Rumor: Rask signing with B's imminent

[Bevans]

Ullmark for Koskinen+2nd/3rd?

This deal would be alright if you removed Ullmark from it.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Koskinen is an expiring contract. They would be rolling Rask and Swayman anyways. Koskinen can sent down and hide 1 million of the contract. If they are going to send down Swayman, why not send down Koskinen and add a 1 rounder for the draft or a potential deadline deal?

Adding Koskinen literally means nothing for Boston and the standings. There's not much difference between a Rask/Swayman tandem and a Rask/Ullmark, that first could be used towards a guy like Giroux at the deadline.

Depending on his contract, that could be quite a bit of wasted cap space in burying Koskinen to the AHL.

 

[Hookslide]

This is another paint myself in the corner move by Sweeny...............he is just terrible

 

[ON3M4N]

This is another paint myself in the corner move by Sweeny...............he is just terrible

How is he "paint himself into a corner" with this move?

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

How is he "paint himself into a corner" with this move?

It makes the Ullmark move even dumber

 

[Sheppy]

This deal would be alright if you removed Ullmark from it.

It still wouldn't be ok...

 

[Hookslide]

It makes the Ullmark move even dumber

And the Flames pick for Vladar not doing them much good right now..............

 

[ON3M4N]

It makes the Ullmark move even dumber

Why?

 

[Mickey Marner]

It'll probably just be league minimum with a bunch of bonuses.

 

[Blitzkrug]

Why?

Because Bruins fans have a crystal ball that showed them management was intent on signing Rask from the beginning, obviously.

They seem to forget there were a) legitimate questions about Rask hanging it up prior, and that was before he had the hip injury and b) acting like Rask is now going to be here for the long term despite him being an about to be 35 year old goalie with hip injuries and has already thought about retirement.

 

[BergyTime37]

$5 mil of cap space lit on fire by Sweeney with that Ullmark signing. Horrible

 

[Blitzkrug]

$5 mil of cap space lit on fire by Sweeney with that Ullmark signing. Horrible

As opposed to going into the season with two unknowns in Swayman and some scrub backup?

Do we as fans just like to hate on goalies at this point? Half of the fanbase bitched incessantly about Rask for a decade, clamoring for the next guy and now the new guy also isn't good enough?

 

[xjoeyc23x]

It'll probably just be league minimum with a bunch of bonuses.

Pretty sure he can't qualify for bonuses, @DominicT knows better.

 

[Mickey Marner]

Pretty sure he can't qualify for bonuses, @DominicT knows better.

You're right, he's only 34. I thought he was older for some reason.

 

[ON3M4N]

$5 mil of cap space lit on fire by Sweeney with that Ullmark signing. Horrible

And if Rask didn't recover well from surgery and we didn't sign Ullmark then what?

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Because Bruins fans have a crystal ball that showed them management was intent on signing Rask from the beginning, obviously.

They seem to forget there were a) legitimate questions about Rask hanging it up prior, and that was before he had the hip injury and b) acting like Rask is now going to be here for the long term despite him being an about to be 35 year old goalie with hip injuries and has already thought about retirement.

Because regardless of Rask, you bring in a low cost veteran to back up and give Swayman the job. Stop acting like the goalie market was 1 man

Low cost vets from this past offseason performing at or above Ullmark:

Holtby - 1 yr x $2m - .922 sv%
Anderson - 1yr x $750k - .921 sv%
Raanta - 2yrs x $2m - .919 sv%
Reimer - 2yrs x $2.25m - .928 sv%
Lindgren - 1yr x $750k - .958 sv%

 

[WhalerTurnedBruin55]

Because Bruins fans have a crystal ball that showed them management was intent on signing Rask from the beginning, obviously.

They seem to forget there were a) legitimate questions about Rask hanging it up prior, and that was before he had the hip injury and b) acting like Rask is now going to be here for the long term despite him being an about to be 35 year old goalie with hip injuries and has already thought about retirement.

But little foresight in the Ullmark deal.

While no one had a crystal ball, it wasn't a stretch that he was coming back.

And here we are.

Have 3 solid goalies = a nice luxury.

Too bad the rest of the team needs a lot of work. Cap space is king. Ullmark at 5M possibly ending up the #3 goalie is a very bad use of cap space.

This isn't crystal ball talk. This was said at the time of the signing, too.

Well, either way, I wish Sweeney luck. He's gonna need it.

And I'll be perfectly happy if we have a new GM come draft.

 

[McJedi]

Ullmark for Koskinen+2nd/3rd?

Why not Ullmark for Yamamoto and a higher pick.

Boston won’t want Koskinen. Oil would need to add just to get rid of Koskinen.

At TDL: oil 2022 3rd + Koskinen to team X for nothing but cap space sounds like a realistic trade scenario.

 

[jonlin]

This is another paint myself in the corner move by Sweeny...............he is just terrible

Is this^some 3yr old posting? "Rask is terrible" One of the best goalies of the last 10yrs...

 

[Hookslide]

Is this^some 3yr old posting? "Rask is terrible" One of the best goalies of the last 10yrs...

I did not mention Rask.............what I was trying to say was that if he intended to bring Rask back ,why did go out and sign a goalie 20 mil for 4years and I believe no trade clause. That is what I call painting yourself in a corner.

 

[ON3M4N]

I did not mention Rask.............what I was trying to say was that if he intended to bring Rask back ,why did go out and sign a goalie 20 mil for 4years and I believe no trade clause. That is what I call painting yourself in a corner.

Because Rask coming back was never a 100% lock to happen. He needed to have surgery, rehab and get into game shape. Even if all that happened Rask still had to want to come back vs calling it a career.

 

[BergyTime37]

As opposed to going into the season with two unknowns in Swayman and some scrub backup?

Do we as fans just like to hate on goalies at this point? Half of the fanbase bitched incessantly about Rask for a decade, clamoring for the next guy and now the new guy also isn't good enough?

I like Rask, I also like Ullmark they are both good goalies. I don’t think it’s particularly wise to spending top of the market money when you knew your veteran was returning. I don’t believe it for a second the bruins didn’t have any idea he was coming back either. You had Vladar and Halak that you could turn to for cheap until he came back. It’s not a pro or anti Rask take like every bruins fans makes it out to be. If you knew he was coming back patch it up and put your money elsewhere.

 

[ON3M4N]

I like Rask, I also like Ullmark they are both good goalies. I don’t think it’s particularly wise to spending top of the market money when you knew your veteran was returning. I don’t believe it for a second the bruins didn’t have any idea he was coming back either. You had Vladar and Halak that you could turn to for cheap until he came back. It’s not a pro or anti Rask take like every bruins fans makes it out to be. If you knew he was coming back patch it up and put your money elsewhere.

But they didn't know because they had to see how he felt after surgery and if he even wanted to play again

 

[BergyTime37]

But they didn't know because they had to see how he felt after surgery and if he even wanted to play again

I still wouldn’t be dishing out a long term deal to a free agent goalie if rask had said he wasn’t up to it.

I’d have preferred the $5 mil be spent elsewhere trying to address forward and D depth that is so lacking which to be fair they tried to do, but swung and missed.

 

[ON3M4N]

I still wouldn’t be dishing out a long term deal to a free agent goalie if rask had said he wasn’t up to it.

I’d have preferred the $5 mil be spent elsewhere trying to address forward and D depth that is so lacking which to be fair they tried to do, but swung and missed.

Well your not going into the season with 2 rookie goalies and your not digging around the bargin bin hoping some meh goaltender find his game in Boston. As you said they spent money on Fwad/DEF and missed, but you want them to throw another $5 at it and hope they don't miss