from Nicholas Goss of NESN,
...the Bruins still need to re-sign restricted free agents Torey Krug and Reilly Smith.
The best-case scenario is to finalize these contracts before training camp begins Sept. 18. “I want them to be part of this team and I want them to have a full camp,” Chiarelli said when asked about Krug and Smith. “In my tenure here we’ve never had anyone not attend. But that doesn’t mean that they won’t.”
The B’s are $809,143 over the salary cap ceiling, per CapGeek, which might force Chiarelli to make a move or two before Krug and Smith are re-signed. The team also has the option of putting Marc Savard’s contract on long-term injury reserve to free up $4,027,143 in cap space.
Chiarelli was asked about Milan Lucic’s future, too. The veteran power forward is another valuable member of the team’s core, and he has two more years left on his contract.
“He’s another guy we like,obviously I consider him a backbone of this franchise,” Chiarelli said. “Eventually we’ll get around to that. We’ve got a lot of things we have to do, that’s the business of hockey. … We’ll get him done when his time comes around.”
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