The Athletic - Boston FLUTO: Contractual hardball with Charlie McAvoy is not in the Bruins’ future. The past says so

slim399

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McAvoy 6 years @ 6.5mill per
Krug 6 years @ 6mill per
Carlo 6 years @ 4.5mill per

Team friendly deals to keep the group together long term.
 

GloveSave1

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McAvoy 6 years @ 6.5mill per
Krug 6 years @ 6mill per
Carlo 6 years @ 4.5mill per

Team friendly deals to keep the group together long term.

I’d ship out Krug and use part of his money elsewhere. Krug is a very good puck mover and point producer...but his all around game is slipping. He was paid as a guy that was pretty effective in his own end, punched above his weight class...I’m not seeing that anymore.

The Bruins could either bring in a stout 2nd pair guy to replace Krug, or keep a similar specialist player model for much less with guys like Gryz or younger developing players like Vaak or Clifton. The latter would free up quite a bit of cap space, maybe for guys like McAvoy to eat up.
 

CharasLazyWrister

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Bergeron has been one hit away from retirement forever now, just like McAvoy is one heart palpitation away.

Bergeron got his deal and so should McAvoy IMO.

You’re applying reasoning to other posters’ hesitancy to pay Charlie 8 million AAV. I really do not think others are so much considering the heart issue, but rather Charlie has not performed consistently as of yet. Patrice Bergeron on the other hand had two of his top statistical seasons of his entire career while on his ELC.

Your comparison is rough at best and it assumes a lot as to why other people aren’t as open to paying out as much as you would be.
 

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