I originally expected more. Necas always felt unrealistic but maybe if the bruins added a 1st +. In the end the deal was underwhelming for the Bruins. The mntc played a large role in that. I do think it was more that the market was misjudged and it probably came down to having only one valid option after the MNTC was compared to demand.
Still I think there are two questions.
First question is how bad it is? It seems to me that part is quite exaggerated in some cases. If Korpisalo can play to the level of Halak and Khudobin in Boston then his value becomes fairly even and then this deal is pretty close to even as well. Still we paid for a lot of risk but they obviously love the draft pick and it seems like they had their guy Letourneau targeted all along. So maybe they see the risk but just value this pick more than others have.
Second question is whether we need to complain about these things? I would rather watch it play out rather than living on hard black and white stances before we have seen anything on the ice. I’m sure there are many people who thought that deal would have been better that are not complaining because that is no way to enjoy the Bruins or any other team.
By the way I get that this is a message board and people have different opinions but we have a lot of callouts lately that I just feel have been very odd. Like everyone needs to have the same feelings and level of anger or we are full of hypocrisy. I just really don’t think that’s the case.
Mostly agree with everything except for the bolded.
Let's be clear here.... Boston didn't make Halak. Halak had 2 season pre-BOS where he received Vezina votes and All Star votes. Neither of which he did in BOS. He also won a Jennings trophy pre-BOS, as well as one w/ BOS.
He had 2 seasons w/ save % numbers better than his best year in BOS. 3 seasons better than his 2nd best, and a season tied with his 2nd best BOS season. He had 4 seasons better than his best year in BOS in gaa.
Khudobin also had his 2 best years outside of BOS. And All Star votes in 1 year. So in both of these cases we are talking about goalies who were successful outside of BOS, at an equal or greater than level.
Korpisalo has never received Vezina votes or All Star votes of any kind. He's had 2 stretches of play of great hockey:
9 games in the Covid Bubble playoffs (which he absolutely was great in)
11 games in the last month and a half after being traded to LA (he followed that up with 6 horrendous games in the playoffs that year)
I expect that he'll be better in BOS than he was in OTT and CBJ. He might be a "decent' back up.
But there's absolutely nothing that suggests he'll give them Halak or Khudobin level play, since Halak and Khudobin demonstrated that level before, during and after BOS and Koprisalo hasn't.