Category — Providence Bruins

Smith

Agent Ben Hankinson announced via his Twitter feed that the Bruins have signed his client, Wyatt Smith, to make up for the injury to veteran center Trent Whitfield.

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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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Chicago-based agent Scott Norton announced via Twitter today that defenseman Ryan Donald has signed a deal with the Bruins’ Providence (AHL) farm club.

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – ‘Do we still call you Jumbo Joe?’ Bruins prospect Joe Colborne was asked after the media scrum scattered following his pro hockey debut at Dunkin’ Donuts Center tonight.

“It’s up to you guys,” the 6-foot-5, 215-pound center said as he headed back into the Providence Bruins’ dressing room to bask in the glory of the club’s victory that he sparked with a pair of assists.

When Colborne was Boston’s first-round pick in 2008 he let slip that he shared a nickname with former Bruins center Joe Thornton. He’s worked for two years at Denver University to get even bigger. In his first game as a pro, Colborne came up huge for the P-Bruins in their 3-1 victory over Worcester, as were fellow debuting blue-chippers Max Sauve (2 goals) and Steve Kampfer. [Read more →]

Regan

Providence goaltender Kevin Regan was named today as the club’s winner of an American Specialty/AHL Man of the Year award. From the list of winners, one from each of the 29 clubs, representatives from American Specialty and the AHL will select one winner of the Yanick Dupre Memorial Award, which is the league’s Man of the Year Award.

Regan, a native of South Boston and a former Boston ninth-round draft pick, was selected as Providence’s nominee because, as the team’s public relations staff described in a press release, he “has cemented himself as a fixture in the Providence community through a partnership with Adoption Rhode Island, and his voluntary involvement with several school organizations across the state. Regan, 25, can often be found associating himself with schools in the forms of speaking engagements, reading visits and fund-raising endeavors.”