For today’s Topic Tuesday, I thought we’d talk about the end of the roster. These topics are always amusing to me because they are very hotly debated among fans, yet they typically have little to no bearing on the upcoming season.
Keith Smith already laid the foundation with his roster reset article, which sums up the situation thusly:
Boston currently has two open standard spots on the regular season roster. Teams have to carry 14 players on standard contracts, aside from two-week window increments. That means that it’s very likely one of these five players will make the regular season roster.