At the trade deadline last March, Boston Bruins general manager Don Sweeney had a fire sale for a club that was fading from the Eastern Conference postseason race.
It started with Sweeney shipping Trent Frederic as the centerpiece of a three-team trade to the Edmonton Oilers. The New Jersey Devils were the third team involved. That was three days before the actual deadline, and then the night before the deadline, Sweeney struck again.
After a disappointing loss on a last-minute goal by the Carolina Hurricanes on the road, Sweeney sent rugged forward Justin Brazeau to the Minnesota Wild for a package that landed Marat Khusnutdinov, who is a big piece of the 2025-26 Bruins.