{"id":477529,"date":"2026-02-28T19:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T19:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/477529\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T19:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T19:07:14","slug":"the-2-places-boston-is-looking-to-upgrade-ahead-of-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/477529\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2 places Boston is looking to upgrade ahead of trade deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/boston-bruins\/bruins-dream-nightmare-scenario-for-2026-nhl-trade-deadline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins are used to winning a lot of NHL games<\/a>, and that has been happening a good amount this season. Boston currently holds a 33-20-5 overall record. The Bruins are rumored to be looking to upgrade ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/nhl-trade-deadline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL trade deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefourthperiod.com\/feb-2026\/bruins-after-top-six-forward-rightshot-defenceman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">are two specific places<\/a> on the roster where Boston wants help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Boston Bruins are looking to address two areas of their club before the trade deadline kicks in next Friday and GM Don Sweeney in the market for a top-six forward and a right-shot defenceman,\u201d The Fourth Period reported.<\/p>\n<p>Boston is reportedly willing to part ways with one specific player, in the hopes of meeting their needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne piece the Bruins are dangling and have made available is young forward Matthew Poitras, who is in the final year of his entry-level contract,\u201d the outlet added.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/boston-bruins\/bruins-news-morgan-geekie-previews-nhl-trade-deadline-boston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL trade deadline is on March 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bruins hope to return to the Stanley Cup Playoffs<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins are hoping to once again make the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Boston missed the postseason in 2024-25, for the first time since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>While the team has won six of their last 10 games, the club has struggled defensively at times this season. Boston has allowed 184 goals on the year.<\/p>\n<p>Boston tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/boston-bruins\/what-bruins-must-do-after-missing-out-on-rasmus-andersson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">make a deal earlier this NHL season for Rasmus Andersson<\/a>, but it didn&#8217;t work out. The Calgary Flames instead sent Andersson to Las Vegas. Even though Boston lost out on Andersson, the Bruins reportedly have stayed aggressive in their search for a defenseman.<\/p>\n<p>A team Boston<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/are-stars-aligning-trade-deadline-bruins-blues-thomas-parayko-faulk-schenn-poitras-lohrei-ristolainen-tippett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> has reportedly been in contact<\/a> with is the St. Louis Blues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong the players the Bruins could have interest in, Olympic silver medalist Colton Parayko is one among them. The 32-year-old hulking defender certainly fits the mold of what the Bruins are looking for on the back end and, based on a conversation I had last night, sounds like someone Boston has liked for a while,\u201d Daily Faceoff&#8217;s Anthony Di Marco wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Boston next plays on Saturday against the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Bruins are used to winning a lot of NHL games, and that has been happening a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[463,464],"tags":[95,5,4,60,107,548,14,104,718],"class_list":{"0":"post-477529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-playoffs","8":"category-stanley-cup-playoffs","9":"tag-boston-bruins","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nhl-playoffs","13":"tag-nhl-rumors","14":"tag-nhl-trade-deadline","15":"tag-stanley-cup","16":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","17":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}