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. 

The Bruins prepare for Montreal tonight in the Canadiens’ 100th home opener. This marks the first meeting between these two long time rivals this season.