Bruins retool

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Created by: raowss35

Team: 2024-25 Boston Bruins

Initial Creation Date: May 17, 2024

Published: May 17, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Load up on defensive depth in case Lohrei needs more time or Wotherspoon regresses.

Sign Brossoit or a similar veteran backup in case Bussi is not ready. Lindholm is an obvious signing, the only question mark is term as bruins will have the cap space. Joshua is a player the bruins should seriously look at. He has good size and should offer the bottom 6 a bit more flexibility, just not sure of the asking price.
Ullmark trade is self explanatory, I don’t think he fetches a first, especially not from NJD. I feel Holtz + a 3rd is reasonable
Lauko is the odd one out in this roster so I figured he’d be best off being traded than lost to waivers. The return is arbitrary at this point.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Swayman, Jeremy	6	$6,750,000
Bussi, Brandon	2	$925,000
Boqvist, Jesper	2	$1,250,000
Regula, Alec	1	$825,000
Hatakka, Santeri	2	$975,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Jones, Caleb	2	$950,000
Brossoit, Laurent	1	$950,000
Heinen, Danton	3	$2,500,000
Richard, Anthony	2	$800,000
Joshua, Dakota	2	$2,200,000
Lindholm, Elias	5	$7,750,000
Shea, Ryan	2	$850,000
Blankenburg, Nick	2	$850,000

Trades

BOS

Hatakka, Santeri [RFA Rights]
Holtz, Alexander
2024 3rd round pick (NJD)

NJD

Ullmark, Linus

BOS

Forsfjäll, Zeb [Reserve List]
2024 6th round pick (SEA)

SEA

Lauko, Jakub

Buyouts

Mike Reilly: $1,333,334

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$87,700,000	$83,422,501	$50,000	$1,180,000	$4,277,499

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Zacha, Pavel $4,750,000$4,750,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 3	Lindholm, Elias $7,750,000$7,750,000 C, RW UFA	Pastrnak, David $11,250,000$11,250,000 RW NMC UFA - 7
Marchand, Brad $6,125,000$6,125,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Poitras, Matthew $870,000$870,000 ($80,000$80K) C RFA - 2	Holtz, Alexander $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 1
Frederic, Trent $2,300,000$2,300,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Coyle, Charlie $5,250,000$5,250,000 C, RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	Heinen, Danton $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW UFA
Joshua, Dakota $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW UFA	Beecher, John $925,000$925,000 C RFA - 1	Geekie, Morgan $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, RW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Lindholm, Hampus $6,500,000$6,500,000 LD NTC, NMC UFA - 6	McAvoy, Charlie $9,500,000$9,500,000 RD NMC UFA - 6	Swayman, Jeremy $6,750,000$6,750,000 G RFA
Lohrei, Mason $925,000$925,000 ($250,000$250K) LD RFA - 1	Carlo, Brandon $4,100,000$4,100,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Bussi, Brandon $925,000$925,000 G RFA
Wotherspoon, Parker $800,000$800,000 LD UFA - 1	Peeke, Andrew $2,750,000$2,750,000 RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Jones, Caleb $950,000$950,000 LD/RD UFA
Boqvist, Jesper $1,250,000$1,250,000 C, LW RFA
Brazeau, Justin $775,000$775,000 RW UFA - 1

May 18 at 12:02 a.m.

NHLfan10506

Joined: May 2019

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Reasonable NJ deal. Hatakka was a really nice surprise addition to Meier deal…and probably candidate for 7D here. Good defensively, plays simple game, few mistakes.

May 18 at 12:14 a.m.

dgibb10

I Love J Boqvist

Joined: Jan. 2023

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Quoting: NHLfan10506

Reasonable NJ deal. Hatakka was a really nice surprise addition to Meier deal…and probably candidate for 7D here. Good defensively, plays simple game, few mistakes.

I’d let him compete with bahl for 7D for sure. I feel like teams may also let him slip through the waiver cracks yknow?

May 18 at 7:35 a.m.

beantownboy17

BostonBoy17

Joined: Jun. 2017

Posts: 716

Likes: 215

Realistic across the board. I do think that getting Coyle back down onto the 3rd line is going to do wonders for our depth scoring. That 2nd line is going to get bullied though, too small, and looking at what other teams are throwing out there, I'm not sure it'll survive playoff hockey. Geekie on the 4th line is a waste so I see them moving him before letting him languish down there. Brazeau's gotta find a way in that lineup, and Joshua may get more but you've left plenty of cap.

Overall: it's a better team, but not better enough.

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May 18 at 8:48 a.m.

Bruinadian67

Joined: Dec. 2020

Posts: 727

Likes: 140

I’d probably swap Coyle and Poitras and Geekie and Heinen. Not sure if Heinen gets THAT much and not sure Joshua leaves the Canucks but all in all, nice job 👍🏽

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