This one blew me away. Hopefully, they'll pair him with McAvoy and both can play their game together. And the next time teams try to nullify Mac, Zadorov might have something to say about it. EDIT: this guy really did a lot of research about Boston, the fans and the org. He cares. He's engaged. That's big!
@@El_Jim Bruins didn't over pay for third pair defense and also didn't over pay for a third line center Elias lindholm didn't like being a third center for Vancouver Elias lindholm didn't like how Vancouver use him . Vancouver didn't use Elias lindholm properly
Welcome to Boston Nikita and the best fans in the league. Appreciate the love for Chara and respect the Big Z comment. Research on the Mass/Boston teams, love that and can tell he wants to be here. Love the hair ;-)
I just watched the 8-minute highlight reel of Nikita's hits and I'm still laughing at the carnage he left in his wake. He's gonna have a lot of fans in Boston.
Love how he goes on about the way players talk all the time with eachother about their past teams and what theyre like. Famed Bruins culture snagged a couple more big boys this summer.
As a Canucks fan I think this was a fair trade. You guys got big z and Lindholm. Both are great hockey players. Boston will do great with these two players. Cheers
This is a big win for the Bruins Elias will defintly help fill that top 6 role and Zadorov is the type of player who not afraid to fight hopefully he'll do better then what Maroon did and actually make the Bruins tough.
@@stevenmorrison5864 I hope so plus the Panthers got weaker as they lost some good players of there own already so we might have a chance at beating them next year.
Put this guy with lorhei and you got like 13 ft of ice covered at the blue line, put him with mcavoy and you got a bulldozer in front of the net, just an amazing pull for the B
This guy is going to be amazing with the bruins. Chara type. And when someone runs the Bruins or hit someone with a cheap shot, they will think twice with z around. He is literally such a physical force, and he will be a beast in Boston.
Bruins management definitely decided that having 5 large and quality defenders wasn’t adequate. Sweeney’s staff could have gone for good value on a UFA winger to replace DeBrusk, but instead they confidently decided they want six stud or stud-lite defensemen on the roster. Zadorov, McAvoy, Lindholm, and Carlo makes an elite-tier top four, especially when Lohrei/Wotherspoon with Peeke is an average-at-worst bottom pairing.
he said goodbye and a post with his wife on his wife’s page like a month ago. It showed his stuff was being packed up and he was leaving his Vancouver apartment
This is what they’ve been missing since Chara retired. They haven’t been able to match the level of physicality in the playoffs. This is a great move. I don’t care about salaries, just get the best players you can! LFG
Great news and a happy day to be wearing my Bruins hoodie! Welcome to Boston big bad Ruskie! Now let's have you on the same D pair as Mac and that will be totally fire! Sad to lose Debrusk and Heinen, but this is huge like the man himself! P.S a total team guy never puts himself above others.
@@coreysghostglowmask8650 You know correct there. He was a playoff performer. After this comment I left I remembered back a few years ago where DeBrusk was a total primadonna "Increase my ice time or trade me." So then Bruce Cassidy leaves and wins a Stanley Cup after our biggest choke in history.
@@jasonkh4 BUF traded him at the rookie level; involved in the Ryan O'Reilly deal. CHI had him for a year. COL & CAL kept him around. VAN acquired him for the run. (He was brilliant in their recent playoff run.) And BOS swooped in and claimed him faster than a hobo on a ham sandwich. VALUE. Note: consider that some big guys flourish later and play longer.
@@SomeOne-uy4kj I’m a Flames fan, and we did NOT keep him around. The guy had his agent publicly demand a trade on the same night as Mike Vernon’s HOF pre-game ceremony, overshadowed the special night of one of the greatest to ever don the flaming C. Pretty fkn classless, if you ask me. As for his actual play, I was a huge fan of his early on, more offensively skilled than he gets credit for, but surprisingly clueless on the defensive end at times, rather low hockey IQ. Didn’t see enough of the good to warrant paying him what he thought he was worth, let alone play him in the top four. $5M is an overpay, only by about a mill, but still a lot for what is effectively a bottom pairing dman, regardless. I can actually see him doing well in Boston, if he buys into the system.
