{"id":2635,"date":"2026-06-13T18:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2026-06-13T18:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:02:46","slug":"perseverance-pays-off-for-former-bruins-goalie-prospect-brandon-bussi-who-is-within-a-win-of-the-stanley-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2635","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance pays off for former Bruins goalie prospect Brandon Bussi, who is within a win of the Stanley Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span><span>T<\/span><\/span><span><span>he Hurricanes have a chance Sunday night to clinch the Stanley Cup, their second in franchise history, and it could happen with one-time Bruins prospect <b>Brandon Bussi<\/b> in net.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2633\">The World Cup is here. Follow live updates leading up to Boston\u2019s first match.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>That\u2019s Bussi, Exhibit A in how quickly the goaltending landscape can change, even amid the intense pressure of the Cup Final, and also what an utterly useless exercise it can be for netminders \u2014 and for that matter, NHL organizations \u2014 to predict their career paths and trajectories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bussi, 27, picked up his second consecutive win Thursday night, lifting the Hurricanes to a 3-2 series lead over the Golden Knights. The 6-foot-4-inch former Western Michigan standout (never drafted, by the way), was poised, sharp and confident \u2014 the traits that convinced the Bruins in the spring of 2022 to sign him as a college free agent. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>The signing positioned Bussi at the time to be an insurance stopper for AHL Providence, should the dynamics change in Boston around hug brothers <b>Linus Ullmark<\/b> and <b>Jeremy Swayman<\/b>, who were splitting the varsity workload. Bussi delivered as promised his rookie pro season (22-5-4 with the WannaB\u2019s), which was the same season Ullmark won the Vezina Trophy and the Swayman-Ullmark dazzling duo went a combined 64-12-5 (don\u2019t forget that lone win by <b>Keith \u201cWe Hardly Knew Ye\u201d Kinkaid<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>\u2018Dinged-up\u2019 players should be ready to go when training camp opens in September, and other notes on the Bruins<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m hoping at some point to play my first NHL game,\u201d Bussi told me one lazy day in the summer of 2023, knowing how narrow the path was for him to make it to Boston. \u201cThat\u2019s the dream you choose.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Then, man, things changed \u2014 and in a hurry, but none of it to Bussi\u2019s benefit. That same guy who could be hoisting high the Cup ended up never playing a single minute for the Bruins, ultimately leaving as a free agent last July, albeit for the two-time champion Panthers and not Carolina (we\u2019ll get to that hairpin career turn in a moment).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>By the time Bussi left, Ullmark had been traded and already had spent a season in Ottawa. Ullmark\u2019s roster spot was filled, and remains so at this hour, by ex-Senators stopper <b>Joonas Korpisalo<\/b>. Of bigger consequence, though, was that Bussi, that one-time heir apparent to be the Next Goalie Up, lost his space in the Black and Gold developmental chain to <b>Michael DiPietro<\/b>, the one-time Canucks draft pick sent east when the Bruins acquired him in the October 2022 swap for <b>Jack Studnicka<\/b> (once considered potential captain material). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>None of what happened with the Bruins to Bussi is all that unusual, or to be considered a slight, particularly in the netminding business. It\u2019s often how the vulcanized cookie crumbles in a 32-team NHL in which most teams strive to have just two guys manning their net throughout the 82-game season (84 games, starting this October). The math is never that finite, or defined, in part because of injury. For the most part, though, as Bussi learned over his three full seasons in Providence as a stopper in waiting, it\u2019s pretty much a two-man job category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m a numbers guy,\u201d Bussi, an accounting major his three years at WMU, told me after that first season. \u201cI get it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last summer, with the July 1 arrival of the annual free agent period, Bussi got himself a new start, signing with Florida. It was a two-way deal at league minimum ($775,000), with only a $400,000 guarantee if he spent the full season in the minors. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With <b>Sergei Bobrovsky<\/b> still holding the No. 1 varsity Sunrise job at $10 million per season, it was a fair bet Bussi would be assigned to AHL Charlotte. On the same day <b>Bill Zito<\/b> signed Bussi, the Panthers general manager also signed <b>Daniil Tarasov<\/b>, once a Blue Jackets teammate of Korpisalo, to a one-year deal fully guaranteed at $1.075 million. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Guaranteed contracts don\u2019t always tell the whole story, but in a hard-cap league, with teams forever pushing the upper salary limit, one-way deals are usually heavy hints.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bussi started training camp in mid-September with the Panthers and lasted all of three weeks with the organization. Fearing that an injury to projected No. 1 starter <b>Pyotr Kochetkov<\/b> could linger, a fear that turned reality, the Hurricanes on Oct. 5 filched Bussi via waivers from Florida. The NHL season just about to start, the Panthers had Bussi ticketed for Charlotte, only to have the bigger, better-known hockey team in Carolina tip the plan upside down. