The Boston Bruins have three video games remaining of their 2024 preseason, and their opening night time roster is beginning to take form. The staff made a spherical of cuts on Sunday forward of coaching camp, together with some surprises. Let’s check out the winners and losers from the primary half of the Bruins preseason.
Winner: Joonas Korpisalo
The Bruins should discover a option to signal Jeremy Swayman. That ought to be their one and solely prime precedence forward of the 2024-25 season. That stated, the prospect of him lacking the beginning of the season appears rather less gloomy after the optimistic play the staff has acquired from Joonas Korpisalo in his first few appearances within the black and gold. He stopped all seven photographs that he noticed in opposition to the Washington Capitals in his first look then went on to save lots of 37 of the 40 photographs he confronted within the Bruins matchup with the Philadelphia Flyers.
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Korpisalo has exhibited inconsistent play at occasions in his profession, so to get off to begin on his new staff is an encouraging signal, despite the fact that it’s nonetheless the preseason. With every passing day, it appears an increasing number of doubtless that he would be the starter on opening night time, making him a participant that followers ought to maintain a detailed eye on over the Bruins’ final three preseason video games.
Loser: Fabian Lysell
Fabian Lysell was the identify on the Bruins’ roster highlighted essentially the most by followers and analysts alike as somebody to regulate in the course of the preseason. It was thought that he was going to have a possibility to play himself into a job within the staff’s top-six ahead group. It seems that they produce other plans for him in the intervening time, as they despatched him right down to Windfall to start out the marketing campaign. After a lackluster efficiency within the Bruins’ first preseason recreation, Lysell appeared to get his toes beneath him, which makes this transfer really feel a bit weird. He scored an influence play purpose in opposition to the Capitals, nonetheless, it appeared that the Bruins didn’t give him a professional prolonged alternative to play with top-six NHL expertise.
This transfer will come as a disappointment to many Bruins followers who’ve been ready to see Lysell get his shot on the NHL because the staff drafted him within the first spherical in 2021. He has confirmed himself as a star within the American Hockey League (AHL), and it doesn’t really feel like he has extra to point out at that stage. It won’t come as a shock if he’s referred to as up early within the 2024-25 season, nonetheless, the transfer goes in opposition to what the standard perception was on Lysell heading into camp. The teen is beneath contract for yet one more season after this, although it felt like this camp was his large alternative to show that he belongs within the NHL. His finest shot at incomes a spot on the Bruins roster earlier than the tip of the season is to have a robust begin in Windfall and play his means as much as the roster spot that he doubtless believes he has already earned.
Winner and Loser
The Bruins have a couple of clear winners and some clear losers of the preseason to this point. Korpisalo has performed very solidly in his time in internet, and as of proper now, he has lined himself as much as be the opening night time starter so long as Swayman and the Bruins are but to succeed in an settlement. Lysell had excessive hopes getting into camp, and although he scored a purpose in opposition to the Capitals, he didn’t present sufficient to earn a spot on the NHL roster to start out the season.
