Plenty of prospects’ names have been bandied about as being prospective trade pieces this deadline, but the Boston bruins managed to pull off a coup only giving up Axel Andersson and their first-round pick, as well as most of the burdensome contract of David Backes in return for Ondrej Kase.
Perhaps the biggest reason to be impressed with Don Sweeney‘s deal here is not just the fact he rid the team of Backes’ deal, but that he did so without giving up a blue-chip prospect like Urho Vaakanainen or Jack Studnicka.