Joe Haggerty

Jeremy Swayman is a pretty busy guy.

It’s been a pretty natural connection to make between 21-year-old rookie center Fraser Minten and one of the most beloved players in Boston Bruins history. Nobody throws around comparisons to Patrice Bergeron lightly, but Minten showed a lot of Bergy-like qualities while posting 17 goals and 35 points along with a plus-21 in playing 82 games for the Black and Gold this past season.

Haggs is here to answer all of your questions about the instant classic Stanley Cup Final series between the Hurricanes and Golden Knights, the coaching carousel drama around the NHL and the Boston Bruins offseason that is about to get going in the next few weeks.

The Boston Bruins are in a unique position that they have not been in very often during Don Sweeney and Cam Neely’s decade-plus tenure leading the Original Six franchise.

Do the Bruins want to avoid another Brandon Bussi situation?

Haggs is here to answer all of your questions about the Bruins offseason now that it is here, the Carolina Hurricanes as the new Stanley Cup champs and the looming NHL Draft and Bruins development camp rolling out over the next few weeks.

With NHL free agency less than two weeks away and the Stanley Cup Final now in the rear-view mirror, things are percolating in the hockey offseason for the Bruins, and frankly for everybody else around the league.

The Boston Bruins have amassed a treasure trove of draft picks over the next few years and they continued that trend by trading one of their prospects ahead of next week’s NHL Draft in Buffalo.

The arms race is officially back on in the Atlantic Division, and the Bruins will need to decide how fervently they want to jump into at this point.

Patrice Bergeron admitted that “the dust hadn’t settled yet” on a once-in-a-lifetime whirlwind week that saw him honored as a member of the 2026 Hockey Hall of Fame class, and a Bruins player that will join an ultra-exclusive club and see his iconic No. 37 raised to the TD Garden rafters next season.