Confirmed with Link: Svedberg to the KHL

[Paddington]

I don't know if Sveddy or the backup goalie situation deserves its own thread but it looks like Sveddy is headed to the K.

@IgorEronko
#Salavat GM confirmed R-Sport they signed #NHLBruins' pending RFA Niklas Svedberg to a 1-year deal #KHL

So who's a backup option for next season?

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[ODAAT]

I don't know if Sveddy or the backup goalie situation deserves its own thread but it looks like Sveddy is headed to the K.

@IgorEronko
#Salavat GM confirmed R-Sport they signed #NHLBruins' pending RFA Niklas Svedberg to a 1-year deal #KHL

So who's a backup option for next season?

Subban time?

 

[PrisonMike]

let subban and smith battle it out

 

[ODAAT]

let subban and smith battle it out

as long as whomever it is does not give games away with poor goaltending, could care less who gets the nod

I didn`t see Subban play one second other than the Blues game this year but I read alot here from fans saying he played great in the playoffs for the PB`s?

 

[Hali33]

Would rather see Subban spend another year in the AHL for better development. He was splitting starts with Smith this season, no? Feel like more playing time in the AHL would do more than being Rask's backup.

Not that stressed over the back up situation.

 

[Paddington]

Rask, Khudobin, and even Johnson were good backups and I wasn't concerned when any of them were between the pipes. Hopefully the team can find another good backup. We were spoiled over the last few years prior to Sveddy. I'd be over the moon if a Rask-Subban tandem worked out the way the Thomas-Rask tandem did.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

We had good backups until this year. Too bad he didn't work out but not a real loss to us.

 

[Man Rocket]

we needed an upgrade anyway, less of a logjam now and maybe gives Zane more motivation to sign

 

[Replicator]

Would rather see Subban spend another year in the AHL for better development. He was splitting starts with Smith this season, no? Feel like more playing time in the AHL would do more than being Rask's backup.

Definitely. I also don't feel too confident in either Subban or Smith as backup.
Oddly, I did have faith in Sveddy over the summer. Clearly he got pretty stale without a lot of games playing.

 

[LouJersey]

McIntyre will win the job if he comes out

 

[BigGoalBrad]

Hes not good enough to be relied on for more than a spot start here and there if anything happened to Rask we'd be making a trade immediately and giving up assets even if it was relatively minor and only 4-5 weeks.

McIntyre could at least be signed to the rookie minimum cap hit and only take up 550-600k or so it wouldn't take a 1 way contract to get him to sign a cheap deal we would just have to give him a nice fat 250k AHL salary and a promise he has a great chance at having the backup job and he signs on the dot I think.

McIntyre for a 600k cap hit is better than paying a semi proven backup 1.6.

 

[HuskyBruinPride]

Guess Zane might get his chance next year

 

[bruinmann77]

suban could not win the #1 job in provdence the bruins wil find a cheap backup.

 

[Stone Clode]

Man, the guy went from up-and-coming goalie, to having an awesome year in Providence, to getting the backup job, to just completely blowing up in the NHL, and now he's gone. Hopefully he regains his head in Russia so that he can make a return here, but the kid flat out lost all of his confidence in the past 14 months. That AHL playoffs last year hurt him and this season made it worse. Best of luck to him.

That being said, this team is very stacked at that position, so they'll be able to replace him rather easily.

 

[kytem2]

Rask -- 34-34 / .922 / 2.30
Svedberg -- 7-6 / .918 / 2.33

-- Not a lot of difference here. I guess the backup goalie has to take the fall.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Rask -- 34-34 / .922 / 2.30
Svedberg -- 7-6 / .918 / 2.33

-- Not a lot of difference here. I guess the backup goalie has to take the fall.

I usually look at it as under .920 is average, .920+ is excellent. And then you factor in back ups getting easier competition.

 

[talkinaway]

I usually look at it as under .920 is average, .920+ is excellent. And then you factor in back ups getting easier competition.

Yes, there's no way those two stat lines can be compared without considering the fact that, typically, the starter is going to play in any difficult game by default, and the backup is, in theory, only scheduled to play the weaker of the back-to-backs and a few "gimmie" games.

I agree that we were spoiled with backups. I still can't believe the beating Johnson took on the Isles boards, and that he was traded to Buffalo as a tank goalie. Granted, I didn't really watch him play this year, but for us last year he seemed like a VERY solid backup who only got cut for $.

Svedberg's "athleticism" made me nervous. Every time he moved far from the net, I threw up in my mouth a little. Then again, I'd probably say similar things about Quick - but when Quick starts flying all over the place, he can usually back it up by making saves.

 

[kytem2]

I usually look at it as under .920 is average, .920+ is excellent. And then you factor in back ups getting easier competition.

How about, the more you work, the sharper you get ? Only applicable if you are not Rask apparently.

 

[dabid]

Rask -- 34-34 / .922 / 2.30
Svedberg -- 7-6 / .918 / 2.33

-- Not a lot of difference here. I guess the backup goalie has to take the fall.

not much difference besides one guy played 18 games and the other guy 70

 

[Fire Sweeney]

Svedberg needs to get his career back on track after being ruined by Essenssa and Julien in December and January.

I think he'll post impressive stats over there and he'll be back in the NHL for 2016-2017.

 

[Salem13]

not much difference besides one guy played 18 games and the other guy 70

And Rask came off the bench twice for Sveddy

 

[DominicT]

Guess Zane might get his chance next year

suban could not win the #1 job in provdence the bruins wil find a cheap backup.

Keep these two away from the NHL next season.

Find a cheap backup and sign him for two years then expose him in the expansion draft and not ZM or MS.

 

[Fenway]

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2...next-season/O7H2qlc83yKnSHdxejGBQO/story.html

After a season in which Niklas Svedberg struggled as Tuukka Rask’s backup with the Bruins, the goaltender has opted to sign with KHL team Salavat Yulaev for next season, his agent Allain Roy confirmed on Monday.

Because of the jobs likely available when free agency opens on July 1, Svedberg decided that a year of proving himself in the KHL was preferable to a backup job behind an established starter in the NHL, the situation in which he had found himself this season. It did not go well.

 

[Rubber Biscuit]

I usually look at it as under .920 is average, .920+ is excellent. And then you factor in back ups getting easier competition.

And then factor in actually watching him play and it's clear he just wasn't very good this year.

 

[Jean_Jacket41]

I was nervous everytime Svedberg was in net.

Won't be tough to find a better backup for next year.