Now that the front office and coaching staffs are in place, it's time to turn our attention to the roster. The draft is 3 weeks from today, and is quickly followed by free agency on July 1. So a month from now we could have a vastly different team.
Using General Fanager, the Bruins have $4.8 million in cap space, assuming the cap stays at $69 million. That is for 12 forwards, 4 D and 1 G. There have been some rumblings in the past few days that it could rise to $71.5, but it's probably best to operate with the assumption that $69mm is number.
Here's the cap outlook on GF: http://www.generalfanager.com/teams/3
The key players that need to be retained are Dougie Hamilton, Ryan Spooner sand Brett Connolly. The latter two should come cheap but Hamilton could take up that entire $4.8 million in free space and then some on his own. So the one thing that is clear this year is money has to go out the door. The usual suspects are being bandied about as possible salary dumps- Lucic, Eriksson, Seidenberg, Kelly or maybe even Krejci.
I honestly have no clue as to where they go from here. It is as fascinating an offseason as they've had in a while. Sweeney has a lot of important decisions to make. Personally, I think Hamilton needs to be priority #1. Get him done before 7/1, then you avoid the crippling offer sheet scenario and the rest of the offseason can fall in line.
Using General Fanager, the Bruins have $4.8 million in cap space, assuming the cap stays at $69 million. That is for 12 forwards, 4 D and 1 G. There have been some rumblings in the past few days that it could rise to $71.5, but it's probably best to operate with the assumption that $69mm is number.
Here's the cap outlook on GF: http://www.generalfanager.com/teams/3
The key players that need to be retained are Dougie Hamilton, Ryan Spooner sand Brett Connolly. The latter two should come cheap but Hamilton could take up that entire $4.8 million in free space and then some on his own. So the one thing that is clear this year is money has to go out the door. The usual suspects are being bandied about as possible salary dumps- Lucic, Eriksson, Seidenberg, Kelly or maybe even Krejci.
I honestly have no clue as to where they go from here. It is as fascinating an offseason as they've had in a while. Sweeney has a lot of important decisions to make. Personally, I think Hamilton needs to be priority #1. Get him done before 7/1, then you avoid the crippling offer sheet scenario and the rest of the offseason can fall in line.