The Bruins made a commerce on Thursday morning that screamed “all-in” for the NHL-leading B’s. But then the unlucky motive for why they needed to make it was revealed.
The B’s introduced Thursday morning that that they had obtained rugged left wing Tyler Bertuzzi from the Detroit Red Wings for a 2024 first-round decide that’s top-10 protected and a 2025 fourth-round decide. Bertuzzi, 28, has 4-10-14 totals in 29 video games for the Wings this 12 months however has scored extra then 25 objectives thrice in his profession and and had a career-high 30 in 60 video games final 12 months. The Wings will retain 50 p.c of his $4.75 million wage. He is a pending UFA.
But the B’s can be with out two of their left shot forwards for the foreseeable future. Taylor Hall was positioned on long-term injured reserve and Nick Foligno was positioned on common injured reserve, each with decrease physique accidents. GM Don Sweeney stated there’s no timeline on both one of many veterans and that surgical procedure has not been dominated out in both case, although that’s not at the moment the plan.
Hall was injured in Saturday’s recreation in Vancouver and Foligno was damage in Tuesday’s recreation in Calgary. Sweeney stated that the Bertuzzi acquisition “became a priority.”
“In both Taylor and Nicky’s injury situations, yeah, it took a real unfortunate turn for us,” stated Sweeney. “There’s no timeline for either of those players in terms of when they’re going to be available to us. We’re just leaving that in the medical staff’s hands to make the best judgment moving forward. But it’s definitely a situation for us that we felt we had to fill a hole because we just don’t have a timeline at this point and that’s what we had to protect. We have to bring in a player that we feel could really help us. It’s unfortunate we don’t have a timeline. We’re continuing to get some studies and allowing the medical staff to get the best determination for those two individual players. But unfortunately, the news we got was a little bit discouraging. But those guys will work hard and hopefully give themselves a chance and this team is in a decent spot to take care of business.”
Sweeney stated it’s unlikely Foligno or Hall can be obtainable for the remainder of the common season. It needed to be a tricky blow for each gamers, however particularly Foligno. After a disappointing first 12 months with the B’s, he was having a terrific bounce-back season as a frontrunner of the membership’s backside six ahead group. Hall, in the meantime, was offering respectable depth scoring on the third line, even when the manufacturing numbers had tailed off within the final couple of months.
But they did add some extra snarl in Bertuzzi.
“Ideally, we believe the interior play there where he generally scores his goals will be an advantage to us and where we’re going in the playoffs,” stated Sweeney. “He’s a player we’ve watched extensively. He’s motivated, he hasn’t had the opportunity to play in the playoffs and he’ll be eager to complement our group.”
Coach Jim Montgomery was definitely happy.
“I think he’s an excellent hockey player. He’s someone that understands how to win. He’s done it at the junior level, he was MVP of the Calder Cup championship team in Grand Rapids,” stated Montgomery. “He’s a great complimentary winger. He goes hard to hard areas. He’s a great net-front guy, 5-on-5, power play. He’s got a lot of sandpaper, as Bruins fans know with his altercation with our other sandpaper guy (Brad Marchand).”
Bertuzzi and Marchand have gotten into it with one another after the whistle on a couple of event, however the B’s alternate captain will little question welcome him into the locker room
“He has that playoff style. He plays very, very hard. He’s skilled, he’s gritty, he gets inside. He hasn’t won in the NHL but he won the Calder Cup and was the MVP of that, so he shows up big when it matters,” stated Marchand. “He’s just one of those guys you hate to play against. Come playoff time, it’s huge to have guys like that in the room. The extra depth he brings to the room is incredible. He can play anywhere in the lineup.”
Even with the accidents, the B’s shold be in fine condition with the additions of Garnet Hathaway, Dmitry Orlov and now Bertuzzi. Marchand gave kudos to administration.
“They’ve obviously shown that they have a ton of faith and they’ve had that all-in approach with the moves that they’ve made with how they want to improve the group with the depth that they’ve added. They did their job and we have to do ours now,” stated Marchand.
Bertuzzi made some information final season when he declined to get vaccinated towards COVID, which prevented him from enjoying in Canada. Whatever his standing is now, he has been cleared to play north of the border. He performed back-to-back video games in Ottawa final week.
Loose pucks
With Bertuzzi nonetheless in transit, Jakub Lauko was introduced up from Providence. … Derek Forbort was the common defenseman designated to sit down out towards the the Sabres on Thursday.
Source: www.bostonherald.com