Don Sweeney didn’t have the best assets to put on his trade block heading into the trade deadline. But the seventh-year general manager of the Boston Bruins managed to fill a need and pulled off a big splash.
On Saturday, the Bruins landed one of the top left-shot defensemen on the open market in Anaheim’s Hampus Lindholm. The Ducks receive a trio of draft picks — a 2022 first-round selection and a pair of second-rounders in 2023 and 2024 — along with defensemen Urho Vaakanainen and John Moore. The Bruins also added AHL defenseman Kodie Curran in the transaction.