Here's what you need to know for the Bruins and tonight's Draft

'' The Bruins have six picks on the board entering the 2022 NHL Draft at Bell Centre, which begins on Thursday night (ESPN, 7 p.m. ET) with the opening round and continues on Friday morning (NHL Network, 11 a.m. ET) with the remaining six rounds.''

''Ideally, we'd like to get back into the first round ''It's a difficult exercise. Several teams are sitting on the outside as other teams have positioned themselves with multiples. As disappointing as that is, we're focusing on finding the best players that we possibly can and continue to add to the skill set of our group.''

''There's a lot of conversations going on. Some teams are just in pick acquisition mode, so they're not necessarily in player acquisition mode. That's made it a little harder barrier to entry in that situation. And then giving up good players - when you're a competitive team, it's hard to part with really good players even though you know you'd like to get back into the first round and improve your prospect pool overall.''