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GiggywithGibby

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Forum: Armchair-GMYesterday at 11:28 p.m.
Thread: 24-25
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>tupty</b></div><div>You gave a long-winded answer to the part I agreed with and a short flippant answer to my actual question. I personally think that the Bruins can retain up to half for a year and still sign 2 guys in their top 6 and one in the top 4 on the backend as long as they are not targeting the top UFAs at those positions. Not each of those needs to be premium players, but they do need to be able to play the part at least. If they target one positional top UFA like Hanafin, then maybe they can't get one of those slots filled, but so be it. While they would love to get back into contention, they need draft picks if they ever want to get a true 1C, so another bridge year could be worth it.

There is no true 1C available as a UFA this offseason, and they should sign players based on their long-term value to the team (probably a 2C). No need to overpay someone, so you don't need to earmark part of their cap space for a $9m+ player. They should continue to maintain their flexibility while in the re-tool.</div></div>

The cap is going up for the first time in years, guys are going to be out there looking for a payday as UFAs. I doubt you'll be able to get a 3C capable guy for 3 million. Middle 6 guys have been getting 4-5 mil AAV, I would add ~10% bump to previous salary comps from the past two years.

You might get some guys who are well into the back 9 of their careers to sign cheap, but I don't believe anyone who's capable of top 6 play is going to come to Boston on a discount.
Forum: Armchair-GMYesterday at 10:54 p.m.
Thread: 24-25
Forum: Armchair-GMYesterday at 11:08 a.m.
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Celtics21</b></div><div>He’s coming off a year where he likely can’t demand what Horvat and Scheifele got. I think the number is going to be between 6.75 and 7.75m and fully expect him to get 7 years. Boston is probably one of the more attractive places to Lindholm, because he fits the system and he’d be playing with Pasta/Zacha which essentially is recreating the line he has the most success with. Sweeney has tried to trade for him with Calgary and Vancouver, so my guess is he’s ready to pay the necessary price to secure him.

Its a risk, but so is waiting for the second tier free agents and hoping you don’t overpay them (which is essentially what happened with Reilly/Forbort, but Ullmark hit which kind of excuses it). If you could have gotten Lindholm without giving assets based on the previous three years before 2023-2024, you’d have been incredibly happy and would have paid 8.5M AAV.

My belief is that DuBois is overpaid enough that you’d have to add a first or equivalent to him just to get market value in a trade. I doubt he gets 8.5m on the open market and the Kings are probably kicking themselves for that decision. Giving him the money and giving Winnipeg Villardi/Iaffalo must be maddening</div></div>

If he goes long term, this is his last contract, and he's been budget friendly on his previous ones. Add to that the cap increasing significantly the next two years and no one's going to be taking budget signings for a while, previous salary comps are going to get thrown out because they represented much larger slices of the cap ceiling when they were signed. Dubois took a bit over 10% of the cap, and he was an RFA signing.

I would not be surprised to see Lindholm command at least 8.5, probably 9, as arguably the best center available for a long term commitment, given he's never had the health issues that Monahan has struggled with for years.
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