Whitfield/By S. Bradley
With players in Bruins sweaters dropping like flies, the team today made another emergency promotion from the Providence (AHL) farm club.
Center Trent Whitfield was summoned and joined the team in Tampa, where the Bruins will face the Lightning tomorrow night. This is Whitfield’s first call-up of this season and he hasn’t played an NHL game since the 2009-10 season, although he was one of Boston’s “Black Aces” during the Stanley Cup championship run last season.
Whitfield/Courtesy P-Bruins
It had been a slow go for Trent Whitfield since returning to action with the Bruins’ Providence (AHL) farm club after a lengthy injury absence, until things sped last week.
Whitfield/AHL.com
If everything goes exactly to Trent Whitfield’s plan, the journeyman center will be back in the Providence (AHL) lineup on New Year’s Day.
Whitfield
Let’s face it folks, there’s no reason to panic about how Trent Whitfield’s season-ending injury, reported and confirmed by numerous outlets the last couple days, is going to affect the depth chart in Boston.
If there’s one area the Bruins can afford to lose players, it’s at center.
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PHILADELPHIA – The decision to insert either center Trent Whitfield or winger Brad Marchand into the Bruins’ lineup in place of the injured David Krejci for Friday’s Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series with Philadelphia should come down to just one number: 57.9
That’s the percentage of faceoffs Whitfield won in his 16 games in a Boston sweater this season. He prevailed 103 of 178 draws. With momentum in this series seemingly shifting on every faceoff, and mostly rolling in the Bruins’ favor, the Bruins are going to need to make sure they have as many men ready to claim an important faceoff as they can. (more…)
