Peverley/By S. Bradley
Eleven goals probably wasn’t the total the Bruins were looking for when they brought Rich Peverley back for the 2011-12 season after a successful performance during the run to the Stanley Cup the June prior, and then signed him to a three-year extension worth $3.25 million per season starting this season.
Paille/By S. Bradley
A Steve Staios slap shot to the face in early November didn’t make Daniel Paille rethink his career choice.
Instead he underwent surgery, sported one of the ugliest shiner/broken nose combinations in recent memory around the Bruins’ dressing room and then, 10 days later, got right back into the Bruins’ lineup in his role as Boston’s fourth-line left winger.
Seguin/By S. Bradley
The signings of Gregory Campbell and Chris Kelly to multi-year contracts that keep both veterans off the free-agent market also gives the Bruins all four of their regular centers from last season on next season’s roster.
That probably means more time on the wing for natural center Tyler Seguin.
Campbell/By S. Bradley
With the Bruins making it official today that center Gregory Campbell has signed a three-year deal with the club and fellow pivot Chris Kelly has reached an agreement in principle on a four-year deal with the team, Boston now has 12 forwards who played a major role on last year’s team under contract for the 2012-13 season.
Mottau/By D. Hickling
After taking the NHL’s version of a three-stop tour of the New York area through the first several seasons of his career, Mike Mottau finally got to come home.
McQuaid/By S. Bradley
The balance that has to be struck is the same for every rugged defenseman.
Like those before him and others currently skating in the NHL, Adam McQuaid is going to have to figure out how to play his all-out physical style at the sport’s highest level without enduring the type of injuries that keep him out of the lineup for extended periods.
Kelly/By S. Bradley
Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli continued to lock up members of his 2011-12 club by re-signing two key centers Monday, according to a Tweet from TSN reporter Bob McKenzie.
Chris Kelly (four years, $12 million) and Gregory Campbell (three years, $4.8 million) have re-signed with the club less than a month before they were scheduled to become unrestricted free agents.
Marchand/By S. Bradley
Good brat or bad brat?
After Bruins head coach Claude Julien applied those terms to the two sides of forward Brad Marchand, that was the question running through the coach’s mind and everyone else’s thoughts seemingly every time Marchand took the ice.
MacDermid
All the 100-plus-PIM seasons in junior hockey, and two plus seasons of more than 100 penalty minutes with the Bruins’ Providence (AHL) farm club finally paid off in 2011-12 for Lane MacDermid.
Hamilton/By S. Bradley
The annual summer prospect exhibition that is Bruins Development Camp will commence June 28 and continue through July 2 at Ristuccia Arena in Wilmington.
Although the roster has yet to be finalized, you can figure 2011 first-round pick Dougie Hamilton will probably be among the group of players on hand, which will include Boston’s 2012 draft picks from the draft June 22-23.
Lucic/By S. Bradley
We all know the expectations that Milan Lucic will be the next Cam Neely are unfair.
The problem is, Lucic seems to be struggling just to become the Milan Lucic he and the Bruins expect him to be, and the player Bruins cast him and pay him to be.
Radulov
In light of today’s news that Alexander Radulov will not be returning to Nashville, I ask you readers of TheBruinsBlog.net:
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Radulov is available.
Although it might cost an interested team a draft pick or more, there’s a high-scoring forward now available less than a month from the July 1 start to free agency in the NHL.
Krejci/By S. Bradley
Now that his body of work is longer, David Krejci can no longer be called one of those “primetime” playoff performers.
We know that if the Bruins advance beyond the first round, the club’s No. 1 center can turn it up and set the league on fire. But just don’t expect him to light up the scoreboard in the first round.
Therrien
Well, if the Montreal Canadiens are looking for a winning formula to end their 19-year Stanley Cup championship drought, hiring Michel Therrien could be the first step.
After all, it worked for the Pittsburgh Penguins.
