honestly i highly doubt we will lol

central is so fucking strong and the blues will prob have a cup hangover

theyre partying hard

Definitely not easy but you guys have basically the same team again so you'll have a legit chance. Just gotta make playoffs and anything can happen. Boston has no excuse to not go deep again

I'm so curious of how much we're going to pay McAvoy and Carlo. Going to be huge for how the future will look.
I badly want Boston to dump Backes and a 1st round pick to get some space. Would much rather have that then dump Krejci by a mile now that all of the top talent free agents are gone now. Need to stack up now, keeping Backes over a Krejci for a better return would be a fail now. It depends on what McAvoy and Carlo want ofc, may not have to do it at all.

any NTC with either player? i know backes is pretty much buyout proof this year but i heard nothing about NTC or NMC

Not that I'm aware of
Krug is also another one that has a small chance of being traded
At this point it's Backes or not one if anyone gets traded imo
I'm fine without trading anyone only if that means we sign McAvoy AND Carlo.
Of course I'd like to trade Backes with a pick regardless, so we can get another guy, someone like Dzingel, or a player near the trade deadline.

So we have about $8m in cap space now after the Heinen signing.

McAvoy & Carlo need to be signed

I'm worried that we may lose Krejci :/ But I see it as a major fail now that all of the solid free agents have been signed.

The simple solution is to dump Backes & a pick or two imo, I'm all for it because we are a championship or bust team, not a borderline playoff one.

Kevin Miller is another name that may be on the move to create space. Krug ofc too, but unlikely

What do yall think Boston will do to get McAvoy & Carlo signed. They BOTH need to be signed without a doubt to me, they're our future dmen. McAvoy is of course on par to be our franchise dman.

Crutchy Backes in a Zacha deal with the devils

pay all 3

zacha turning out to be a meh #6 pick, krejci would give them a better chance to win than zacha, backes sits in the stable, seems like the devils are grabbing up some 30 yo type dudes for a possible run

I'm no expert at this but probably a pick on top from the bruins to make it happen


just looked at capfriendly and figured this might work

His is true. But we knew Bergeron was banged up. But at that time of year everyone is. Unfort

Devils wouldn’t do that. Taking on backes would cost 2 firsts. And Krejci doesn’t exactly have a small contract. Devils are better off waiting to see what kind of team they are this year before they decide the direction they go but either way they won’t want to tie 13 million in two old fucks for multiple years. That would prohibit them from making future plays in Hughes rookie contract.

lol yea I didn't really put a lot of thought into that post just wanted to say, " trade crutchy" more than anything


Obviously it will be the Backes deal that will need to be dealt, and it will be closer to the start of the season before anything happens

There isn't many teams that have the room for him, so it's a buyers market and hopefully Sweeney didn't just blow his cover with his new trophy

Omg rumor today is the devils are the first team to reach out about backes lol