It's Looking Like Boston Boston Have Locked NHL Roster
With the Jeremy Swayman and Trent Frederic arbitration cases resolved, the Boston Bruins have their NHL roster under the salary cap with some slight tweaks
It was pretty much a fait accompli that Trent Frederic was going to sign for over $2 million per season once the Chicago Blackhawks settled up for $2.25 million with a comparable RFA player in Philipp Kurashev several weeks ago.
The former first round pick ended up getting just a little bit more from the Boston Bruins as he inked a two-year contract that will pay him $2.3 million per season and will lead him into unrestricted free agency when the deal has finished. That left the Boston Bruins with approximately $3.1 million in salary cap space, per our friends at Puck Pedia, with just Jeremy Swayman unsigned headed into yesterday as both sides waited for his arbitration hearing results.
That sum obviously wasn’t enough for the 24-year-old goaltender, who ended up being awarded $3.475 million for next season by an arbiter on Tuesday afternoon after Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Ilya Samsonov similarly won a $3.55 million award several weeks ago.
Both arbitration cases played out as the Boston Bruins expected and planned this summer while leaving a chunk of change open for Frederic and Swayman. There is good news in all this for Boston Bruins fans, however, who have been fretting all summer about Boston’s salary cap situation for next season.