GDT: NHL/BRUINS - FREE AGENT FRENZY - JULY 1st

[Alicat]

/whoosh

Yea I realized it afterwards.

I fail

 

[Skelen]

No one is paying attention to the fact that it’s been over 3 hours and Krug still hasn’t been locked up. Unbelievable

You know he has another year on his current deal, right?

 

[TCB]

they're gonna push him so far down the lineup that he pops out the other end on Boston's 2nd line.

Maybe he's on his way out of town with Backes.

 

[member 96824]

You know he has another year on his current deal, right?

Yes.

 

[Greek_physique]

Very good deal for the Leafs.

Hes gonna be Spooner. Does nothing 5 on 5

 

[LouJersey]

they're gonna push him so far down the lineup that he pops out the other end on Boston's 2nd line.

hahaha let's go!!!

 

[Skelen]

Yes.

So then worry about the RFAs instead of Krug.

 

[ap3lovr]

Is the plan to do some load management next year?

 

[DKH]

No one is paying attention to the fact that it’s been over 3 hours and Krug still hasn’t been locked up. Unbelievable

Yah I’m hoping to hear between dinner and my bath

 

[DominicT]

Two-way or one-way contracts are what matters here; we all need to hope that Lindholm and company are 100% AHL bound.

Why would this matter? It's JJ's money and if he wants to spend it on a one-way contract that's his business.

 

[The Garden]

No its a weasel move that will not be forgotten

Offer sheets are part of the game. If more teams didn't think they were a weasel move, the league would be better off.

 

[bp13]

Good question. Let's assume that everyone is correct and cap space is the new hot commodity over everything else. In that case, teams spend and move contracts to get to the floor and teams move out contracts to free up cap space.

Today, NHL teams filled a ton of space that Backes could have been moved into. Toronto pounced on Ottawa's cap space.

So my concern with Backes is twofold:

1. Backes decides that if something isn't done before the summer he will not waive.
2. No team has cap space to take him on in August or September.

Holding onto him and all the hundred or so 4th liners and bakers dozen of D protects them from injuries but ensures that the cap is spent on the current lineup and not fixing the HOLE.

I don't LIKE the idea of holding onto him. I hated that signing and was the constant basher of it from day one. But the word is out...he stinks! The Bruins will have to pay dearly to get someone to eat him, and clearly they don't feel the sense of urgency to do so or, as you note, they'd have paid up to do it with some of these teams that have space.

End of the day I see him back here, sitting in the press box and/or playing in the A and collecting his check. They don't owe him NHL games and Cassidy has shown he'll sit him when he wants. So we're left to hope Sweeney feels urgency to add talent and thus free up his money, but if I was GM who just went as far as one team can without winning, not sure I'd feel all that much urgency.

 

[TCB]

Zero chance Carolina let go his best player for a 1st+2nd+3rd.

Unless the owner is a Habs fan...

Sweeney should offer a deal for Slavin, saving him some dough, just to be a nice guy of course.

 

[Alicat]

Fitzy's back!

 

[member 96824]

So then worry about the RFAs instead of Krug.

Ehh it was a joke about panic but clearly not a very good one. Back to the drawing board!

 

[Coach Parker]

Why would this matter? It's JJ's money and if he wants to spend it on a one-way contract that's his business.

Lindholm can be in Providence and never sniff the Bruins roster at that cap hit all in Providence?

 

[Alicat]

 

[bp13]

Wonder if someone is going in a Backes deal...

Its curious for sure and gotta give Sweeney props for trying to bolster the farm

Would Frederic be enough to get a team to take Backes? Marleau cost a 1st right? So have to imagine Frederic isn't enough...do we Sweeney giving up even more than that to move Backes?

Beating a dead horse here but I don't see it. I'd love it, but I don't see it.

 

[Mr. Make-Believe]

Lindholm can be in Providence and never sniff the Bruins roster at that cap hit all in Providence?

No cap hit if it's in Providence.

But like you, I don't imagine it's why they signed him.

 

[DGS]

So is this the wrap up announcement on the day? Are we done?

 

[DKH]

Love the D Frederick Shellofselv signing

Donny adding depth

 

[BigGoalBrad]

Providence has been awful for too long turn us into Hershey ASAP.

We also suck at drafting from the CHL stick to NCAA and Europe where those kids won’t see Rhode Island for 4 years after they’re called by Donny.

Give me a few more Gaunces.

 

[LouJersey]

Lindholm got two years out of em

 

[Alicat]

Yea I'm so confused on Lindholm

 

[DominicT]

Lindholm can be in Providence and never sniff the Bruins roster at that cap hit all in Providence?

All a two-way contract means is different salary in AHL then NHL.

Has no effect on cap, (waivers or anything else at all) unless AAV is over $1.075 Million