Boston Bruins 24-25 Roster/Cap thread - Linus traded to Sens

[Absurdity]

It’s a return with handcuffs. That is the problem for me. You get a blah guy who has years left on a contract at 3mil. If he is terrible you again saddle yourself with an untradeable player. He just got out of cap hell and starts to put himself right back into it. If he swings Kap to another team for a low pick then great. If not I really will question his decision making.

I would have been happy with a second rounder and no Kap

Maybe they shouldn't have announced a draft party before trading for a 1st round pick.

 

[JRull86]

Truly don't know how anyone can even attempt to spin a shred of positivity into this situation.

Deal sucks. First rounder to take a shitty contract and deal Ullmark legitimately makes no sense. Just trash

 

[Oates2Neely]

More to come, this is part of a multi facited plan, I hope

Last time I heard that was after Boychuk was moved to the Islanders last minute

 

[RI.B FAN]

And costs us a vezina goalie for a bad back up

Stop, we knew he was gone, just the fourth line center is the big mystery

 

[Over the volcano]

And costs us a vezina goalie for a bad back up

40 games of Ullmark maybe

 

[RI.B FAN]

Last time I heard that was after Boychuk was moved to the Islanders last minute

That was a cap dump

 

[Mione134]

Truly don't know how anyone can even attempt to spin a shred of positivity into this situation.

Deal sucks. First rounder to take a shitty contract and deal Ullmark legitimately makes no sense. Just trash

Is anyone doing that?

Because if so? Yikes

 

[LouJersey]

And costs us a vezina goalie for a bad back up

Yeah people are acting like getting a 1 for a Vezina caliber goalie is some sort of great moment when a shit goalie just went for what will be a better 1...oh and plus a good young defensman...oh and not taking on one of the worst contracts in the league.

 

[Over the volcano]

That was a cap dump

So is this

 

[Oates2Neely]

That was a cap dump

What was this?

 

[UncleRico]

All I wanted was an everyday skater who in some way would be impacting playoff games instead of ullmarks $5m healthy scratches.

Now ullmarks gone and I still don’t feel like we even got an every day 4th liner lol

 

[dafoomie]

So is this

They forgot the cap part.

 

[Carl Hungus]

Yeah people are acting like getting a 1 for a Vezina caliber goalie is some sort of great moment when a shit goalie just went for what will be a better 1...oh and plus a good young defensman...oh and not taking on one of the worst contracts in the league.

When you compare the Markstrom deal to this it hurts even more. I can't believe this is what we ended up with it's genuinely worse than nothing

 

[EverettMike]

I think Don Sweeney should continue to only focus on the fourth line. I think all four lines should essentially be fourth lines. But that he should also sign an extra six fourth line players so he can actually have six fourth lines. How could any team compete with that kind of fourth line depth?

 

[GatorMike]

FWIW, I generally think Don Sweeney takes too much crap and his shortcomings are often overstated, and he doesn't get enough credit for what he does well.

This is the first move he's made in a long time where I just have no idea what the Bruins are thinking.

 

[KOZ37]

I’m drafting at 25

Solid group

I'm sure there will be 25 good players in the draft.....the question is will Sweeney draft one of them? Regardless the draft is never as good or bad as it is made out to be. Its always a crapshoot. Maybe we can try to trade for the kid who doesn't want to play for Winnipeg. His name escapes me at the moment!

 

[DKH]

I don’t follow the draft closely, but have heard from all the big media people over the last few months that this draft falls off a cliff after pick 19 or 20.

Goes 1-15 high end talent then 16-40

There’s 5 or 6 guys I like a lot showing between 18-35 on lists & mocks

I’m still dealing with trade and 7th game lol

 

[NeelyDan]

Imagine the internal convo of the brain trust as they aligned on this being the move?

Boy, talk about a real Algonquin round table

 

[JOKER 192]

What the f*** is this deal? Literally: why?

Stupid GM's do stupid shit.

 

[bruinsfan]

FWIW, I generally think Don Sweeney takes too much crap and his shortcomings are often overstated, and he doesn't get enough credit for what he does well.

This is the first move he's made in a long time where I just have no idea what the Bruins are thinking.

Honestly the bad outweighs the good, this trade is proof.

 

[Gonzothe7thDman]

Stairs “ Don stay with me here. You give me one shot here on a blue chip stock like the 25th overall, and believe me, Don, the only problem you're gonna have is that you didn't buy more.”

Sweeney “alright yea let’s do it. Take Ullmark. F it I’ll take Kastelic too.”

Staios “ How about Korpisalo too”

Sweeney “ my fan base is gonna kill me but sure let’s lock it in”

 

[Bodit9]

Sens fans are ecstatic and laughing their asses off.

 

[PlayMakers]

In terms of what they did get, and again I agree it's disappointing, but they did get assets that can help.

They need good young players and should get one at 25.

We've talked about adding some 4th line pop and tossed out names like Duhaime. Kastellic works hard, hits hard and fights anyone, and he costs 50%-60% less than a UFA doing the same job.

Beecher - Kastellic - Brazeu = speed, size,

Korpisalo is a tough pill to swallow. You have to hope the Bruins see something others don't. That his numbers are a result of bad teams or a simple correction GoalieBob can fix. I could totally see a scenario where Korpisalo comes here and suddenly becomes a .920% goalie playing 30 games a year for Boston and the Bruins end up with the best goalie combo in the league again. BUT even if all those maybe's work out in our favor, Sweeney still should have gotten a pick for all the risk involved with that contract.

Last potential 'positive' if it can be called that is that I would expect there is another (smaller) shoe to fall in terms of Bussi. He won't make it through waivers so maybe there's another Vladar type deal coming where the Bruins get another pick for Bussi.

 

[DKH]

I'm sure there will be 25 good players in the draft.....the question is will Sweeney draft one of them? Regardless the draft is never as good or bad as it is made out to be. It’s always a crapshoot. Maybe we can try to trade for the kid who doesn't want to play for Winnipeg. His name escapes me at the moment!

I’m jacked for pick

 

[PlayMakers]

The difference is that Ullmark was productive and would've been happy to stay.

Maybe it's just me but I would rather have a 1st round pick.