Merzlikins is exempt Korpisalo is protected

Good Idea

Well for starters, no way smith is exposed. Then why are those players leaving to go to Seattle?

Good luck taking Boston's 2nd line lol

Smith - Protected
Krejci - Has said he wants to retire a Bruin
Hall - Has wanted to be a Bruin his entire career

What would be Bostons protection list? Im Just curious for my mock draft

For forwards its 7 right?
Top line
Debrusk
Smith
Coyle
Frederic

Yup it's 7 forwards. What about Ritchie?

Absolutely for the 1st two

But Hall tho?

He does make notoriously bad decisions with picking teams and may perpetually be stuck as a high school IQ sports bro but with the Bruins set to decline...

I’ll do cartwheels if Seattle takes ritchie. Smith is roughly 10,000x more important to the bruins than ritchie

Seattle thanks Columbus for protecting Korpisalo and takes the other goalie...

Elvis is exempt

Smith gets protected

DK won’t sign with Seattle.

Hall - who knows. But I’d imagine Boston would be willing to pony up 5 X 7.5 so it will take more than that as seems happy there.

The other, other guy. Kivlenieks...

He wanted to be drafted by Boston (his words) he wore #4 because of Bobby Orr (whose group represents Hall at one point) and he's raved about being a Bruin since he's come here. He's in the exact situation he wants to be in where he's not the guy and honestly if Hall and Krejci return, Boston's window could be another few years.

Ah.

I thought he was good lol

He’s pretty bad and has been his entire career. He had a few powerplay goals this year, but he stinks.