Bruins lock up David Pastrnak with 8-year, $90M deal through 2031 Bruins acquire Tyler Bertuzzi in trade with Red Wings Senators acquire defenseman Jakob Chychrun from Coyotes Red Wings sign Dylan Larkin to 8-year, $69.6M deal Kings trade Quick to Blue Jackets for Gavrikov, Korpisalo

BOSTON. The Bruins were already on track for the best record in NHL history when they added toughness and depth to what they hope will be a long playoff game this spring.

Now general manager Don Sweeney has also helped secure the team’s future.

Boston signs All-Star forward to David Pastr to an eight-year, $90 million contract extension, the sixth richest deal in NHL history. The deal secures one of the league’s MVP nominees for the 2030-31 season for $11.25 million a year.

“Our goal has always been to make him a Bruin for life,” Sweeney said. “We are thrilled to have David as part of our team now and for the foreseeable future.”

Pastrnak, 26, is second only to Edmonton. Connor McDavid This season, he scored 42 goals and made 38 assists, leading Boston to the best record in the NHL. Entering the game against Buffalo on Thursday night, the Bruins (47-8-5) scored 99 points in 60 games – 135 points, which would surpass the 132 points of the 1977 Montreal Canadiens.

Sweeney also bolstered the roster ahead of Friday’s trade deadline by acquiring the forward Tyler Bertuzzi on Thursday in an agreement that will send Detroit the top 10 defended first-round picks in 2024 and fourth-round picks in 2025. (Red Wings keep half of Bertuzzi’s pay until the end of the season.) Sweeney signed a quarterback last week. Dmitry Orlov and go Pomegranate Hathaway from Washington.

This could help Pastrnak in the long run.

“We’re confident in what our organization has to offer David,” Sweeney said. “The success we’ve had – and hopefully will continue – is a big part of that.”

Pastrnak, who could become a free agent after that season, played all of his nine NHL seasons with the Bruins, scoring a total of 282 goals and 302 assists. With fellow strikers Patrice BergeronDavid Kreychi and Brad Marchandhe helped the team score at least 100 points in the last four full NHL seasons and reach the Stanley Cup Finals in 2019.

“These are the guys I grew up with, pretty much my NHL career,” Pastrnak said. “I learn from them every day. It’s an amazing achievement to play your entire career on the same team. That’s definitely something that stuck in my head during these negotiations.”

Bertuzzi, 28, helps fill gap left by injury Taylor Hall, who was placed on long-term injury reserve on Thursday. The 2010 No. 1 pick with 16 goals and 20 assists this season will not be available until the end of March, if at all.

By placing him on injured reserve, the team saved $6 million on the salary cap, making room for Bertuzzi. The former Red Wing player has 14 points in 29 games this season, along with 88 goals and 114 assists in a career in which he never made the playoffs. Forward Nick Foligno was also placed on the injured reserve. This season he has 10 goals and 16 assists.

Tyler Bertuzzi going to the best in the NHL, the Boston Bruins in the last step of the Stanley Cup contender to keep up with the busy Eastern Conference.

The Bruins acquired Bertuzzi from the Detroit Red Wings for a protected top 10 pick in the first round in 2024 and fourth round in 2025. Detroit is holding half of Bertuzzi’s salary for the remainder of the season.

Bertuzzi is a 28-year-old forward awaiting the release of an agent who gives Boston offensive depth and insurance for an injured winger. Taylor Hall. The team placed Hall on long-term injured reserve, ruling him out until the end of March.

Enter Bertuzzi, who himself has been limited by injuries this season. He has 14 points in 29 games.

Bertuzzi has 88 goals and 114 assists in 305 regular season games. He has yet to make the playoffs in the NHL.

This will almost certainly change next month. The Bruins are on pace with 64 wins and 135 points, which would be the best regular season in hockey history with records in each of those categories.

Four years after the Lightning set a league record for wins and lost in the first round of the playoffs, the Bruins fell apart. They have a protector Dmitry Orlov and go Pomegranate Hathaway from Washington last week, a move that made them bigger and tougher ahead of the difficult road through the East.

The last few days have gotten harder.

The leader of the capital division “Carolina” acquired a defender Shane Gostisbeecher and winger Jesse PulujärviNew York Rangers traded for three-time Stanley Cup champion Patrick Kanethe islanders went ahead into the depths Pierre EngvalTampa Bay waived five picks for 25-year-old forward Tanner Jeannot, Pittsburgh shuffled its roster to bring in Mikael Grulund, and Toronto continued with a roster revamp that saw the addition of six new players to the Maple Leafs. Even Ottawa, five points short of the playoffs, made a big splash with Jacob Chichrun from Arizona.

