GM Don Sweeney decided after the season ended not to re-sign the versatile veteran Chris Kelly, who sat out most of the 2015-16 campaign with a broken leg. Another veteran, Max Talbot, also played his last game on Causeway Street, sending Sweeney shopping for the perfect morph of that duo to fill a variety of roles from regular shifts to faceoffs to penalty killing.
Tuesday, the Harvard grad found it in a fellow Crimson alum for the tidy sum of $900K for one year in veteran Dominic Moore. At 36, Moore comes to Boston for his 10th NHL team since 2004 when he broke in with the Rangers after being drafted 93rd overall in 2000.