22Brad Park
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Not much there far as free agents but maybe just maybe they could swing a deal with Ducks for RFA McTavish ( offer sheet
)If not, I am hoping for McKenna 
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)If not, I am hoping for McKenna 
The don godfather
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Hope to see that kid minton up for a bit looks solid from his highlights finally we got some solid prospects.Not much there far as free agents but maybe just maybe they could swing a deal with Ducks for RFA McTavish ( offer sheet
One thing we're going to have to keep in mind is that come tomorrow, the moves of today, this week, are going to sink in and we'll be wondering "what the hell just happened." There hasn't been this much change in a short time since, well, I guess going back to the days when Oates and others were shipped out that year. The big changes won't come without some pain.
This is the beginning of a process that is going to take time to get to the other side of. Big changes happened this week. More big changes will happen in the summer. And more from there. There's a good chance the team will be pretty bad the rest of this season. A lot of holes opened up, the players left behind will be shellshocked, and the new players will take time to fit in.
But let's enjoy it for what it is. There are lots of new players to watch and evaluate. There should be some new energy. There are good draft picks to speculate about. This season was a complete dud. At least the page has been turned and things will be different, that's for sure. I really did not expect them to go for it so hard and I'm looking forward to what's next.
This is the beginning of a process that is going to take time to get to the other side of. Big changes happened this week. More big changes will happen in the summer. And more from there. There's a good chance the team will be pretty bad the rest of this season. A lot of holes opened up, the players left behind will be shellshocked, and the new players will take time to fit in.
But let's enjoy it for what it is. There are lots of new players to watch and evaluate. There should be some new energy. There are good draft picks to speculate about. This season was a complete dud. At least the page has been turned and things will be different, that's for sure. I really did not expect them to go for it so hard and I'm looking forward to what's next.
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Bounces R Way
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Kind of wonder if they take a swing at Tavares in the offseason on a big money short term deal in the summer if the Leafs part ways. Would be funny. 34 years old and slow but still around a point per game. With Freddy and Coyle gone I'm not seeing a lot of capable NHL centers on this roster or in the system.
Or maybe this really is Elias Lindholm's team now
Uhhh did we? Never got out of the 2nd round since.
Or maybe this really is Elias Lindholm's team now
Uhhh did we? Never got out of the 2nd round since.
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Disagree. I see Florida winning the division, beating the pants off the 1st wildcard team, then beating the worn down survivor of the Leafs/Lightning series. As long as Brad plays half the games, boom, 1st round pick.
Sevendust
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Question: if Brad plays every game in the first round for the Panthers but they loose the series the Bruins only get a second round pick?
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Bruins did well at NHL trade deadline, but retool is far from over
Here's a look at what the Bruins acquired from their trade deadline deals:
And now here's a look at Boston's updated collection of draft picks for the next three years:
Here's a look at what the Bruins acquired from their trade deadline deals:
And now here's a look at Boston's updated collection of draft picks for the next three years:
The don godfather
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Man our team looks better today then yesterday and might ruin our draft 1st round draft order this year.
brazzeau Frederic coyle and carlo sucked big time this year and adding lauko marat joki and casey makes this team better now. Adding all the suberb high draft picks high end prospects zellers and minton is sugar on top. Donny the magician ! Unreal.
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I agree. He’s a serviceable NHL defenseman, something we need right now. He’ll be only 26 in June. 29th overall pick in 2017. I believe when drafted he was touted as having offensive upside. Who knows if that will come? I’m more than ok with this.
Terrier
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Alston Christmas?
Seriously, I'm very pleased with this day's work.
No one knows what will happen, but Sweeney receives full credit in this corner.
"We shall see,"
Bruins usher in a new era with a painful — but inevitable — teardown
The Bruins ushered in a new era on Friday — trading several key cogs like Brad Marchand, Charlie Coyle, and Brandon Carlo to contenders.
