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Boston Bruins 2022-23 season preview
He’s highly effective sufficient to show a sneaky tank candidate again right into a Cup contender. Ah, Patrice Bergeron, we’ll miss you once you’re gone … however not as a lot because the Bruins will.
What number of extra offseason strikes had been extra consequential than Bergeron’s resolution to return to Boston? David Krejci adopted. All these David Pastrnak commerce rumors had been extinguished in a rush. The Bruins’ ahead group, abruptly, made sense once more.
And, most of all, Boston acquired itself an opportunity to climate early absences from Brad Marchand, Charlie McAvoy and Matt Grzelcyk. With out one of many few greatest facilities within the NHL, that might’ve been a troublesome promote. It nonetheless could also be — the domino impact of these three accidents stays to be seen — however by midseason, this roster has an opportunity at being one of the balanced within the league.
If Bergeron and Krejci returned as a result of they nonetheless noticed actual championship potential? They simply may be proper.