Bostons next big Z!!! Can't wait for season to start!!?? Guna be nice seeing Elias Lindholm and Nikita Zadorov in the spoked B!!?? Let's bring the cup back to beantown!!!!
He’s almost 6’7 actually. Every site has him listed at 6 foot 6 but, he’s like a few centimeters from being 6’7. He’s arguably just as strong as chara was. he certainly hits more, chara was more of a skilled guy 2 way d man. This Nikita guy is more of a defensive defenseman, but he’s really strong. He plays great stay at home defense, and he hits and fights constantly.
Don't worry about trying to keep up with people like Zdeno Chara... That's a fantasy.. mostly hype. you don't need to be the oldest active player . You're on NHL ice and he isn't
get a ring in boston Z ... like chucky; bennett and lomburg did as ex-FLAMES and OEL as ex-CANUCK - be a bruin like vladamir konstantinov was a wing- crush them ...
Leafs fan here. You guys paid 6 mill for a third pair defenceman. Matthews is gonna make this guy look like a peewee player. Bum bruins win 1 cup and lose like 3 other finals. Pathetic franchise. 😅😂
@edited1325 one cup rigged finals. Lost the other 3 and they weren't even close. We have auston matthews the best player in nhl and you have overrated pastarnak. Bruins sucks 😆
I had my fingers crossed he wud sign with the Leafs! The media pumped this narrative so much during the season you wud almost think that it was a forgone conclusion. Boston got a hell of a player with this signing!
The market today is really strong. If you wanna player his capabilities, you have to pay a lot for it. 5 million is just about right for him, but the term is a long time I would’ve gone three years but, honestly defenseman age less than forwards do so it should be a good deal.
Canucks need defense and they give up the hest d man canucks had and sign more fowards lol so stupid hahaha. Already have overpaid fowards, forwards thats sign long deals and take the rest of the contract on a break. Lol another 10years for canuck fans of heart break lol. Fowards that cant perform then give up the only d man that can fight and score. Lol vancouver will suzz more this year. Vancouver will be a bottom team this coming year.
This one blew me away. Hopefully, they'll pair him with McAvoy and both can play their game together. And the next time teams try to nullify Mac, Zadorov might have something to say about it. EDIT: this guy really did a lot of research about Boston, the fans and the org. He cares. He's engaged. That's big!
Love it
I was pumped when they got him
Leafs fan here. You guys paid 6 mill for a third pair defenceman. Matthews is gonna make this guy look like a peewee player 😂
@@ravibadesha123 You paid for a defenseman that can no longer play (ie ankle). 😜
You mean he asked his agent which team offered more and went there? Yes, that's the same research they all do.
Sad to see Zadorov leave Vancouver but happy to know the Leafs are gonna get knocked out the first round the next 6 years straight.
Lol.
Lol rent free
Stop thinking about the leafs man, it just makes what they say true
@@El_Jim Bruins didn't over pay for third pair defense and also didn't over pay for a third line center Elias lindholm didn't like being a third center for Vancouver Elias lindholm didn't like how Vancouver use him . Vancouver didn't use Elias lindholm properly
And to think the Leafs wanted him but couldn’t get him because they didn’t have cap space.
Will miss him in Vancouver, you guys got a great player here!
Thanks
Thanks for the Run Big Z , good luck in Boston
Welcome to Boston Nikita and the best fans in the league. Appreciate the love for Chara and respect the Big Z comment. Research on the Mass/Boston teams, love that and can tell he wants to be here. Love the hair ;-)
Two great additions by Sweeney; glad their making a push for the cup next season. Overall great day to be a Bruins fan!!
Ugh, the cringe of not knowing the difference between “their” and “they’re”
should of traded lindholm and carlo for montour,then it would of been a better day!!
@@bosco7716 this is probably the dumbest and most unrealistic take I have ever seen. I am 100% sure your parents are disappointed in you.
