The Boston Bruins could still stand to obtain a seasoned, gritty defenseman to help spell Dennis Seidenberg, whose season-ending injury essentially leaves them with only three veteran NHL rearguards.
If possible, they should pursue a trade to partially fill that gap and bolster the defense this year while ensuring a minimal sacrifice for future seasons. This means pursuing someone who would consume negligible cap space, whose team would not command much in return and who the Bruins could take or leave when he hits free agency this summer.
The Winnipeg Jets, a nonconference adversary, could now be ripe for that kind of deal in the wake of Sunday’s dismissal of head coach Claude Noel. They entered Monday night’s NHL action last in the Central Division and 12 points out of a playoff spot with 35 games left.
Meanwhile, one of Winnipeg’s blueliners, Mark Stuart, has surfaced on multiple writers’ lists of potential Boston acquisitions. Both Joe Haggerty of csnne.com and Casey Ippolito of The Hockey News brought him up as a prospective candidate in the immediate wake of Seidenberg’s prognosis.
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