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Boston Bruins: Top 5 prospects to get excited about this season

By Hannah Manning

BOSTON, MA - APRIL 06: Boston Bruins Defenseman Jeremy Lauzon (79) waits for the puck to drop on a face off. During the Boston Bruins game against the Tampa Bay Lightning on April 06, 2019 at TD Garden in Boston, MA. (Photo by Michael Tureski/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 06: Boston Bruins Defenseman Jeremy Lauzon (79) waits for the puck to drop on a face off. During the Boston Bruins game against the Tampa Bay Lightning on April 06, 2019 at TD Garden in Boston, MA. (Photo by Michael Tureski/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /
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BOSTON - JUNE 28: Players on the bench watch the action during a scrimmage on Day 3 of a Boston Bruins development camp at Warrior Ice Arena in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston on June 28, 2019. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
BOSTON – JUNE 28: Players on the bench watch the action during a scrimmage on Day 3 of a Boston Bruins development camp at Warrior Ice Arena in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston on June 28, 2019. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) /

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.

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