If you’re letting Krug walk at anything above 6, you’re saying that the only reason Krug deserves to be paid more is cause the salary cap has gone up..which is fine I guess, we just very very very much disagree. The break down of that is 60k salary cap inflation, 15k value.
That’s what all these threads do, read the McAvoy one last year, DeBrusk, Krug..anytime someone comes up for extension all of a sudden the player is bad, not worth money, etc. etc. The fans are cheaper than Jacobs is!
Scroll up, the only thing convenient about it was I decided not to type the same thing twice. I will extend the same question to you that I did to Joker though, if it’s all about 2027 and we’re not concerned with talent drop offs this year in sacrifice of that...then what do we do with our 35 year olds? Should we be exploring trading Bergeron, Rask, and Krejci to get value for them?
Like who? And is that historically been accurate? I’d love to get a list of Don Sweeney’s offseason acquisitions and see what those look like. IIRC none of them scream great value or cap sheet optimization.
Re: expansion...Maybe you would, but I wouldn’t take Gryz or Lauzon straight up over Krug, especially in this limited cup window, so the expansion draft point is moot to me. Seattle can’t take more than 1 player..so whether we expose Gryz, Lauzon, or Gryz and Lauzon they’re still losing someone and that’s also something you can maneuver by working with Seattle.
Show me where. No hypothetical “middle 6 wing”, I would like names and contracts(If FA) or trades
I like most of your contributions to this board. Well-informed and articulated opinions. Usually fair and balanced.
This is not one of those posts.
I’m on my phone, so I’m just gonna number points in order of how you stated them:
1. Nope! Not what I’m saying at all. You’re either not reading what I wrote, or your choosing to ignore it to be argumentative. He IS worth more. I just don’t want the Bruins to be the team to pay it for the factors I laid out previously.
2. Strawman. Bergeron, Krejci, etc aren’t up for contract renewal. That’s a discussion we can (and should) have when they are. I’m sure there will be differing opinions of value when the time comes for them too.
3. You want to argue that Sweeney doesn’t have a great track record with his UFAs? I agree! And I’d hope that he’d hit on the next acquisition as he attempts to improve the roster. Or should he not even try because he’s so bad at it?
4. The point on the expansion draft seems to be missed. The idea is under one scenario, you get to choose the player you want to keep, rather than simply allowing the Kraken to take the more valuable of the two. That you would keep Krug over both is inconsequential. No one is suggesting that Gryz is worth $7.5M/yr.
The question is where the cap space is best allocated. The defence wouldn’t be as good without Krug, but it would still be among the best units in the NHL. The Bruins depth scoring however, is nowhere near.
5. “Tell me specifically who-how-much-and-for-what-and-where?” AKA “build me a strawman so I can burn it down.” Worst argument one makes on these boards and I see it all the time. I’d suggest someone and then you’d pick it apart. That specific guy can’t be acquired. That specific guy is overrated. That guy wouldn’t fit. That guy is overpaid. Because that guy doesn’t work for you, that makes me wrong and you right. It’s horsepiss.
Is your argument that an addition to the forwards is impossible? Because if we can concede that it isn’t, then we’re just debating preference in how the cap is spent. Not this wild, pure fantasy that you seem to be implying.
