Player Discussion Anders Bjork II

[Estlin]

love this guy. long term he's gonna be what johansson was - the speed, the creativity,
the hockey IQ. not sure if he'll be the elite zone entry beast that jojo was but bjork
is a top 9 keeper for years. get out your seattle calculators because he's definitely
one of my 7 forwards kept.

Couldn’t agree more. You and I have been on the Bjork train for a while now.

 

[JCRO]

Goal was sick.

But his effort is what has really stood out to me. The kid is a gamer. He wants it. And the Bruins need it.

Love how this kid plays the game.

Can we get the man some PP2 love?

 

[bbfan419]

Would love to see Bjork with Krejci and Pastrnak, I think that line would be dynamite and then put Heinen with Bergeron and Marchand they proved they can produce already , a third line of Coyle with DeBrusk and either Kuhlman or Cehlarik could be very good also.

 

[Mick Riddleton]

Looks like he leaped past a few players in the depth pool. Kid reminds me of Pasta in that he has wheels and wants the puck.

 

[BigGoalBrad]

Glad we didn't leave it too long to call him up.

Hope Cehlarik comes up before we see a Kuhlman return I wouldn't mind giving Kuhlman 5-10 games in Providence to start scoring.

The rest of our forward prospects are not off to a good start in Providence. Doesn't mean they suck like Senyshyn but its concerning.

 

[BruinsFanSince94]

You can just see the confidence this year. You can also see that he's clearly bigger/stronger. That bodes for success.

Krejci, please return so we can get the long awaited: Heinen - Coyle - Bjork line.

 

[13Hockey]

Glad we didn't leave it too long to call him up.

Hope Cehlarik comes up before we see a Kuhlman return I wouldn't mind giving Kuhlman 5-10 games in Providence to start scoring.

The rest of our forward prospects are not off to a good start in Providence. Doesn't mean they suck like Senyshyn but its concerning.

Cehlarik got called up today and is playing tonight

 

[BigGoalBrad]

Cehlarik got called up today and is playing tonight

Awesome!

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

You can just see the confidence this year. You can also see that he's clearly bigger/stronger. That bodes for success.

Krejci, please return so we can get the long awaited: Heinen - Coyle - Bjork line.

It all comes together.
Best 1st line, 3rd line, 4th line.

Get Krejci/Debrusk their winger and this team is perfect.

 

[UncleRico]

It’s crazy. It’s almost like he should have never been sent down. Who could have possibly not noticed this? (Besides 95% of the people here)

haha happy for bjork tho he deserves everything he’s getting right now and it’s paying off.

 

[UncleRico]

You can just see the confidence this year. You can also see that he's clearly bigger/stronger. That bodes for success.

Krejci, please return so we can get the long awaited: Heinen - Coyle - Bjork line.

the line I’ve been begging for since August

 

[ODAAT]

Awesome!

is it?

Listen, I really want this kid to perform well, size, skill but to this point, he`s left this fan underwhelmed as he shows an initial energy and has put a few pts up when called up then fizzles, hoping to see a focused and more consistent player. Nothing more beneficial than to be able to lean on internal candidates and save valuable cap space/not lose a solid player via trade by not having to make major moves at a deadline. We`ll see how it goes

 

[Mainehockey33]

Goal was sick.

But his effort is what has really stood out to me. The kid is a gamer. He wants it. And the Bruins need it.

Love how this kid plays the game.

Can we get the man some PP2 love?

For sure. I was saying last night they should put Bjork on the power play. He'd put up some points I think.

 

[Spooner st]

Needs to keep improving, really good start.

 

[00BW]

That's all correct that players are paid on a daily basis bi-weekly. If the Bruins were under the cap, then yes sending down Bjork for a few days would create additional cap space (technical term is Payroll Room).

The problem here is that according to CF the Bruins are over the cap even without Bjork. If you look at the daily cap tracker chart CF shows that Boston has been over the cap (ACSL) every single day of the regular season. That means at this point in time Boston has accumulated $0 Payroll Room. When teams are over the cap/ACSL using LTIR then the unused LTIR space does not accumulate. So it doesn't make a cap difference if Boston is using $1.505m of LTIR space now with Bjork vs. only $580k of LTIR space while he was down the past few days.

