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Bruins Re-Sign Matt Grzelcyk

October 17, 2020 at 3:09 pm CDT | by Brian La Rose 9 Comments

The Bruins have taken care of one of their remaining restricted free agents,  announcing that they’ve re-signed defenseman Matt Grzelcyk to a four-year, $14.75MM contract, avoiding a salary arbitration hearing that was scheduled for Tuesday.  The deal means he more than doubles the $1.4MM he made on his most recent deal.  Pierre LeBrun of TSN and The Athletic reports (Twitter link) that the deal breaks down as follows:

2020-21: $2.25MM
2021-22: $4MM
2022-23: $4.25MM
2023-24: $4.25MM

The 26-year-old has been a fixture on Boston’s back end in recent years, albeit in a more limited capacity.  Last season, Grzelcyk had a career-high four goals and 17 assists in 68 games for the Bruins while averaging a little over 18 minutes per game in playing time.  While he was limited to just a single assist in 12 postseason contests, his playing time jumped to nearly 20 minutes a night.

While it seems unlikely that Grzelcyk will be able to produce as much as he did at the college level (including one year with Charlie McAvoy), it’s possible that there is still another level he can get to offensively.  With Torey Krug gone to St. Louis in free agency and Zdeno Chara’s fate uncertain for next season, Grzelcyk stands to be in line for a bigger role for 2020-21 as things stand with John Moore being the only other NHL regular on the left side of their back end.  This deal clearly recognizes that potential while buying out three years of UFA eligibility.

With the move, Boston has roughly $6.5MM to $7.5MM in remaining cap space depending on various projections of filling out their roster.  However, they still have a restricted free agent of note to re-sign in winger Jake DeBrusk which should take up a good chunk of that amount.

Joe Haggerty of Boston Hockey Now was first to report that the two sides were close to an agreement.

Photo courtesy of USA Today Sports Images.

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  1. Hannibal8us

    3 months ago

    That seems like a good amount for a 2nd pair Dman, assuming they can get Debrusk for under 5m they should have more than enough for Hoffman. I believe they had around 12m before this move.

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  2. laker150

    3 months ago

    Ok about $6 mil left under the cap, let’s get someone to for the second line.

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  3. JDGoat

    3 months ago

    That’s a phenomenal deal if they got three UFA years out of it.

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  4. Eric Lord

    3 months ago

    The Bruins have a little more cap space than is indicated. Anton Blidh’s contract is listed, but he isn’t making the roster. That gives the Bruins, $700,000 more. The Bruins also signed Greg McKegg, which could make Par Lindholm expendable because they are basically the same player. Sending Lindholm out would create $850,000 in cap space. Also, Pastrnak is going to be until March so the Bruins could place him on LTIR to create some temporary cap space and give themselves more time to free up room

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    • The Mistake of Giving Eugene Melnyk a Liver Transplant

      3 months ago

      Depending on when the season actually starts.

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  5. Sillysundin

    3 months ago

    Wow! What a total overpayment very one dimensional dman only 21 points and not very good in his own end!

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    • pawtucket

      3 months ago

      Not a lot of options out there

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    • Puckhead83

      3 months ago

      21 points for a 6th D man most nights is pretty good. Will probably run the 2nd unit now with Krug gone so I could see 30-35 points which would be solid value for the contract.

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    • hersch

      3 months ago

      Overpay

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