I am not against bringing in Simmonds as a rental. However, my fear is they trade for him as a rental sign him. We all know how much the Bruins love signing past their prime free agents.
They can’t resign Simmonds without dealing Backes.
If you mess around with Cap Friendly you see 3 regular RFA (McAvoy Carlo Heinen)
Assuming ????
Carlo 5/20
McAvoy 5/32.5
Heinen 3/7.5
You have DeBrusk up next year
They can add a rental BUT they need to remove Backes $6 M to add a Stone or Hall On July 1
It looks like they could pull it off with Hoffman though - doesn’t make enough
Chara makes $5 M but I don’t think he’s retiring
Logically Chara? and Backes are done in 2 years if you do nothing
Problem is to me
The Bruins are very good but not great and beating
Toronto
Tampa
Just to get to round 3 would be extremely difficult with this team