{"id":21202,"date":"2025-07-24T19:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21202\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T19:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:03:07","slug":"bruins-still-exploring-trade-market-for-pavel-zacha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21202\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins Still Exploring Trade Market For Pavel Zacha"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bruins are still mulling the possibility of trading forward\u00a0Pavel Zacha<\/a>, according to David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period<\/a>. He lists the Canucks and Mammoth as teams that\u2019ve been softly linked to his availability.<\/p>\n

Boston GM\u00a0Don Sweeney<\/a>\u00a0considered moving Zacha during their sell-off at last season\u2019s trade deadline but ended up holding onto him, choosing to flip\u00a0Brandon Carlo<\/a>,\u00a0Charlie Coyle<\/a>, and\u00a0Brad Marchand<\/a>\u00a0for assets instead. If they do decide to go that route, the type of return they\u2019re looking for will speak volumes about the team\u2019s expectations for 2025-26. They\u2019re already light on offensive firepower, with\u00a0Morgan Geekie<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0David Pastrnak<\/a>\u00a0remaining as their lone 30-goal scorers from last season and veteran\u00a0Viktor Arvidsson<\/a>, coming off a down season with the Oilers, amounting to their only offseason addition that could impact their top six forward group.<\/p>\n

The teams mentioned, Vancouver and Utah, likely wouldn\u2019t be looking to pick up Zacha and flip roster players back \u2013 particularly the former as they continue to search for additional middle-six center depth. If those discussions have gained any legitimacy in the Bruins\u2019 front office, it\u2019s fair to wonder if they\u2019ve resigned themselves to another season of retooling and are prepared to again finish near the bottom of the Atlantic Division.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not unlimited in what they can do with Zacha, although they have slightly more flexibility after his 10-team no-trade list decreased to an eight-team one on July 1. The 28-year-old, who\u2019s flipped between center and wing throughout his NHL career, has two years left on his contract at a $4.75MM cap hit. However, he\u2019s only owed $3.75MM in actual cash for both 2025-26 and 2026-27 after the Bruins paid out his final signing bonus, worth $1MM, at the beginning of the month.<\/p>\n

Zacha\u2019s offensive production took a step back in 2024-25, as did many of his teammates\u2019 aside from the aforementioned Geekie and Pastrnak. After back-to-back seasons of 20 goals and 50 points, he was limited to 14 goals and 47 points while playing in all 82 games. There were some things to like \u2013 he averaged a career-high 19:04 per game, won 53.2% of his draws, and continued to have positive possession impacts. Still, he was likely looking for more production, considering he spent the vast majority of the campaign stapled at center between Boston\u2019s two leading goal-scorers.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the 2015 No. 6 overall pick has averaged 54 points per 82 games over his three years in Boston without an overwhelming amount of year-to-year variation. His trade value likely won\u2019t get any higher than it is now, with two full years left under contract at a reasonable price tag for whoever picks him up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bruins are still mulling the possibility of trading forward\u00a0Pavel Zacha, according to David Pagnotta of The Fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[740,49,48,448,17768,82],"class_list":["post-21202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-boston-bruins","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-pavel-zacha","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}