The bonus overage maxes out at $4.5 I believe.

Expect far more for grzelcyk

Can definitely get more for Gryz, but WSH is a likely destination

Thats an optimistically low AAV for Pastrnak and Sway

I actually think pasta will wind up at 10.5. I know they had mostly worked out the AAV around 10, but now he’s having a nuclear season

It's $4.65M because of Swayman's bonuses, as well. I hope they can get more for Grzelcyk. Just trying to be conservative.

The Bruins have always signed their guys to below market value. No reason to think that won't continue with Pasta. Might be a little low for Swayman, but it's a bridge deal.

That’s really really conservative

If Pasta was going to take that $ he'd be inked already....

Man I hope ur right, these recent reports of pasta wanting 8 years x 11mill AAV (maybe even more) have me worried for what theyre gonna do down the middle going forward

He is having a phenomenal szn, but hes also a turnover machine which gets overlooked by his point production

Who do you think Matt Grzelcyk is?

A top four defensemen on a good contract. Duh.

I don't see Washington as a landing spot for Grzelcyk due to having Fehervary, Alexeyev, and possibly Gustafsson (supposedly he was willing to take a pay cut to stay) on the left side.

5'9 defensemen don't get traded for big returns.

Luckily most people in hockey aren’t dumb enough to just look at the height and judge a player. Plenty of short players have done really well in this league.

Right. But that doesn't refute the fact that they rarely get traded for big returns.

Top four d men rarely get traded.

That's not true. Weegar, Lindholm, Petry, Marino. Just to name a few in the last year.

I should have amended to say top four with term.

Petry sucked. He was a cap dump. Marino took a step after getting moved but wasn’t much of anything at the time of trade. Lindholm, and weegar of course were rentals.

I think we can all agree that Jared Spurgeon, Torey Krug, Quinn Hughes, and Ryan Ellis are all guys that have had a lot of value in the national hockey league at various times. They’re either grzelcyk size, or a whopping inch taller.

You can make any excuse you want, but Matt grzelcyk has been a very high end d man in the NHL for the last three years, and virtually every stat (even the fancy ones I don’t care about) will back that up.

Is this a felger issue?

Lmao Felger. No I don't listen to him much anymore. He's so whiny and pompous it's hard to take anything he has to say seriously. I like Grzelcyk; thought it was the right move keeping him over Krug. It just seems like he's the likely cap casualty in the off-season.

Why?

Simple. Math.

That’s a cop out.

Mcavoy and lindholm are the odd men out. Simple. Math.

Do better than that. Why grzelcyk. On the surface it makes no sense. One of the best value contracts on the team

Are you really comparing Grzelcyk' value to Lindholm and McAvoy? Lol.
Grzelcyk is a movable contract. Do I really need to break it down Barney Style for you?

No I didn’t. Don’t take offense to this, but I was more just mocking the “math. Simple.” It doesn’t make any sense.

Why grzelcyk? Why not someone else?

The Bruins don't have many movable contracts in the off-season. DeBrusk, Zacha, Grzelcyk. Most of the other guys have clauses that make them more difficult to move for assets and cap space (Ullmark, Coyle, Hall, Forbort). My post shows that the Bruins can do very little in the off-season and still have to move a contract to be cap-compliant. Moving a guy like Grzelcyk makes sense if they can clear the space and get value back in a trade

See? We got a little explanation out of you. FYI, Swayman doesn’t have any performance bonuses this year according to puckpedia.

That said, I disagree.

First of, Zacha does have a 10 team NTC. I don’t really see how Forbort’s 3 team no-trade list makes it hard for him to move. Coyle is 8 teams. Hall is 10 teams.

So here are my questions to go against, “math, simple,” though that was pretty deep.
1. Why not try to eat into a bit of the cap overages in 22-23 if possible? Seems like it will max at $4.5, but that can be eaten into.
2. Why not forbort?
3. Why not hall? Seems like an ideal candidate.
4. Why not debrusk? He’ll need a big raise after next year.
5. Why not coyle. 8 team no trade doesn’t make it impossible.

We could go down this road for a while. Point is, its not, “simple, math.” It’s a long discussion about roster construction and player value.