Boston Bruins Past & Present On Awesome European Vacation

Whereas again at house the Boston Bruins are nonetheless figuring issues out for subsequent season’s roster, a variety of previous and present Boston Bruins gamers are having themselves a hell of a European trip collectively. It began on Thursday with Instagram footage and movies of Milan Lucic, Torey Krug and David Krejci (and former head of Boston Bruins PR Matt Chmura) vacationing collectively in Italy whereas an unsigned 36-year-old Krejci doesn’t have any certainty on a possible contract with the Black and Gold for subsequent season.

Now on Friday it seems they’ve been joined by extra acquainted faces as game-breaking proper winger David Pastrnak, coming into the final yr of his contract, and Shawn Thornton joined the Boston Bruins crew in Italy throughout their superior European trip.

It’s a busy season for lots of the Boston Bruins as star defenseman Charlie McAvoy additionally introduced his engagement to his longtime girlfriend Kiley Sullivan, daughter of Pittsburgh Penguins head coach and former B’s head coach Mike Sullivan, this week as nicely.

The photographs actually should make Boston Bruins followers pine for the outdated days for the Black and Gold and get misty-eyed in regards to the recollections of the 2011 Stanley Cup staff that captured the Cup. It additionally brings up an Athletic report from a few months in the past that Pastrnak wasn’t so inclined to signal a long-term extension after not precisely being thrilled with the Boston Bruins and the best way his shut associates Krug and Krejci had been handled by B’s common supervisor Don Sweeney on their method out the out of city.

“No likelihood [Pastrnak] comes again with Sweens because the GM,” mentioned a supply near Pastrnak, in response to the report.

As it’s proper now, it doesn’t really feel like a lot progress has been made on a long-term extension between the Boston Bruins and David Pastrnak the place he’s most actually seeking to be the best paid participant on the staff.

It’s an fascinating time for the get-together of former and present teammates after Krejci and Pastrnak lit issues up on the World Championships just a few months in the past for Group Czech Republic, and with Krug’s identify starting to get talked about in St. Louis Blues commerce rumors. It’s anticipated that Lucic is fairly snug together with his present spot on the Calgary Flames, however even that standing may change now that each Johnny Gaudreau and Matthew Tkachuk have left the staff forward of subsequent season.

All of it provides up to a couple pictures on a social media website leaving Boston Bruins followers feeling very nostalgic for a less complicated, extra profitable time when there was much more certainty in regards to the personalities and gamers on the native hockey staff.