Bruins Trade Rumors: Team Focused on One Area, 2 Paths at Deadline
The Boston Bruins are still in a playoff position, holding down the first Wild Card spot, but other teams on their tail have several games in hand and are only a point or two behind. The team is not what it was just a couple of years ago when they won the Presidents' Trophy in record-breaking fashion.
They haven't replaced the scoring of Jake DeBrusk, who they lost in free agency last summer, a player who averaged 20 goals a season in his seven years in Boston. And according to insider David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period, that's where their focus lies at the trade deadline.
They would like to add some secondary scoring to their roster, and that's something that GM Don Sweeney is looking at.
David Pastrnak (20 goals) and Brad Marchand (16) are the only Bruins with more than 10 goals at this point in the season, and they are also the only ones with more than 24 points through the B's first 46 games (Pastrnak 48, Marchand 35).
However, team president Cam Neely has come out and said that the Bruins could go "both ways" at the deadline, being buyers and sellers—though he never used the 'S' word.
Felger: Big statement by Neely that B's might be deadline sellers
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I think right now, we’ve got to look at two paths: one that we’re buying and one that we may be retooling a little bit.
Even if he doesn't use that "sellers" word, that "retooling" admission is certainly a huge statement by Neely.
The Bruins are currently 22-19-5 for 4th place in the Atlantic Division. The Tampa Bay Lightning also have 49 points but have four games in hand.
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