Bruins: Overreaction trade Boston must make to continue sizzling start to NHL season

The Boston Bruins were expected to be a middle-of-the-pack team as the 2026-27 NHL season got underway. They were coming off a 100-point season that saw them make the Stanley Cup playoffs as a Wild Card team. They had played fairly competitively in the first round of the playoffs against a hungry Buffalo Sabres team that was competing in the postseason for the first time in 14 years. The Bruins would lose the series in six games. The offseason was rather ordinary for the Bruins. While they did acquire speedy forward J.J.