Torey Krug has recently stated he hopes he hasn’t played his last game in a Boston Bruins jersey. There is clearly hope for a renewal.
The big question though is will the Boston Bruins do it or is it even worth renewing Torey Krug given his likely term will leave a lot of room for it to end up a dud contract for the team.
You have to question what the Boston Bruins actually intend to do, given Torey Krug himself stated, per NBCSports, that he has ‘no clarity’ on his future. Maybe it’s a disregard for the player by the Bruins or perhaps they intended only to make a deal in the off-season.
Now, the challenge is going to inevitably be how they manage to make a deal. The salary cap was widely predicted to increase quite nicely this season prior to the COVID-19 pandemic hitting the world’s economies.
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Right now, you’d have to wonder whether the salary cap could even go backwards given the lost revenue from the games missed in the regular season and the fact that at this current moment, the Stanley Cup Playoffs look unlikely to commence anytime soon.
Wild estimates earlier in the year suggested that Torey Krug could ask the Boston Bruins for up to $8 million per season. Such a figure surely wouldn’t be worthwhile for the team to even consider.
If indeed, Krug is more willing to work out some sort of ‘loyalty to the Bruins discount’, maybe it’s something the team should consider. After all, there’s very few defensemen in the NHL that are good for 50 points a season in each of the past three seasons (even in the currently suspended season, he’d reached 49 points).
A renewal would absolutely be something I’d pursue if I’m the Bruins management but I can’t see any progress being made anytime soon.
All the time the league is in it’s current suspended state, nobody actually knows what the final revenue for the year will be and the knock-on effects to the salary cap.
Torey Krug has landed in the worst possible position, through no fault of his own, of heading to free agency in a season (and indeed a sporting landscape) riddled with uncertainty.
The sheer fact he still sounds to be open to taking a discount shows how much he wants to remain with the Boston Bruins organisation and we should absolutely take heart in that. Having guys that want to play for the logo on the jersey is absolutely key to getting that Stanley Cup we crave to have back in Boston.
It’s a hard balancing act because of the term that might be needed in an offer, but any glimmer of hope at keeping Krug in Boston colors is satisfying in these trying times. It’s not something we should necessarily worry about, but it’s a nice distraction from everything else in the world.