{"id":566040,"date":"2026-05-03T19:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/566040\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T19:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:06:16","slug":"bruins-reassign-lukas-reichel-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/566040\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins Reassign Lukas Reichel \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5\/3\/26:\u00a0The Bruins reassigned Reichel to Providence today, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NHLBruins\/status\/2051006850452066623\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to a team announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>5\/2\/26: While Boston\u2019s playoff run is over, one of their players will still have some postseason action on the horizon.\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/waiver-wire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PuckPedia reports<\/a> that the Bruins have placed winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/reichlu01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-02_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lukas Reichel<\/a> on waivers for the purpose of assignment to AHL Providence.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time that the 23-year-old has been on waivers this season.\u00a0 Vancouver acquired Reichel early in the season from Chicago for a fourth-round pick in the hopes that he could give a banged-up roster a bit of a lift.\u00a0 However, he struggled and some of their injured players returned, resulting in the Canucks waiving him in mid-December, where he passed through unclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for some extra winger depth at the trade deadline, the Bruins flipped a sixth-round pick to Vancouver to acquire Reichel and left him briefly in the minors.\u00a0 He eventually was recalled, getting into ten games down the stretch before returning to the AHL.\u00a0 Reichel was then brought up for the postseason and suited up once against the Sabres.<\/p>\n<p>On the season, Reichel played in just 29 NHL games between Chicago, Vancouver, and Boston, notching three goals and five assists.\u00a0 He also picked up 19 points in 27 AHL contests and added three more in five games for Germany at the Olympics.\u00a0 For his career, Reichel has 23 goals and 39 assists in 198 career NHL contests.<\/p>\n<p>A first-round pick back in 2020 (17th overall), Reichel is slated to become a restricted free agent this summer and will be owed a $1.3MM qualifying offer with salary arbitration rights.\u00a0 At this point, it seems unlikely he\u2019ll receive that.\u00a0 That also makes it quite unlikely that he\u2019ll be claimed by Sunday\u2019s 1 PM CT deadline, paving the way for him to return to Providence as the league-leading Bruins look to have a long postseason run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5\/3\/26:\u00a0The Bruins reassigned Reichel to Providence today, according to a team announcement. 5\/2\/26: While Boston\u2019s playoff run is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[95,5,8669,405,11839],"class_list":["post-566040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey","tag-boston-bruins","tag-hockey","tag-lukas-reichel","tag-transactions","tag-waivers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116512213167075519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566040","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=566040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}