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July 04, 2013
SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Please to explain joke, Ufez.
posted by NoMich at 03:03 PM on July 04, 2013
Dallas Stars/Boston Bruins with 7 player swap
posted by tommybiden at 04:42 PM on July 04, 2013
Dallas Stars/Boston Bruins with 7 player swap
This is a partial salary dump for Boston. Seguin (5.25M) and Peverly (3.75M) are gone, and Eriksson (4.25M) is aboard. The minor league players exchanged do not have significant cap hits. This gives Boston the cap room to sign Rask to a deal this year, and will give them some maneuvering room for next year when Bergeron's deal is up. One could say that they are giving up too soon on Seguin. Possible so, but Eriksson is more of a defensively responsible wing, Bruins style player, than Seguin. My opinion of Seguin is that he needed a couple of years of maturity and about 4 pounds of muscle to really make an impact in the NHL. Maybe the trade is a wake up call.
posted by Howard_T at 10:24 PM on July 04, 2013
Yeah, I assume Seguin will come back to haunt the Bruins, but this is probably a good move both short- and long-term.
posted by yerfatma at 11:55 AM on July 05, 2013
NoMich I can't explain it but I like it.
posted by billsaysthis at 01:49 PM on July 05, 2013
Feminist Jose Bautista (Tumblr)