When Bruins general manager Don Sweeney took office on May 20, the buzz words from his introductory press conference were “speed” and “skill.”
When his two biggest acquisitions to date were introduced at the Garden yesterday — left winger Matt Beleskey and right winger Jimmy Hayes — three words kept coming up: “Big, Bad Bruins.”
Beleskey and Hayes are not exactly perfect fits into the old Black ’n’ Gold mold. Though Beleskey plays an aggressive style and seems a little bigger than he is, he isn’t all that imposing at 6-foot, 204 pounds. Hayes has the size at 6-6, 221, and he’s learning to use it to create offense, but he’s not a classic drop-the-gloves Bruins type.