On the Boston Bruins – Cap Outlook, Free Agents, NMCs and NTCs …
Cap Friendly – Projected Cap Hit: $69,171,167
Projected Cap Space: $3,828,833
Projected LTIR Used: $0
Current Cap Space: $7,743,707
Deadline Cap Space: $17,229,749
Today’s Cap Hit: $68,741,668
Roster Size: 23/23
Contracts: 44/50
Unrestricted Free Agents – Dominic Moore, John-Michael Liles, Zac Rinaldo, Alex Grant and Tommy Cross.
Restricted Free Agents – Ryan Spooner, David Pastrnak, Austin Czarnik, Tim Schaller, Joe Morrow, Zane McIntyre, Malcolm Subban, Linus Arnesson, Noal Acciari, Colton Hargrove, Brian Ferlin, Chris Castro, and Tyler Randell
No movement and No trade clauses – David Krejci (NMC), Patrice Bergeron (NMC), David Backes (NMC), Brad Marchand (M-NTC), Matt Beleskey (M-NTC), Zdeno Chara (NMC) and Tuukka Rask (NMC).
CBS Boston: Boston Globe’s Fluto Shinzawa was on The Sports Hub 98.5 talking about the Boston Bruins, and that they may not have many options available to them to shake things up.
“I don’t know about a shakeup. It’s just the reality of where they are. They have a lot of good, young players, who if they hit their projections they should be pretty good players in a couple of years,” said Shinzawa, noting prospects such as Charlie McAvoy, Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson and Jeremy Lauzon. “But by then, where are you? Where is Bergeron in his career? Where is Krejci in his career?”
Teams making a big trade trade doesn’t happen that often.
“It’s so hard for teams to make trades because of cap issues and because of parity and expansion,” he explained. “If you look at this roster, it’s just not as good as where it was before. They still haven’t replaced Hamilton. They’ll never replace what they traded away in Seguin. They have no Lucic or Boychuck, pieces that made the Bruins what they were: A robust, legitimate top-place contender.”
Shinzawa on if coach Claude Julien’s job is safe.
“That’s the easiest thing right now, just because it’s so hard to trade players. I know that, as of a few days ago before they beat Florida 4-0 and before the overtime loss to Carolina, as of that point management hadn’t taken that off the table as one of their options. They haven’t eliminated it as a possibility, so they’re studying it like they’re studying everything,” he said of the team dismissing Julien. “You’re limited in what you can do, in terms of management, but that’s always something a team can do.
“If the team starts sliding and you fall several points out of that playoff window, it’s certainly something that’s on the table,” he said.