This week, a bit stupid rumor appeared that the Boston Bruins were shopping "quietly" some of their veterans more valuable, including former Norris winner Zdeno Chara and Brad Marchand Jersey, among other veterans.
As discussed yesterday, it felt much more like a due diligence on the part of Bruins - if it even happened - than anything else, but the boy that everyone has not had in hockey media scrambling to make up the headlines to the effect of "Bruins seek to negotiate veterans," and so on.
It is a sexy idea, quite frankly, but it's one of those rumors that you have to take with about as much salt as you would get if you boil a drop of sea water. The author of the report in question has a long history to throw rumors against the wall, probably because of how many page views you can generate by saying, "CHARA on the block" in the largest capital letters, you can find, but even when there are real specificity in reports of this type, by literally anyone files, not only in Boston, the likelihood that these things happen remains fairly low.
But given how much play it through the league, taking the rumor at face value.
Who is going where?
As mentioned, handy rumor is specifically lacking in details.
According hockey separate sources, there has been a certain level of recent discussion of trade on veterans Zdeno Chara and Brad Marchand with other teams in the league, to name players some B. Talks were not substantial, but more exploratory, the team quietly gauges the market value of the old higher-priced veterans who may not fit into the long-term picture if the decision is made to demolish the current list .
"A certain level", "the discussion of trade", "other teams in the league", "to name a few."
Nostradamus was not that wave.
Is it likely that teams have at least put a toe slightly against a tire or two on the list of Bruins? Of course it is. This is a team with many good players on it, and with a variable value. Chara, despite his age and apparent rickety legs, is still somehow a clear No. 1 defender who is unfortunately paid until 41. Marchand is another guy who has a demonstrated value - some would say that it is the product of a superstar like playing with Patrice Bergeron, but they are not quite the right way about it - and whose success CAP is much more manageable. Ignored in the report, but it is clear that someone Bruins would not mind shopping, is Loui Eriksson, who is in the final year of a deal that is more affordable than Marchand .
Apart from that, however, there are not too many veterans you think teams across the league - again, nothing clearer than that - would be interested in acquiring. Dennis Seidenberg with three more years at $ 4 million? Chris Kelly on an expiring deal of $ 3 million? Maybe if the Bruins sweeten the pot, but that is pretty decent money at this stage of the season for the players ugly that no rational NHL team would be willing to take another year longer than many. Other than that, go hard.
You would think that asking about guys like David Krejci, Patrice Bergeron and Tuukka Rask Jersey cause rapid tone. However, if you are Don Sweeney and you can find someone to take Krejci is a bit silly deal that pays him $ 7.25 million until 2021 to have a discussion on the return might not be the worst use your time.
The list of teams that need defenders # 1 is large, the list of teams that could use a winger like Marchand. Eriksson was probably pretty devalued by playing a mainly defensive role in Boston (and having all ham-and-fan-boy Egger get the knives every time he touches the puck because it was back in this terrible job Seguin ) that someone probably takes a flyer on him, but does not try to give up too.
The other thing to keep in mind here, however, is that the report stated that no trade would happen "tomorrow or even next week," which is obvious since you do not blow the franchise after 0- 3 or even 0- 6. Usually, you pull a trainer before starting to unload players anyway.
But if you're looking around the candidates for a number of veterans out of the hands of the Bruins in the case of a legitimate disaster, you should have no shortage of candidates.
This seems more like a send messages that actual trade rumors. "If you do not stand up and fly right, is safe," and all that.
Again, it is difficult to expect how everything is non-committal. No destination in mind, no timetable, only two actually named several veterans (and two of the most sensational credible that). And again, this way, when a veteran is inevitably moved if - the Bruins continue to flounder, the report can be highlighted with a little mustard on the real - or perhaps when "told-ya-so . "
But if it actually happens, Don Sweeney in particular, but the Bruins organization as a whole must do much more intensely looking into the bathroom mirror. Trade Chara? You've seen what happens when this team will Chara-less in the first three games. It is not pretty. Merchant trade? Okay, but then you have no idea at all who the puck into the net to Patrice Bergeron, and the offense is an uncertainty in the Boston lineup to start. Trade Eriksson? Well, it's going to work this summer anyway, so go ahead.
But trade one of these guys early in the season and it is clearly time Panic Mode. Like, tear-it-down-and-start-all-over panic mode. Like, could trade as-well-Bergeron-and-Rask too Panic Mode. Because alignment either Boston or without Chara Marchand is not able to be really competitive unless you get good players listed NHL back. And you would not be.
And that does not mean Marchand is the kind of guy who makes or breaks a competitive-Cup team, but the Bruins are not any more. Careers Tyler Seguin, Johnny Boychuk, Dougie Hamilton, and even Milan Lucic in recent years have seen it. But without Marchand your third best striker is 19-year-old David Pastrňák. And your fourth best striker Matt Beleskey or something. It is not an enviable position.
Throughout these business lines amount likely to massive changes in the organization shortly thereafter.
This is so huge, If True: is it true?
On a scale of BS detector 1-5, one being the most reasonable rumor and 5 being the least reasonable rumor:
I do not believe for a second that the Boston Bruins Zdeno Chara shopped so early in the season.
That said, the Bruins should at least examine the effectiveness of simply burn everything down. Does not mean they have, but they should. Given the distributed contracts and trades that have taken place in recent years, do not recall the neutral observer the last days of the Calgary Flames organization that went from being legitimately good that must be terrible to demonstrate clearly and reconstruction in a space of six or seven years? The only difference being the Flames do not win a Cup in 2004, while Boston has taken home seven years later.
This is a team that has the tools to make the playoffs this year, but to what end? If we want to be nice they are the sixth- or seventh best team in the East (behind Washington, Tampa, Pittsburgh, two new Yorks, and perhaps Montreal), which means that the scale league they are probably at the top teens or even low 20s. And this is a mediocre-at-best loved team with a lot of heavy contracts.
This does not mean that they should move towards a full-on rebuilding with Pastrnak, Malcolm Subban, their three first-round picks this year, and so on that the master move forward.
But thinking about moving toward it should not be on the table.
And in this case, the idea that the Bruins could be just given the commercial discussions with a number of anonymous teams for anyone who will seek a decent return and clears future funding obligations is not only without outlandish it is downright reasonable. bobby orr jersey.
If you put a few layers of rumor on top of it and sprinkle with some big names moving, and you have yourself a rumor which is just plausible enough to not be rejected out of hand.
It will not happen, and this is not nothing.
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