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NHL Insider Just Leaked The Boston Bruins Off-Season Moves During Retool
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With the Boston Bruins looking to retool during the off-season, an NHL insider leaked some of their plans to go get back into the playoffs in the 2025-26 season.
The Bruins looked like a better team on paper prior to the 2024-25 season. A big talking point of the Bruins is that they were a big team from top to bottom, and in recent years, the organization made it clear that they wanted to be a big and difficult team to play against in the postseason.
What they ended up lacking was speed and skill, an important piece to any roster that plans on going on a deep run.
Finding players that are big, fast and skilled is not an easy thing to do, and the Boston Bruins are going to have to move on from looking at bigger players and try to focus on bringing in more talented and fast players in the off-season.
Some good news for the Bruins, is that Sweeney already started doing this.
Bruins Shifting Their Identity
Sweeney had a fire sale during the 2024-25 NHL trade deadline, trading some big players, but in return got some younger, faster and more skilled players like Marat Khusnutdinov, Jakub Lauko, Fraser Minten, and Casey Mittelstadt.
Don Sweeney still has quite a bit of work to do to fix the Bruins lineup, but it's been made clear that he is looking to change the Bruins identity to get the Bruins back into contention.
The Bruins have a bunch of young players that could be super impactful at the NHL level soon. This includes Matthew Poitras, Will Zellers, Fabian Lysell, Marat Kuhsnutdinov, Fraser Minten, Dans Locmelis, Brett Harrison, and their 2024 first-round pick Dean Letourneau.
The Hockey News had this to say about the Bruins shifting to a more talented team over size:
Talent will always win out over pure speed and pure size. If the Bruins can focus on identifying talent-without boxing players in based on one trait or another, they'll find that things have a way of working themselves out. With the Bruins picking higher in the draft this season than they have since 2010, and their first time with a top-10 pick since 2011, they have a chance to add a cornerstone player down the middle who can help the team in the long run.
It's clear that this off-season is going to be a busy one for General Manager Don Sweeney, and it'll be interesting to see what he does.
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