{"id":182955,"date":"2025-10-01T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/182955\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:42:07","slug":"bruins-michael-dipietro-unlikely-to-pass-through-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/182955\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins’ Michael DiPietro Unlikely To Pass Through Waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite signing a two-year, $1.63MM extension with the team this summer, Michael DiPietro<\/a>\u2019s tenure in the Boston Bruins organization appears to be numbered. In his recent rendition of\u00a032 Thoughts<\/a>, Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman said, \u201cI have no doubt teams will be looking hard at [him]. There will be teams this week curious to see what the Bruins do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The news isn\u2019t surprising, as reports<\/a> in mid-June indicated that teams were interested in signing DiPietro last offseason before the Bruins worked out an extension with him on the eve of free agency. Still, Boston has not indicated that they\u2019ll want to carry three netminders on the roster for the bulk of the 2025-26 campaign, and DiPietro is unlikely to move past Jeremy Swayman<\/a> or Joonas Korpisalo<\/a> on the depth chart barring injury.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t all that long ago that DiPietro was an impressive prospect coming out of the Canadian Major Junior system. Throughout his four-year career with the OHL\u2019s Windsor Spitfires, DiPietro managed a 98-53-13 record in 174 games with a .913 SV% and 2.52 GAA, while backstopping the Spitfires to a Memorial Cup Championship in 2017. DiPietro was selected 64th overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2017 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n

The native of Windsor, Ontario, struggled to advance in the Canucks system, although he had strong seasons with the Utica Comets and Abbotsford Canucks in the AHL. Vancouver pulled the plug on DiPietro\u2019s tenure with the organization fairly quickly, including him in a package to the Bruins for Jack Studnicka<\/a> earlier on in the 2022-23 campaign.<\/p>\n

As alluded to, DiPietro has come into his own with the AHL\u2019s Providence Bruins. Particularly last season, DiPietro earned a 26-8-7 record in 40 games with a .927 SV% and 2.05 GAA, with four shutouts. The season was impressive enough for DiPietro to earn the Aldege \u201cBaz\u201d Bastien Memorial Award as the league\u2019s top netminder and AHL First All-Star Team honors.<\/p>\n

Similar to Arturs Silovs<\/a>\u2019 meteoric rise through the AHL last season, and subsequent trade to the Pittsburgh Penguins this past offseason, any team with a need at the backup goalie position would be interested in giving DiPietro an opportunity at the NHL level. Unfortunately, that market is fairly limited, as most teams have filled their backup position through some form or another throughout the offseason.<\/p>\n

Still, the Calgary Flames, Columbus Blue Jackets, Edmonton Oilers, Tampa Bay Lightning, and Vegas Golden Knights may all have lukewarm interest at the very least. Further, if an unfortunate injury arises to another goaltender as the preseason wraps up, that would create another void that DiPietro could conceivably fill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite signing a two-year, $1.63MM extension with the team this summer, Michael DiPietro\u2019s tenure in the Boston Bruins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[740,49,48,40231,448,82],"class_list":["post-182955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-boston-bruins","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-michael-dipietro","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}