As the club announced on Friday, the Boston Bruins and would-be free agent winger Daniel Paille have renewed their alliance for the next three seasons. This means two-thirds of the fourth line is locked in through at least 2013-14 after Shawn Thornton inked a two-year extension on March 19.
Within the next season, the 28-year-old Paille will see an altogether modest pay raise of $150,000 while his cap hit increases from $1,075,000 to $1.3 million. Thornton will soon see his salary rise to seven figures for first time in his Boston tenure while his cap hit rises by $287,500.
That just leaves the second-year center of this line, Gregory Campbell, who is one of four established NHL forwards still lacking a new contract with the Bruins.
Campbell saw a particularly noticeable downturn in productivity this past season as a 13-16-29 log in 2010-11 gave way to an 8-8-16 transcript in 2011-12.
Part of that could be attributed to the team-wide October hangover, which saw him go pointless for each of the first 10 games of the season. In fact, he was also hushed in the homestretch scoring merely two goals and one assist, and losing 13 points in the p ...
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Boston Bruins Re-Sign Daniel Paille: Is Gregory Campbell Next?
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