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Created by: BruinsFan35

Team: 2023-24 Boston Bruins

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 16, 2022

Published: Aug. 16, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Bergy and Krech retire. Studnicka earns a full time role during the season that makes Craig Smith the odd man out, Bs move him at the deadline. Mike Reilly moved around Christmas time 2022 when Marchy and McAvoy come back for cap purposes.

Pastrnak decides to walk in FA and Hall asks to be moved to a contender. He is traded at the 2023 Draft to Ottawa.

Youth Movement takes over Boston and they suck in 2023-24, obviously. Donato was the lone major FA signing to cheaply and (probably) poorly fill 2LW to be flipped at the deadline. Bruins enter stacked 2023 draft with 2 firsts and 9 picks outside of first round.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Mäntykivi, Matias	3	$900,000
McFaul, Dustyn	1	$900,000
Olson, Quinn	2	$900,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Ahcan, Jack	1	$900,000
Asselin, Samuel	1	$900,000
Berglund, Victor	1	$900,000
Bussi, Brandon	1	$900,000
Filipe, Matt	1	$900,000
Keyser, Kyle	1	$900,000
Lauko, Jakub	1	$900,000
Koppanen, Joona	1	$900,000
McLaughlin, Marc	1	$900,000
Wissmann, Kai	1	$900,000
Wolff, Nick	1	$900,000
Frederic, Trent	4	$1,500,000
Swayman, Jeremy	8	$7,000,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Zacha, Pavel		3	$4,000,000
Donato, Ryan		1	$2,000,000

Trades

BOS

2023 4th round pick (SEA)
2023 6th round pick (WSH)

SEA

Craig Smith. Seattle was a bubble playoff team looking to make depth moves to bring them to the playoffs. Smith was available and made sense cap wise for both sides. Made at the 2022 deadline.

BOS

2023 4th round pick (ANA)

Additional Details:

Any Team in December 2022

ANA

Reilly, Mike

BOS

2023 1st round pick (OTT)

Additional Details:

#14 Overall

OTT

Hall, Taylor

Additional Details:

Ottawa is an up-and-coming team looking to add veterans for a playoff push for 2023-24. Hall is a perfect fit.

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$84,000,000	$74,113,333	$4,500,000	$0	$9,886,667

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Marchand, Brad $6,125,000$6,125,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Zacha, Pavel $4,000,000$4,000,000 C, LW UFA - 4	DeBrusk, Jake $4,000,000$4,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Donato, Ryan $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 2		Lysell, Fabian $863,333$863,333 RW RFA - 3
Lauko, Jakub $900,000$900,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Studnicka, Jack $762,500$762,500 RW, C RFA - 1	Coyle, Charlie $5,250,000$5,250,000 C, RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3
Frederic, Trent $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	McLaughlin, Marc $900,000$900,000 C RFA - 1	Steen, Oskar $800,000$800,000 C, RW UFA - 1
	Beecher, John $925,000$925,000 C RFA - 2

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	Swayman, Jeremy $7,000,000$7,000,000 G RFA - 1
Grzelcyk, Matt $3,687,500$3,687,500 LD UFA - 1	Carlo, Brandon $4,100,000$4,100,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 4	Ullmark, Linus $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Forbort, Derek $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1	Zboril, Jakub $1,137,500$1,137,500 LD/RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Greer, AJ $762,500$762,500 RW, LW UFA - 1
Ahcan, Jack $900,000$900,000 LD UFA - 2

Aug. 16, 2022 at 9:01 a.m.

Devilsdynasty

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If the Bruins Front office is seriously considering going full on rebuild, they have to trade pasta at the deadline. That's gonna be a massive haul for a guy, who you think is gonna walk anyway.

Aug. 16, 2022 at 9:21 a.m.

BruinsFan35

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Quoting: Devilsdynasty

If the Bruins Front office is seriously considering going full on rebuild, they have to trade pasta at the deadline. That's gonna be a massive haul for a guy, who you think is gonna walk anyway.

Is it more valuable to try and chase one more ring with a competitive team in 2022-23, or move him and get a huge haul and throw the idea of one last ride away? That'll be something to watch this year. Also, a sign-and-trade could be possible, as it was what many thought was going to happen with DeBrusk this past deadline. Trade Pasta at opening of Free Agency or the Draft for a huge haul. Just out of curiosity, if Pasta was extended to a 11.5 x 7 contract, what would you hope the Devils would offer to get him?

Aug. 16, 2022 at 9:42 a.m.

EHMatt

Joined: Jun. 2015

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Ottawa's top 6 is pretty full right now. Ottawa's need is at RD. Carlo would be more of interest. I'd say a 1st round pick is a little rich for him. What would you be looking for in order to trade Carlo to Ottawa?

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Aug. 16, 2022 at 9:56 a.m.

BruinsFan35

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Quoting: EHMatt

Carlo is poised to be a leader for Boston after Marchy Bergy and Krejci are gone. He’s more valuable to the team than his trade value would be I think. It’d probably be a first round pick, maybe with another mid asset (C prospect or lower round pick)

Aug. 16, 2022 at 2:20 p.m.

ON3M4N

Joined: May 2016

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Quoting: EHMatt

More than OTT would want to give up. After McAvoy, Carlo is our only legit RHD in the system. He's also the Bruins PK horse, so they'd need to fill the role of a Top 4 RHD that also plays premium PK minutes each year.

Aug. 16, 2022 at 4:44 p.m.

Devilsdynasty

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Quoting: BruinsFan35

Many Devils fans will not agree but if a reasonable extension was in place (11.5 aav is high imo) I would give up 2 first rounders, Holtz +. In terms of young NHL ready talent its not much but it is a different situation than the Tkachuk trade in which both teams were still looking to compete immediately.

Aug. 18, 2022 at 4:04 p.m.

EHMatt

Joined: Jun. 2015

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Quoting: BruinsFan35

Considering what the rumoured ask from Arizona is, I think that would be alright to swallow on Ottawa's side. Ottawa could offer a 2024 1st and Jarventie (currently playing for Finland in the WJHC). Would that do it? You could always take Zaitsev back as well (I'm joking btw).

Aug. 18, 2022 at 7:26 p.m.

BruinsFan35

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Quoting: EHMatt

Swap Jarventie for Bernard Docker? Bruins need RD more than LW, especially without Carlo.

Aug. 22, 2022 at 8:26 a.m.

EHMatt

Joined: Jun. 2015

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Quoting: BruinsFan35

Swap Jarventie for Bernard Docker? Bruins need RD more than LW, especially without Carlo.

That's fair. Seems reasonable.

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