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Report: Bruins looking to trade Tomas Kaberle’s rights 06.28.11 at 10:38 pm ET
By DJ Bean

According to a tweet from TSN’s Darren Dreger, the Bruins sent out an email Tuesday offering Tomas Kaberle‘s negotiating rights to other teams. Any team that acquired Kaberle would, as the Bruins do now, be able to negotiate with the defenseman exclusively leading up to the opening of free agency on Friday.

Kaberle, 33, is one of only two unrestricted free agents from the Bruins’ Stanley Cup champion lineup. Acquired on Feb. 18 in exchange for center Joe Colborne, a 2011 first-round pick and a 2012 second-rounder, he had one goal and eight assists for nine points in 24 regular-season games with the B’s. He and Dennis Seidenberg tied for lead among Bruins’ defenseman in postseason points with 11.

Rights to free-agents-to-be can be moved by the teams with which they last played, as the Flyers traded for the rights to goalie Ilya Bryzgalov before locking him up last week. The Canucks traded the rights to defenseman Christian Ehrhoff to the Islanders on Tuesday.

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  • Eric

    1st rounder and Dennis Wideman for Horton…bad trade. Horton’s an excellent player, but they had a very similar player in Blake Wheeler. They still needed a D man, so they trade for Kaberle who is a very similar player (in terms of strengths and weaknesses) to Wideman…If they wanted that type of player they shouldn’t have traded Wideman in the first place. Moreover, if the B’s had kept their 1st round pick in 2010, they were in very good position to move up and take Cam Fowler(since they had 3..make that 2 because of one they traded away) second round draft picks…thus solving their need for an puck moving D-Man.

    Then they trade Wheeler in order to create cap space for Kaberle. (Stuart probably would have left via free agency anyway so I’ll give them a mulligan there) This seqence of events makes little sense. Yes they won a cup…but how much of a factor was kaberle? They probably would have won without the Horton, or Kaberle trades given that Wheeler could probably give you the same production as Horton if he played on the first line.

    These moves seriously compromise the future. Think about what they gave up in all…in essence 5 first round picks….Wheeler, Stuart, Colborne, 2010 first rounder, 2011 first rounder, plus a 2nd and third round pick. Chiarelli’s obviously a smart guy, but these trades are of the sort that got O’Connel fired. He appears to have been effected by the pressue…it is difficult to make good decisions under pressure…and Chia, does not seem to have the miserly streak that makes great GM’s. Sinden may have been miserly. but he was a very talented GM. …He traded away one and only one first round pick (for Charlie Simmer) in his entire tenure as B’s GM.

    GOOD GM’S DO NOT TRADE FIRST ROUND DRAFT PICKS!!!

  • Dan

    Uhhh… I think they won some trophy this year. Do good GMs make up teams that win trophies?

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