The Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins rarely link up on trades. Division rivals don’t usually like to help each other out by making trades and the Habs and Bruins are the oldest rivals in the league so they aren’t likely to make many deals. It would take a special circumstance to lead to a trade between Boston and Montreal.
We could be very close to those “special circumstances” being aligned for a deal that makes a lot of sense for both sides. The last trade between these two rivals was nearly 20 years ago when Patrick Traverse and Eric Weinrich swapped sides.