Boston Bruins Invite Free Agent Forward To Camp

The Boston Bruins haven’t selected any big-name NHL coaching camp invitations with the preseason nonetheless weeks away, however they’re rounding out their camp roster.

It isn’t a “subsequent cease championship” form of transaction and it isn’t even an NHL transaction actually given the inexperienced participant concerned, however it’s a transaction, nonetheless.

The Boston Bruins have invited farmhand proper wing/heart Keltie Jeri-Leon to Boston Bruins coaching camp on a tryout foundation after he performed with the Maine Mariners and Windfall Bruins for stints final season, per our pals at Cap Pleasant.

The undrafted 22-year-old Jeri-Leon had a strong ECHL season in Maine with 19 objectives and 35 factors in 57 video games after sturdy back-to-back WHL seasons as an overage participant and received just a few AHL video games the place he clearly will need to have proven the B’s one thing. The ahead has respectable dimension at 6-foot, 201-pounds and his offensive numbers have been strong for the previous few years, however this participant’s upside doesn’t look to be a lot past being a potential minor league depth participant at this level.

Definitely, it’s not just like the big-name Boston Bruins prospects thrown out by BHN partner-in-crime James Murphy earlier this week with names like PK Subban and Keith Yandle on the market as potential coaching camp invitations to bolster the back-end competitors, notably with Matt Grzelcyk, Mike Reilly and Charlie McAvoy all coming off offseason surgical procedure rehabs.

Jeri-Leon would additionally seem to be a possible invite to the rookie coaching camp set to get underway in the course of September with the B’s collaborating once more this season within the Prospects Problem in Buffalo with rookie groups from the Sabres, New Jersey Devils, Pittsburgh Penguins, Montreal Canadiens and Ottawa Senators.

Undrafted 5-foot-9, 191-pound ahead Brayden Schuurman will even be a part of Boston’s prospect staff subsequent month after 29 objectives and 54 factors in 68 video games for the Victoria Royals within the WHL.