@@bosco7716that’s what I was saying, a lot of people hate the Panthers but adding Montour would’ve made our defense extra spicy
@@bosco7716 Montour sucks, had one outlier season
I just watched the 8-minute highlight reel of Nikita's hits and I'm still laughing at the carnage he left in his wake. He's gonna have a lot of fans in Boston.
And the other side of that is McAvoy potting another one whilst that just happened.
Love how he goes on about the way players talk all the time with eachother about their past teams and what theyre like. Famed Bruins culture snagged a couple more big boys this summer.
Yeah...nah. They drafted and signed many. Their AHL team got bigger, as well. Getting bullied is not the Bruin's game.
Vancouver fell in love with Z & we're crushed to see him go. Best of luck to him in the east - shut down those Leafs! 💚💙
We will
Zadorov is a Bruin!! So happy with this signing.
2 great additions! Sad to see Heinen and Debrusk go but it had to happen 😢
As a Canucks fan I think this was a fair trade. You guys got big z and Lindholm. Both are great hockey players. Boston will do great with these two players. Cheers
Loved Zadorov in Vancouver I hope he kicks ass on the Bruins!! I have no doubt you will love him.
Love Nikita’s game…
Can’t wait to see him wearing the Black & Gold !
the fact he mentioned horton just lit a fire in me, i fuckin love ths guy
SAMEEEEEE
I waited my whole life for the Canucks to get a dman that could play like he did in the playoffs. After 1 run. Bruins get him. Truly is saddening.
welcome to Boston Nikita i think your an aswome addition to our team . cant wait to some more physical play on the back end Macavoy cant do it alone .
Great great addition to the team👏🏻🐻
This is a big win for the Bruins Elias will defintly help fill that top 6 role and Zadorov is the type of player who not afraid to fight hopefully he'll do better then what Maroon did and actually make the Bruins tough.
I agree with you
I think Elias and Zadorov is the final piece and the missing pieces of the puzzle of beating the Panthers this year
@@stevenmorrison5864 Yeah Elias is way better then Debrusk.
@@stevenmorrison5864 I hope so plus the Panthers got weaker as they lost some good players of there own already so we might have a chance at beating them next year.
Great interview, excited to see him play for the B's.
Put this guy with lorhei and you got like 13 ft of ice covered at the blue line, put him with mcavoy and you got a bulldozer in front of the net, just an amazing pull for the B
Put him with Mac and allow him to play his game.
Zadorov was a Canucks fan favorite. I think he'll be great in Boston and unlike many fans, I don't think he's overpaid.
Thank you
@FempireAudios I argree with you
I think Elias lindholm will get his game from playing along with Pastrnak and zacha
@FempireAudios I also think that Elias lindholm and Zadorov is the final piece and the missing pieces of beating the Panthers in the playoffs
I think Elias lindholm will get his game back from playing along with Pastrnak and zacha.
Signing Hronek before this guy was a huge mistake for Vancouver. He’s a franchise defenceman. Impossible to find guys in his class
Cannot wait to see Nikita in the Spoked-B. Was one of my favourite non-Bruins for years!
This guy is going to be amazing with the bruins. Chara type. And when someone runs the Bruins or hit someone with a cheap shot, they will think twice with z around. He is literally such a physical force, and he will be a beast in Boston.
Bruins management definitely decided that having 5 large and quality defenders wasn’t adequate. Sweeney’s staff could have gone for good value on a UFA winger to replace DeBrusk, but instead they confidently decided they want six stud or stud-lite defensemen on the roster. Zadorov, McAvoy, Lindholm, and Carlo makes an elite-tier top four, especially when Lohrei/Wotherspoon with Peeke is an average-at-worst bottom pairing.
Stop fckng crying... and wait till the season start... pessimistic peoples...
Lindholm is a forward, lol..
He means Hampus Lindholm they have two Lindholms now@@michaella5799
Hampus Lindholm @@michaella5799
@@michaella5799 HAMPUS Lindholm
This is a fantastic interview
Super excited to have Zadorov in a B's uni! He's a tremendous fit for our team! #GoBs
Z’s a real one , lindholms a turd guy didn’t even say goodbye to Vancouver lol
he said goodbye and a post with his wife on his wife’s page like a month ago. It showed his stuff was being packed up and he was leaving his Vancouver apartment
This is what they’ve been missing since Chara retired. They haven’t been able to match the level of physicality in the playoffs. This is a great move. I don’t care about salaries, just get the best players you can! LFG
Welcome Nakita, great to have you..
