Emily Kaplan reported on The Point that Sweeney doesn’t want to spend big on rentals and that he wants players with term.
Friedman report on 32 Thoughts that he really thinks we’re gonna go for a LHD upgrade.
Putting the puzzle pieces together kinda points towards Chychrun, right? Only guy I can think of that satisfies both.
This tells me they are just throwing darts because it doesn’t check out from a practicality standpoint.
The Bruins are already spending nearly $29 million in cap on their defense. There is simply no way they are looking to allocate even more of this sparse cap space to yet another top end defender going forward. You could make the argument that they could subtract a salary and replace it with a new body, but why would they do that right now? With the team playing the way it is.
The Bruins are also extremely tight lipped on these things. So it’s not coming from them. Someone else may be leaking this info out, but it doesn’t make any sense.
As I mentioned above, these are assumptions/educated guesses. I doubt there is any real validity to it. They’ve got a job to do which is to “report” these things.
I believe they had interest in Chychrun at one point, but that likely ended when they acquired Lindholm.
They need complimentary depth.