The Bruins Took A Bet On Their Young Defensemen — And Had To Scramble When It Didn’t Work Out
When the Boston Bruins let longtime captain Zdeno Chára walk to a division rival in free agency, the team touted its young defensemen. For Jérémy Lauzon and Jakub Zbořil to develop, Boston’s front office seemed to argue, there simply was not enough room for the now-44-year-old Chára. An entire condensed-schedule season later, and the numbers […]