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Initial Creation Date: Jan. 27, 2023

Published: Jan. 27, 2023

Team: 2023-24 Boston Bruins

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I do not see this happening but this is what would have to happen to get it done.

Bergeron comes back for the 100 year season of the Boston Bruins in the NHL.

Bruins sign Horvat in the offseason, although he probably gets more on the open market.

Boston dumps cap and acquires depth at the trade deadline in order to reduce cap overages, although not by a lot.

The teams and returns don't matter so much as the point of those are the players that they would have to get rid in order to make both Horvat and Pasta fit. They will not get rid of Carlo or Coyle as the Bruins value them too much in their positions.

These moves make the 3rd forward line and 3rd pairing D pretty iffy. I don't know if Merlulov is ready for full time NHL duty. Zboril is a tweener and Schenn is Schenn.

The 4th line is arguably better than this years.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Swayman, Jeremy	3	$2,500,000
Frederic, Trent	1	$1,850,000
Wissmann, Kai	2	$850,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Pastrnak, David	8	$10,500,000
Horvat, Bo	7	$8,500,000
Foligno, Nick	1	$800,000
Bjugstad, Nick	2	$1,250,000
Schenn, Luke	1	$800,000
Bergeron, Patrice	1	$1,250,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Overages, Cap		1	$3,200,000

Trades

BOS

Nick Bjugstad

ARI

Steen, Oskar
2023 4th round pick (BOS)
2023 5th round pick (BOS)

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Craig Smith
22-23 TDL

BOS

Luke Schenn

VAN

Reilly, Mike
2023 3rd round pick (BOS)

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22-23 TDL

BOS

2023 2nd round pick (WPG)
2024 2nd round pick (SEA)

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Seattle acquires a good puck moving D.

SEA

Grzelcyk, Matt

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Offseason move

BOS

Niederbach, Theodor [Reserve List]
2023 2nd round pick (STL)
2024 2nd round pick (DET)

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Hall is on pace for 50ish points and teams would know the Bruins are looking to dump cap. Two seconds and a center prospect instead of a 1st.

DET

Hall, Taylor

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Offseason move

I don't think this is in the Yzerplan, but I was just looking for a bubble team that would want a Hall to put them over the top into playoff contention.

DRAFT YEAR	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
23	$83,500,000	$83,444,167	$0	$212,500	$55,833

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Marchand, Brad $6,125,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Bergeron, Patrice $1,250,000 C UFA	DeBrusk, Jake $4,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Zacha, Pavel $4,750,000 LW, RW, C M-NTC UFA - 4	Horvat, Bo $8,500,000 C UFA - 8	Pastrnak, David $10,500,000 RW UFA - 8
Merkulov, Georgi $925,000 LW RFA - 2	Coyle, Charlie $5,250,000 C, RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Lysell, Fabian $894,167 RW RFA - 2
Foligno, Nick $800,000 LW, C, RW UFA	Frederic, Trent $1,850,000 LW, RW RFA	Bjugstad, Nick $1,250,000 C, RW UFA
Greer, AJ $762,500 RW, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Lindholm, Hampus $6,500,000 LD NTC, NMC UFA - 7	McAvoy, Charlie $9,500,000 RD UFA - 7	Ullmark, Linus $5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Forbort, Derek $3,000,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1	Carlo, Brandon $4,100,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 4	Swayman, Jeremy $2,500,000 G RFA
Zboril, Jakub $1,137,500 LD/RD UFA - 1	Schenn, Luke $800,000 RD UFA
	Wissmann, Kai $850,000 RD RFA

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Overages, Cap $3,200,000

Jan. 27 at 1:16 p.m.

FilthyMitts05

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For the Canucks trade, Vancouver is trying to shed cap not add it especially for a third. They are rumoured to be able to get a 2nd for shenn on this market by himself.

Jan. 27 at 1:23 p.m.

DefenseFirst

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Just kinda seems like this isn’t worth it, and incredibly optimistic

Jan. 27 at 1:28 p.m.

turtlemountain

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I think this exemplifies the challenge for a good team to acquire and re-sign Horvat. The only way you’re able to get remotely under the cap and ice a good roster is to have a key player (Bergeron) on an absolute sweetheart deal. And even then, you have a few weak spots with depth and Pasta could get more than $10.5M

For most other teams, you won’t be able to get a 1 and 2C for under $10M.

Jan. 27 at 1:30 p.m.

jpetes250

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Quoting: DefenseFirst

Just kinda seems like this isn’t worth it, and incredibly optimistic

Agreed. Seriously hurting the depth of the team where Zacha could center Hall and Pasta and add 1 or 2 middle six wings.

I do think Bergeron wants to come back, win the cup or not, if only to be on the 100 year team.

I just wanted to see what it would take to make it work.

Jan. 27 at 1:32 p.m.

Newgod77