The Boston Bruins have signed restricted free agent forward Zachary Senyshyn to a one-year, two-way contract worth $700K at the NHL level. Senyshyn was not eligible for arbitration.
Senyshyn, 23, has still yet to establish himself as a true NHL option for the Bruins, five years removed from being the 15th overall selection. In 2019-20 he played in four games for Boston, recording two assists while averaging a little over eight minutes a night. Even his minor league numbers haven’t grown to the level that was expected, with Senyshyn scoring just seven goals and 16 points in 42 games for Providence this year.
The idea of the former Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds star becoming an impact top-six winger for the Bruins is pretty much dead at this point, but perhaps he can still carve out a role at the NHL level. The team brought in Craig Smith to give them another option on the right side but will likely be missing David Pastrnak for the beginning of the season after recent surgery.
Even without much production, it wasn’t time for the Bruins to give up on the young forward. He’ll join a growing group of prospects that will battle for roster spots at training camp (whenever that is) and have to wait patiently for his next opportunity.
Looks like Don Sweeney is going to ride or die with his draft picks
Yeah not sure why he wants to reinvest here. There are so many other question marks elsewhere.
Without doing much research, here’s my ideal lineup with respect to cap. Still might need a little finessing to make work.
Marchand – Bergeron – Pasta —> roughly $20mil
Hoffman (1-year $6mil) – Krejci – Smith —> roughly $16m
DeBrusk (2year $3.5/year prove it) – Coyle – Kase —> roughly $10.5mil
Bjork – Kuraly – Wagner —> roughly $3 mil
Forwards: roughly $50mil
Reserves: Kuhlman, Studnicka, Ritchie
OEL – McAvoy —> roughly $11mil (assuming some salary sent back from ARI. Not 100% of the rules though so his cap hit might still be over $8mil even if they send salary)
Gryzelyck – Carlo —> roughly $7 mil
Chara – Clifton —> roughly $2.5mil
Dmen: roughly $20.5mil
Goalies:
Rask – Halak —> roughly $10mil
Total, not including reserves is already around 80.5mil. This is why two-way contracts are huge and getting production from a couple of those types of contracts is imperative to long-term success. Development and in-season growth are huge aspects there. Contracts like Ritchie, Kuraly, Wagner, Moore all add up in the end when you can find similar production from someone on a two way contract and give a young guy like Frederic some NHL exposure.
Reserves: Moore, Lauzon
If ARI eats some salary for OEL, I’d happily trade Vaakenainen, a lower prospect (maybe Berglund) and a 1st round pick.
Moore and Ritchie I would love to see dumped, probably not possible.
Not in love paying Gryzelyck $3.69/year.
If I invested my time into this like a real job I’d crunch out actual numbers, but from a macro level it just doesn’t seem like the priorities are straight for Sweeney.
Krug is gone and there was already an issue with secondary scoring but they’re gonna give the guys who aren’t producing on the secondary unit a raise and more ice time. Sounds good.
Arizona is not getting rid of OEL because they don’t like the player, they were exploring it for cap relief. They wouldn’t eat a penny. And OEL has a full NMC and set a date he would except a trade by and it has passed.
I like what you selling but no way it happens
As far as these draft picks not working out Idk how about you play them in the NHL instead of always signing these 4th line nobody’s and hopes and prayers 3rd liners work out we always here they have some good talent with the baby bs but yet they never make to Boston or are great trade pieces
Deadlines can be pushed back. OEL is making over $8mil/year. I think if the package is good enough they’d eat $1-$2mil and get $6-$7mil in cap relief. OEL already expressed he would say yes to Boston. If the package isn’t good enough, throw in a future 3rd rounder. Players like OEL dont end up on the block. You have to take advantage of that, especially with the holes on D now.
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OEL set the time limit. His agent has said the time to explore a change is over. Its wishful thinking at this point. Sounds like a guy who doesn’t want to uproot his living situation. Not saying it can’t or won’t happen, but he told the Coyotes he would only accept a trade to Vancouver or Boston and if it were to happen it had to happen by last friday.