Unit on the back end. GOnna be a fan favrotie.
what a sweet boy! very excited to have him on the bruins
Well Swayman is absolutely protected this year 😂😂😂😂
Canucks Nation will miss this guy, Bruins are lucky to have him on their side!
Will enjoy watching him pummel the Leafs for years to come hahaha
Welcome to Boston, this team needs some toughness 🐻🏒🙂🏒🐻
So happy is a bruin e is one of my favourite players in the league for a long and now e join my favourite team so happy welcome to B town Nikita
Welcome to the Bruins
The 2nd coming of the Big Z… Toronto and Matthews are not going to enjoy playing against him… Perfect fit for Boston ✌️
I want to support Zadorov, but I can’t now that he’s in Boston 😡
This kid is a beast
He is... 🐻🖤💛🔥
Great news and a happy day to be wearing my Bruins hoodie! Welcome to Boston big bad Ruskie! Now let's have you on the same D pair as Mac and that will be totally fire! Sad to lose Debrusk and Heinen, but this is huge like the man himself! P.S a total team guy never puts himself above others.
Debrusk is gone for better... lets be real... totally useless during regular season...
@@coreysghostglowmask8650 You know correct there. He was a playoff performer. After this comment I left I remembered back a few years ago where DeBrusk was a total primadonna "Increase my ice time or trade me." So then Bruce Cassidy leaves and wins a Stanley Cup after our biggest choke in history.
Big Zaddy D!
Goodbye softies, hello Zadorov! He's that toughness we’ve been waiting for! Boston’s defense just became a brick wall. Welcome, beast! 🏒👊
We needed a Russian bruiser so bad 💪 talent wise he reminds me of a younger Chara
canucks d is looking so weak now we got only 2 top 4 dman yikes.
The Lindholm signing was a little rich though, hopefully a new start in Boston will give em new life!
This makes me so happy
Welcome 🎉🎉💛🖤💛
"Boston was top of my list my whole life"
😂😂😂
...never heard such a gleefully authentic interview. And he knew a lot about the culture. Now, he'll be co-creating it!
This guy is going to destroy someone first game, I guarantee it.
This guy moves around team to team alot.
the Bruins will see why halfway into season two
...because teams value him? Some big guys (eg Chara) flourish late and keep going...
@@SomeOne-uy4kj five different teams in ten seasons, does that really seem indicative of teams “valuing” him?
@@jasonkh4 BUF traded him at the rookie level; involved in the Ryan O'Reilly deal. CHI had him for a year. COL & CAL kept him around. VAN acquired him for the run. (He was brilliant in their recent playoff run.) And BOS swooped in and claimed him faster than a hobo on a ham sandwich. VALUE. Note: consider that some big guys flourish later and play longer.
@@SomeOne-uy4kj I’m a Flames fan, and we did NOT keep him around. The guy had his agent publicly demand a trade on the same night as Mike Vernon’s HOF pre-game ceremony, overshadowed the special night of one of the greatest to ever don the flaming C. Pretty fkn classless, if you ask me. As for his actual play, I was a huge fan of his early on, more offensively skilled than he gets credit for, but surprisingly clueless on the defensive end at times, rather low hockey IQ. Didn’t see enough of the good to warrant paying him what he thought he was worth, let alone play him in the top four. $5M is an overpay, only by about a mill, but still a lot for what is effectively a bottom pairing dman, regardless. I can actually see him doing well in Boston, if he buys into the system.
Bruins got Big Z version 2.0
ive wanted this guy for years so happy the bruins got him even if he got a bit overpaid
He wasn’t going to sign with Vancouver he couldn’t stand playing for Rick T
Удачи😊
Maple laughs were interested in signing him, lol, rumor has it he said no freaking thanks... I go to Quebec when time comes
Bostons next big Z!!! Can't wait for season to start!!?? Guna be nice seeing Elias Lindholm and Nikita Zadorov in the spoked B!!?? Let's bring the cup back to beantown!!!!
