Report: Could Bruins look to re-acquire 2011 Stanley Cup winner?

It's a Boston Bruins reunion tour in Italy right now, as the likes of Patrice Bergeron, Milan Lucic, Torey Krug, Brad Marchand, Charlie McAvoy and others, are currently in Italy for former Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask's wedding to his longtime girlfriend Jasmiina Nikkila.

And that got Jimmy Murphy of Boston Hockey Now to thinking: could the hard-nosed Lucic, who plied his trade for years with the Bruins to fan acclaim, make a return to New England? 

Take a look at what he recently wrote that could have Bruins fans thinking of a potential reunion with the player known affectionately as "Looch": 

"It goes without saying that Milan Lucic isn’t the player that became the second coming of Neely when he arrived on the Boston scene in 2007-08 and scored 30 goals in the 2010-11 Stanley Cup season for the Boston Bruins. Or is he the player that went on to score 20 or more goals in four of his next six seasons played with the Bruins, Los Angeles Kings and Edmonton Oilers. Is he worth the $6 million cap hit he carries for the final season of the seven-year contract he’s riding out?

Nope. However, according to one NHL source Sunday night, Flames general manager Brad Treliving could be willing to eat some of that cap hit if the Bruins sweetened the deal and he doesn’t get whacked on contracts for forward Andrew Mangiapane and defenseman Oliver Kylington, two RFA’s headed for arbitration. 'Depending on what happens with those guys – and if [Darryl] Sutter lets him go because he loves him.

"'I think Brad is willing to get creative with ‘Looch’', the source told Boston Hockey Now."

Lucic is a veteran of 1,096 career NHL games spent with the Bruins, Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames, scoring 226 goals and 339 assists. He's also appeared in 136 career postseason games, tallying 29 goals and 48 assists.