As the regular season lurks just days away for the Boston Bruins, an obvious question on everyone’s mind is which of the many prospects in the system will make a big impact on the team in the future?
Prospect development is a tedious process. It can often take several years, from the draft or post-college free agency to stints in the minors, for a prospect to hone his skills enough to be considered ready for “the show.”
As we know from obsessively tracking prospects since, like, forever, we can’t always compare the progress rate among some of the Bruins’ younger players. Some drift back and forth from Providence up to Boston, while others spend more time in junior to grind down their game into something more polished and mature.
Those chances that prospects get at training camp and during the pre-season can be crucial to evaluating not only skill level but whether they might stand a chance at cracking the main roster during the season.
And let’s just get this out of the way; we Bruins fans have seen some flashes of brilliance in the past few weeks.
Having seen what we’ve seen so far, let’s dive into five players that I think all Bruins fans should keep a special eye on throughout the 2019-20 hockey season.