Little Z.
Money - there, saved you some time.
Already miss the giant
Welcome to Boston ! Z time Babay! 🐻🖤💛
why didnt you stay in Vancouver? I thought they offered 5.5m...which is more than what Bruins offered no?
Sometimes it’s not all about money.
Second coming of Big Z, literally
Big Z 2.0 hopefully
6'5 dman? Welcome Little Z 😂
Little Z. lol I hope that one gains traction.
He’s almost 6’7 actually. Every site has him listed at 6 foot 6 but, he’s like a few centimeters from being 6’7. He’s arguably just as strong as chara was. he certainly hits more, chara was more of a skilled guy 2 way d man. This Nikita guy is more of a defensive defenseman, but he’s really strong. He plays great stay at home defense, and he hits and fights constantly.
Solid D
you'll always be Vancouver's "Big Z"
UA-cam Zadorov smelling salts....funny as hell.
Get as far away from the oilers as you can Zadorov….. you’re safe in Boston!!🤣🤣🤣
Lil' Z
Don't worry about trying to keep up with people like Zdeno Chara... That's a fantasy.. mostly hype. you don't need to be the oldest active player . You're on NHL ice and he isn't
Zaddy.
Контракт с перебором! Последние годы мишки будут мучаться!
Welcome to the b’ssss
get a ring in boston Z ... like chucky; bennett and lomburg did as ex-FLAMES and OEL as ex-CANUCK - be a bruin like vladamir konstantinov was a wing- crush them ...
Leafs fan here. You guys paid 6 mill for a third pair defenceman. Matthews is gonna make this guy look like a peewee player. Bum bruins win 1 cup and lose like 3 other finals. Pathetic franchise. 😅😂
5 million* and he’s gonna play top 4 minutes until lohrei gets used to the nhl level
Also a leafs fan taking about cups and finals is hilarious
@edited1325 one cup rigged finals. Lost the other 3 and they weren't even close. We have auston matthews the best player in nhl and you have overrated pastarnak. Bruins sucks 😆
@@ravibadesha1232013,2018,2019,2024 😬 yikes
Typical Leafs fan! Your last cup was when...1967! SIT TF DOWN!
BIG Z
$$$$$$$$$$ That's All
The new Chara
Medium Z
Welcome to Bah- sten
Nope. Was a fan. Not anymore. Traded Ullmark and sign these two?!? Nope.
Do not let the door hit you on the way out. Bye.
See ya
Bye, go root for DeBust.
I had my fingers crossed he wud sign with the Leafs! The media pumped this narrative so much during the season you wud almost think that it was a forgone conclusion. Boston got a hell of a player with this signing!
Leafs were connected to EVERYONE, just like Boston always is. And it usually amounts to a pile of NOTHING!😂
Overpaid but welcome
Five mill a year, that's not much to add someone to bring some attitude
@@seanheffernan1206 in 4 years we are gonna be paying him 5 mil yes it i
@@seanheffernan1206 you can rent those type of players, like vancouver did.
The market today is really strong. If you wanna player his capabilities, you have to pay a lot for it. 5 million is just about right for him, but the term is a long time I would’ve gone three years but, honestly defenseman age less than forwards do so it should be a good deal.
The best canuck of the playoffs lol hahha vancouver facked up again lol
Now we can trade Carlo!
No Carlo is staying Boston
Carlo's staying
Canucks need defense and they give up the hest d man canucks had and sign more fowards lol so stupid hahaha. Already have overpaid fowards, forwards thats sign long deals and take the rest of the contract on a break. Lol another 10years for canuck fans of heart break lol. Fowards that cant perform then give up the only d man that can fight and score. Lol vancouver will suzz more this year. Vancouver will be a bottom team this coming year.
Boston signed a 3c and a third pairing d man.. lol dream big boys
Feel free to go crawl into a corner and hug your blankie.
😂
He won over this old geezer with his appreciate for the "Original Six"! 🏒🏒🏒