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Bruin4
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Florida needs to win 2 rounds and Marchand play 50% of the games for the pick to-become a first in 2028
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For the right money and term I would sign Tavares. I'd also take a run at Nelson. Scores 20+ in his sleep.Kind of wonder if they take a swing at Tavares in the offseason on a big money short term deal in the summer if the Leafs part ways. Would be funny. 34 years old and slow but still around a point per game. With Freddy and Coyle gone I'm not seeing a lot of capable NHL centers on this roster or in the system.
Or maybe this really is Elias Lindholm's team now
Uhhh did we? Never got out of the 2nd round since.
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What they need to pick up are solid leadership guys and some with attitude. The current group is extremely weak in this area. Marner would add to that weakness. Good player but needs a strong leadership group to keep on him. I know he’ll be a bit overpaid but Bennett would be a guy you get. Good player, strong leadership and attitude. A few players like this may help bring the rest of the players into the fight and rally them when they are starting to reel.
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Maybe he doesn't. He certainly needs to add more strength and improve at the dot.
Bergeron playing in that last game of 2022-23 in Montreal absolutely doomed them. I would say a healthy Bergeron and they beat Florida and Toronto and get o the ECF.Kind of wonder if they take a swing at Tavares in the offseason on a big money short term deal in the summer if the Leafs part ways. Would be funny. 34 years old and slow but still around a point per game. With Freddy and Coyle gone I'm not seeing a lot of capable NHL centers on this roster or in the system.
Or maybe this really is Elias Lindholm's team now
Uhhh did we? Never got out of the 2nd round since.
I can't see Tavares leaving Toronto, so I think he would sign 3 years at 6M.
The don godfather
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Donny milked that carlo deal for sure what's making me laugh he even got the cherry top.and I didn't notice the 4th round pick till this morning.
In one fell swoop, Bruins make seismic shift to a rebuild by trading away Brad Marchand, Brandon Carlo, and Charlie Coyle - The Boston Globe
“They’re going to teams that we are jealous of,” Sweeney said of trading Marchand, Carlo, and Coyle to Stanley Cup Playoff-bound teams.
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With his team reeling, general manager Don Sweeney made some seismic changes to the Bruins roster Friday, trading away franchise stalwarts Brad Marchand, Brandon Carlo, and Charlie Coyle on deadline day.
Sweeney’s shocking sell-off came a day after the Bruins fell to 28-28-8 on the season. With 64 points, Boston sits seventh in both the Atlantic Divisionand the race for the Eastern Conference’s two wild-card playoff spots.
Marchand is off to Florida, Carlo to Toronto, and Coyle to Colorado, putting all three in the thick of the Stanley Cup chase.
The moves, which came in a flurry before the 3 p.m. deadline, follow Sweeney dealing Trent Frederic and Max Jones to Edmonton and Justin Brazeau to Minnesota earlier in the week.
Most stunning was the departure of Marchand, the club’s captain for the last two seasons. He will now play for a Panthers team that knocked the Bruins out of the Stanley Cup playoffs two straight springs.
One of the most competitive and gritty players in the NHL, Marchand was the franchise’s last link to the Stanley Cup champion team of 2011. During Marchand’s tenure, the Bruins won three Presidents’ Trophies, five division titles, and made the Stanley Cup Final in 2011, 2013, and 2019.
Sweeney said his relationship with Marchand goes back a long way, which made Friday a particularly hard day.
“It cuts deeper than really any player that I’ve had the privilege of getting to know and watch and thrive and become a Hall of Famer and one of the greatest Bruins ever,” said Sweeney. “So, a difficult day from that standpoint. Personally, professionally, it’s making some very difficult decisions and I want to wish each and every one of them well.”
Marchand, who has missed the last three games with an upper-body injuryand likely won’t return for “three to four weeks” according to Sweeney, collected 422 goals and 976 points in 1,090 regular-season games. He added another 56 goals and 138 points in 157 playoff games.
