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uly 23, 2007
Toivonen's departure
By Fluto Shinzawa, Globe Staff

Hannu Toivonen was once projected as the long-term No. 1 netminder in Boston.

But after a disastrous 2006-07 season in which he went 3-9-1 with a 4.23 GAA and an .875 save percentage, Toivonen became even more expendable once the Bruins acquired Manny Fernandez from Minnesota.

If the Bruins didn't have Tuukka Rask penciled in for the majority of starts in Providence in 2007-08, they would have most likely retained Toivonen and allowed him to develop in the AHL.

"It's a fresh start for Hannu," said Bill Zito, Toivonen's agent. "He's going into a good situation there. It's going to be on Hannu's shoulders to do the things he's good at and focus on that. He'll get a chance."

Toivonen has been working out in Wilmington and planned to travel with goaltending coach Bob Essensa to Calgary next month for a goalie camp.

Traded for Carl Soderburg.

Man thats two good prospects we sent to the blues. With boyes and tivo. Hopefully they dont come back and beat the bruins.

Anyway, soderburg is a good young prospect. Glad we got him in return. I belive he is the 5th best blues prospect, according to hockeyfutures.

Read up more on soderburg. And he is kind of iffy. Not heard about around the league, and has an eye injury. Blues fans seemed to like him though. Why another center though?

Tovi became expendable and we didn't need him. Manny is the starter and Thomas is an awesome backup. Plus in 3 years Ruusk will be ready

TheTrio wrote:Read up more on soderburg. And he is kind of iffy. Not heard about around the league, and has an eye injury. Blues fans seemed to like him though. Why another center though?

i read up on him, especially from blues fans at Hockeys Future boards, there were a lot of swedish fans who kept everyone posted on his development and growth. im pretty impressed with what i was able to pick up about the kid

is he in nhl 07? i thought malmo was in the game

Chiarelli confirmed Soderberg will be coming over for next year. He's in the 3-6 range of our prospect depth chart right now, but he has so much talent if he has no ill effects from eye injury, he could leapfrog Rask to number one.