As we near the beginning of the final month before hockey finally returns, the Boston Bruins are still after re-signing their two big restricted free agents and David Backes is supposedly the solution.
The Boston Bruins have something over $9 million in the salary cap space with Charlie McAvoy and Brandon Carlo unsigned. The Bruins would probably need to gather at least $2 million more in that cap space to safely re-sign both defensemen.
But there is one annoying stuff circling around the Bruins fanbase. Many of the Boston Bruins fans and part of the hockey media and hockey writers in Boston as well, have suggested that there are David Backes comparables.