'I think we’re in a terrific spot, if we do decide (to run it back) and that is what our indications are right now, unless something else materialized between now and then. 'We were really good in the regular season, we didn’t play as well as a team and they are part of that in the playoffs and we fell woefully short of what we set out to do. Jeremy was a pretty good sidekick in winning the Jennings,' Sweeney told reporters.

'Again, congrats to Linus, the Vezina Trophy winner. So, it’s a matter of how you allocate and how you think you should allocate the bottom part of your lineup, your bottom pair D and your two goaltenders.'īruins general manager Don Sweeney was asked Tuesday about potentially running it back with the Ullmark/Swayman tandem for another season. 'We’ll see where everything plays out with Swayman, but there are certain areas where you look at goaltending, bottom six, you’re going to have to pay your top players, that’s just the way it is. 'Well, we’ve been pretty fortunate over the years with what our total cap hit for goaltending has been compared to some other teams,' Bruins president Cam Neely told reporters Tuesday in Nashville - the site of this week's 2023 NHL Draft. Swayman is a restricted free agent this summer, and if he re-signs with a contract that carries a salary cap hit of $3-4 million per season - which would be comparable to similar RFA goalies at his age - then the Bruins would have around $8-9 million of salary cap space (Ullmark's cap figure is $5 million) tied up in their goalies.įor a team that's facing a significant cap crunch, can the Bruins afford to pay that much money to their goalies? His backup, Jeremy Swayman, ranked fourth in both save percentage and GAA.

Linus Ullmark just won the Vezina Trophy after leading the NHL in wins, save percentage and GAA last season. Goaltender is one of the Bruins' deepest positions.

Choosing which players to move is the hard part, and it typically makes sense to dip into the areas of your roster that have the most depth. Trading players is the easiest way to create cap space. They have nine more roster spots to fill. They have just $10.9 million in cap space with 14 players under contract.

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