Where do the Bruins’ go from here?
Amid the avalanche of well-deserved testimonials for the now retired Patrice Bergeron, there was an unsettling question not too far from the surface of the day’s main news of the Bruin captain’s retirement.
Where do the Bruins’ go from here?
With Bergeron headed for the rafters, and David Krejci most likely not returning, the B’s will still be able to dress four centermen, with the newly acquired Morgan Geekie, Patrick Brown and Jesper Boqvist competing to fill the third and fourth pivot spots behind Pavel Zacha and Charlie Coyle.
All of them possess varying degrees of capability at the NHL level. But it’s clear that the B’s lack some oomph down the middle, which has been a team strength for close to two decades.
But they do have some trade chips with which to play if that’s the course GM Don Sweeney wants to take in his reset attempts.
First, there is the B’s Jennings Trophy-winning goaltending duo of Linus Ullmark and Jeremy Swayman. Ullmark is locked in for two more seasons at $5 million – not a bad price for the reigning Vezina Trophy winner, whose contract carries a 16-team no-trade clause. Swayman is awaiting his arbitration case on Sunday.
