For lack of a contract, Torey Krug and Reilly Smith have missed the first weekend of the Boston Bruins’ 2014 training camp.
Those absences are looking primed to drag on indefinitely. As Joe Haggerty of csnne.com noted on Friday, “The Bruins will have slightly more than $3 million in cap space once they place Marc Savard on long-term injured reserve, and they’ll need it all and then some for the two skilled RFA’s.”
Under that logic, general manager Peter Chiarelli will have to trade away one of his NHL cap hits before re-upping his restricted free agents. Until then, active campers must fill the void in the puck-moving defenseman and second-line right wing slots.
Though they have barely had two-plus days to assert it, David Warsofsky and Matt Fraser are raring to play those roles. Not unlike an emergency call-up when a regular sustains an injury, the two AHL veterans have a chance to embolden their respective profiles.
Although the arrangement is less ideal than reincorporating Krug and Smith without delay, the Bruins can bank on a degree of benefit. Whether it amounts to team depth ...
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