COMMENTARY
At this juncture of the NHL calendar, Don Sweeney has developed a reputation for providing the fireworks.
Just as the bars around Southie become inundated past the second weekend of March, the Bruins tend to stuff the transaction-wire logs whenever the calendar mercifully flips past February.
In an effort to put several promising rosters over the top, Sweeney and the Bruins have relinquished long-term assets in search of short-term rewards — a sacrifice welcomed if a skater draped in black-and-gold hoists hockey’s most coveted prize in June.
Every spring ushered in a new wave of reinforcements to Boston: Rick Nash, Charlie Coyle, Marcus Johansson, Ondrej Kase, Nick Ritchie, Taylor Hall, Hampus Lindholm, Dmitry Orlov, Tyler Bertuzzi.