God dammit.
Please don't fire Claude.
Cap Situation
The $2.750m retained for Milan Lucic is off the books, as is the $969,000 cap overage from 2014-2015. There will be no cap overage for 2016-2017.
UFA (AHL players in italics)
Loui Eriksson ($4.250m)
John-Michael Liles ($3.875m)
Chris Kelly ($3.000m)
Max Talbot ($0.900m)
Lee Stempniak ($0.850m)
Kevan Miller ($0.800m)
Matt Irwin ($0.800m)
Joonas Kemppainen ($0.793m)
Jonas Gustavsson ($0.700m)
Jeremy Smith ($0.600m)
Chris Breen ($0.600m)
Brandon DeFazio ($0.575m)
RFA (AHL players in italics)
Torey Krug ($3.400m)
Brett Connolly ($1.025m)
Brian Ferlin ($0.875m)
Joe Morrow ($0.863m)
Chris Casto ($0.793m)
Alex Khokhlachev ($0.787m)
Seth Griffith ($0.759m)
Ben Sexton ($0.690m)
Zach Trotman ($0.625m)
Colin Miller ($0.603m)
Landon Ferraro ($0.600m)
Tyler Randell ($0.600m)
Tommy Cross ($0.600m)
Free agents aside, here are the NHL players under contract, assuming no promotions from Providence. Yes, it pains me to include Rinaldo here.
Marchand - Bergeron -
XX - Krejci - Pastrnak
Beleskey - Spooner - Vatrano
XX - Acciari - Hayes
Rinaldo
Chara - XX
XX - XX
XX - McQuaid
Seidenberg
Rask
XX
Bettman believes the cap could go up by $0-$3m - I'm gonna split the difference and say it'll go up $1.5m to $72.9m. That leaves the Bruins $16.085m to:
That gives them the following outlook with $5.722m remaining to make trades, plug holes on D, etc. I've bolded contracts that should be movable (trade, demotion) to allow them to accomplish that.
Marchand - Bergeron - Vesey
Beleskey - Krejci - Pastrnak
Vatrano - Spooner - Connolly
Ferraro - Acciari - Hayes
Rinaldo
Chara - C. Miller
Krug - XX
XX - McQuaid
Rask
Subban
It isn't real pretty, but this is what happens when you try a half-rebuild.
Please don't fire Claude.
Cap Situation
The $2.750m retained for Milan Lucic is off the books, as is the $969,000 cap overage from 2014-2015. There will be no cap overage for 2016-2017.
UFA (AHL players in italics)
Loui Eriksson ($4.250m)
John-Michael Liles ($3.875m)
Chris Kelly ($3.000m)
Max Talbot ($0.900m)
Lee Stempniak ($0.850m)
Kevan Miller ($0.800m)
Matt Irwin ($0.800m)
Joonas Kemppainen ($0.793m)
Jonas Gustavsson ($0.700m)
Jeremy Smith ($0.600m)
Chris Breen ($0.600m)
Brandon DeFazio ($0.575m)
RFA (AHL players in italics)
Torey Krug ($3.400m)
Brett Connolly ($1.025m)
Brian Ferlin ($0.875m)
Joe Morrow ($0.863m)
Chris Casto ($0.793m)
Alex Khokhlachev ($0.787m)
Seth Griffith ($0.759m)
Ben Sexton ($0.690m)
Zach Trotman ($0.625m)
Colin Miller ($0.603m)
Landon Ferraro ($0.600m)
Tyler Randell ($0.600m)
Tommy Cross ($0.600m)
Free agents aside, here are the NHL players under contract, assuming no promotions from Providence. Yes, it pains me to include Rinaldo here.
Marchand - Bergeron -
XX - Krejci - Pastrnak
Beleskey - Spooner - Vatrano
XX - Acciari - Hayes
Rinaldo
Chara - XX
XX - XX
XX - McQuaid
Seidenberg
Rask
XX
Bettman believes the cap could go up by $0-$3m - I'm gonna split the difference and say it'll go up $1.5m to $72.9m. That leaves the Bruins $16.085m to:
- Resign RFAs (my estimates in parentheses)
- F: Connolly (1 year, $1.3m AAV), Ferraro (2 years, $800k AAV)
- D: Krug (3 years, $5.1m AAV), C. Miller (1 year, $800k, one-way)
- Sign Jimmy Vesey for the max $925k AAV base salary and worry about the bonuses hitting the cap at the end of the year.
- Find some way, any way, to move Dennis Seidenberg. Retain up to $2m AAV to do so.
- If they can't move him, buy him out at the following AAVs:
- 2016-17: $1.167m
- 2017-18: $2.167m
- 2018-19: $1.167m
- 2019-20: $1.167m
- For calculation purposes, I'll assume he's gone at a $1.5m cap hit for next year at least
- If they can't move him, buy him out at the following AAVs:
- Call up Malcolm Subban ($0.863m) to backup Rask, bring a goalie in on an ATO and stash him in Providence in case
That gives them the following outlook with $5.722m remaining to make trades, plug holes on D, etc. I've bolded contracts that should be movable (trade, demotion) to allow them to accomplish that.
Marchand - Bergeron - Vesey
Beleskey - Krejci - Pastrnak
Vatrano - Spooner - Connolly
Ferraro - Acciari - Hayes
Rinaldo
Chara - C. Miller
Krug - XX
XX - McQuaid
Rask
Subban
It isn't real pretty, but this is what happens when you try a half-rebuild.
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