The Boston Bruins have suddenly gone from having two-thirds of their presumptive top-six forwards to the full group. Milan Lucic’s return from injury came roughly 36 hours before the re-signing of Reilly Smith (opposite defenseman Torey Krug, as the club announced on its website Monday morning).
With the latter development, Smith figures to rejoin fellow winger Brad Marchand and center Patrice Bergeron. Those three constituted the second line for the better part of 2013-14 and are the only Bruins troika that can return intact for 2014-15.
Now that Smith and Krug’s contract standstill has ended, Boston’s topmost question mark is back between the boards. The final week-plus of training camp is the time to watch for the foundation of a first line featuring Lucic, Loui Eriksson and center David Krejci.
Granted, while not as familiar as the Marchand-Bergeron-Smith combination, that group has cultivated collaborative success in the past. One of Eriksson’s brighter days in an iffy first year as a Bruin occurred in a momentary promotion up the depth chart.
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