hasn't had the opportunity to excell in boston due to them having coyle krech and bergy at the center spot

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