Bruins sign Erik Haula
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He is a pretty good player - at least when healthy. Hopefully not Kase 2.0
Edit: And primarily a LW so .....
Edit: And primarily a LW so .....
Haula had a couple good seasons years ago and has been pretty terrible since. This is an awful deal, at least Forbort is useful
Also listed at C and has a good record at winning faceoffs. Not sure what (if anything) this means vis a vis Jake or maybe Krejci.
He missed on season basically and played 80%+ of games in the other seasons (the last two of which are under 80 games). He averaged 16 min TOI/G last year in 59 games. He's a bottom 6 forward at a reasonable price for a team that needs bottom 6 help. Maybe there are better options, and maybe he'll stink, but he's not remotely AAAHL filler.
Maybe sit this one out, yeah?
I don't know if I like the cap number, but signing a PKer/3rd liner at ES tells me they're possible done with DeBrusk... using him as trade bait to get a top-4 defenseman would make me a pretty happy camper all told.
He was healthy scratched a few times last year but sounds like it was a combo of his play and clashing with the head coach.
He's not an AAAHLer. He hasn't seen the AHL since 2014. He's a career NHL player who has lost some time due to injury. His outlier season was a 29g 26a in 76 games for Vegas in their inaugural season. He's bounced around a bit since then (Carolina to Florida to Nashville) but is a bottom 6 NHL player.
The burden should be on the person calling Haula a AAAHL player when he hasn't been there since he was 21/22.
Not that Haula's going to put up 29 goals (with 12 on the PP) again - but which B's youngster up front has even put up 10 NHL goals in a season for less $ than Haula is on?
He is what he is - a 3rd line LW who can kill penalties. Adjusted for where the cap is now vs. a decade ago, he's essentially Daniel Paille
He is what he is - a 3rd line LW who can kill penalties. Adjusted for where the cap is now vs. a decade ago, he's essentially Daniel Paille