ALL I HAVE IS ALWAYS SUNNY MEMES ADJKDKSKSKSK but I am lowkey Dennis tbh

thank youuuuuuuuuuuu very much

I saw an interesting tweet about this topic today that said that after taxes, Dobby actually makes more than Halak does (it’s part of the reason why Radulov signed in Dallas instead of Montreal last year even though Montreal offered him the same amount and term).  So my guess (and the person who made the tweet) is that Dobby had asked for more than the $2.75 Million that Halak is going to make.  

Given the Bruins goalie situation at the AHL and ECHL level I think they’ll probably resign him for at least another year. The Bruins currently only have one goalie at the AHL level, Zane McIntyre. Providence’s second goalie, Jordan Binnington, is on loan from the Blues’ organization, (at the AHL level, teams have the option of loaning extra goalies to other AHL teams and because the Chicago Wolves are the affiliate of 2 NHL teams they currently have 4 goalies, three with the Wolves and Binnington being loaned to Providence).   Zane’s under contract for another season after this one, but his stats have taken a step back from his insane 21-6-2, 2.03 GAA and .930 sv% run last season (he had points in 16 straight games and recorded 11 straight wins).  His stats aren’t bad he’s 15-9-3 with a 2.69 GAA and a .905 sv%, he had a rough start this season but posted back-to-back shutouts two weekends ago (I was supposed to go to one of those games but couldn’t get the night off...)

At the ECHL level the Bruins have Matt Ginn (who is out for the season with an injury but I’m not sure if he has a contract with the Bruins or not) and Dan Vladar (who could very well be Providence’s backup next season unless they pick someone up during the off season). But Vldar’s stats are the AHL aren’t bad at all, in 10 games played he has a 5-1-2 record (4-0-2 last season, 1-1-0 this season) 20 goals allowed (17 last season, 3 this season), a collective 2.00 GAA, and a .927 save percentage with one shutout. So there’s a good chance we’ll see him in Providence next season.  At the junior level they have an 18 year old named Kyle Keyser (who I want to say is with the Oshawa Generals(...?) in the OHL).  However there’s no way of knowing if he’s going to move to either Providence’s ECHL affiliate or if he’s going to stay in the OHL next season. 

I find it absolutely bonkers and hysterical that he was nominated for GM of the year simply because he inherited the first over all pick and didn’t fuck it up. But aside from that the rest of his decisions have been YIKES.  Like trading Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle then announcing, months after the Eberle trade, that he was desperately looking for high scoring wingers.  That Lucic contract is going to be an utter disaster in a few years especially with his full-term no-movement clause (should Chia Pet get sacked before that contract is up, it wouldn’t surprise me if the first thing his replacement GM does is buy it out). 

It also probably doesn’t help that he has a bad reputation for making trades that are terrible for his team but great for the team that he trades with.  So you know other GMs in the league are going to try to take advantage of that (hell, I know I would do that if I were a GM, regardless of how under-handed it might sound, at the end of the day, it’s a business). So trying to make relatively fair trades is probably extremely difficult for him. 

As for his ability to draft players well…here’s my analysis about how good* he is at drafting players beyond the top 5 picks…(* by good I mean horrible)

The Bruins need to play better in front of both of their goalies.

@pasta-rask I agree. But they especially need to play better in front of Tuukka, in the first four to five games he played the rest of the team was scoring fewer than 2 goals per game on average average (in his first 4 games they put up an astonishingly low 1.36 goals for average but they put up a 4.90 goals for average in front of Khudobin in the same span.)