CALL THE GEEK SQUAD! Morgan Geekie Gets 6 Year Extension With The Bruins

PHONE LINES ARE OPEN AND THE GEEK SQUAD IS BACK! Morgan Geekie has signed a 6 year, 33 million dollar extension with the Bruins after his 30 goal campaign. After a tough start, Geekie-Lindholm-Pastrnak caught fire towards the end of the year and should be kept together to start this season. Geekie gets the term he wants and the team gets a friendly cap hit at 5.5 million. Pretty good all around. A lot of questions on whether or not Geekie can replicate the season he had last year or if it was just a one off, but it's a good bet to make if you're the Bruins. 

Sweeney was eerily non-chalant about Geekie has his contract status that I was allllmost concerned it would've turned into a Swayman situation, but glad he got it done prior to July 1 and now the Bruins can figure out how they'd like to fill out the rest of their roster. I think Nikolaj Ehlers is gonna be too expensive for them but maybe Brock Boeser can come in and round out the Top 6. Should be interesting what plans Don Sweeney has up his sleeve. With just a little over $16 million in cap space to work with, I wouldn't be surprised if he moved out one of Zacha or Mittelstadt (both have 2 years remaining on their deals).  

Sweeney also did some housekeeping yesterday, signing Marat Khusnutdinov to a two-year contract extension with an AAV of $925K and defenseman Michael Callahan to a one-year, two-way deal with a $775K cap hit. Sounds like Jakub Lauko will not get a qualifying offer (maybe they can sign him for cheaper?). No word on if the Bruins will re-up Beecher either.

Bruins still desperately need some RD help, whether that's Jokiharju or someone in free agency. But here's where they stand after the Geekie signing, courtesy of Bruins Cap Space/X.

UPDATE: Quite literally 2 minutes after this blog was published the Bruins signed Jokiharju, Beecher and DiPietrio

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Don Sweeney has always been great at re-signing his guys and he does it again with Jokirahu, Beecher and DiPietro, who was receiving a ton of interest. I wonder if Korpisalo will be on the way out because DiPietro is cheap, and has shown he deserves a chance to back up in Boston. Something's gotta give (still can't believe they took on his contract from Ottawa).