Rumoured reunion between Milan Lucic and Bruins surfaces!

On Tuesday, hockey insider Rick Dhaliwal reported that the Calgary Flames had given veteran forward Milan Lucic permission to speak with other teams in advance of the free agent market opening on July 1.

While the gritty forward has already been linked to the Vancouver Canucks, insider Pierre LeBrun explains how a reunion wit the Boston Bruins would almost be poetic. Lucic even commented on the possibility of returning to Boston as a free agent this summer.

“Obviously it’s a special place for me and it will always be a special place for me,” said Lucic, a member of the 2011 Cup champion Bruins.

“But we’ve got what, 10, 11 days to see what happens (before July 1)? We’ll see what happens and then go from there.”

The Bruins originally selected Lucic in the second round, 50th overall back in the 2006 NHL Draft. He became an impact player with the Bruins, topping out at 30 goals in the Bruins’ Stanley Cup-winning 2010–11 season.

A lot has happened since then. In 2019, the Flames acquired Lucic and a conditional third-round pick from the Edmonton Oilers in 2019 in exchange for forward James Neal. He spent four season in Calgary while commanding $6 million per season over the duration of the seven-year contract he inked in Edmonton back in 2016.

Now a pending unrestricted free agent for the second time of his career, Lucic is more than likely expected to cash in a much smaller salary with an anonymous team executive telling LeBrun: “Big, heavy, veteran winger who should come in on a one-year, low-money deal. “Any team that wants size and a fear element will look at him.”

Could that be the Bruins?

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