What to KnowThe 2026 NHL trade deadline was at 3 p.m. ETThe Bruins made a four-player minor league trade with the Flyers and acquired depth forward Lukas Reichel from the Blackhawks.The Bruins did not address any of their top needs (center, right-shot defenseman, scoring wing).Veteran defenseman Andrew Peeke, who can be a UFA in the summer, was not moved.The Bruins are in the second wild card spot in the Eastern Conference standings. They lead the Blue Jacket by only one point.<\/p>\n
The Boston Bruins did not make a splash before Friday afternoon’s NHL trade deadline.<\/p>\n
In fact, they didn’t do much of anything.<\/p>\n
Aside from a four-player deal with the Flyers involving minor league players, and a move to acquire depth forward Lukas Reichel from the Blackhawks, the Bruins mostly stood pat at the deadline.<\/p>\n
Maybe the Bruins will get top prospect James Hagens in the mix when Boston College’s season ends, but other than that, they’ll have to make do with the roster they have as the playoff race intensifies. <\/p>\n
Check out a recap of the trade deadline with our live blog below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowThe 2026 NHL trade deadline was at 3 p.m. ETThe Bruins made a four-player minor league…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5099],"tags":[154,95,5132,530,5,4,548,546,594],"class_list":{"0":"post-489918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-boston","9":"tag-boston-bruins","10":"tag-bostonbruins","11":"tag-bruins","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nhl-trade-deadline","15":"tag-nhl-trade-rumors","16":"tag-nick-goss"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116184546983661411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489918","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=489918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}