Defenseman Torey Krug spoke to media in Boston on Thursday, making it sound like his future wouldn’t be with the Bruins.
Taking care to thank the journalists assigned to cover the team for the last several years, Krug knows full well that he could find himself in other skies at the start of the next season, he who becomes, at 29, a player. autonomous without compensation.
“I’m against [l’idée]He replied, when asked if he was ready to accept a one-year contract to stay with the Bruins.
“I bet on myself and took short-term deals and less money throughout my career,” Krug then said, quoted by the Boston Globe daily. Now my time has come while my worth is at its peak. ”
A payroll to manage
The situation with the Bruins is not obvious: the club has four forwards counting for more than $ 6 million on the team’s payroll: David Krejci, Patrice Bergeron, David Pastrnak and Brad Marchand.
The idea of submitting a less generous one-year offer to Krug makes sense considering that Krejci will be playing the final year of his massive contract in 2020-2021. But the Bruins defenseman, who has 337 points in 523 regular season games in the National Hockey League (NHL), now plans to think about him and could get a multi-season, multi-million dollar deal by testing the market. free agents.
Krug, who has 49 points in 61 games this season, has just played the final year of a four-year, $ 21 million contract. Combining the four most recent campaigns, Krug was actually the sixth-best scorer among all NHL defensemen. Only Brent Burns, John Carlson, Victor Hedman, Roman Josi and Erik Karlsson beat him.