I looked for other reasons why it might be advantageous to use emergency recall for Bjork rather then a regular recall but I'm still failing to find a reason why. I sent a question to CF, hopefully they'll be able to explain it.

Hopefully CF can give the definitive answer, but I think this is how the Bruins got burned a couple years ago when Chia signed Iginla to that bonus contract when they still had Savard on LTIR.
Towards the cap, salary counts first, then you can exceed the cap by LTIR, then you can exceed even further by bonuses (ELC and 35+ contracts). This issue is only because the cap requires LTIR to be applied first before bonuses, not after bonuses.

With Bjork, he has ~$300k bonus potential including ~$100k guaranteed via signing bonus. For easy math, lets say 200 games in season so his bonus earnings could be $1.5k/day for every day he's on the roster. Because bonus apply after LTIR, Bruins were exceeding the cap beyond LTIR by $500-$1.5k every day he's on the roster while they are over the cap--the final numbers won't be known until the end of the season to see if he hit the performance numbers but the signing is guaranteed money they need to account for. When guys come off LTIR, even if they get down to exactly the cap with all bonuses going forward, they still have to account for the bonuses for all the days earlier in the season when they exceeded the cap. That includes DeBrusk and Kuhlman's bonuses too. Otherwise this rolls forward to become a cap hit next year. One less day over by $1.5k means one less day they need to be under by $1.5k in the future.

 

[Dellstrom]

Happy to see him doing well... He got so unlucky in that DeBrusk/Heinen class with 2 horrible injuries. I thought he was the most talented of the three a few years ago, luckily they're all still here. Hope he can keep it up

 

[PlayMakers]

Time for a promotion.

 

[GoBs]

Who is sitting

 

[ChargersRookie]

He admits himself that he scored on a knuckler. I like how some put guys on a pedestal with with legs being barely held together. I prefer not to use for arguments what the home town media writes.
I don't think the help the Bruins need is on the club.

 

[Sevendust]

Looks like he leaped past a few players in the depth pool. Kid reminds me of Pasta in that he has wheels and wants the puck.

I wrote it two years ago and in my opinion it never changed ever since despite the injuries, Bjork is the most talented forward prospect in the system and has the highest upside. Even higher than DeBrusk

 

[TwineTickler]

Goal was sick.

But his effort is what has really stood out to me. The kid is a gamer. He wants it. And the Bruins need it.

Love how this kid plays the game.

Can we get the man some PP2 love?

I actually wouldn't mind him taking Jake's role on PP1 for a game or two.

 

[Kalus]

I'd like a situation where Bjork and Debrusk battle it out for the 2LW and 3LW positions all year. Whomever is playing best gets the 2nd line slot. That would certainly keep the fire lit.

 

[BruinsFanSince94]

Glad we didn't leave it too long to call him up.

Hope Cehlarik comes up before we see a Kuhlman return I wouldn't mind giving Kuhlman 5-10 games in Providence to start scoring.

The rest of our forward prospects are not off to a good start in Providence. Doesn't mean they suck like Senyshyn but its concerning.

What prospects are you talking about?

 

[BigGoalBrad]

What prospects are you talking about?

TheAHL.com | The American Hockey League

Uh all of them. They’re getting outplayed by Fitzgerald who almost doesn’t qualify as a prospect at his age. Cehlarik and Bjork only PPG guys.

It’s not time to panic but we might want to give Steen/Studnicka/Fredric a full year of pro hockey and reevaluate.

 

[BruinsFanSince94]

TheAHL.com | The American Hockey League

Uh all of them. They’re getting outplayed by Fitzgerald who almost doesn’t qualify as a prospect at his age. Cehlarik and Bjork only PPG guys.

It’s not time to panic but we might want to give Steen/Studnicka/Fredric a full year of pro hockey and reevaluate.

They're getting outproduced by an AHL veteran? You don't say! Lol....

It's definitely not time to panic. Are you aware that Steen and Lauko both have been playing bottom 6 roles thus far? Their numbers are actually pretty solid considering.

Studnicka has 6 points in 10GP. That's not bad production. Frederic started off slow but has picked it up. Cehlarik and bjork both played in top 6 roles with PP time. I'd hope they were producing.

You're looking too much into stats. It's not concerning at all. Also, there's nothing wrong with giving them a full year of pro anyway? Bruins arent in a rush to get any of those guys up.