Top Bruins Players to Watch Out for and Avoid During the 2024 NHL Trade Deadline

The Bruins are in an enviable position of having to ace goaltenders on their roster.

Ullmark is the defending Veznia Trophy winner but right behind him is Jeremy Swayman, who has developed into one of the best goalies in the league and someone ready to assume the starter role.

An unnamed NHL hockey operations executive told Fluto Shinzawa of The Athletic that “He’s your Game 1 starter. And (Brandon) Bussi isn’t far off.”

That Swayman has a better save percentage (.920 to Ullmark’s .913) only strengthens that argument.

With such a rich wealth of goaltending, Ullmark becomes expendable, an idea that sounds ludicrous on the surface.

With a $5 million average annual value, though, moving him would free up space and allow the Bruins to acquire the pieces the team believes are needed to make a run at the a title after last year’s massively disappointing first round exit.

Shinzawa wrote that the Carolina Hurricanes and New Jersey Devils are in need of an upgrade at goalie but that the Bruins would be less inclined to help two teams that are legitimate threats to them making it out of the Eastern Conference.

The Los Angeles Kings and Ottawa Senators are two other teams that could benefit from an upgrade the position.

The return would have to be worthwhile for the Bruins, who the unnamed executive noted would rather wait until after the season to trade Ullmark.