Boston Bruins 024-2025 Roster & Salary Cap Discussion VII

[DaStinger]

Hopefully Sweeney does better in free agency than this, good grief.

 

[Mione134]

Go read the Ottawa board. They’re are drinking & dancing in celebration

They should. They got the best player in the trade.

 

[HuskyBruinPride]

Ottawa retained 25% on it and his buyout is pennies if they decide to go that route

I would have refused to take him on, period. No way to spin taking him on into a win. Or maybe I'm just overreacting. I dunno...

 

[HooperDrivesTheBoat]

Koorps stats were good when he went to LA…

That’s all I got

 

[Absurdity]

I don’t understand. Linus wanted to stay. Don said he wanted the tandem. If there’s a homerun deal to be made you take it - but this doesn’t save us money, blocks Bussi, and gets a second rounder in a normal draft - why did we do this

Korpisalo coming back in the deal only makes sense if he is bought out and the savings of Ullmark's cap hit go straight to Swayman's next contract.

 

[LouJersey]

Idk why people are freaking out. We had no leverage with the NTC. We got a 1st. Korpisalo could be an OK backup. Has been a starter which is good experience if Swayman gets hurt.


I take this over letting him walk next year for nothing. Swayman is ready to take the reigns full time.

yeah with teams on his list. Half the league wasn't on his list

 

[KrejciWinger]

The fact that there was no conditional pick of sorts added in case Ullmark signs with Sens is just so so bad

The fact that the return is awful is what concerns me

 

[Sheppy]

2.87 and .914 in 2022-2023 between an awful team and a good team, I’m sure we can get him to replicate that. Honestly not all that concerned about him, I’ll eat crow if I have to next season tho. Ottawa’s defense is f***ing terrible

It’s the $3M per which is essentially a 2 million dollar savings from Ullmark. I would have rather just keep Ullmark.

 

[RedSlider]

I wonder how much the deal changed through the weekend considering Lauko was a part of it at one point.

 

[stevebeans]

When you break it down, Sweeney felt that pick (plus a fourth rounder) was worth Bertuzzi rental.

So he essentially traded a full year (at least) of a former Vezina winner for

- salary dump backup goalie
- rented Bertuzzi
- AHL player

Again just looking at it from a value perspective from Sweeney’s eyes that was the trade

 

[Tommy Tubs]

FWIW, if the Bruins bought out Korpisalo, this would be their cap hits:

2024-25: $0.25 million
2025-26: $0.625 million
2026-27: $1.375 million
2027-28: $1.75 million
2028-29: $1.0 million
2029-30: $1.0 million
2030-31: $1.0 million
2031-32: $1.0 million

Is that including 25% retained? I don't know how that works with buyouts.

 

[Mad Dr Pepper]

it’s not that the return is “not much” that’s the issue.

It’s that the return saddles you with years worth of cap. Including this year, which was THE ENTIRE REASON you’re trading Ullmark in the first f***ing place.

Not much? Not much?? I would have been okay with not much. Not much is just fine if you’re not taking cap back. This is trash.

EXACTLY!

Dang.

 

[CharaBadSenyshynGawd]

Woof. Shouldn’t have had to take the 3 mil for a below average goalie on a term deal. That’s bad. If that was the best deal you stick with the tandem and let him walk.

25 will get you another Beecher if we’re lucky.

See what he does the rest of the off-season but as a stand-alone this a a terrible deal.

 

[Gordoff]

it’s not that the return is “not much” that’s the issue.

It’s that the return saddles you with years worth of cap. Including this year, which was THE ENTIRE REASON you’re trading Ullmark in the first f***ing place.

Not much? Not much?? I would have been okay with not much. Not much is just fine if you’re not taking cap back. This is trash.

It’s amazing. This deal isn’t good, Ulmark is by far the best piece.

How many first round picks has Donnie given up to get rid of his mistakes. NOW he turns around and gets basically nothing for taking one 2 losers and our ORIGINAL pick. Suckitude!

 

[UConn126]

We also didn’t have to trade him so who gives a shit about leverage?

It was get something for him or get nothing. I'll take something. Swayman needs to play 60ish games this year to really grow as a starter, he'll get that now. The first can be flipped for another upgrade in the forward group or we can add a much needed prospect to our pretty empty pool. We had no use for Ullmark.

 

[UncleRico]

Idk why people are freaking out. We had no leverage with the NTC. We got a 1st. Korpisalo could be an OK backup. Has been a starter which is good experience if Swayman gets hurt.


I take this over letting him walk next year for nothing. Swayman is ready to take the reigns full time.

Because it should have cost ottawa a first just to move Korpisalos contract.

 

[LouJersey]

it’s not that the return is “not much” that’s the issue.

It’s that the return saddles you with years worth of cap. Including this year, which was THE ENTIRE REASON you’re trading Ullmark in the first f***ing place.

Not much? Not much?? I would have been okay with not much. Not much is just fine if you’re not taking cap back. This is trash.

You "saved" two million this year with this deal then added 3mil per the next three seasons.

Now, maybe they work some magic with Korpi, and deal him down the road,

 

[neelynugs]

25th and ostapchuk looks like a hall of fame deal now. ouch. i didn't think taking korpisalo was ever an option,
even with $1M retained. puzzling to say the least.

 

[Mione134]

We got fleeced and it's not even close.

That's embarrassing.

My gobs are smacked and my gasts are flabbered.

 

[BruinDust]

Except Kastelic hasn't won shit.

I don't understand why a GM would use a trade asset to bring in a player like him. Dime-a-dozen guy that can be found in free agency every single off-season. The 4th line should basically be a revolving door from one year to the next, it should never be a priority.

 

[Alicat]

I would have refused to take him on, period. No way to spin taking him on into a win. Or maybe I'm just overreacting. I dunno...

I'll go with slight overreaction.

 

[badbrewin]

So for those who track prospects closely, what's to be had late in the 1st round of a mediocre draft?

 

[mar2kbos]

I think the cap space is what was important so I would assume Kap is bought out. If not, kind of a weird trade. Glad they got a first though. I would have been happier with just that

 

[SPV]

Moving Debrusks rights before July 1 would get them what maybe a 6-7 th round pick

Better than nothing

 

[Yeti34]

Why didn’t he just keep him. What a terrible trade.