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bussi is only the latest Panthers netminder to track through Sunrise and find good work, and in some cases very good money, with a different franchise. Former Boston College goalie <b>Spencer Knight<\/b>, a first-round draft pick, was paired with Bobrovsky for 1\u00bd seasons before taking a leave of absence to tend to mental health issues. Health restored and back on the job, he was dealt to the Blackhawks for defenseman <b>Seth Jones<\/b> in 2024-25. Now Chicago\u2019s No. 1, Knight will report to camp in September to begin the first season of a three-year deal worth $17.5 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><b>Anthony Stolarz<\/b> spent the 2023-24 season as Bobrovsky\u2019s partner, got his name on the Cup, then signed as a free agent that with the Maple Leafs for four years\/$15 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ex-Yale goalie <b>Alex Lyon<\/b>, now with the Sabres, played 2022-23 with the Panthers, his stellar performance late in the season crucial to getting them in the playoffs. He departed in July \u201823 for a two-year deal with the Red Wings ($900,000 per season) and built on that for a two-year deal in Buffalo ($1.5 million per).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><b>Vitek Vanecek<\/b> arrived via trade on an expiring deal during the 2024-25, got his name on the Cup, then signed a one-year deal ($1.5 million) with Utah as a free agent.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Bruce Cassidy reportedly willing to coach Bruins\u2019 Original Six rival<\/div>\n<p><span>Bussi, who found instant success in the Carolina net once finally making his NHL debut in mid-October, in February signed a three-year contract extension that kicks in for the start of the upcoming season. Totally payout: $5.7 million. Carolina added $10,000 at the signing as a donation to the Autism Society of North Carolina (<b>Dylan Bussi<\/b>, the goalie\u2019s younger brother, is autistic).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2631\">Game 68: Rangers at Red Sox lineups and preview<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Until late Game 3 of the Cup Final, Bussi had seen no postseason action, coach <b>Rod Brind\u2019Amour<\/b> opting to ride with veteran <b>Frederik Andersen<\/b>. With the Hurricanes down, 4-0, after two periods, Brind\u2019Amour called on Bussi, whose brilliant relief helped Carolina stretch it to overtime before losing. In Game 4 and Game 5, back\u2013to-back wins for the Hurricanes, Bussi surrendered a total five goals. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bussi left the rink in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, Game 6 in Vegas waiting, with a Cup perhaps only another 60 minutes into his long journey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t know if I am willing the team [to victory],\u201d a humble Bussi said after Game 5, dismissing a reporter\u2019s suggestion that he was carrying the Hurricanes. \u201cWe like our game right now. We work hard, stay in the moment, put your head down and grind.\u201d  <\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h5>POWERED DOWN<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Ex-Bruin Lucic calls it a career<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Former Bruins power forward <b>Milan Lucic<\/b>, who spent the past season playing in Scotland for the Fife Flyers in an attempt to find a route back to an NHL roster, announced via social media last Sunday that he has put away the skates for good. In a text exchange with a Globe reporter, he said he will return North America this week to begin life after playing days. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The big man left a mark: 233 goals and 353 assists and a Cup with the Bruins in 2011 in his 1,177 games. He put up a career-high 62 points in that 2010-11 season and contributed 5-7\u201312 to the championship run. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Upon taking the general manager\u2019s chair in May 2015, one of <b>Don Sweeney\u2019s<\/b> first moves was to send a 27-year-old Lucic to the Kings, setting up the hulking winger for a humongous payday (seven years\/$42 million) a year later in Edmonton when ex-Bruins GM <b>Peter Chiarelli<\/b> was running the Oilers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As of today, the lone remnants of that Lucic-to-LA deal are Boston College center <b>Will Moore<\/b> (No. 51 pick in last year\u2019s draft) and a Round 4 pick the Bruins own in the upcoming entry draft. <b>Andrew Peeke<\/b> and <b>Max Wanner<\/b>, also with ties to the \u201815 Lucic deal, ended the season under contract with the Bruins. As of today, both are free agents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lucic\u2019s final NHL games were with the Bruins at the start of 2023-24 (four games, 0-2\u20132). While recovering from injury during that comeback bid, he was arrested in a domestic violence case in which charges were later dropped. He soon entered the NHL\/NHLPA player assistance program, and did not return to the ice until his brief stay with AHL Springfield early this season, prior to leaving for Scotland.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h5>MARKET PRICES<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>McCarron deal matters, including to Arvidsson<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>A hint where contracts could be headed: the six-year\/$20 million pact signed by bottom-six forward <b>Michael McCarron<\/b> to remain with the Wild. His big payday came nearly 13 years after the Canadiens made him the No. 25 pick in the 2013 draft. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>McCarron, 31, is two years younger than Bruins winger \u2014 and unrestricted free agent \u2014 <b>Viktor Arvidsson<\/b>. The Bruins would like to bring Arvidsson back, likely on a deal close to the $4 million pay rate he carried over from the Oilers in last summer\u2019s trade.