Marchand and Sweeney had both maintained making the player a Bruin for life was their goal. The GM said there was a “term gap” when it came to finding common ground on a new contract.
“We had been talking really from Day 2, I think, of free agency [last July], in terms of what his intentions were and where we were at, and we always had a bit of a term gap that took us a while ... felt that we had been able to bridge that,” Sweeney said. “But again, a player is more than entitled to have an understanding of what they think their market value is and do what’s best for them and I have to always respect that and there’s never an ounce of me that won’t respect what that player thinks is best for he and his family.”
In return for Marchand, the Bruins received a second-round pick in 2027 that could become a first in 2028 if the left winger plays in 50 percent of Florida’s playoff games.
The club also acquired defenseman Henri Jokiharju from Buffalo for a 2026 fourth-round pick that was originally acquired from the Oilers. In addition, the Bruins landed defenseman Daniil Misyul from New Jersey in exchange for forward Marc McLaughlin.
Charlie McAvoy, who is out with a shoulder injury, reacted to the moves by posting pictures on Instagram with some of the players and included a pair of broken heart emojis.
Sweeney thanked the now ex-Bruins and took responsibility for the team failing to meet expectations.
“They’re going to teams that we are jealous of,” Sweeney said. “We’ve been in the same situation with those teams that they’re loading up and had we done our jobs, if I had done my job appropriately, starting there, we would be adding like we have in 10 previous years.”
He also said no one will wear the captain’s “C” for the rest of this season.
The 28-year-old Carlo had been a mainstay on the Bruins backline for the last nine years. He has one year remaining on his contract, with an average annual value of $4.1 million.
“To be honest, the last couple of days, I wasn’t thinking something was going to happen,” Carlo told TSN. “It’s a little tough to process right now but [I’m] starting to realize the opportunity that I have ahead of me and [I’m] really excited.”
Carlo added it was “definitely a shocker when I heard it was Toronto … but what an opportunity for me to go and try to help this team win.”
Coming to Boston in the Carlo deal is Toronto’s first-round pick in 2026 as well as Fraser Minten, who has two goals and 4 points in 15 games with the Maple Leafs this season. He has played most of this season for the AHL’s Toronto Marlies.
Coyle, 33, is signed through next season with a cap hit of $5.25 million. He had 15 goals and 22 points on the season.
Mittelstadt, 26, was the No. 8 pick in the 2017 draft by the Sabres. He has 77 goals and 230 points in 420 career games. Buffalo traded him to Colorado at last year’s trade deadline. He is signed through 2026-27 at $5.75 million per year.
Zellers plays for the Green Bay Gamblers of the USHL and leads the league with 37 goals in 40 games. He is second with 58 points. The 18-year-old forward is committed to the University of North Dakota next season.
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Trade deadline produced a much-needed Bruins teardown, and Don Sweeney should own up to it - The Boston Globe
Sweeney, quite appropriately, tore it down and that included trading captain Brad Marchand. It’s mystifying and disappointing the GM just wouldn’t be so blunt to call a teardown a teardown.
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TAMPA, Fla. — Don Sweeney did what he had to do Friday, tearing the bandage off the festering 2024-25 season and bidding adieu to a collection of fan favorites, chief among them Bruins captain Brad Marchand.
Sweeney, quite appropriately, tore it down, though he refused to call it a teardown. Too bad he came up short by not calling it what it is, outright owning it and stating that plainly to the fan base.
We’re a smart hockey town, not Seattle, Salt Lake, San Jose, or Raleigh. We all saw Friday for what it was, and for the many Bruins fans who are fully invested diehards, they had to feel it right in the gut.
I also suspect they knew it had to be done. At least I hope so, or I’ve misread them for the near half-century I’ve covered the team. Back to the days when the Gallery Gods shook down honest thunder from the old barn’s balconies.
We’ll have the coming weeks and months and years to rate the effectiveness and efficiency of Sweeney’s wheeling and dealing as the NHL’s No. 1 seller at this year’s trade deadline.
