Bruins trade Toivonen to Blues

The Bruins have traded goalie Hannu Toivonen to the St. Louis Blues for Swedish prospect center/left wing Carl Soderberg. From BostonBruins.com:
"Soderberg, 21, and a native of Malmo, Sweden, has spent the last two seasons with Malmo IF of the Swedish Elite League. In 31 games with Malmo last season, Soderberg tallied 12 goals and 18 assists. Prior to joining Malmo's top club, the 6'3", 200-pound Soderberg played for Malmo's junior teams. Soderberg has also played for Sweden at the 2005 World Junior Championships, where he ranked second on the team with four goals and six points, and at the 2003 World Under-18 Championship where he recorded a pair of goals."

You can view Soderberg's career hockey stats here.

Toivonen joins ex-Bruin Brad Boyes on the St. Louis Blues. The Blues look to be a pretty good team and Toivonen will probably back up Manny Legace unless he plays bad but look for Toivonen to be the Blues' future starting goalie. I think it was a gamble in trading Toivonen but one of the goalies had to go and getting Soderberg I think was good. Another move by Chiarelli all Bruins' fans will be watching.

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