Bruins sign three-year contract with Charlie McAvoy

By Ty Anderson, 985TheSportsHub.com

After a quiet summer and four days of training camp, the Bruins and Charlie McAvoy have finally reached an agreement, the team having signed a three-year contract with McAvoy, with an average annual value of $ 4.9 million. according to TSN's Bob McKenzie.

The contract is comparable to the contract of the free agent under contract signed by Zach Werenski with the Blue Jackets early last week. Given the tighter Boston course and preferences, this agreement has always made sense as the best option for both parties.

The Sweeney team is currently financially limited, making it almost impossible to pay its market value to McAvoy on a long-term contract, especially with many other decisions that threaten the club by camp 2020. Assuming that they do not make any totally disastrous decisions by the next year in the FRG of McAvoy, the Bruins should be well placed to give McAvoy a long-term agreement to the expiry of this new agreement.

This agreement also allows McAvoy to bet on itself, with the potential to transform what would have been a long-term contract of $ 6.5 million a year into a $ 7.5 to $ 9 million contract a year (if not more) he continued to develop the player most often believes that he may be the apparent heir to Bruins captain Zdeno Chara, and the face of Boston's blue line. And as in the case of the contract signed by Werenski in Columbus, the Bruins have structured the third year of the McAvoy contract so that a fourth year can be created from a qualifying offer of $ 7.3 million. dollars, which would allow McAvoy to touch an unrestricted free agent the following season, which is unlikely. this may seem to both parties given the relationship they have established to date.

It's a calculated risk, of course, but ensuring that McAvoy remains a limited free agent at the end of his second contract has always been of paramount importance to Sweeney and the Bruins. And if everything goes as both parties wish (McAvoy has repeatedly said that he'd rather be with the Bruins and Boston for his career), you will not see this fourth-year qualification offer- and -year of walking actually play.

Selected with the 14th overall pick in 2016, McAvoy made his NHL debut in the team's first-round encounter with the Senators in the Stanley Cup Playoffs 2017. He has played the best minutes ever since. the first division. He has scored seven goals and 32 points in his rookie season (two of his career in his first two seasons in the NHL) and averaged his best career time of 22:10 in 54 games for the Bruins last year. Injuries have been a slight concern for McAvoy in his first two seasons in the NHL, having missed 46 games due to injury since the start of the 2017 season.

McAvoy proved his value and showed everyone what he could be for this franchise in the race for the Stanley Cup Final in 2019, while McAvoy scored two goals and eight points and scored at least 23 minutes in 18 of his 23 games. the Bruins, and emerged as a defender of Bruce Cassidy.

After the official signing of McAvoy and $ 4.9 million a year for the next three seasons, the Bruins have just over $ 3 million in projected space for the signing of defenseman Brandon Carlo.