By: Jay Flannelly | Follow Me On Twitter @jflannez19
2020 has been a year of changes and adjustments for all of us. Sports IE the Boston Bruins are no different from the real world, and no team area sees more upheaval than the defensive corps. In a true, hard cap world, that is the reality, and good teams
By: Michael DiGiorgio | Follow Me on Twitter: @BostonDiGiorgio
The Boston Bruins are currently taking their sweet time in signing free agents, which many have speculated that the Jacobs family set an internal cap for General Manager Don Sweeney. The Bruins have seen their Eastern Conference rivals sign highly-touted free agents and increase their chances of winning. The Bruins have stood pat for most of the free
By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @BruinsBreakdown
Torey Krug’s tenure wearing the spoked B has come to end. Late Friday night, the 29-year old Livonia, Michigan native signed with the St. Louis Blues. According to PuckPedia the deal is worth $45.5 million over seven years with an Average Annual Value (AAV) of $6,500,000. Krug’s base salary will fluctuate over the course of the
By: Matt Barry | Follow Me On Twitter @oobcards
As the 2020 NHL Entry Draft approaches on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, Boston Bruins General Manager Don Sweeney held a pre-draft Zoom press conference to discuss many hot topics. There has been tremendous buzz surrounding the Bruins ever since their second-round exit in the playoffs. Everyone from Tuukka Rask to Brandon Carlo to Jake
By: Dan Anderson | Follow Me On Twitter @DanAnderson5970
In a series of articles looking at trade possibilities for the Boston Bruins, the focus turns onto the Las Vegas Golden Knights. The Knights, who had made a run in 2018 to the Stanley Cup final, looked well-armed to reach them again this season. I had them picked as the second most
By: Lucas Pearson | Follow Me On Twitter @LucasPearson_
Oliver Ekman-Larsson would look excellent in black and gold. With the recent news that Arizona is looking to shed salary (and quite a bit of it) I’d think anyone not named Barrett Hayton and Jacob Chychrun could be in play, including their captain. According to Elliot Friedman, the Bruins are interested, and
By: Maria from Watertown | Follow me on Twitter @mariaofh2otown
The dates of July 1, 2006 and June 24, 2016 will be part of “this day in history” timeline for the Boston Bruins. On each of these dates, the Bruins procured two players whose paths have intertwined for the last four seasons and will have a lasting impact on the franchise. One of these players
By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @LeonLifschutz
Welcome back for Part Three of our series predicting the performance of the Bruins’ core players. In Part One we examined aging curves and decided on who made up the Bruins’ veteran and young cores. In Part Two we analyzed the past performances and trends of the Bruins’ veterans in order to predict what the
By: Dan Anderson | Follow Me On Twitter @DanAnderson5970
As the aging core lineup for the Boston Bruins has limited time to win another Stanley Cup, Don Sweeney has been busy trying to find the right combination of players to put the team over the top. Trades for Rick Nash and Ondrej Kase in recent seasons have not worked as planned. With free agency pending
By Mike Cratty | Follow me on Twitter @Mike_Cratty
Ever since Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman mentioned the Bruins and Coyotes defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson in the same breath in his latest edition of 31 thoughts, speculation has started to swirl. This has me thinking that Bruins GM Don Sweeney is scouting potential replacements for Torey Krug, if he is to test the free