SHOCKING NEWS: Boston Bruins Announce their first trademarket of the 2024 season…
The Boston Bruins will look significantly different next season, and Don Sweeney will have his job cut out for him.
SHOCKING NEWS: Boston Bruins Announce their first trademarket of the 2024 season…
BOSTON – Is the shock still fresh? Has your rage subsided?
Whatever the answers to those questions are, the truth for the Boston Bruins is that next season has already begun. That’s what losing to the Florida Panthers — the Florida Panthers! — will do. Losing to the Florida Panthers in the first round of the playoffs will necessitate that.
The Bruins will start the season with a salary cap disadvantage, as they had to cram large performance bonuses into the contracts of both Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci to fit them under the limit last year. Bergeron earned his $2.5 million incentive by appearing in 10 games last season, and Krejci earned all of his $2 million bonuses by appearing in 30 games and making the playoffs. This means the Bruins will have $4.5 million less to work with when awarding contracts next year.
The fact that the Bruins won’t be able to rebuild rapidly through the draft further complicates issues, but on a more long-term rather than short-term scale. They won’t be able to do so in the upper rounds, at least.
The Bruins don’t even have a third-round pick next year, as that one went away in the
deal, too. That leaves the Bruins without six out of nine picks in the first three rounds of the next three drafts. All that’s left in the top three rounds are a third-round pick this year, and first- and third-round picks in 2025. Getting high-end talent that can make a quick impact figures to be a near-impossible task for the front office not just this year but for the foreseeable future.
Trent Frederic had the best season of his career as well, and he’s due a significant raise from his $1.05 million contract in arbitration.
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