On Thursday, the Red Wings share the standings with the Senators, but general manager Steve Yzerman prefers to sell rather than buy. Before he left Bertuzzi, he switched defenders Philip Chronek to Vancouver in a deal that gave his team a first-round pick.

Detroit also took care of some domestic affairs on Wednesday, signing a captain Dylan Larkin to an eight-year, $69.6 million extension to keep the three-time All-Star center on the roster until 2031. Boston did the same on Thursday with the MVP nominee. to David Pastrsigning him to an eight-year, $90 million contract, the sixth most lucrative contract in NHL history.

There was little concern that Larkin would go somewhere but not with Pastrnak. Among the players expected to be traded before Friday’s 3:00 pm EDT deadline is a Philadelphia winger. James van Riemsdykquarterback of Anaheim John Klingberg and three-time Goalie Cup winner Jonathan Quickwho was sent from Los Angeles to Columbus this week but is expected to go to a rival.

Arizona may also part with any number of pending free agents and players signed after the end of this season following the acquisition. Jakub Voraceka contract with the Blue Jackets, as well as a 2023 sixth-round minor league goalie pick. John Gillis. The Coyotes can use next season’s $8.25 million cap on Voracek, whose career is likely ended due to a concussion, to stay below minimum wage while Columbus gets some financial flexibility.

Among other moves on Thursday, St. Louis re-signed Sammy Blais up to $1 million with a one-year extension. The Blues reacquired Blais in a trade that sent Vladimir Tarasenko The Rangers, who now have a roster with a high-scoring forward and Kane.

Jacob Chichrunthe long wait is over.

After missing eight games pending a trade, the quarterback is finally on the road after being traded from the Arizona Coyotes to the Ottawa Senators.

Instead of waiting for the NHL trade deadline, the Coyotes found their asking price in a deal that saw them acquire a conditional first-round pick this year, a conditional second-round pick in 2024, and a second-round pick. in the 26th.

“The defender we have been craving, Jakob is big and impressive. he has a quality skill set,” Senators general manager Pierre Dorion said in a statement released by the team. “He uses his powerful punch with precision and effectively creates an attack as a threat on the blue offensive line.”

Chichran, who turns 25 on March 31, has been losing for trade-related reasons since Feb. 11, and his last game for Arizona came the day before, when he assisted in a 4-3 overtime win in Chicago.

The move ends a long saga for Chichran and the rebuilding Coyotes, who tried to turn him in last season.

“On behalf of the entire organization, I would like to thank Jacob for all he has done for the Coyotes on and off the ice over the past seven seasons,” said Arizona general manager Bill Armstrong.

After months of discussions with almost every NHL team, the deal finally went through after Armstrong reopened negotiations with the Senators after they traded the quarterback. Nikita Zaitsev in Chicago last week.

The Senators’ offer to draft and not ask the Coyotes to take over any of Chichran’s remaining two-plus salary seasons was key for Armstrong in closing the deal.

“Our goal was to get more draft capital at this stage,” said Armstrong, who had three first-round picks in last year’s draft and potentially two first-round picks this year.

A conditional first-round pick acquired from Ottawa is protected in the top five and will become unprotected in the first round in 2024. protected first and then move on to 2025 without protection.

“We are still in recovery mode. And we’re still in style next year,” said Armstrong. “This will give us a chance for two fairly high picks in the first round. And you can actually make hay when you do that.”

The deal could have gone through last summer if Chichran hadn’t had surgery on his wrist and ankle. He missed the first month of the season and has since scored seven goals and 21 assists in 36 games since returning.

The trade was the second of the day in Arizona, and the Coyotes in Dallas were getting ready to play the Stars. Arizona also acquired a 2026 third-round pick by sending quarterback Shane Gostisbeecher to Carolina.

The Senators, meanwhile, are adding Chichran to the young core of a team that has won three straight wins, including back-to-back beating division rival Detroit, and is five points behind the second and last wildcard spot in the East. Conference.

In Ottawa, the son of former NHL defenseman Jeff Chichran is in the playoffs for the second time in his professional career.

Much of Chichran’s output went unnoticed when he played for Arizona, a perennial whose only playoff appearance in the last decade came in 2020, when the NHL expanded its field in the postseason.