Bruins '21 OFFSEASON Thread

They’ve certainly got some plans

Pagnotta and another dude have them talking to Getzlaf as soon as free agency opens. I don’t mind it for the 4th line

HMMM... Did Sweeney burn Haggerty? He reported this was from Sweeney, wow. 

I guess we were all right in not liking these moves.

True, he had to have a reason for it but he thru Haggs under the bus pretty good. Haggs can't be feeling too good.

So, the concept of GMs holding on to talent they acquired for too long is hardly unique to Sweeney. It's a trait shared by most, if not all, GMs to some extent. It's why you always hear about (generally in the NFL or NBA) teams holding onto washout 1st round picks too long. It's common thing. Maybe I didn't explain my meaning properly, but I don't want to type half a page to clarify every small point. In any event, acting like this is some slanderous attack on Don Sweeney is kind of comical.

He's been an okay GM, and I don't criticize him much. But he's not great, he's made some terrible moves with some good ones and few that can be called great (drafting McAvoy, I guess?). He certainly hasn't earned the right to be above criticism when he makes head-scratching moves.

Tendering Kase would have been a move that deserves a lot of criticism. You can peruse the net for writers talking about how there was no way any team would consider paying him 2.6 mil before the rumor that Sweeney was about to, and you can read their confusion when he sounded like he was going to. It wouldn't have made any sense on any level, and there's no reason everyone has to pretend Don Sweeney is so infallible that such a move was above comment.

A move he didn't make, as it turns out Which is great. I'm hopeful for what Sweeney and the B's will do this offseason, but I don't check my logic circuits at the door so I can pretend bad moves must have some invisible brilliance behind them.

I'm not at all sure Vladar would be claimed.

There was a rumor a bit ago that the Bruins planned to go with Vladar and a vet, and send Swayman down, because  Vladar has "seniority" which was how they were among that call. I would certainly hope that isn't true, as it's a silly way to determine who plays at the NHL level.

Can't help but think Dunn. 

I wouldn't think you go after a 37 year old Giordano, a number of guys have salaries you wouldn't think we'd be interested in, a lot of guys are depth Left Shots, which isn't where our needs are. Unless we are trying to get Lauzon back, Dunn makes the most sense. But what do I know? (please don't answer that)

The only other thing that it could be is Lauzon.

Pre-expansion the talk was that the price on deals to not pick certain players was exorbitant. Mayne it comes back to Earth now?

Least likely of the scenarios but . . .

Schmidt-McAvoy
Forbort-Carlo
Gryz-Hakanpaa
Clifton/Zboril

Martinez re-upping in Vegas, Suter getting 4 years somewhere else. Options are getting limited

They’ve got money though so maybe they get nuts and do something like offersheet Pelech

First, I think Mark Giordano is staying in Seattle for a leadership presence. Second, he only has one year left on his deal and Seattle could retain salary for the Bruins if they traded him here. Seattle has plenty of money to play with and my guess is their plan is to try and build a solid structure this season then dip into next years super talented free agent pool. They avoided long term bigger contracts and in the process have very little with regards to top 6 talent.

So in summary, while I think they keep him, if they don’t, he doesn’t need to be traded as his cap number.

Elliot Friedman thinks Boston might be in on Blake Coleman and that might be why they changed tune on the QOs

Kirk Luedeke saying Bruins and Krejci are finalizing a deal.