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He's also coming off a 28pt campaign in 55 games. GREAT isn't the word I'd use to describe him. GOOD is fine in my books, especially being a big bodied RH centre.

Great player? That's debatable. He's good value at 4M... I'll give them that.

I dunno, I'm not sure how excited I'd be to retain 4M on a serviceable centre and just get back rights to Galchenyuk. Just not a prime example of "zomg the things you can do with cap space!!!111!!!"

You keep going back to the Wild. Let's talk about Vegas and Pacioretty. Or how about Columbus and Bjorkstrand. Or how about St Louis and Jake Allen. Or NYI and Devon Toews. etc etc. There's lots of examples of guys that SHOULD have returned much more, but because of the cap hell some teams get themselves into, they are sold off for less (and sometimes MUCH less) than what they're worth. I think this will be even more apparent this off season as the cap has only moved up $2M in a span of 4 years where contract dollars have continued to climb. Without a doubt, the Canucks bought out OEL because they simply couldn't find takers for any of their wingers without adding a sweetener. It's not like their contracts are terrible value either (especially Garland). I'd be really surprised if the Bruins get any kind of haul for Debrusk or Swayman.

Ok seriously, this time, by the time that EDM game on Sep 30th rolls around, we better have 85% of our roster sorted out instead of fiddling around with the roster and building zero chemistry and zero momentum heading into game 1 of the new season. We NEED a strong start to this season!!

Steal or not, it sets the bar for 3Cs. Glad the bar is set lower by one of the better 3Cs in the entire league.

Ok that's not terrible. A 3C for $3M or less sounds really possible. Haula is a top tier 3C, so if he's at $3.15M, guys like Kampf or Acciari should be under $3M.

Heckuva 3rd line centre. We need someone like that if we are ever to be considered a contender.

Looks fine on paper for the coming year: But here is what you need to consider: - buying out those 4 guys means they now only have 4 defencemen under contract, and basically only 3 top 4 defencemen. They'll need to bring in another top 4 guy, plus a bottom pairing guy -- at least a $5M cap hit cost - buying out Hall, and now there are only 6 forwards under contract. They likely need another 7 forwards now including a #1 or #2C depending on what you think Coyle is. A #1 or #2C is gonna cost at least $6M+ So, savings of $12M, $11M of that is on a top 4D and a #1 or #2C. So they now have $6M in cap space to fill out the rest of the roster including at least 6 more forwards, 1 or 2 more bottom pair defence, and a backup goalie. So 8 to 9 more roster players for $6M, and that's AFTER buying out all those guys. They NEED to dump cap. I'm not sure how much more evident it needs to be for people to see it clearly. Boston is in TERRIBLE shape in terms of the cap this year. They're gonna have to move value out for pennies on the dollar considering the cap is officially only going up by $1M.

Acciari could likely be had for relatively cheap on the UFA market. He's just not as big a name as the others, but he quietly does his thing, and he does it well.

I think he will get $5M+ being arguably top LHD available in free agency. Feels like a Tyler Myers type year for UFAs though, so I wouldn't pay the premium for him.

First of all... who???? Second of all, I don't think he'll play for free. Could try though

I don't think he's terrible, I just think he's near impossible to move right now given his production, injury history, cap hit, etc

What does that have to do with anything?

Fair enough. I'm just coming from the perspective that Boston doesn't even have 1st or 2nd round picks for sweeteners. So the only way they can 'dump' cap is by providing more value than they want as trade bait. Their forwards are all locked into NMC and NTCs. They are gonna have 2 goalies making $4M+ each. And once Swayman is re-signed, they'll have around $1M left to sign 5 to 6 forwards including a #1C. Cap hell is an understatement for them.

Uptempo and Brock don't go together haha

Not sure who they're waiting for though? What other star players are of Petey's calibre that is up for contract renewal? Matthews? He's gonna get paid a ton, it'll just make negotiations worse lol

This coming year's TDL would mean Beauvillier and Myers could be off the books. If the goal is just to make the playoffs this year, we could probably lose both of them at the TDL and not miss them too much. If we're not in a playoff position by the TDL, we're pretty screwed anyways.

Yeah, Juulsen and Burroughs would likely come at the same cap hit as Bear alone. I know where the value is there.

When Allvin says "We're going to sit down when the time is right."... I suspect it's Allvin's camp that is waiting.

Would be fantastic if one of the young guns takes a big step -- PeteyD, Johansson, Hirose, McWard, Jurmo, etc. We need 1 or 2 of these guys to make the big club and have an impact.

Beauvillier might be the easier one to move. Only 1 year left on his deal.

Works for us, but doesn't work for NAS. They don't have a need for Brock.

I know. I'm just saying I hope they don't drag this out. Pay the guy what he wants for 8 years and move forward. Don't play games with arguably the most important player for this franchise right now.

Do you really feel that 18 goals and 55 points for $6.65M is what teams are shopping for? Looking at forwards around his age making between $6M and $7M: Connor - 26yo - $7.1M = 31 goals 80 points Thompson - 25yo - $7.1M = 47 goals 94 points Nylander - 27yo - $7M = 40 goals 87 points Boeser - 26yo - $6.65M = 18 goals 55 points Reinhart - 27yo - $6.5M = 31 goals 67 points Guentzel - 28yo - $6M = 36 goals 73 points Pretty darn obvious Boeser is overpaid at the moment given his production in comparison to others around his age range and cap hit.