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The Bruins also traded goalie Andrew Raycroft on Saturday to Toronto Maple Leafs for the rights to goalie prospect Tuukka Rask.

Raycroft won the Calder Trophy as the NHL’s top rookie in 2004 when he was 29-18-9 with a goals-against average of 2.05.

But last season the 26-year-old played poorly to start the season, then was hampered by a right knee injury and had a 8-19-2 record with a 3.72 goals against average. The emergence of rookie Hannu Toivonen and the play of Tim Thomas last year made Raycroft expendable.

The 19-year-old Rask, who is from Finland, was Toronto’s first-round pick, 21st overall, last year, but has not yet played in North America.

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