The Bruins were blitzing the league last season for almost 2 months and then Nathan was lost to injury.
The team was basically .500 the rest of the year and out in Round One.
Nathan is back and they are 7-1-1.
Could be a coincidence?
IMO this is not a reach.
It doesn't mean that Horton is Marc Messier II, but there is no doubting that the Krejci goes as he goes, and when the Krejci line is scoring Boston's two-way 5/5 games is so imposing overall that they win big. No doubt there are those will believe that Seguin's magical minute-14 alongside Krejci sets the table for such a move, but I'd go slow on this one because, when Lucic hits a flat point and the line has zero physical presence, then Krejci struggles (as we've seen). And when Krejci struggles, is Seguin going to help the line or hurt it? IMO that's a little bit much to put on Seguin when he still tries to cheat his way into odd-man rushes when Bergeron, for instance, is battling for pucks at the defensive blue line.
IMO the Bruins' best chance at another championship this season is by keeping the band together.
I expect Chiarelli will hold true to form and use his newly created cap space to bid for a winger who can buttress their physical game especially as it accents their attack. If not in the Iginla sweepstakes, then in the running for someone more like Rene Bourque. A old-school, door-step power-play finisher a la Gagne is probably something he'd like to add.
But I don't see an agenda of subtraction, not Chiarelli's style in times of prosperity.