Bruins trade Ullmark to Senators for 2024 first-round pick, two players initially showed up on NBC Sports Boston
Linus Ullmark’s profession with the Boston Bruins mores than.
The Bruins have actually traded the professional goaltender to the Ottawa Senators for onward Mark Kastelic, goaltender Joonas Korpisalo and a 2024 first-round draft choice (25th general), the group introduced Monday evening. The Legislators likewise will certainly keep 25 percent of Korpisalo’s income. He is authorized via 2027-28 with a $4 million cap hit (currently $3 million with income retention).
Kastelic is a physical onward at 6-foot-4 and 226 extra pounds. He tallied 10 factors (5 objectives and 5 helps) in 63 ready the Senators this period.
Korpisalo was just one of the organization’s worst goalkeepers in 2023-24. He went 21-26-4 with a. 890 conserve portion and a 3.27 GAA. He had a poor group before him, however the numbers represent themselves.
The 2024 first-round choice is a good obtain for the Bruins. This choice initially was their very own, however they traded it to the Detroit Red Wings as component of the Tyler Bertuzzi handle 2023. The Red Wings at some point dealt it to the Senators as component of the Alex DeBrincat profession.
Ullmark authorized with the Bruins as a freelance in the summertime of 2021 and played extremely well for the Initial 6 franchise business. He won the Vezina Trophy after a dominant 2022-23 campaign, and he published a 22-10-7 document with a. 915 conserve portion and a 2.58 GAA this previous period.
The Senators frantically required to update at the goaltender setting after they had the second-worst save portion and permitted the fifth-most objectives as a group this period. Including a goalkeeper of Ullmark’s quality will certainly provide a far better opportunity of going back to the playoffs in 2025.
The truth that the B’s traded Ullmark is not a shock. Jeremy Swayman came to be the precise No. 1 goalkeeper on the group after a spectacular run in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs, throughout which he led the group to the 2nd round. Swayman is a limited freelance this offseason and due for a substantial raising.
Ullmark has another year left on his existing agreement with a $5 million income cap hit. After trading him, the Bruins now have a little less than $24 million in salary cap space.
The Bruins can utilize this cap area to re-sign a few of their very own freelances and try to find exterior enhancements in the profession and freelance markets. A top-six facility and a tried and tested objective marker on the wing are the group’s 2 most obvious lineup concerns to resolve this summertime.