Boston Bruins Trade Deadline Without Big Fireworks
The Boston Bruins went into the 2020 NHL trade deadline with the best record in the league and the favorite for the President’s Cup. Amid speculation GM Don Sweeney would swing for the fences with an all-in type of trade to try to tip the scales in the Bruins favor, instead the team made two calculated moves with upside. Along with the potential the B’s also received cap relief by jettisoning most of the contract of David Backes. Other teams made deals for bigger names, but the potential is there for Boston to have made impactful moves. The eastern conference representative in last year’s Stanley Cup Finals is poised to make another run. It is currently unclear if they have done enough to put them ahead of the rest of the field. A few days before the deadline passed, the Bruins made the trade to bring in forward Ondrej Kase from Anaheim. This was the more significant scoring impact of the two trades the team made. In Kase, the Bruins get a 24-year-old with speed and p