The Bruins have no such conviction with Casey Mittelstadt or Matthew Poitras. Mittelstadt is on his third franchise since March of 2024. Poitras is a third-year pro. All three are in the mix to start 2025-26 as the No. 2 center.

The Boston Bruins traded away several former core players at the 2025 NHL trade deadline. Charlie Coyle was one of them, as the Bruins traded the Massachusetts native and a 2026 fifth-round pick to the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for Casey Mittelstadt,

Coyle was traded to the Bruins in 2019 from the Minnesota Wild. He carved out a role as the third-line center and played in all 82 games in the last three seasons, notching a career-high 25 goals last year. The Weymouth native was traded to the Colorado Avalanche during a deadline that saw Boston also trade Brandon Carlo and Brad Marchand.

The Boston Bruins will start their training camp with their first practice on Thursday, and their top goalscorer, David Pastrnak, is reportedly dealing with som

There are always questions at the start of any season. The ones the Bruins are facing this year are deeper than usual.

Unlike in recent years, when the Bruins added Danton Heinen (2023) and Tyler Johnson (2024) on professional tryout agreements heading into camp, Sweeney said the team made the decision to use training camp to learn all they can about their new additions and young players.

Late last January, buried amidst a flurry of trade talk and a lost season, the <a href=" Bruins announced that <a href=" Chara would be returning to Boston as a consultant, but nothing else emerged.

Eric Nickulas, a former Boston Bruins player, appeared in court Friday after being accused of offering to pay a teenager for sex. Police said Nickulas thought he was communicating with a 16-year-old girl when he planned to meet and pay her for sex Thursday, but it was an undercover officer.