Noel Acciari is headed to the Florida Panthers, after playing a key role in the Boston Bruins recent run to the Stanley Cup Final. He, of course, was part of a fourth line that at one point was seeing ice-time equivalent of a second line.
You can’t really begrudge Noel Acciari signing a deal with the Florida Panthers especially considering it was a 3-year, $5 million deal. Noel will make $1.67 million against the cap each season. That’s a number, with the current climate, that Boston couldn’t necessarily match, especially given there is replacement value to be found in their prospects pipeline.