If/when Sweeney gets fired we should keep him on as our head negotiator of player contracts. He is the best in the league.
Player Discussion Jake DeBrusk III: Signs 2 Years 3.675 AAV
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22Brad Park
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You have 2 players the other poster mentioned plus others out there like Duclair or Athanasiou
PatriceBergeronFan
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Terrific contract. Even inconsistent Debrusk is easily worth this in the modern NHL. If he does become more consistent and he and Krejci truly get a RWer, the Bruins will be in a good position.
Terrier
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Dom has mentioned Evan Gold many times in the past. This is the guy that may deserve some attention with these deals as well
The don godfather
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Donny is darn good in negotiating contracts. No doubt about that.
love it. Would like to seer Jake get some time with Pasta this year. That could be our top line wing pair in the not so distant future.
edit: Thinking about what the lineup looks like to start. Jake will be the top LW with Marchand out.
DeBrusk-Krejci-Smith
Bjork-Bergeron-Kase
Kuraly-Coyle-Studnicka
Ritchie-Lindholm-Wagner
edit: Thinking about what the lineup looks like to start. Jake will be the top LW with Marchand out.
DeBrusk-Krejci-Smith
Bjork-Bergeron-Kase
Kuraly-Coyle-Studnicka
Ritchie-Lindholm-Wagner
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BruinDust
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Well I guess a player's lack of arbitration right's ain't the leverage for teams that it once was eh @lost peanut
Alberta_OReilly_Fan
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we have around 3 mill that isnt being spent on salaries at this point... exact number is hard to calculate since theres ltir's and other factors to take into account...
trouble is that kevan miller and jaroslav halak have easy to reach bonus money. chances are we are going to be paying them close to 2 mill xtra that isnt currently calcuated
so... in a very broad sense of math you can say we got a bit over a million dollars of flexible money that realistically might be spent without getting into penalties
chara is the obvious name out there that isnt signed and makes some sense he could be back. giving chara a million base salary and then some bonus structure would very likely eat up most of our flexibility at this point
however we would still technically be under the cap since the bonuses dont count until the end of the year. we will have alot of wiggle room at trade deadline to add whatever we needed
ladies and gentleman... what you see today is the bruin team that will be starting the year {barring any trades and/or the possible chara signing}
expect to see at least 2 and maybe 3 providence kids start the year with us {made more possible by the injuries to marchand/pastrnak} and if these kids pan out then great..
if not, we will be able to address issues at deadline time so its not a huge problem for us
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Don Cherry
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Far from a steal for such a vanilla player. Non-physical, disappears for looong stretches, Hates confrontation and is just plain boring. I sure am glad to have this dynamic individual back.
To me it's a fair deal, neither a steal nor a rip off. I had 3.5 earmarked , close enough.
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Solid deal. Glad they kept him under 4.
Hope he takes some more steps forward this year
Hope he takes some more steps forward this year
bruinmann77
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Sold deal for both involved and it gives them still some wiggle room. Maybe now move Moore and hopefully add Hoffman.
My least favorite Bruin, to soft, to streaky 
I was hoping we would trade him, maybe we still will.
I was hoping we would trade him, maybe we still will.That gives us what about $3 million left over. If we can trade Moore, wouldnt we have enough to sign Hoffman to $4.5 to 5 million?
The term and the money are fine. Two years for the guy to prove he deserves the dough, and the clock will be ticking.
Now we'll see if he can learn to be a consistant presence, one who doesn't disappear when he goes, frequently, cold. What does he do other than score, when he's "hot"? Nothing.
I would have traded his backside, but a short deal is fine. Someone said Sweeney's greatest strength's is negotiating these kinds of deals.
Correct.
Too bad neither he, or Neely, can do much else.
It's all "Meh" to me. They're going to be mediocre, MOC going forward. I still hope both president and GM will be fired. But I'll have to wait two years for that, as Monty rakes in his dollars and the ship continues to list.
Another good bridge deal here. Donny playing to his strengths in this area. The contract also keeps DeBrusk very tradeable if necessary. I hope Jake comes out and finds that extra gear he's been teasing for too long and a trade doesn't even have to be thought about, but at the same time he's our most valuable asset that we'd actually be willing to shift for the right return. Looking forward to seeing how he goes next year, whenever we actually get a season.
DominicT
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What was his agent asking for again? I seem to have forgotten.
First year of the deal came in even less then I thought it would.
BTW how is retirement going?
The term and the money are fine. Two years for the guy to prove he deserves the dough, and the clock will be ticking.
Now we'll see if he can learn to be a consistant presence, one who doesn't disappear when he goes, frequently, cold. What does he do other than score, when he's "hot"? Nothing.
I would have traded his backside, but a short deal is fine. Someone said Sweeney's greatest strength's is negotiating these kinds of deals.
Correct.
Too bad neither he, or Neely, can do much else.
It's all "Meh" to me. They're going to be mediocre, MOC going forward. I still hope both president and GM will be fired. But I'll have to wait two years for that, as Monty rakes in his dollars and the ship continues to list.
Bruins fans love banging the “inconsistent” drum when a guy is a 20 goal scorer as if a 20 goal guy is somehow suppose to score a goal every game
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