Joonas Korpisalo wasn’t the very best goaltender within the NHL final season.
The newly acquired Bruins netminder had an total document of 21-26-4 throughout the 2023-24 marketing campaign with the Ottawa Senators whereas posting a .890 save share and a 3.27 goals-against common.
Bruins normal supervisor Don Sweeney mentioned Korpisalo’s stats from final season are usually not indicative of what the 30-year-old goalie can carry to the Black and Gold.
“Joonas has been a high-level goaltender,” Sweeney informed reporters, per team-provided video. “(Goaltending coach) Bob (Essensa) did quite a lot of work with Joonas when he performed his finest hockey in LA and with the ability to translate that into our hockey membership.”
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Korpisalo was traded to the Kings by the Columbus Blue Jackets within the 2022-23 season. He had an total document of 7-3-1 within the 11 regular-season video games he performed for Los Angeles with a .921 save share and a couple of.13 goals-against common.
Sweeney added that once they acquired Korpisalo, they weren’t targeted on what he had achieved simply in Ottawa. The Bruins checked out the place the crew in entrance of him was at and what his projections could be in Boston, very similar to they did once they signed Linus Ullmark three years in the past.
“Hopefully, in Bob’s case, realizing the physique of labor is not only remoted to the latest statistics,” Sweeney defined. “Earlier time, I used LA as a reference; when he went there, he had a extremely good run.
“… I feel we really feel very comfy with him as a complement, and the man that may push as a result of we really feel there’s extra floor for him to get again to when he performed his finest hockey. … Once more, it’s a projection, however I feel we really feel comfy stylistically, the competitiveness within the goaltender and Bob doing his work on how he tasks into our lineup.”
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Sweeney admitted Korpisalo’s workload is to be decided, particularly given Jeremy Swayman is seeking to get into the “higher echelon” of taking part in 50-plus video games for the primary time in his NHL profession.
“(Korpisalo) goes to enter conditions in our system; it’s a scientific adjustment that he’s going to return in, and hopefully, we adhere to our core ideas of defending the place we’re presupposed to, and he does his job,” Sweeney mentioned. “It is going to be an acclimation course of, however we really feel very comfy that his physique of labor means that he can get again to the extent I referenced earlier.”
The anticipation is that Korpisalo will push Swayman the best way Ullmark had achieved up to now.
“Joonas has clearly performed at a excessive degree and been a starter,” Sweeney mentioned. “The power to enhance Jeremy, to have the ability to push Jeremy and need the online himself, I feel is usually a very good aggressive ambiance. It’s what Jeremy has been used to since he’s been within the Nationwide Hockey League, and he’s earned all the pieces that’s come his approach.
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“I don’t wish to lose sight of Brandon (Bussi) within the sense that he’s paid his dues and needs his alternative within the Nationwide Hockey League. If he beats out, on this case, all possible Joonas, then we’ll have to provide him the chance.”
