RED FLAGS EVERYWHERE?! The REAL Risk In Morgan Geekie’s HUGE Bruins Contract! 🚨
It’s been an interesting off seasonason for the Bruins. I don’t think any of us expected huge splashes from them or anything like that, but it feels like they’re going in a weird direction. It feels like they’re kind of trying to get worse without saying that they’re trying to get worse. And the big signing that they did make that got a lot of fans happy in this off season was extending Morgan Geeky in his RFA year. Geeky coming off a career year gets a six-year contract worth $33 million, 5.5 million a year. And I think a lot of Bruins fans are happy with that. Certainly five and a half million is not going to be a huge part of the cap even as the cap continues to go up. He’s a young player, 26, really played well with David Posternok and is a 30 goal scorer. There just wasn’t much of that uh or many of those guys on the free agent market this year. But I think it is worth asking the question, is this the right deal? Did Morgan Geeki have a lucky year in 2024 25? I hate when that gets thrown around in sports. I’m not going to lie to you guys. College sports, professional sports, player team. I I just hate when people say, “Oh, that team got lucky.” You know, we heard about it with the Celtics winning an NBA title last year. Oh, they got lucky. Everyone got hurt. Like, okay, they won the NBA championship. What What do you want them to do? You know what I mean? and and it’s tough for a professional athlete to get lucky for an entire season. That said, if you look deeper at the numbers for Morgan Geeki, there’s an argument that he had a lucky year and that he’s not as versatile as we might think going on down the line. Okay, first off, the number that we point at outside of the 33 goals, which was almost double his career high, is the shooting percentage. Morgan Geeki had a 22% shooting percentage in 2025 to get to 33 goals. That’s kind of insane. He went from 13% the year before, which was his career high, and was on the low end of pretty good goal scorers, where he got 17 goals, to a crazy 22% this past year to get to 33 goals. That’s a red flag. Like like 33 goals is 33 goals for sure, but if you’re looking at a red flag here, that is it. Like the best goal scorers in the league are somewhere between like 14 and 19% shooting percentage. Morgan Geeki was at 22. He had a better shooting percentage than Leon Dryidle this year. Okay. Only Braden Point had a better shooting percentage in the entire NHL than Morgan Geeki. And it was by percentage points. Do you really think that’s going to happen every year? Do you really think Morgan Geek is going to pod in 30 goals because he’s shooting 22%. That is not sustainable. I’ve heard people ask, is that sustainable? I’ll just go out and say it’s not. A 22% shooting percentage for Morgan Geeki is not sustainable at all. In fact, a 15% shooting percentage would be pretty good, but maybe not even sustainable for Morgan Geeki. This is a guy who’s in his third organization by the time he hit age 24. Okay, I don’t want to bash the kid. Obviously, he had a good year. He was a bright spot for the Bruins and I think he’s a decent NHL player, but six years for that. I I just I don’t know. If you’re giving me six years, five and a half million for a for a nailedon 20 25 goal score, 25 to 30 goal score, then I’m in on that. But Moriniki is not that. If you’re going to sell me on six years and five and a half million, I’d love for that guy to be a 25 goal scorer and then we can talk about great value. I don’t know that Morgan Geeki is that every year. I think he will probably regress to the mean. I think he’s more like a 22 goal scorer than he is a 33 goal scorer. And the other big thing that kind of sticks out to me is the fact that he played on the first line the whole season with David Posterno. You could count on one hand how many teams in the NHL Morgan Geeki would be playing on the first line for. And you can count on one hand how many teams in the NHL could give a partner to Morgan Geeki like David Postnock. Postnock is unequivocally one of the best offensive players in the entire game. Uh one of the best playmakers, maybe the most underrated playmaker from the wing position in the entire NHL. Okay. And you look back at the Morgan Geeky highlights and you tell me how many of them were like, “Man, what a play by Pasta.” Great. Great to finish it off, Morgan Geeky. And you do need that. You need a guy who can finish it off because the Bruins have plenty of guys who can’t, you know, like if Pasta’s saucing unbelievable passes to Charlie Coyle, he’s probably not scoring as much as Morgan Geeki is, you know, like that is worth noting. But so much of this came from David Posterno. Posterno assisted on 64% of Geeki’s 33 goals. 64% of them were coming directly from David Posturdock. Okay. And and just looking at the counting stats, he had nine more goals than he had assists playing with David Post for the entire season. Definitely makes you question the sustainability of that and and how he can do that year in year out. And I think what really becomes a point of emphasis for the Bruins as they move towards contention in the next two seasons or so is I think this chemistry with Posturdock means there’s a lack of versatility. It makes me wonder if you can move Morgan Geeki up and down the lineup as the team sees fit. like is he going to be able to play a middle six role in or even a bottom six role where his kind of average production would be really good or can he only play with a generational playmaker for your franchise like David Postarddoc? I think that becomes a huge question. Um and that’s the one that sticks out to me the most maybe even more so than the shooting percentage and the playing with posture in general. Like