Boston Bruins General Manager Peter Chiarelli announced today that the club has traded defenseman Andrew Alberts to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for forward Ned Lukacevic and a fourth round pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.  The 2009 fourth round pick becomes a 2009 third round pick if the Flyers resign Alberts at the end of his contract which expires on June 30, 2009.

Alberts played collegiately for Boston College from 2001–2005 with a total of 66 points and 243 penalty minutes in 149 career college games.He was then drafted by the Bruins in the fourth round (179th overall) in the 2001 Entry Draft. Alberts played in 181 games for the Bruins during his three-plus years with the club, notching one goal, 18 assists and 231 penalty minutes.  This season Alberts couldn’t seem to crack the starting line up. He was a healthy scratch in the Bruins first two games of the 2008-2009 season.

The new guy, 22-year-old Lukacevic played 61 games for Reading of the East Coast Hockey League and tallied 17 goals and 19 assists last year.  He will not see time in Boston in the near future. He stands at 6-0 and 200 pound and is from Podgorica, Serbia. In three-plus professional seasons split between Reading (ECHL) Manchester (American Hockey League) and Philadelphia (AHL),  played in 126 games, recording 61 points and 99 penalty minutes.  Originally drafted in the fourth round (110th overall) in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft by the Los Angeles Kings, Lukacevic was dealt to the Flyers in a deal that brought the Kings Denis Gauthier.