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Forbes Kennedy\u2019s NHL farewell was a real doozy<\/div>\n<p><span>But with his 25 goals and 54 points in 2025-26, Arvidsson could land in the $5.5 million-$6 million range, with length of term (five or six years?) determined by the degree of desperation among the bidders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Only 69 forwards league wide, a fraction more than two per team, last season scored more goals than Arvidisson. The \u201cLittle Weasel\u201d should be able to ferret out big bucks at the pay window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meanwhile, two UFAs with Bruins ties who should be budget hires and might be worth consideration for a redux run on Causeway Street are <b>Connor Clifton<\/b> and <b>A.J. Greer<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Clifton is a right-shot defenseman and the Bruins liked the physical pop he added back there across his five seasons in Black and Gold. They need that pop now. He left for three year\/$10 million with the Sabres, a deal he finished last season with the Penguins. Maybe three years\/$7 million to return?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Greer, the former Boston University winger, put his name on the Cup in \u201825 with the Panthers. He\u2019s 29, and while never a big producer (32 points this past season with Florida being his career best), and he\u2019s also never landed a big payday ($850,000 for a high). Two or three years at, say, $1.8 million per would make him a budget hire on the fourth line.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h4>Loose pucks<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The league lost two gentlemen in <b>Cliff Fletcher<\/b> and <b>Gerry Meehan<\/b>, who recently died only days apart, Fletcher at age 90 and Meehan at 79. The league today is full of players, coaches, and managers forever pressed for time and increasingly reluctant, if not scared, to talk to the media. Fletcher, in his GM roles with the Flames and Maple Leafs, always was approachable and up for a good gab. He put together good teams and big trades. Meehan enjoyed a solid hitch as Sabres GM (1986-93) and was instrumental in drafting <b>Alexander Mogilny<\/b> and streamlining the path to bring the talented winger from Russia to Lake Erie. \u201cUniversally liked and respected, big void,\u201d ex-Maple Leafs GM <b>Brian Burke<\/b> wrote of Meehan on social media. As for Fletcher, Burke wrote that he \u201ctaught me to always try to make your deals bigger \u2014 so I did.\u201d Burke, in his days running the Canucks, pulled the strings that landed twins <b>Daniel<\/b> and <b>Henrik Sedin<\/b> in the 1999 draft \u2026 Studnicka, 27, signed a two-way deal as a free agent with Florida last July and was in training camp last September with Bussi. Unlike Bussi, Studnicka, who played 19 games with the Panthers, did not get claimed via waivers when demoted to Charlotte. He finished 12-18\u201330 in his 41 games with the AHL club. He is a free agent again \u2026 A true honor here last Tuesday to be on the invite list at the Garden, joining in the celebration of \u201cRocket\u201d <b>Richard Johnson<\/b>, who is easing back on day-to-day duties on Causeway Street after 40-plus years as The Sports Museum\u2019s talented curator. Johnson will continue in a reduced role, though I suspect that will be akin to having asked <b>Ted Williams<\/b> to lay off a fat fastball served right down Broadway. Johnson loved his life\u2019s work and the passion poured back his way in buckets during the two-hour fete. He has been an unremitting friend to Boston media, particularly the print reporters often marginalized in these last 30 years of the internet era. Johnson never has forgotten a thing, particularly his friends \u2026 Former Bruins goalie prospect <b>John Grahame<\/b> won a Stanley Cup with the Lightning (2004 with current Golden Knights coach <b>John Tortorella<\/b> then the bench boss in Tampa Bay) less than 18 months after he was dealt away by GM <b>Mike O\u2019Connell<\/b> in January 2003 for a Round 4 draft pick. Grahame, now 50, watched from the bench in the spring of \u201804 as the Bulin Wall, <b>Nikolai Khabibulin<\/b>, carried the Lightning to the Cup \u2026 Buyouts begin this week, no later than 48 hours after the final Cup game (a Game 7 would be Wednesday in Raleigh). The standard discount allows clubs to trim one-third of the total dollars off a player\u2019s deal and pay the remaining value over twice the contract\u2019s remaining term (example: a player with for years to go would be paid across eight years, at 67 cents on the dollar). In theory, the salary cap bumping up to $104 million next season will have clubs pondering buyouts more seriously, with GMs thinking club owners (their bosses) won\u2019t scrutinize their mistakes as critically. All buyouts must be complete by June 30, in the hours leading up to July 1 free agency \u2026 The Hockey Hall of Fame next Monday, June 22, will reveal its Class of 2026 inductees (for formal induction Nov. 9 in the Toronto shrine). <b>Patrice Bergeron<\/b>, eligible for the first time, is the all-time shoo-in. If \u201cBergy\u201d has to wait, just melt the ice, turn off the Zamboni, and turn the rink into a bingo hall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2629\">Now\u2019s a good time to take note of questionable NFL offseason moves \u2014 coach hirings, draft picks, and signings<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bussi, who left the Bruins last summer, came on in relief against the Golden Knights in Final Game 3, then won Games 4 and 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Perseverance pays off for former Bruins goalie prospect Brandon Bussi, who is within a win of the Stanley Cup - 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