Something’s got to give when it comes to the Bruins’ looming cap crunch this summer.
With $4.5 million in bonus overages on the books next season and David Pastrnak commanding nearly double his previous cap hit, Boston doesn’t have plenty of fiscal flexibility going into a potentially transformative offseason.
The NHL sure isn’t going to bail out Don Sweeney and Co., with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman confirming on Saturday that the league’s salary cap upper limit will likely only increase by $1 million this summer.
With a little under $5 million in cap space (per CapFriendly) and just seven forwards signed through 2023-24, Boston is going to need to shed a few contracts in order to bolster this current grouping.