MikeBossy Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 Interesting to see what happens: Bruins Playing With Salary Cap Fire as Taylor Hall Nears Return (msn.com) Bruins Playing With Salary Cap Fire as Taylor Hall Nears Return Story by NHL Trade Talk • Yesterday 6:27 p.m. According to TSN’s Darren Dreger, the Boston Bruins could be on the verge of salary cap issues as forward Taylor Hall is nearing an on-ice return. Dreger notes in the most recent edition of TSN Insider Trading: “Sources say that he feels that he is ready. The problem is the Bruins don’t have the cap space to activate Taylor Hall.” Bruins Playing With Salary Cap Fire as Taylor Hall Nears Return© Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports On March 2, 2023, the Bruins placed Hall on LTIR and created $6 million in LTIR cap space, which they then went and spent on Dmitry Orlov and Tyler Bertuzzi — the latter of which was meant to be Hall’s replacement in the lineup. Dreger stated that Hall has informed the team he’s ready to go, but there are three weeks still left in the regular season. The question in Boston is how they’ll make room or if they’ll stretch things out much like Tampa Bay did with Nikita Kucherov. At the time, the Kucherov decision was met with scrutiny because he was skating with the team and magically was ready to play the first game of the postseason. If the Bruins try something similar, Dreger suggests there will be teams up in arms. He also notes that the NHL is watching this situation closely. Related video: Bruins-Canadiens Rivalry is Still Great & How Important is this Weekend? | Poke the Bear w/ Conor Ryan (Dailymotion) There’s not only a potential issue with Hall, but Bruins forward Nick Foligno returned to practice in a no-contact sweater on Tuesday and “is making progress” toward a return to game availability for the Bruins. If he too is ready to go it could be really hard to justify both men being unhealthy enough to skate for the regular season but somehow ready exactly on the opening night of the postseason. If Derek Forbort comes out and doesn’t return for the regular season, that might help a bit. That said, the Bruins are in an interesting predicament, especially if Hall wants to play and is cleared to do so. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhippy Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 If the Bruins stretch this out teams will lose their gd minds knowing that he is ready to return. The clear salary circumvention is beyond damning. Although and this is the issue The league knowingly looked the other way with Kucherov and it was far more egregious in that Kucherov had skated for almost 2 full weeks in full contact practices. So if they lay the hammer down now the Bruins will have a full case of wtf ism and if they don't the entire league will know that the game is totally rigged. Either way, I actually expect Boston to have a 2nd round exit but the league has fully screwed themselves with this because they have a precedent for looking the other way yet have absolutely got to do something to maintain even the slimmest levels of neutrality and integrity. Will be fun to watch the Bettman league devour themselves in a circular series of moves regarding this, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumpyone Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 Bettman will just give them a verbal warning 'not to do this again' 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Heffy Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 Should be a forfeit of picks equivalent to the RFA compensation for the amount over the cap. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldoescobar Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 Jacobs doesnt care what the NHL thinks. They report to him. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucker 67 Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 Bettman has his favourites. The Original 6 teams and the non-hockey markets he helped bring into the NHL. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuck73_3 Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 19 minutes ago, Warhippy said: If the Bruins stretch this out teams will lose their gd minds knowing that he is ready to return. The clear salary circumvention is beyond damning. Although and this is the issue The league knowingly looked the other way with Kucherov and it was far more egregious in that Kucherov had skated for almost 2 full weeks in full contact practices. So if they lay the hammer down now the Bruins will have a full case of wtf ism and if they don't the entire league will know that the game is totally rigged. Either way, I actually expect Boston to have a 2nd round exit but the league has fully screwed themselves with this because they have a precedent for looking the other way yet have absolutely got to do something to maintain even the slimmest levels of neutrality and integrity. Will be fun to watch the Bettman league devour themselves in a circular series of moves regarding this, If they looked the other way for Tampa they should do the same for everyone else. They do have to address this and make it clear going forward that this needs to be properly addressed and dealt with. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 Watch he will have a "setback" And be able to play on Day 1 of the playoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJockitch Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 One of their older players will have a sore back and sit out for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 "What's Don Sweeney doing going to the locker room with a baseball bat?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Heffy Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 For an immediate solution, allow the opponent to decide which players should be ineligible until they're under the cap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanuck Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 Anyone thinking Bettman will enact any kind of meaningful consequence for cap circumvention in this case is fooling themselves..... This isn't even a story in my view, as nothing substantial will come of this. The only person who could force this issue is Hall, and he's not going to do that since he wants to play in the PO and he's not going to pi$$ off his GM just to get a few meaningless reg. season games in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 2 minutes ago, King Heffy said: For an immediate solution, allow the opponent to decide which players should be ineligible until they're under the cap. Rat free playoffs? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil_314 Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 7 minutes ago, canuck73_3 said: If they looked the other way for Tampa they should do the same for everyone else. They do have to address this and make it clear going forward that this needs to be properly addressed and dealt with. Even Vancouver's done this before, and the Leafs last year with their bunch of guys stashed in LTIR, etc... They'll just tinker with his status so he comes back in round 1, just like Kuch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldFaithfulCap Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 I'm sure they'll stretch it out, maybe ullmark gets an LBI and sits out a week as that almost clears enough space... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Heffy Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 4 minutes ago, Ghostsof1915 said: Rat free playoffs? Either him or Pasta would be a huge blow. And an effective deterrent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammertime Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 Didn't the NHL send out a warning about this earlier this year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryElf Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 Marchand - Bergeron - Debrusk Zacha - Krejci - Pastrnak Bertuzzi - Coyle - Hall Frederic - Nosek/Greer - Hathaway Orlov - McAvoy Lindholm - Carlo Grzelcyk - Forbort Ullmark Swayman Yowch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pears Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 (edited) 58 minutes ago, Warhippy said: If the Bruins stretch this out teams will lose their gd minds knowing that he is ready to return. The clear salary circumvention is beyond damning. Although and this is the issue The league knowingly looked the other way with Kucherov and it was far more egregious in that Kucherov had skated for almost 2 full weeks in full contact practices. So if they lay the hammer down now the Bruins will have a full case of wtf ism and if they don't the entire league will know that the game is totally rigged. Either way, I actually expect Boston to have a 2nd round exit but the league has fully screwed themselves with this because they have a precedent for looking the other way yet have absolutely got to do something to maintain even the slimmest levels of neutrality and integrity. Will be fun to watch the Bettman league devour themselves in a circular series of moves regarding this, But hey let’s nail the Canucks with a cap circumvention penalty for a contract that was perfectly legal at the time it was signed and let’s give the Devils their first round pick back because they cried enough about it right? piss off. I’m still really surprised we didn’t take the league to court over that crap. Edited March 29, 2023 by Pears 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanuck Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 3 minutes ago, Pears said: I’m still really surprised we didn’t take the league to court over that crap. Rule #1 of the old white boys club - nobody goes against the old white boys club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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