At first glance, considering the usual porridge of age, injuries, and the career arcs of the guys he sent packing, Sweeney had a decent day. If he struck it big with the acquisition of ex-Avalanche center Casey Mittelstadt — and that’s a very big if — it’s possible he had a damned good day. Maybe the rebuild is on good footing.
If so, then bravo. It has been apparent since late November that the old Black and Gold dog that Sweeney and team president Cam Neely fielded and groomed in the post-2019 Cup Final era no longer could hunt in today’s fast, skilled NHL.
They engineered a bad team, one they made worse with last July’s gaudy overpayments for Elias Lindholm and Nikita Zadorov. Come Friday, they had no choice but to act.
As Sweeney said from the podium, again quite correctly, there was no point in running it back and hoping time would take all the blues and boo-boos away by training camp.
Sweeney and Neely have banked enough equity the last 9-10 years to be given these next few months — the chance to perform at the draft and in free agency — to see if they can bring the B’s back to bountiful. If Friday, the draft, and July 1 free agency don’t prove there is a tangible upside, then it will be time for the Jacobs family ownership to find someone else to run the show.
Sweeney and Neely have to be on the same short leash that ultimately ran out on the group of the now departed, which included Trent Frederic, Justin Brazeau, Brandon Carlo, Charlie Coyle, and Marchand.
The roster has left only five players — Jeremy Swayman, Charlie McAvoy, David Pastrnak, Pavel Zacha, and Hampus Lindholm — who were on the history-making 2022-23 team that rolled up the all-time league mark of 65-12-5.
That, friends of the Black and Gold, is not a rework or reposition or retool. It’s that moment in the flick where Sundance says, “Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?”
Kaboom! Pick up the salvageable bits and start over.
It truly was the final chapter, with Marchand the last tie to the 2011 Cup-winning team. It was Sweeney, with the blessing (or even urging) of ownership, bold enough to start over again. Strip down the bones of the franchise that are Swayman, Pastrnak, and McAvoy.
For those who read this space with regularity, those were the three players identified as the only franchise keepers. It was hard to think Morgan Geekie and Marchand were just inches outside that group.
In the end, Geekie remained, and it was encouraging to hear Sweeney sound motivated to cut him an extension in the off-season. We’ll see if he is willing to meet Geekie’s price. Motivation and money have been known at times to walk on opposite sidewalks of Causeway Street.
Everyone in the Hub of Hockey was thankful on the eve of this season when Neely pushed aside all the verbal clutter at a Garden presser and made public what he said was the club’s offer of $64M for Swayman to end his contract holdout. In the swipe of a grizzly’s paw, the deal was cut at $66M. Everybody moved on, right?
Plain talk is good. Decades ago, Bruins GM Harry Sinden was informed by a reporter during the ‘92 Olympics that prized draftee Joe Juneau might sign with a pro team in Switzerland instead of the Bruins.
Not impressed, Sinden promptly responded, “I hope he learns to yodel.” If there was a bush anywhere in the world worth beating around, Sinden never found it.
Juneau was in No. 94 just days after the Games ended in Albertville, smiling and saying his number paid homage to John Bucyk (9) and Bobby Orr (4). The Swiss Alps never heard him even burp.
Sweeney is on the doorstep of his 10-year anniversary as GM. His teams have made it to one Cup Final and haven’t made it by a second playoff round since 2019. The Bruins are about to bank their first DNQ since 2016.
Like virtually all managers, he’s had his highs and lows. Like all managers, he’ll one day be bumped higher into management (Executive Chief Personnel Something Or Other) or bumrushed out the same door where Peter Chiarelli disappeared.
It would have been better for Sweeney, for the Bruins, for the fans, and for everyone who knows if the puck is hollow or whole, if he plainly stated Friday was a teardown. The day to say goodbye, farewell, Amen, and to start all over again.
Because that’s what happened. Finally.
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