Confirmed with Link: (Updated) Chris Kelly signs with Ottawa. 1 YR @ 900K

[hooked]

can you please share your meds??

and if your meds include Boniva, share them with Chris Kelly.

 

[Seidenbergy]

can you please share your meds??

It was a Chris Kelly quote from Behind the Bs, when they were in the lockerroom between periods and he was trying to motivate the team.

“Pick our heads up. More positive in here, boys,†Kelly urged his teammates. “We’re a great hockey team. We’ve got great players in here. Heads up. Help one another out. Don’t point the finger. Nobody’s playing their [expletive] best right now – nobody. No one can point the finger. Sometimes the passes are there, sometimes they’re not. It’s a game of mistakes; it’s how you react after it. Heads up here, boys. Twenty minutes, we [expletive] got a ‘W,’ smiles on our faces, listening to tunes afterwards. Let’s go here.â€

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/11/...e-of-bruins-wealth-of-locker-room-leadership/

 

[toasterjam]

I absolutely love Chris Kelly and all he has done for us, but resigning him at this stage is a mistake. We need to move on, I know Kelly is a great leader, but it's time for others to step up.

We have no idea what Kelly can even bring at this point on the ice and we know if given the chance, Claude will favor putting Kelly out.

Please Don, move on. Reconstruct the bottom 6, I think we have young guys within the system that deserve a look. I'd like to build a fast and aggressive 4th line and Kelly isn't the answer.

 

[SPLBRUIN]

Signing him would be a mistake, the guy's body is beaten down, nothing left to give. We need to inject size, speed, skill and youth into the lineup, Kelly brings none of that.

 

[VanIsle]

If he can't rebound from his injury. Kelly was never slow; skating was probably his best asset.

He is turning 36 this year and has had multiple injuries, I doubt he will be anything but slow.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/when-nhl-players-peak-hockey-metrics-1.2646054

Players start a significant decline in their early 30s as stated, and he is going to be on the wrong side of 35.

No more old guys bring in the youth.

 

[Ladyfan]

Time to move on

 

[Scotto74]

I think its a great idea to sign him.




As an assistant coach.

 

[missingchicklet]

Agree with most everyone else. Bs do not need to waste time and resources on an older player coming off of yet another injury. I would love it if he would stay with the organization in a coaching role. He helped bring along his fellow players, most notably Marchand, as they were learning the system, so I think he could be an asset to the organization. Thing is it sounds like he still wants to play. Perhaps he will get a one-year deal, who knows.

 

[Caper Bruins fan]

Sign him as an assistant coach , or give him 20 games as a player to see how he looks and if the results aren't there , you move into the coaching role .

 

[Gee Wally]

Sign him as an assistant coach , or give him 20 games as a player to see how he looks and if the results aren't there , you move into the coaching role .

no good.
you'd still be stuck with the cap hit.

 

[WhalerTurnedBruin55]

no good.
you'd still be stuck with the cap hit.

Not advocating signing Kelly as a player in any way... but hypothetically, if we was signed to a 1m contract, didn't cut it, then assigned to Providence. If he retired would that 1m still be on the cap?

 

[DKH]

If Claude wants him resign him

 

[Tim Vezina Thomas]

If its one year I'm not opposed to it, because itll be a tradeable contract at the deadline if we're bad.

 

[DKH]

If its one year I'm not opposed to it, because itll be a tradeable contract at the deadline if we're bad.

Agree - 1 year let Clode do his thing and if it doesn't work in 2017/18 we usher in the Pastrnak Vesey Sensyshyn Vatrano DeBrusk Zboril Carlo OGara Bruins

 

[LSCII]

If Claude wants him resign him

That's exactly why you don't resign him. They've let that guy have his way and his players for too long and it's resulted in 2 **** years of no playoff hockey. Time to make him change it up.

 

[alg363636]

We're already spending 11+ million on Hayes+ McQuaid + Seids + Miller

Any money being spent on Kelly is too much

Move on

 

[RedeyeRocketeer]

As bad as the Sens special teams were I could see him taking the league minimum to retire there. He still lives in Ottawa.

 

[Hali33]

Chris Kelly is a great guy but this should not be a difficult decision here. He's 36. He has not played well or stayed healthy in a while and his body is breaking down. It's time to move on.

 

[Mpasta]

Chris Kelly was on the PK for 11 games when the Bruins were the 2nd worst team in that category in the league. Once he got injured, they drastically improved.

So anybody advocating for him to be signed because of being good on the PK, the stats show the exact opposite.

 

[The Zapper]

Just seeing this as a topic makes me want to throat punch Sweeney.

I don't even know how to feel about this organization anymore.

I just... I just don't know.

 

[The Zapper]

I'll try to be concise here...

No.

 

[HHHH]

I love what he did here in the past, would love to see him as a coach or involved in the organization at some point in the future, but the B's should not resign him...need to inject some youth into the lineup

 

[LSCII]

I don't even know how to feel about this organization anymore.

I just... I just don't know.

I keep expecting them to do the right things, and then they don't. It's like Sweeney is planning for this team to blow until his draft picks start contributing in 2019, or something. It makes no sense. If he's content to build through the draft, why not give some of their young guys in Providence already a chance? They really couldn't be worse than the retreads and old vets they keep rolling out.

 

[Glove Malfunction]

Chris Kelly was on the PK for 11 games when the Bruins were the 2nd worst team in that category in the league. Once he got injured, they drastically improved.

So anybody advocating for him to be signed because of being good on the PK, the stats show the exact opposite.

This is a perfect example of correlation not being the same as causation.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

He deserves to be a scout or possibly a coach. Unless he wants to be the captain of Providence he should retire.