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Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 8, 2023 at 11:07 a.m.
Thread: Oilers playoff push
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>kscoop</b></div><div>Ullmark for RNH the only deal I see that works for both teams.</div></div>

My perspective is goaltending is the biggest strength of the Bruins right now. They take risks with their defenders and depend on their goalies to compensate. Ullmark came into Boston a raw player dependent on his athleticism and has been trained into being as fundamentally sound a goalie as there is in the league while maintaining the skill set that made him a solid goaltender on a team with porous defense in Buffalo

Im fine taking the next two years and letting him take the big pay day from another team afterwards. Unless Brandon Bussi is making it glaringly obvious he deserves the shot (he had one bad game that is depressing his numbers) or a team is offering a mechanism to secure a premium forward, I see Ullmark staying in Boston.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 19, 2023 at 9:34 a.m.
Thread: Hanifin
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>ecupirate07</b></div><div>Hall has injury concerns and didnt perform well this past season. Add in he controls where he goes if anywhere and that price drops considerably as there isnt a bidding party. Being cap stapped is far from irrelevant. Teams with cap are holding teams without cap hostage right now to move players (especially underperforming ones).</div></div>

What injury concerns? He missed time in 2023 and before that his next year missing significant time was 2019. The "didn't perform well this past season" take is simply looking at a stat line without having any context as to his season. A season in which they asked him to drive the 3rd line because of their depth at LW (DeBrusk a LW was playing RW., that's how deep they were) and wouldn't you know it, his linemates (Trent Frederic &amp; Charlie Coyle) has arguably their best all around seasons of their careers. In the playoffs Hall was tied for the team lead in goals and was tied for 3rd in points.....while also not sitting on the top powerplay unit.

Now lets move onto the next comment which was "he controls where he goes".....this is also wrong. Hall has a 10 team NTC this year and next year, so really he doesn't control where he goes. He can certainly be strategic about who he puts on his NTC, but lets not act like he has a full NMC. Now for the cap point. The Bruins can clear 5-6 million just by moving out Reilly &amp; Forbort via trade or buyout. They can move out Grz whose a positive asset and a $3.7 million hit. They can move out Ullmark who also is a positive asset and likely the Vezina winner. He carries a $5 million cap hit. Just in those 4 players there is about $13-$14 million in cap space.

The Bruins have multiple avenues to clear cap space if need be. A 2nd + 3rd for Hall is a discounted rate. A guy who can play in the top 6 and play at a 50-60 point pace is easily worth a 1st + prospect.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 19, 2023 at 8:52 a.m.
Thread: Hanifin
Been waiting for something like this from a Bruins fan that has all these components:

1) Ullmark trade to a team that could use him to take it to the next level
2) Hanifin trade (was thinking Hall until I saw that DeBrusk is getting shopped again for Hanifin swap.
3) Bertuzzi signing

I would say that Carolina's management is greedy and that they wouldn't pay that much for Hall like <a href="/users/ecupirate07" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@ecupirate07</a> suggested, and they will likely want him for anywhere from 3rd+4th as low as FCs. I don't think they would want a sweetener considering that signing Bertuzzi is a choice. The Anaheim trade is probably not ideal but maybe there's a team out there willing to do that deal.

That being said great job taking into account the other teams needs.

Only thing that might be missing that I could see happen is an OEL signing but with Hanifin, maybe not.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 19, 2023 at 8:25 a.m.