{"id":691501,"date":"2026-10-20T16:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/691501\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T16:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:09:12","slug":"bruins-notes-zadorov-zacha-eyssimont-jokiharju-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/691501\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins Notes: Zadorov, Zacha, Eyssimont, Jokiharju \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nikita Zadorov<\/a> wasn\u2019t happy about missing a game, according to Jim McBride of the Boston Globe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old defenseman in the Bruins\u2019 4-2 win over the Anaheim Ducks committed a double minor penalty against forward Frank Vatrano<\/a>, which became his second and third penalties of the night amid the poorest of games from him in 2026-27. Marco Sturm scratched him as a result of that in the Bruins 4-1 win against the Kings. But Zadorov doubled down on his style of play;<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, we are Boston Bruins, and we play that brand of hockey, and I\u2019m fitting this brand really well. And I believe it fits me pretty well, as well,\u201d said the 6-foot-7-inch, 244-pound Zadorov. \u201cAnd I\u2019ve been playing my whole life that way. I\u2019m a big, physical D. I\u2019m an emotional person on and off the ice, and I\u2019m emotionally invested on and off the ice. So, when I go out there, I will die for any of my teammates and this logo that\u2019s on my chest. That\u2019s what I play for, I play for the pride. So, when I go out there, I\u2019ll leave everything on the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zadorov has led the team and furthermore, the NHL in penalties in minutes each of the last two seasons. Those calls against Anaheim got him to 29 PIM\u2019s, also team-leading this year. Boston, since acquiring him, has seen only three games without his presence on the ice, dating back to the start of the 2024-25 season; they are a +20 goal differential with him on the ice in that span.<\/p>\n

Additional Bruins Notes:<\/p>\n

Pavel Zacha<\/a>, who missed that Kings game as well, exiting the game against Anaheim due to an undisclosed injury, is a game-time decision<\/a> against the Dallas Stars. Zacha is off to a good start to his 2026-27 campaign with five points through eight games thus far and currently projects to be one of the unrestricted top free agent centers next summer if he doesn\u2019t re-sign in Boston. The Bruins, in his absence, moved Fraser Minten<\/a> and Matthew Poitras<\/a> to the first and second lines while having Sean Kuraly<\/a> fill in as the 4C below Elias Lindholm<\/a>.
\nMichael Eyssimont<\/a> and Henri Jokiharju<\/a> both declined to comment on whether they requested a trade out of the Bruins organization, according to Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe<\/a>. As previously reported by Elliotte Friedman on his written 32 Thoughts<\/a>; the Bruins have been shopping a new home for the 27-year-old Jokiharju, who is entering the second season of a three-year, $3MM AAV contract and the former first-round pick can certainly provide depth offense from the blue line. Eyssimont is making a case that he doesn\u2019t belong in the AHL ranks, having registered two hattricks, seven goals total for eight points in just four AHL games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikita Zadorov wasn\u2019t happy about missing a game, according to Jim McBride of the Boston Globe. The 31-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[401,95,1754,5,8108,4,3387,7610],"class_list":["post-691501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ahl","tag-boston-bruins","tag-henri-jokiharju","tag-hockey","tag-michael-eyssimont","tag-nhl","tag-nikita-zadorov","tag-pavel-zacha"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117474109966411518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691501","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=691501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}