Bruins make another trio of signings in DiPietro, Jokiharji, Beecher

Sweenius taking care of business internally before free agency tomorrow!

The Boston Bruins announced three more signings in advance of the opening of Free Agent Frenzy tomorrow.

Henri Jokiharju returns on a 3Y/$3MAAV deal, Johnny Beecher is back at 1Y/$900K and Michael DiPietro stays at 2Y/$815K. Jokiharju makes a lot of sense to keep depth on the right side of the defense. I’d love to see him play more with Lindholm or Lohrei and let Peeke be the defensive stopgap alongside Zadorov, but he ends up being a solid bottom pairing option. Johnny Beecher stays mainly because his free agent value wasn’t high and he was the most baseline of the fourth liners last season. NOTE I didn’t say best. I think Beecher was meh, and his game didn’t fluctuate terribly. This just ends up being a prove-it deal.

The DiPietro deal intrigues me the most by far. DiPietro looked incredible in Providence last season and seems primed to be the backup in Boston? Why do I say that? Joonas Korpisalo’s camp came out and basically said how frustrated he was in the back half of the season with the difference in starts he got with Jeremy Swayman struggling. He’s a good candidate to be on the outs in a trade to free up cap space if an impact signing needs to be made. If not, it at least keeps a really well regarded goalie in Boston and not out in the open market.

What do you think of Don’s moves so far?