Posts About "Danton Heinen"
Bruins Trade Heinen to Ducks for Ritchie
February 24th, 2020 The Boston Bruins have traded forward Danton Heinen to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for forward Nick Ritchie, according to Elliotte Friedman. https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1231993426922569729?s=20 This is the second trade that the Ducks and Bruins have made with each other ahead of the Trade Deadline as the Bruins...
Bruins Have Multiple Options for Studnicka
September 19th, 2019 After re-signing Charlie McAvoy to a three-year deal and Brandon Carlo to a two-year deal, the Boston Bruins have their core under wraps and under the salary cap. However, the Bruins lost four-year Bruin Noel Acciari and trade-deadline rental Marcus Johansson to free agency. This doesn't have a huge negative impact on the team; The...
Bruins Re-Sign Heinen
July 10th, 2019 The Boston Bruins have re-signed Danton Heinen to a two-year contract extension worth $5.6 million. The deal carries an annual cap hit of $2.8 million and will keep Heinen with the team through the 2020-21 season. https://twitter.com/NHLBruins/status/1148788946178105345 This deal comes just under a month before Heinen's...
Bruins Need Pastrnak on the Second Line
April 1st, 2019 Thanks in large part to injuries and perhaps somewhat out of curiosity, head coach Bruce Cassidy and the Boston Bruins are well rehearsed in the mixing and matching of line combinations, up front. While the team's ability to adapt to these changes is commendable, one would hope to see a more permanent lineup by Game 1 of the Stanley Cup...
Bruins Can't Rest on Victory Over Lightning
March 2nd, 2019 The Boston Bruins defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night by a margin of 4-1. They snapped the Lightning's 10-game winning streak and how they did it was remarkable, to say the least. Goals from Brad Marchand, Patrice Bergeron, Jake DeBrusk, and (finally) Noel Acciari contributed to Boston's exhilarating victory. They...
What's the Deal With Heinen?
November 29th, 2018 Danton Heinen has struggled in his sophomore season. Anyone who has watched the Bruins this season has noticed that Heinen hasn't played quite the same way this season as he did in his very impressive rookie campaign just a season ago. While Heinen was winning puck battles along the boards and doing a good job at retrieving pucks...
Bruins Roundtable: 2017-18 Breakout Rookie
July 4th, 2018 In this edition of our Bruins roundtable, we asked our B's writers which rookie exceeded their expectations the most in the 2017-18 campaign. Unsurprisingly, Jake DeBrusk's name rang through the answers as the player who began the season on the bubble but who cemented himself into a fan-favorite with his talent and, more importantly, his...
Bruins Roundtable: X-Factors for 2nd Round
April 28th, 2018 The opening round of the 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs was a rollercoaster ride for the Boston Bruins. After taking a commanding 3-1 lead against the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Bruins allowed Toronto to even the series at three games apiece. The B’s ultimately prevailed in the decisive Game 7, leaning on several key players along the way -...
Bruins Rookies: DeBrusk Shining & Heinen Declining
March 13th, 2018 Before the puck dropped on opening night, personnel and fans alike of the Boston Bruins knew that this season's success was to be largely predicated upon the success of its youth. With just 15 games remaining in the regular season, the 2017-18 Boston Bruins have the third best record in the NHL. Suffice to say, the "youth movement,"...
Bruins 'Seventh Player' Award Candidates
March 2nd, 2018 For the past 48 years, fans of the Boston Bruins have selected the winner of team's "Seventh Player" Award, identifying the individual whose performance most exceeded their expectations. Being a fan vote and thus open to interpretation, the results have historically been all over the place. Like Tim Thomas somehow winning the award in...
Heinen's Homecoming to Vancouver
February 17th, 2018 What a difference a few years makes. On June 15 in 2011, Danton Heinen had to watch his hometown Vancouver Canucks lose the Stanley Cup on home ice to the Boston Bruins. On Feb. 17, 2018, he'll be returning to Vancouver as an integral part of this Bruins team. "It's definitely funny how things come full circle," Heinen said...
Bruins' Revved-Up Rookies Run Roughshod on Red Wings
February 7th, 2018 Six combined points. Ten shots on goal. A cumulative plus/minus of plus-eight. Five of the Boston Bruins' heralded and celebrated rookies forged the path to victory versus the Detroit Red Wings Tuesday night and not one of them was named "Charlie." With their presumptive Calder candidate still finding his legs after missing four...
Backes & Bruins Batter Blues
February 2nd, 2018 When the Boston Bruins' 18-game point streak came to an end Tuesday night versus the Anaheim Ducks, it did so with a thud. In their first period of play after the All-Star break the B's looked like their hearts and minds were still in sunny Tampa Bay, despite the fact that their lone representative at the All-Star Game was not in...
