{"id":647515,"date":"2026-05-16T22:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/647515\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:43:09","slug":"east-notes-bruins-korpisalo-power-charron-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/647515\/","title":{"rendered":"East Notes: Bruins, Korpisalo, Power, Charron \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n By Brian La Rose<\/a> |
\n at May 16, 2026 2:59 pm <\/p>\n

Jonathan Aspirot<\/a> was certainly a feel-good story for the Bruins this season, going from a journeyman minor leaguer to a fixture on the top defense pairing alongside Charlie McAvoy<\/a>.\u00a0 However, Kevin Paul Dupont of The Boston Globe argues<\/a> that Boston\u2019s top priority this summer should be upgrading McAvoy\u2019s partner on the left side.\u00a0 Hampus Lindholm<\/a>, Nikita Zadorov<\/a>, and Mason Lohrei<\/a> have all been attempted with varying degrees of success to the point where Aspirot was given a chance and made the most of it.\u00a0 But with the Bruins looking to build on their return to the playoffs, adding a player who could help McAvoy find another gear would certainly help their fortunes considerably.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the East:<\/p>\n

Still with the Bruins, com\u2019s Conor Ryan examined<\/a> some potential cap casualties should the team decide to make some bigger swings that they can\u2019t fit into their roughly $16MM of cap room this summer. Chief among those is goaltender Joonas Korpisalo<\/a>, who has two years left on his deal with Boston responsible for $3MM of his cap hit.\u00a0 With Michael DiPietro<\/a> winning AHL MVP this season, he could plausibly become Jeremy Swayman<\/a>\u2019s backup next season, allowing them to move Korpisalo to open up a bit of cap space.\u00a0 With several teams likely looking to shake things up between the pipes, there could be a market for his services.
\nFacing elimination tonight, the Sabres should have one of their top blueliners available.\u00a0 Owen Power<\/a> was banged up late on Thursday but head coach Lindy Ruff told reporters today including Matthew Fairburn of The Athletic (Twitter link<\/a>) that the defenseman should be good to go.\u00a0 In his first taste of playoff action at the NHL level, the 23-year-old has five assists through 11 games and is averaging 20:44 per game of ice time, down just a tad from his season ATOI of 21:39.\u00a0 Ruff wouldn\u2019t comment on any potential lineup changes for Buffalo for tonight\u2019s game.
\nEarlier this week, Penguins prospect Jordan Charron<\/a> announced<\/a> that he was committing to UMass-Amherst. However, it appears he won\u2019t be making the jump to the college ranks right away.\u00a0 His former GOJHL team, the Ayr Centennials, noted (Twitter link<\/a>) that the commitment is for 2027-28, meaning that he\u2019ll stay with OHL Soo for one more year.\u00a0 The winger was a fifth-round pick last year and moved to the OHL level this season.\u00a0 He had a solid first year with the Greyhounds, notching 25 goals and 22 assists in 66 games and finished up on a tryout in the minors with Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton.\u00a0 However, since he didn\u2019t play a game on that agreement, he retains his NCAA eligibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Brian La Rose | at May 16, 2026 2:59 pm Jonathan Aspirot was certainly a feel-good story…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1785,1809,279286,279287,398,385,150863,19680,1790,99],"class_list":["post-647515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-boston-bruins","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-joonas-korpisalo","tag-jordan-charron","tag-ncaa","tag-nhl","tag-nikita-zadorov","tag-ohl","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}