The Boston Bruins have surely made general manager Peter Chiarelli’s job harder, albeit in a fashion he ought to welcome.
A lack of Dennis Seidenberg, then Adam McQuaid and then Zdeno Chara has failed to break the Bruins blue line. Their stable of defensemen has lost exponential seasoning since Christmas, yet they enter the Olympic break on an efficient, winning note.
With all three of the aforementioned out of its lineup, Boston took three out of four possible points to close the pre-Olympic slate. Those points were a reward for hanging around with the powerful St. Louis Blues, eventual 3-2 overtime winners, and shellacking a desperate divisional rival with a 7-2 romp over Ottawa.
This does not mean Chiarelli should cancel all plans to pursue reinforcement between the resumption of NHL action and the March 5 trading deadline. There is no guarantee that a largely youthful blue-line brigade will keep producing these results in the defining stages of the 2013-14 season.
With that being said, if the Bruins are to be buyers, Chiarelli must be more cautious about sacrifices. The five defensemen who have steppe ...
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