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$6.3M for 2 goalies, 2 defenseman and the best-money-goal-scorer on the team. Me thinks UFA Khudobin gets poached, he's too good to take a paycut with lost of teams that need goaltending- Florida or Ottawa. PC is a big fan of Ference's so I think he stays as I don't see Trotman nor Krug ready for primetime.

Its' going to be tuff but the Bruins still have Savard's $4M as he is not going to retire, his salary drops to $5M in 2014-15. Peverley might still be a casualty...

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$6.3M for 2 goalies, 2 defenseman and the best-money-goal-scorer on the team. Me thinks UFA Khudobin gets poached, he's too good to take a paycut with lost of teams that need goaltending- Florida or Ottawa. PC is a big fan of Ference's so I think he stays as I don't see Trotman nor Krug ready for primetime.

Its' going to be tuff but the Bruins still have Savard's $4M as he is not going to retire, his salary drops to $5M in 2014-15. Peverley might still be a casualty...

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$6.3M for 2 goalies, 2 defenseman and the best-money-goal-scorer on the team. Me thinks UFA Khudobin gets poached, he's too good to take a paycut with lost of teams that need goaltending- Florida or Ottawa. PC is a big fan of Ference's so I think he stays as I don't see Trotman nor Krug ready for primetime.

Its' going to be tuff but the Bruins still have Savard's $4M as he is not going to retire, his salary drops to $5M in 2014-15. Peverley might still be a casualty...

 

This alone will likely be enough to re-sign Horton.

 

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Why is everyone worried about cap space? Horton is unlikely to expect much of a raise (if any) from the 4 per he's currently making. The team has 7 in cap space right now and will need(want?) to sign Horton, Rask, and Ference. That means they should have around 17 million to sign the 3 players and that's without even putting Savard on LTIR. 

 

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Why is everyone worried about cap space? Horton is unlikely to expect much of a raise (if any) from the 4 per he's currently making. The team has 7 in cap space right now and will need(want?) to sign Horton, Rask, and Ference. That means they should have around 17 million to sign the 3 players and that's without even putting Savard on LTIR. 

 

 

B's have just over $6 million in cap space for next year (not including Savard) to sign the players you mention. Not nearly enough. You are right in that Horton will not likely get any kind of raise due to his concussion issues.

 

 

 

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Why is everyone worried about cap space? Horton is unlikely to expect much of a raise (if any) from the 4 per he's currently making. The team has 7 in cap space right now and will need(want?) to sign Horton, Rask, and Ference. That means they should have around 17 million to sign the 3 players and that's without even putting Savard on LTIR. 

 

 

B's have just over $6 million in cap space for next year (not including Savard) to sign the players you mention. Not nearly enough. You are right in that Horton will not likely get any kind of raise due to his concussion issues.

 

 

 The cash the players currently make also comes off the books though right?

 

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Why is everyone worried about cap space? Horton is unlikely to expect much of a raise (if any) from the 4 per he's currently making. The team has 7 in cap space right now and will need(want?) to sign Horton, Rask, and Ference. That means they should have around 17 million to sign the 3 players and that's without even putting Savard on LTIR. 

 

 

B's have just over $6 million in cap space for next year (not including Savard) to sign the players you mention. Not nearly enough. You are right in that Horton will not likely get any kind of raise due to his concussion issues.

 

 

 The cash the players currently make also comes off the books though right?

 

 

Its already off in Capgeeks numbers. Check it out:

 

 

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Roster of 18 already signed, $6,336,905 in cap space available.

 

 

Thanks JM. I actually didn't realize the cap was dropping by so much. That 6 million makes quite a difference.

 

The bs if they put savard on ltir would have plenty of money too sign Horton. They would also be able to give rask a raise and resign ference at his current contract. It all hinges on putting savard on ltir. The new cap max is funny though because there are at least 5 teams that will have to dump huge contracts to get down to the max limit. 

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The bs if they put savard on ltir would have plenty of money too sign Horton. They would also be able to give rask a raise and resign ference at his current contract. It all hinges on putting savard on ltir. The new cap max is funny though because there are at least 5 teams that will have to dump huge contracts to get down to the max limit. 

 

 

What are you going to  pay them to make it work?  There is around 11.5 million left with Savard on LTIR.  They need to sign 2 goalies (Rask and backup) Horton and Ference.

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$6.3M for 2 goalies, 2 defenseman and the best-money-goal-scorer on the team. Me thinks UFA Khudobin gets poached, he's too good to take a paycut with lost of teams that need goaltending- Florida or Ottawa. PC is a big fan of Ference's so I think he stays as I don't see Trotman nor Krug ready for primetime.

Its' going to be tuff but the Bruins still have Savard's $4M as he is not going to retire, his salary drops to $5M in 2014-15. Peverley might still be a casualty...

Agree with that, and would also add Kelly & Boychuk to the potential casualty list.  Those $3-3.5M dollar deals for 3rd-liners will be tough to justify with the new/lower cap.  Hard to believe that JB is the B's 2nd highest paid d-man.  Must just be that PC got Seidenberg at a good number, but $3.37 seems too high for him with the new cap.

 

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Agree with that, and would also add Kelly & Boychuk to the potential casualty list.  Those $3-3.5M dollar deals for 3rd-liners will be tough to justify with the new/lower cap.  Hard to believe that JB is the B's 2nd highest paid d-man.  Must just be that PC got Seidenberg at a good number, but $3.37 seems too high for him with the new cap.

 

 

 

If $3.37M is too high, what would be more reasonable?

 

He plays over 20 minutes a game and does so without Chara as his partner.

The Kings pay Scuderi and Mitchell more than this.

Tampa has five defenseman earning more than this.

Montreal's has three.

I don't feel like going through all of the teams, but it looks like many (if not most) teams pay their #3 minutes man on D more than the B's are paying Boychuk.

If Chiarelli didn't suck at drafting, there would be more guys in the bottom six from Providence.  Chris Kelly would still have his job, but Peverley sure wouldn't. 

Seidenberg is a better player @ $3.25M per

Not a ton of daylight between JB and Ference ($2.25M per) or McQuaid ($1.57M per) in terms of value, but material difference in cost.  Using other team's approach on spending is one way of looking at it, another way might be to look at the value of the player to your team.  If I am faced with the question, who is more valuable to the B's between JB and Horton, I would suggest that NH is more valuable and harder to replace.

Seidenberg is a better player @ $3.25M per