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WILMINGTON, Mass. — With Mark Stuart signed to a one-year deal, the Bruins now have just around $2 million left in cap space and still have restricted free agents Blake Wheeler, Adam McQuaid and Gregory Campbell to re-sign.

It would seem that a move might be imminent, but general manager Peter Chiarelli says that’s not the case.

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Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli made what he termed “preemptive moves” before today’s opening of the free agent market by acquiring Nathan Horton, drafting Tyler Seguin and re-signing Mark Recchi, Dennis Seidenberg and Johnny Boychuk.

So that all he did on “Free Agent Frenzy Day” was retain winger Daniel Paille didn’t leave the GM wanting. Chiarelli said he spoke to a couple agents and a couple GMs for talks that will probably be revisited over the next few days and weeks.

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BOSTON — If free agency opened today  instead of Thursday, the Bruins would not be able to make a big splash.

“Right now we don’t have the cap space to go out and make a big deal,” said Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli after a TD Garden press conference to introduce Tyler Seguin and Nathan Horton to Boston. “We don’t. But that could happen. We could make a trade and there could be cap space. It doesn’t mean we have someone in mind.”

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As top defense prospects Brandon Gormley and Cam Fowler continued to slide down the draft board tonight at the 2010 NHL Entry Draft in Los Angeles, it looked like the Bruins might have reason to regret trading away the No. 15 pick earlier this week in the deal for Florida’s Nathan Horton.

Fowler went at No. 12 to Anaheim and Gormley was the next pick to Phoenix, so neither made it to 15. Had the Bruins still had that pick, they perhaps could’ve parlayed it to move up and grab one of the two blueliners who had been projected to go in the top five, or at least the top 10.

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Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli talked again today with the media in Los Angeles about the slight difference his staff has between Taylor Hall and Tyler Seguin and how he’s not desperate to trade up with Edmonton.

“I’m not in a position right now, based on how big I feel and how big our group feels the gap is,” he said. “I’m not in a position right now. I don’t know if I ever will be, to go to Edmonton and say, ‘Here’s this, this, this, and this, let us take our guy.’ I think those players are so good at that 1-2 that it’s not worth, to me, to go and give something where I think I could get something somewhere else.”

He later added, and this was the best part: “I’m not jumping over chairs to get that player.”

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Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli held a conference call this morning with the media to talk about the draft. As far as the Taylor Hall/Tyler Seguin debate, he said “right now, as of today, we have one guy over the other … it’s very close.”

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During the 2009-10 season, Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli must have felt like he was out in a sail boat that kept springing leaks. And every time he plugged one, another started spewing water.

The laundry list of injuries over the course of the campaign included Marc Savard three times, Milan Lucic twice, Andrew Ference off and on, Patrice Bergeron, Mark Stuat and Dennis Seidenberg. The Bruins’ organizational depth, which Chiarelli is responsible for was tested, and barely passed its trial by fire. [Read more →]

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Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli told the Boston Herald that he and his staff have not yet made a decision between top draft prospects Taylor Hall and Tyler Seguin. Of course, right now he doesn’t have that choice — Edmonton does. [Read more →]

No layover for the Bruins this year

It’s a nightmare the Bruins would rather not relive. They were “rewarded” for their dominance last spring in a four-game first-round sweep of Montreal with 10 days off before they could face Carolina, which won its series in seven games, in the second round.

Boston won the first game but then dropped three straight in rather pedestrian fashion. The Bruins’ efforts to rally from behind, of course, ended in Game 7 in overtime. After eliminating Buffalo in six games, the Bruins now await the identity of their second-round foe. The Washington-Montreal Game 7 winner will determine whether Boston faces Pittsburgh or Philadelphia. [Read more →]

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The balls will be pulled in New York, and the results will be announced in Toronto Tuesday night at 8 p.m. on Versus and TSN. Yes, the 2010 NHL Draft Drawing is sure to be fun for the whole family.

Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli will be in Toronto hoping the drawing is more than just fun. He wants what all the other GMs involved want — the No. 1 pick. Nonetheless, the Bruins’ GM wouldn’t reveal during a conference call about the playoffs whether he’s bringing any lucky talisman’s or wearing his lucky tie to the event. [Read more →]

BOSTON — So now we know the one X factor we didn’t during the entirety of the Phil Kessel saga. The speedy winger, Boston Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli revealed today, asked for a trade in early July.

Unlike the Dany Heatley trade demand that played out as a public soap opera almost all summer, this one stayed a little more private and helped the Bruins receive an ample bounty of two first-round picks and a second-round from Toronto last night in exchange for the holdout restricted free agent. [Read more →]

Chiarelli and Julien

WILMINGTON, Mass. — Both Boston Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli and head coach Claude Julien addressed the players today before off-ice testing began on the first official day of training camp.

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In a conference call to confirm the Boston Bruins’ signing of free agent defenseman Derek Morris to a one-year deal today, general manager Peter Chiarelli assessed his new-look defense corps this way:

“I feel we’ve upgraded it to the tune of a little more mobile, when you talk about Andrew (Ference) and Matt Hunwick in the mix. And the physical responsibilities that we might have lost (with the departure of Aaron Ward and Shane Hnidy), Derek’s a tremendous competitor, he can handle those things. (Mark Stuart’s) going to handle those things. And, of course, we’ve got Zdeno (Chara) there. So I don’t feel that we’ve lost any of that when we made these changes.” [Read more →]

Here is Boston Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli’s explanation for acquiring forward Patrick Eaves from Carolina for defenseman Aaron Ward and then buying out the former Boston College star. Eaves is entering the second year of a three-year deal that paid him $1.1 million last year and was scheduled to pay him $1.4 million this season and$1.7 next year.

“Because the contract is structured with escalating salaries, we actually get a positive credit to our cap next year in the amount of $41,000,” said Chiarelli, who noted that because Eaves is younger than 26, the buyout is for one-third the value of the deal.

So if Eaves isn’t claimed on waivers, he will be a slight cap hit (around $258,000) for Boston this year and then give the Bruins more room next season.