LouJersey
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Did Neely or Sweeney comment on this trade? Did any of the scribes ask them?
Confirmed with Link: Linus Ullmark Traded to Senators
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Probably the reason they snuck it in during game 7, no spotlight on them.
Korpisalo is going to be the biggest whipping boy in this team's history before even playing a single game for them
So it was Korpi for Ullmark straight up? Didn’t know that
LouJersey
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if they buy him out he will be the whipping boy for 8 years in a row. Bruins needed a poor man's Bobby Bonilla
I don't mind this management but sometimes you get the sense they think we are all stupid....
LouJersey
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Do the Bruins pay you weekly or bi-weekly?
You honestly think announcing the deal 15 minutes before puck drop in game 7 of the SCF and then not commenting on it until sometime this weekend wasn't orchestrated?
TCB
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Can't wait to see what Sweeney does with the 25th pick. I mean in reality, Sweeney gave up Ullmark and saved the Sens a buy out for it.
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N o o d l e s
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Guys, did you all forget the draft party factor?!?!?!
Check the second or third round projected rankings
Check the second or third round projected rankings
TCB
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Lol. Me Neither I know McKenzie just came out with his top ten today, by the draft he'll have the complete first round and he's usually bang on.
I kept reading these threads hoping someone would lighten the mood and cheer up the crowd by telling about their day....spouse caught cheating, emptied bank account, got fired, crashed car, house burned down....and dog died
The don godfather
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Come on man this isn't CIA stuff, they could give a shit what you or me think
Plus how do you know it wasn't the Sens that wanted it out to get some good press for that joke of a franchise. They just beat up goliath in their eyes
Forgot who it was, but they told me to look at Korpisalo's playoff numbers saying they aren't very good. Take a look at Ullmark's playoff numbers..... yikes, and with a terrific team in front of him.
I guess time will tell with this trade. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Ullmark shit the bed in Ottawa either.
I guess time will tell with this trade. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Ullmark shit the bed in Ottawa either.
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Watch Goalie Bob turn Korpisalo into an all star now
That's why I jokingly said last night what's the chances ottawa tries to go after Swayman now.
PatriceBergeron
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How Korpisalo plays on the Bruins has nothing to do with how bad the trade is.
Many goalies in the league are going to look competent playing behind this team. That doesn’t change the fact that the Bruins just took on a guy with negative league value for free.
Many goalies in the league are going to look competent playing behind this team. That doesn’t change the fact that the Bruins just took on a guy with negative league value for free.
Not comparing Korpi to Ullmark straight up like some are doing here, but one of the two times one of his crappy teams made the playoffs, Korpi was .940 and 1.90 through 9 games. Small sample size, but still.
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Congratulations to Linus finally being accepted by Bruins fans
Don Sweeney and the Bruins made an expected, but big move Monday night, trading away goaltender Linus Ullmark to the Ottawa Senators.
The rise of 25-year-old goaltender Jeremy Swayman as the number one option for the Bruins in net meant that Ullmark’s days were numbered. After reportedly trying to deal Ullmark at the deadline to the Los Angeles Kings this season, the Bruins found their partner and moved on from one-half of their lauded goalie rotation.
In return, the Bruins received a 2024 first-round draft pick (No. 25), along with veteran goaltender Joonas Korpisalo and forward Mark Kastelic.
Two former Bruins, Mike Milbury and Andrew Raycroft, weighed in on the trade Tuesday morning on The Greg Hill Show and Gresh & Fauria, respectively.
Milbury, who gave the trade a B- grade, told Greg Hill that the trade was not “a steal by any stretch of the imagination.” Listen to the full segment above.
“They downgrade their second goalie, but he’s OK, and they pick up a chip with Kastelic who can play on the fourth line – he needs to get his wheels going a little bit better – and they roll the dice with a first-round pick. … It’s not a huge haul,” Milbury said.
Hill asked Milbury whether he thought Sweeney, who was “in a pickle” given Ullmark’s no-trade list, did the best he could.
"The position he was in was the position he was in because he put himself in that,” Millbury said.
He gave him half the league not to trade him. I guess LA was one of the teams you couldn’t trade him to, so you got to live with that. That’s the price you pay when you’re dealing with a free agent. You sell your soul to the devil when you try to sign these guys. Usually, you overpay and give them more protection than maybe they should have gotten.
“In the end it all works out. I think Swayman should be the number one guy. I think Korpisalo is certainly a 1A, 1B, he’s a seasoned professional. I wish it was a little less on the money side. If I was one of the Bruins goaltenders in the organization, I’d be not particularly happy today.”
Raycroft had a much more positive outlook on the return the Bruins got when appearing on Gresh & Fauria. Listen to the full segment above.
“The trade market for goaltending is just different,” Raycroft said. “There’s a lot of guys that can play goal and it has to be a right fit, it has to be the perfect fit.
If you thought they were going to get a top-10 pick for Linus Ullmark, a guy who played 40 games last season, didn’t play any games in the playoff run basically, you’re really reaching. And if you’re upset about it, that’s kind of your own fault for setting expectations not in a proper place.”
Raycroft saw the move by the Bruins as a solid return for a move that Sweeney had to make.
“[Ullmark] needed to go play somewhere else and they found a way to do that, open up some cap space,” he said. “They got a backup goaltender now, they got a veteran guy who was and has been very good in this league to help Swayman and keep that tandem going. And they got a guy up front that’s big and strong and who’s fought the toughest guys in the National Hockey League.”
“It's a win for me because you had to trade Linus Ullmark. It just wasn’t going to work to have him come back. And the longer the deal doesn’t get done, the less places there are for Linus to go, the harder it is.”
Raycroft also agreed with Christian Fauria that Ullmark’s pedigree as the winner of the 2023 Vezina Trophy for the Bruins set unrealistic expectations for the trade.
“Listen, the trophy’s nice and amazing, the All-Star Game last year, the 40 wins, his season was incredible a year and a half ago but that was a year and a half ago,” Razor said. “I understand the Vezina Trophy, but I don’t think that registered with the teams that wanted or didn’t want Linus. It was about what he’s done over the last 12 months, which is really good and he played really well. The Bruins didn’t have as much leverage on this as what was the perception with some people.”
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