The Boston Bruins grabbed a first-round draft decide within the 2024 NHL Draft at No. 25 within the Linus Ullmark commerce, nevertheless it’s not assured they’ll use the decide.
The Bruins scouting crew will go to work at discovering a future Bruin, however Boston normal supervisor Don Sweeney isn’t fully ruling out the potential of buying and selling away the decide.
“No, that’s not 100%,” Sweeney mentioned about retaining the first-round draft decide, per team-provided video. “I imply, ideally, we supplied a shock to the scouting employees in a great way. We’re blissful to get again within the first spherical, the gamers, the board, what it appears like, whether or not or not we transfer again.”
Sweeney is aware of that the Bruins will most certainly be unable to maneuver up within the draft with a commerce, however they’d be keen to maneuver down with the best commerce.
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Boston has not been within the first spherical of the draft since 2021 when the Black and Gold chosen Fabian Lysell with the twenty first general decide.
“Unlikely for us to most likely attempt to transfer up, however you by no means cross it out as a result of there is perhaps a man that our guys are enthusiastic about, however getting again to the highest a part of the draft was essential for us,” Sweeney instructed reporters.
The draft decide the Bruins acquired as a part of the Ullmark commerce was initially the decide they despatched to the Detroit Crimson Wings as a part of the bundle for Tyler Bertuzzi within the 2022-23 season. Detroit despatched the decide to Ottawa as a part of the Alex DeBrincat commerce throughout final 12 months’s offseason.
Regardless of Boston beginning the 12 months with no draft decide earlier than the fourth spherical, the scouting employees has been ready to seize a participant early within the draft.
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“(The scouting employees) works onerous regardless,” Sweeney mentioned. “Generally you don’t really feel such as you’ve given them sufficient reward for the quantity of labor that they do and floor they’re masking regardless of not essentially seeing the sunshine on the finish of the tunnel.”
Boston’s employees isn’t in search of any particular place to take heading into the draft, however they don’t seem to be against drafting a participant that would fill a gap in what they want.
“We’re going to try to discover one of the best participant we presumably can,” Sweeney mentioned. “There’s at all times an eye fixed in direction of positional wants if it presents, nevertheless it’s a harmful prospect to simply go into the draft pondering you’re simply focusing on a selected place.”
Even with the late addition of the early decide, the Bruins have had good luck lately with the draft, together with gamers like Lysell and John Beecher.
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