Well, that didn’t take very long.
The Boston Bruins announced today that Bruins forward Brett Connolly will be out for an approximate six weeks due to an injury. During practice today, Connolly suffer an injury which caused a displaced fracture in his right index finger. Connolly will likely miss the rest of the regular season due to the broken finger.
Several thoughts went through my head reading the very brief statement issued by the Bruins.
Puck Prose
“The Caron is gone! Long Live the Caron!” Jordan Caron was one of the most unlucky Bruins we’ve had go through the franchise these last few years. He’d do well in practice, get moved up to Boston and either tank or get injured. With Caron’s departure, I was hoping the Bruins weren’t going to have any black cats walk across their path for the rest of the season. In this case, to avoid the cat the Bruins walked under a ladder and through a mirror. Hopefully, this is the last in a series of misfortunes to hit the team this season.
“This injury could save Gregory Campbell.” With the introduction of both Maxime Talbot and Brett Connolly, things weren’t looking too rosy for Gregory Campbell. He hadn’t had the sudden boost Daniel Paille had. With Talbot being a gritty center (who is better at fighting than Campbell), the odds were that Campbell would have ended up in the thirteenth slot for the forwards. With Campbell likely to be back on the ice tomorrow night, he’ll have one more chance to make a case for the B’s to offer him a contract come July.
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“The Bruins and the 2010 Draft just don’t mix.” The Bruins offered up Phil Kessel to the Toronto Maple Leafs to get their second pick in the 2010 Entry Draft. They ended up with Tyler Seguin. A kid with phenomenal potential and a partying complex. Sure, Seguin did help the Bruins win the Stanley Cup in 2011. However, Seguin had serious issues off ice and could never really conform to the Claude Julien system. In the end, the Bruins chose to get rid of the party boy for a less productive but far more mature and reliable Loui Eriksson.
This trade offered the Bruins a rare do-over. The Bruins would get a player with nearly the same potential. They would also get a player who were conform to the system. While the B’s will still have that chance down the road, for the moment it appears the Bruins are staring at yet another Chiarelli trade bust.
To be fair to the Bruins general manager, this is in now way Peter Chiarelli’s fault. It’s just another rotten stroke of luck that has left the Black and Gold black and blue this season.