Don Sweeney entered another trade deadline needing to resolve the glaring secondary scoring concerns. The Bruins additionally needed a left-shot defenseman for their injury-plagued blue-line and a depth forward for the bottom-six.
The fifth-year GM went to work. By late Sunday night, he acquired a trio of significant targets, first trading for defenseman Mike Reilly from the Ottawa Senators for a 2022 third-round pick.
The bigger splash came a couple of hours later with the Bruins landing forwards Taylor Hall and Curtis Lazar from the lowly Buffalo Sabres for Anders Bjork and a 2021 second-round selection.