Torey Krug has options. If the unrestricted free agent-to-be does not consider the Bruins’ offer to be acceptable, he will not have trouble lining up a job on July 1, 2020. By rule, a player’s price goes up when 30 other teams participate in the bidding, instead of one.



The Bruins have options too.



Nobody wants Krug to leave. Not the Bruins, not Bruce Cassidy, not Krug himself.



But if Krug believes the term and salary he will command on the free market make it worth leaving a good situation, Matt Grzelcyk will be first in line to assume some of the 28-year-old’s responsibilities.



According to a three-game snapshot, courtesy of Krug’s absence due to injury, Grzelcyk would not leave the Bruins significantly shorthanded.



“Excellent. Excellent,” Cassidy said of Grzelcyk’s performance during the Bruins’ 4-2 win over Toronto on Friday. “We know Grizz has some of that in him. He’s not...