A lot of movement today.
It’s getting close to crunch time for those on the Bruins roster bubble, with just one preseason game left and less than a week until Opening Night in D.C.
The B’s took another step towards finalizing their roster today, releasing a handful of players from NHL training camp.
Players sent directly to the Providence Bruins were Frederic Brunet, Riley Duran, Brett Harrison, and Fabian Lysell.
Players placed on waivers for the purpose of assigning them to Providence were Patrick Brown, Michael Callahan, Georgii Merkulov, Victor Soderstrom, and Riley Tufte.
The waiver players can now be claimed by any NHL team, with the Bruins hoping to sneak them through for future use.
You might be able to make an argument for placing a claim on a player or two here, but it’s also worth pointing out that just about every other NHL team is also busy trying to finalize its Opening Night roster right now.
For the first group, it was always likely that Brown and Harrison would be going to Providence, but it’s awkward timing to send them down just after a two-goal (Harrison) and two-assist (Brown) night.
And then we come to Lysell, who appears to be facing another year of not being ready to make the jump.
He certainly didn’t have an awful training camp, but also didn’t really have the kind of camp required to seize an NHL roster spot either.
He’ll have a shot to earn an NHL recall at some point soon, but this feels like the second or third year in a row where we’ve heard that same story.
The Bruins will wrap up the preseason on Saturday, with a 2 PM game against the New York Rangers at TD Garden.
The P-Bruins have a preseason game on Friday night, then their regular season gets underway on October 12.
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