Here is a little take on the deals that went down on trading deadline for the Boston Bruins. The B’s made two trades during the March 4th NHL trade deadline. They first sent F Petteri Nokelainen to Anaheim for D Steve Montador. Then followed that up by trading prospects Matt Lashoff and Martins Karsums to Tampa Bay for F Mark Recchi and a 2nd round draft pick. These two deals were to add depth to the Bruins roster. GM Peter Chiarelli wanted to hit upon two areas approaching the dealine; add a left handed shot on the powerplay and bolster the defense. He accomplished both of those with out breaking up the roster or throwing away the furture for one shot at the Cup. Although it is believed that a bigger deal was left on the table, the Bruins came on winners at the trade dealine.

The Bruins Get

Steve Montador
Position- D
Height- 6-0
Weight- 210 lbs.
Shoots- Right
Experience- 6 years
Age- 29

Mark Recchi
Position- Wing
Height- 5-10
Weight- 195 lbs.
Shoots- Left
Experience- 19 years
Age- 41

2nd Round Draft Pick From Tampa Bay

Boston’s Claude Julien will be your All-Star coach for the Eastern Conference All-Stars. The coaches for the game are determined by the best winning percentage at the midway point of the season. That means Julien gets the nod behind the bench as he has lead the B’s to 66 points at the half way mark. Todd McLellan of the San Jose Sharks will represent the Western Conference All-Stars behind the bench with a league leading 67 points at the mid point.

Julien’s assistant for the game will be none other than Montreal Canadiens coach Guy Carbonneau. Carbonneau beat out Washington Capitals’ coach Bruce Boudreau. Carbonneau and the Habs needed to beat Boudreau’s Capitals on Saturday night in order to get him in as coach. Montreal rallied for a 5-4 victory, thus placing their coach in the game.

With Julien coaching and Marc Savard, Tim Thomas, and Zdeno Chara participating, the B’s will be well represented in the game. The Bruins will also be represented well in the Young Stars Game. Milan Lucic will return to the game but as a member of the sophomore team this time. He will be playing against teammate and member of the rookie team, Blake Wheeler. Wheeler has tallied 13 goals and 14 assist in his first 42 games as a pro.

Skating with Wheeler will be Patrik Berglund (Blues), Mikkel Boedker (Coyotes), Drew Doughty (Kings), Michael Frolik (Panthers), James Neal (Stars), Luke Schenn (Maple Leafs), Steven Stamkos (Lightning), Kris Versteeg (Black Hawks), and goaltender Steve Mason (Blue Jackets).

Alex Tanguay scored the shootout winner to give Montreal a 4-3 victory over the Boston Bruins on Wednesday night in the Canadiens’ first home game in their 100th year. This mark the 12^th straight regular season win over Boston for Montreal, outscoring Boston 51-22 during the 12-game winning streak.

“Obviously, the first period, that’s not the start that we wanted,” Patrice Bergeron said. “We never stopped battling and we came back in the game, and I think that’s a big point, but we could have avoided going to overtime by playing well in the first period.”

David Krejci drove a slap shot from the slot off the crossbar and into the net 7:15 into the second period for an unassisted goal that cut the lead to 3-1.

Marc Savard, whose power-play goal 7:12 into the third made it 3-2, scored into a wide open net after Canadiens’ goalie Carey Price was caught behind the goal when Michael Ryder’s dump-in took a strange bounce off the right boards and over the back of the net. Savard scored his second third-period goal with 47.6 seconds left in regulation to tie it at 3.

Sobotka recalled to Bruins" class="imgcaption floatr" style="float: right;" />With the trade of Andrew Alberts and the injury to Chuck Kobasew, the Bruins have called up Vladimir Sobotka and Matt Hunwick from Providence of the AHL. Kobasew suffered another set back in his injury plagued career with a broken ankle. He is should be out for 3 weeks.

GM Peter Chiarelli shed sone light on the Alberts trade in his blog on bostonbruins.com.

"We made a move yesterday to trade Andrew Alberts to Philadelphia. There are a lot of components, or reasons, behind that trade - and I will share a couple of them with you."

"Maybe the biggest one was to open up some spots for some young guys (Sobotka and Hunwick) who we called up this morning. Secondly, you have to be very proactive in this system and you have to move early on things. We weren’t going to re-sign Andrew, so we figured we’d better preserve the asset, so to speak, and get something back."

With Kobasew out and Alberts out of town, this left the door wide up for Sobotka and Hunwick.

Hunwick spent the majority of the 07-08 season in Providence where he earned 23 points in 55 games.  He was recalled to Boston on four separate occasions last year and tallied one assist in 13 games.  Sobotka tallied two goals and two assists in the first two games for the P-Bruins this year.  He split the 2007-2008 season between Boston and Providence, and with Boston, saw action in 48 regular season games, contributed one goal and six assists and added two goals in six postseason games.