The Boston Bruins are trading their captain and longest-tenured player to one of their Eastern Conference foes, according to multiple reports Friday.
The Bruins are not expected to trade captain Brad Marchand despite his pending free agency and the playoffs slipping away.
BOTTOM LINE: The Carolina Hurricanes host the Boston Bruins in Eastern Conference play. Carolina has gone 23-7-1 at home and 36-22-4 overall. The Hurricanes have a +28 scoring differential, with 197 total goals scored and 169 given up.
The Boston Bruins had a flurry of activity leading up to the NHL Trade Deadline on Friday, making five trades that day and seven dating to Tuesday. Everything was happening so fast on Friday that it didn’t sink in for David Pastrnak until he woke up the next day.
The Boston Bruins may have defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins to crawl two points closer to an Eastern Conference wild card spot, but they lost a big piece of the
Brad Marchand was traded to the Florida Panthers by the Boston Bruins on Friday. Boston received a conditional second-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft in return.
Avs trade for experienced Charlie Coyle in effort to fill No. 3 center spot while Bruins get center Casey Middlestadt
“We were definitely sloppy with the puck on our stick,” defenseman Ryan McDonagh said. “Turnovers were an all-time high for us in the season, but in the end, we got outworked, if we’ve really looking at the big picture here, and there’s a team that simply came in and worked harder than us, and that’s the disappointing thing for sure.”