Bruins acquire Zac Rinaldo from Flyers for draft pick
The Boston Bruins acquired forward Zac Rinaldo from the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday afternoon for a 2017 third-round draft pick.
The Boston Bruins are still making trades, and their offseason plan still isn't making much sense.
Their latest move came on Monday afternoon when the team announced that it has acquired forward Zac Rinaldo from the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for a third-round draft pick in 2017.
One of the most penalized players in the NHL, Rinaldo has managed just eight goals and 16 assists in 224 career games. Other than a physical element, there really isn't much that Rinaldo brings to the table and even that is often times more of a negative than a positive given the number of penalties he takes (572 penalty minutes in 224 career games) and the fact he has been suspended three different times for a total of 16 games. He's also been fined by the league twice.
Rinaldo is signed for two more years at a salary cap hit of $850,000.
So far this offseason the Bruins, a team looking to upgrade its offense, has lost Dougie Hamilton, Carl Soderberg and Milan Lucic off of its NHL roster and added only backup goalie Martin Jones and Rinaldo to go with a bunch of draft picks. The team also re-signed Adam McQuaid to a four-year contract that will pay him $2.5 million per season, while also retaining a nearly half of Lucic's remaining salary in the trade with Los Angeles.
Not only have they managed to get worse at the NHL level, they haven't really done anything to fix their salary cap situation which currently leaves them with less than $6.9 million in cap space (via General Fanager) to fill five roster spots and try to upgrade an offense that finished in the bottom third of the NHL last season.
Don Sweeney's first couple of months in charge of the Bruins organization have been nothing short of bizarre.