I get that those are red flags, but just the idea that you are supposed to be getting better over the next two or three seasons. You are supposed to have guys who are better suited for a topline role than Morgan Geeki is. And then what do you do with Morgan Geeki? Can he play on a third line with someone like a Pavl Zaka or you know someone like a maybe a Fraser Mitten or a Matt Patra on the other side? How do those guys develop over the next couple of years? It becomes a question, a huge question when you sign a guy to a six-year contract whether you can move him up and down the lineup for a team that is rebuilding. That is a major major question mark. That said, the whole posternoc thing, uh I I also think right now it’s something you don’t want to mess with. Okay, there is a side of the coin that says that, you know, that David Posternok has been desperate to find guys he’s had good chemistry with over the last couple of years. Um, I know there were times earlier in his career where he even struggled to have chemistry with Berseron and Marian, which seemed like a tough thing to do. He obviously got over that. Um, but really the last two, three seasons here, we’ve been looking at who would be a good partner for Postard. You moved Pavle Zaka from a second line wing role to a firstline center in order to keep him with Postradock. And certainly Geeki kept his spot on the top line throughout most of the season even after a slow start because of that chemistry that he has with David Postno. So yeah, on one side is it sustainable? Can you move him up and down the lineup? I I don’t know uh you know three, four years from now, which is something you need to take into account with the contract that you gave him. But right now and maybe the next year or two, he does play well with David Postnog. He did have 57 points, which is something that the Bruins are desperate for. Uh to have someone who could be a nailedon 50 point scorer uh for this team and provide I mean really provide secondary scoring, but he is part of the primary scoring right now by being on that first line. So Bruins didn’t get better in that department in this off season, but they’re really banking on Morgan Geeki to be a huge part of that for years to come. The other big kind of elephant in the room part of this is it’s 5 a.5 million in the 202526 NHL. 5 a.5 million is not a ton of money. Not like it was even three years ago and next year it’s going to be even less. Okay? It’s going to be even less of the cap. You know, in four or five years that’s going to be nothing. And in fact, in the early part of his contract, I think two years from now, that’s going to be like four or 5% of the cap. And if you have a guy who’s capable of scoring 30 goals or even 25, knock on wood, that’s sustainable. Um, then 5% of your cap hit is not that big a deal. It does become a question again of whether he can play with other people. That’s not David Posnock, but that’s not a huge deal. And if you do have a team that’s ready to compete in two years or so, which the Bruins should have, there’s really no excuse not to have that, then 5% of your cap is really not all that bad at all. So, back to the original question, was this a bad contract for Morgan Geeki? All in all, no, because of the cap hit. I don’t like going six years at all for a guy who’s had one breakout season that has a ton of red flags behind it. Um, I would have rather gone four years, but I guess it’s the price of doing business now. Is it a bad contract? No. I’m going to sit here and say no. But there are definitely red flags in this for sure. And I can’t blame any Bruins fan for being a little skeptical of this six-year Morgan Geeky deal. Then again, you need goals. He gave them to you last year. You locked it down. I think he could be a pretty valuable middle six piece when this team starts to contend. But I want to know what you think. Let me know in the comments section below. Did Morgan Geeky just have a lucky year? Was this a bad contract to sign him for six years by 5 a.5 million a year? Let me know in the comments section below. Like and subscribe if you’re hating this Bruins off season so far. And let me know what you think the worst contract has been in the comments. You can find us live on YouTube high noon Eastern time every weekday and then available wherever you get your podcast as well. Check out the other videos on the channel talking a lot of Bruins, a lot of hockey and everything else going on in Boston sports. I’m your host Cam Stewart. Zack Burke keeps us on the air five days a
The Boston Bruins just inked Morgan Geekie to a massive 6-year, $33 million ($5.5M AAV) extension after his career-best 33-goal season. While Bruins fans are celebrating, is this deal a brilliant long-term play, or are there major red flags waving right in front of us?
In this video, we’re dissecting Geekie’s new contract and the underlying numbers that might spell trouble for the Bruins. We’ll expose the unsustainable 22.0% shooting percentage that fueled his goal explosion – a number almost guaranteed to regress. Did playing alongside David Pastrnak inflate his production to an alarming degree? (Hint: Pastrnak assisted on nearly 64% of Geekie’s goals!)
Was this a classic case of paying for an outlier season? We break down Geekie’s previous career highs, analyze the context of his breakout year, and explore the significant risk Boston is taking with this long-term commitment. Is this the “Geek Squad” a core piece, or a ticking time bomb on the Bruins’ cap sheet?
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0:00 Bruins’ offseason moves and Morgan Geekie signing
5:08 Geekie’s chemistry with Pastrnak and lineup versatility
10:13 Evaluating Geekie’s contract and future impact
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