I’m gonna level with you guys here: I have no idea what the Boston Bruins are going to do today.
We know they have needs. Multiple needs, actually. But they also have no cap space, they have no high-end prospects they want to trade (or can afford to trade, really), and they’ve emptied the draft pick cupboard to the point where it’s legitimately difficult to rationalize sending more out the door for part-time help. At a certain point, you gotta call it quits with that approach, especially when you’re looking at a 2024 NHL Draft that currently has you set to sit out the first three rounds.
But we also know that Bruins general manager Don Sweeney does not like to sit on the sidelines. In fact, Sweeney has made at least one trade in every deadline on the job in Boston.
Sweeney’s trade have ranged from home run swings (Hampus Lindholm in ’22 comes to mind there, as well as his entire 2023 deadline in the name of one final run with Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci) to small-time plays. On the small-time trade front, the 2017 trade that brought Drew Stafford to town for some middle-six scoring help sticks out.
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Ty Anderson is a writer and columnist for 985TheSportsHub.com. He has been covering the Bruins since 2010, and has been a member of the Boston chapter of the PHWA since 2013. Yell at him on Twitter/X: @_TyAnderson.