Taylor Hall

Trade Grades: Taylor Hall and Nick Foligno to Chicago Blackhawks

For the Boston Bruins, this offseason was a cap nightmare. Don Sweeney’s biggest priority was to get the Bruins some flexibility to fill out their roster after carrying over $4.5m in dead cap space from the Bergeron and Krejci overages. The difficulty in the Flat Cap Era is that most teams don’t have any cap […]

Tyler Bertuzzi celebrating a goal for the Boston Bruins

Opinion: Boston Should Pass on Bertuzzi

While most of the Boston Bruins fan base seems to have caught the Tyler Bertuzzi fever, the recent cap dump in Taylor Hall has made a future with Bertuzzi more likely. There have been a plethora of reports on who the Bruins would like to retain and whom they’d let walk. Regardless of those reports, […]

Chicago Blackhawks Acquire Taylor Hall

The Chicago Blackhawks have acquired Taylor Hall and the rights to Nick Foligno from the Boston Bruins in exchange for Ian Mitchell and Alec Regula. Hall will be joining his fifth team in the last five years after he spent the first six seasons with the Edmonton Oilers. He has 264 goals and 429 assists […]

If Bruins Can’t Re-Sign Bertuzzi, Why Not Another Left Wing?

As the Boston Bruins sift through their off-season with several free agents, both restricted and unrestricted, and their top two centers contemplating their futures with the team, the team has to decide which players on the current roster with which to move forward. One of those players is unrestricted free agent Tyler Bertuzzi who was […]

Will Bruins Take “Hard Look At Roster” This Time?

At the end of the 2019-20 season, the Boston Bruins management team had an end-of-season media day. During that presser, Team President Cam Neely said, “We will take a hard look at our roster this off-season.” Speculation began to circulate that the Bruins might move away from some of their core members and that a […]

Boston Bruins Final Grades: Forwards

The Boston Bruins won 65 games during the 2022-23 regular season, a National Hockey League record. The roster was bolstered by the trade deadline acquisitions of Garnet Hathaway, Dmitry Orlov, and Tyler Bertuzzi, and all signs pointed to a deep playoff run. However, nobody could have predicted this type of ending to a season that […]

Boston Bruins Tuesday Practice Notes

A noticeably focused Boston Bruins team took the ice at Warrior Ice Arena in Brighton for their Tuesday morning practice but with a new look. The return of team captain Patrice Bergeron was the center of attention, his presence captured by fan and news cameras alike. “Feeling good… today’s a good day,” Bergeron told the […]

Taylor Hall Emerges as ‘Key’ to Bruins Playoff Success

Taylor Hall is a lot of things. But a third line depth scoring option would be a first for the former NHL MVP. “I don’t know that there’s another team with a Hart Trophy winner playing in the 3-hole,” Florida Panthers coach Paul Maurice told Amalie Benjamin. It just goes to show the embarrassment of […]

Bruins make roster moves, Hall returns

Today the Bruins announced a few roster transactions. Oskar Steen was assigned to Providence, Nick Foligno and Derek Forbort were added to LTIR, and Taylor Hall has been activated. Foligno and Forbort are both expected to return sometime in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The return of Taylor Hall is here. After an extended absence with […]

Jim Montgomery Calls Out Taylor Hall Report

The Boston Bruins have been without Taylor Hall since March 2, when he was placed on long-term injured reserve, and while he has been seen skating, head coach Jim Montgomery fought back against a TSN report that stated that Hall was being held out for salary cap reasons. TSN Insider Darren Dreger said on a recent […]