Bruins Acquire Drew Stafford
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Elsewhere, Streit's stay in Tamp lasts 5 minutes as he gets shipped to Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh also sent Eric Fehr, Steve Olesky and a 4th to Toronto for Frankie Corrado.
Pittsburgh also sent Eric Fehr, Steve Olesky and a 4th to Toronto for Frankie Corrado.
Pierre LeBrunVerified account @Real_ESPNLeBrunJets trade Drew Stafford to the Boston Bruins for a conditional 6th
If that's all they do this deadline, I'm OK with it.
Ride out this season, try to make the playoffs and get the kids some experience, and hold the fort until the real kids show up.
Ride out this season, try to make the playoffs and get the kids some experience, and hold the fort until the real kids show up.
Huge sigh of relief. Exactly what they should have done. Replace Hayes for bag of pucks equivalent and continue to develop the young guys.
Can't really complain. Maybe he can start repaying the Bruins for all those multi-goal games he scored against them with Buffalo.
I'm ok with this. Rental for an end-of-year ufa that cost a useless draft pick to try and upgrade a spot.
fantastic low risk move.
But I'm a biased towards Fighting Sioux so that may be a part of my liking it. Liked him ever since he had a great game that helped beat the Gophers in a Frozen Four, 10, maybe 12 years ago.
Former 1st round pick. Belichickian move.
But I'm a biased towards Fighting Sioux so that may be a part of my liking it. Liked him ever since he had a great game that helped beat the Gophers in a Frozen Four, 10, maybe 12 years ago.
Former 1st round pick. Belichickian move.
Hmmm. That's a little less appealing. Still, no complaints. Bruins got a veteran rental who could upgrade the third line and score some goals for a late-round pick.
Depends on how much Stafford contributes.
No doubt he has had a down year but perhaps a change of scenery will help.
Sweeney says the 6th becomes a 5th if the B's qualify for the playoffs. If they win a round, then it is a 4th. It is a 2018 pick as well. I don't have any problem with this.
I guess they expect Stafford to get here sometime before the game tomorrow, but it is up to Cassidy if he plays.
Sweeney also mentioned them hopefully getting NCAA players signed in the next few weeks. Don't think they'll burn a McAvoy year, but maybe Bjork comes aboard.
The other item from the press conference is Sweeney has no timetable for making a decision on the coach. Could remove the interim tag tomorrow or never.
I guess they expect Stafford to get here sometime before the game tomorrow, but it is up to Cassidy if he plays.
Sweeney also mentioned them hopefully getting NCAA players signed in the next few weeks. Don't think they'll burn a McAvoy year, but maybe Bjork comes aboard.
The other item from the press conference is Sweeney has no timetable for making a decision on the coach. Could remove the interim tag tomorrow or never.
Anytime you can pay a low value draft pick to add a guy with an incredibly brotastic name, you have to do it.
I've always wondered, does the player have to go month to month on a lease or live out of a hotel in these situations or does the team put the player up somewhere?
What's the etiquette, especially with only ~3 months in a new city and then unrestricted free agency. For a millionaire, it's not a huge deal but a room in a hotel in downtown Boston could add up to $15-20k over three months. For someone like John Scott, that's a tough deal.
What's the etiquette, especially with only ~3 months in a new city and then unrestricted free agency. For a millionaire, it's not a huge deal but a room in a hotel in downtown Boston could add up to $15-20k over three months. For someone like John Scott, that's a tough deal.
There's a comedy idea in there somewhere about a guy subletting the extra bedroom in his crappy apartment to an impending UFA.
They paid for the room until the end of the week then you have to find a place of your own. And we're on the road in the morning. Bus leaves the War Memorial at 8 am....
In all seriousness there is probably language in the CBA about situations like that. I assume the team puts them up in a hotel for a certain amount of time defined in the CBA.
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If Stafford plays zero games I would still trade the 4th round pick for 2 playoff series of experience for this team.
As for the lodging discussion, I would assume there's standard language to live in a hotel and I'm sure they have a property management company on speed dial that has month to month apartments available as well.
The NBA has language that you're required to put up a player for up to 30 days. I imagine the NHL is somewhat similar. It's probably a hotel so they can get a bit annoying.
I got an alert that my post was moved over to "Bruins acquire Matt Stafford". Lol at whoever did that.
Like the move. Good depth addition and it didn't cost anything significant. Stafford could do well on the wing with Spooner, and I suspect will find some time on Krejci's left as well.
Like the move. Good depth addition and it didn't cost anything significant. Stafford could do well on the wing with Spooner, and I suspect will find some time on Krejci's left as well.
I want to take a moment and wallow in this strange new world where Donnie didn't fuck up the trade deadline and swap Carlo for a bag of magic beans.
I like the move too, this is exactly what they should be doing now, unlike last season.
Has anyone watched much of Stafford over the past 3 years in the 'Peg? What kind of player is he right now? And as I ask that, I realize I don't even really know what kind of player he was during his prime on Buffalo, despite having seen him play 30 games over his career and score a ton of goals vs the Bruins. There's absolutely nothing about his game that has ever stood out to me. And I mean that in a good way, he was always just a pretty good, very well rounded player. Is he still that?
Has anyone watched much of Stafford over the past 3 years in the 'Peg? What kind of player is he right now? And as I ask that, I realize I don't even really know what kind of player he was during his prime on Buffalo, despite having seen him play 30 games over his career and score a ton of goals vs the Bruins. There's absolutely nothing about his game that has ever stood out to me. And I mean that in a good way, he was always just a pretty good, very well rounded player. Is he still that?
Let's see if they actually don't fuck up the Pastrnak RFA situation before we declare it a strange new world. I still feel like I'm watching the same movie.
Best comp I can come up with for Stafford is Michael Ryder. Not particularly fleet of foot, primarily an offensive winger with a good shot. Goals can come in bunches, but he is prone to disappearing for long stretches and he's not particularly useful in the defensive end. Winnipeg didn't use him on the PK, but he got more than a minute per game on the PP. Seems he was decent last year, then he got hurt this season and also knocked down the depth chart with the emergence of Ehlers and Laine.
I think this he's worth taking a potentially 4th round pick kind of flyer on.
Kirk did a post about him, in which he pointed out that from an offensive perspective, a Stanford type might be a particularly good fit with Spooner and Vatrano.
Kirk did a post about him, in which he pointed out that from an offensive perspective, a Stanford type might be a particularly good fit with Spooner and Vatrano.
He actually sounds a little bit like Hayes, maybe with a slightly better shot. That's scary, but still worth the flyer.