The Bruins created $6 million in cap space on Monday by offloading Taylor Hall’s contract to the Blackhawks.
But even with Boston more than doubling its available cap space this offseason, Don Sweeney and the Bruins still have a tall task ahead of them when it comes to retaining any of their seven pending unrestricted free agents.
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Speaking ahead of the 2023 NHL Draft down in Nashville, Sweeney acknowledged that Boston likely won’t have the fiscal flexibility in place to sign defenseman Dmitry Orlov to a new contract.