The Bruins signed a goalie on Monday, simply not the one many followers have been anticipating.
While Jeremy Swayman stays a restricted free agent, the B’s inked Brandon Bussi to a one-year two-way deal price an NHL cap hit of $775,000. Bussi will stay a restricted free agent with arbitrations when the deal expires subsequent summer season.
The 24-year-old Busso, a 6-foot-5, 209 pound Sound Beach, New York native who signed with the B’s as a free agent out of Western Michigan in 2022, had a wonderful first full professional season. With the Providence Bruins, he posted a 22-5-4 file with a .924 save share and a pair of.40 objectives towards common. While the P-Bruins dropped their opening spherical playoff collection, Bussi’s numbers truly bumped up a contact as he had a .926 save share and and a 2.28 GAA in 4 video games.
Whether or not B’s administration believes Bussi is prepared for giant league responsibility stays to be seen. While retaining Bussi within the fold made sense it doesn’t matter what occurs with the goaltending image in Boston, there was been lots of hypothesis that the B’s may jettison considered one of their two NHL goalies due to their wage cap crunch.
According to capfriendly.com, the B’s have just below $5 million accessible in cap house. Linus Ullmark, who may very properly win the Vezina Trophy on the NHL’s Awards present in Nashville subsequent week, has two years left on a four-year contract at $5 million a 12 months, which was a cut price for what he was capable of give the crew within the common season, although he pale within the playoffs. He posted the goaltending triple crown, main the league in wins (40), save share (.938) and objectives towards common (1.89).
Swayman, in the meantime, may command a wage someplace between $3 million and $4 million. He additionally had a wonderful season, posting a 24-6-4 file with .920 save share and a 2.27 GAA. While provide sheets not often come to fruition, if anybody is a candidate for one it could be Swayman.
Of course, the B’s may maintain on to each Ullmark and Swayman and nonetheless have an inexpensive price range for the netminding division. For occasion, two of their division rivals, the Lightning and Panthers, have $9.5 million (Andrei Vasilevskiy) and $10 million (Sergei Bobrovsky), respectively, tied up of their respective prime goalie.
But the B’s do want to chop wage someplace. They have simply seven NHL forwards underneath contract. Trent Frederic, one other RFA, has arbitration rights and his 17-goal season may yield a contract that the B’s is probably not in a position or keen to pay. On the again finish, the B’s have Mike Reilly, who was buried in Providence a lot of the 12 months as a cap casualty. The B’s may purchase out the final 12 months of his deal that carries a $3 million AAV ($4 million in actual wage). The B’s may additionally transfer Matt Grzelcyk, who has one 12 months left at $3.687.5 million, or they might commerce a higher-priced ahead, maybe Taylor Hall, who has two years left at $6 million.
With the buyout interval already open, the draft arising subsequent week after which free company opening on July 1, we must always see some extra participant motion very quickly.
Source: www.bostonherald.com