Jones & Keefe: Bruins extend Mason Lohrei

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00:00Mason Lorai, some call him Minus Lorai.

00:02That's unfair.

00:03Two years, $3.2 million.

00:04They worked out a contract with him.

00:07Was he an RFA?

00:08I should know this off the top of my head.

00:09That sounds right.

00:10But so they got him on a new two-year deal,

00:13which honestly, a bunch of defensive gas out of him last year.

00:18And a player who's not very good in his own end.

00:20I do think he's a promising young player for the Bruins,

00:22and that's not a bad cap hit at all.

00:24$3.2 million.

00:25That seems like a fine deal.

00:26One of the best Sweeney draft picks he's ever had.

00:28Marco Sturm getting it done.

00:30Guys do want to play here.

00:32Sweeney and Neely back on top.

00:34Great cap.

00:34So there you go.

00:35Minus is back.

00:36Minus Lorai has been inked up.

00:40I noticed in the press release they don't have his plus-minus here,

00:42so let me get that for you.

00:43It's minus a lot.

00:44It was staggering.

00:46You thought it was a fake minus.

00:47They gave a lot of numbers in there.

00:49Did you see it?

00:50His plus-minus, unfortunately, was not a part of it.

00:52No, hang on.

00:53I'm getting it.

00:53You've got to find it because it's a lot of scrolling.

00:57That's his career.

00:58What?

00:59It's minus.

01:00Oh, I see.

01:01Minus 43 is what I see for this year, yeah.

01:03Which?

01:03Not great.

01:04Do you want to know where that ranked in the NHL?

01:08If it's not last, I'd be stunned.

01:11It is last.

01:12It's specifically 922.

01:15922.

01:15So there were 921 hockey players with a better plus-minus.

01:19Who was 921, just out of curiosity?

01:21Believe it or not, Tyler Bertuzzi.

01:23Oh.

01:23Yeah.

01:24How about that?

01:24He was a minus 39.

01:25Oh, I liked Tyler Bertuzzi when he was here.

01:27Yeah.

01:28There's actually some good players on this list.

01:30Well, so this is the one.

01:32I mean, obviously, he had an extremely terrible plus-minus.

01:35You've got to be out there a lot to rack up that kind of minus.

01:38But it's like, okay, but plus-minus is, I'm not saying it's meaningless.

01:40It's not a meaningless stat.

01:41I cite it.

01:42I think it's important, but it can be misleading because guys who are on bad teams are going

01:46to have bad plus-minuses.

01:48Guys who are on good teams are going to have good plus-minuses.

01:50But even on a bad team, he had an extreme plus-minus.

01:53You never want to be dead last.

01:55Lou Dort was a plus-12 last night.

01:56The Dortcher chamber?

01:57The Dortcher chamber.

01:58Yeah, he put some guys in the Dortcher chamber.

02:00Looking good.

02:01So anyway, there you go.

02:01That's Mason Lorai.

02:03Two-year deal.

02:03I'm on board with the deal, but I'd like him to not be 922 in plus-minus next year.

02:07If that's even in the range of outcomes.

02:09It is low, but he's a young guy, so that's fine.

02:12I would appreciate that.

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