Around the League - Pre-Season 2024-2025

[rumman]

Yeah seems like a messy situation. Nice to not be on the receiving end of one of those. As Whitney said bruins really played their hand horribly. they knew this summer they would have to commit to one goalie. When they traded ullmark you showed that swayman is your choice. But now it seems like they dont want to commit to him long term but he wants that? How would you not have known this going into the situation and deciding on which one to keep. Seems like they probably could have gotten ullmark to sign the type of deal they are looking for. I wonder what a Swayman trade would have looked like this summer.

I still think Boston will be fine, they don’t capulate to player demands, they’ll figure it out without screwing up their cap. Of this I am certain……

 

[Budz22]

Habs fans after a preseason game.

 

[Menzinger]

Yeah seems like a messy situation. Nice to not be on the receiving end of one of those. As Whitney said bruins really played their hand horribly. they knew this summer they would have to commit to one goalie. When they traded ullmark you showed that swayman is your choice. But now it seems like they dont want to commit to him long term but he wants that? How would you not have known this going into the situation and deciding on which one to keep. Seems like they probably could have gotten ullmark to sign the type of deal they are looking for. I wonder what a Swayman trade would have looked like this summer.

If they weren't prepared to extend Swayman, should have gone with Ullmark, or at least not traded him until they were certain one way or the other.

Theres time for them to get things sorted still, but they've now gone from the deepest goalie tandem in the league to a complete question mark. They better hope Korpisalo is able to handle an enormous amount of pressure

To me seems like their GM has been resting on his laurels too much

 

[Stephen]

If they weren't prepared to extend Swayman, should have gone with Ullmark, or at least not traded him until they were certain one way or the other.

Theres time for them to get things sorted still, but they've now gone from the deepest goalie tandem in the league to a complete question mark. They better hope Korpisalo is able to handle an enormous amount of pressure

To me seems like their GM has been resting on his laurels too much

Part of the trouble is Boston would have had to clear the Ullmark money away before signing Swayman. Ullmark had trade protection coming as well. Oh well, screw em.

 

[Fogelhund]

Boston is Boston... they seem to do well no matter who is on their roster... we thought they'd age out... they kept doing well in the regular season. Bergeron and Krejc retire, surely they'd drop now right.... nope, keep on going. Swayman is important to them when it counts, but I don't think his absence will hurt them regular season too much. In the end, he'll sign for somewhere around 8 x $8.5 million, and we'll move on.

 

[Dekes For Days]

Boston is Boston... they seem to do well no matter who is on their roster... we thought they'd age out... they kept doing well in the regular season. Bergeron and Krejc retire, surely they'd drop now right.... nope, keep on going. Swayman is important to them when it counts, but I don't think his absence will hurt them regular season too much. In the end, he'll sign for somewhere around 8 x $8.5 million, and we'll move on.

I mean, Boston did have a noticeable drop off last year. Last year was their worst underlying skater results since they last missed the playoffs in 2015-2016. They relied pretty heavily on their goaltending. If they screw around with Swayman after trading Ullmark, they could have some trouble.

 

[Leaf Rocket]

Bring him over here already.

 

[rumman]

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Bring him over here already.

Hard pass, been there, done that……….