The Boston Bruins have finished a busy summer reshaping their hockey operations staff, and the biggest name in the mix is a familiar one from another Atlantic Division organization.
Kevyn Adams, the former Buffalo Sabres general manager, has been brought in as a special advisor to Don Sweeney. Boston also elevated Dennis Bonvie and Jeremy Rogalski to assistant general manager roles, while adding Alex Gimenez as Director of Hockey Operations with a focus on the collective bargaining agreement.
The Bruins also moved on from assistant GM Evan Gold, who will depart on August 1st to pursue other opportunities in the NHL. Gold had overseen the AHL’s Providence Bruins last season, and his exit leaves the minor-league club without a GM or head coach. A veteran of 10 seasons in Boston’s front office, Gold has also been rumored to be headed for a role with the Toronto Maple Leafs per Kevin Paul DuPont of The Boston Globe.
Adams is the headline addition. He arrives with a different kind of résumé than most front-office hires, having spent six years running Buffalo after taking over in 2020 with minimal previous management experience. During his tenure, he helped reshape the Sabres roster by bringing in Alex Tuch, Bowen Byram, Ryan McLeod, and Joshua Norris, then layering in younger pieces such as Zach Benson, Josh Doan Konsta Helenius, and Owen Power.
Many of the players assembled under Adams were part of the group that ended the longest playoff drought in major sports, though he was dismissed in December 2025 before seeing the club’s eventual breakthrough. Still, Buffalo is now looking at the future he helped build, and Boston is betting that same creativity can help push its own reset forward without a full teardown.
Bonvie’s promotion keeps another longtime Bruins voice in the room. He spent four years as Boston’s Director of Professional Scouting and has worked as a pro scout in the NHL since 2008, including one year with the Maple Leafs, six with the Chicago Blackhawks, and 10 in Boston. Before moving into scouting, Bonvie had a long AHL playing career that stretched across 15 seasons and included stops with eight clubs, among them 23 games in Providence.
He was known for his rugged style, and the numbers back that up: Bonvie is the most-penalized player in AHL history with 4,493 PIMs in 871 games, an average of five penalty minutes per game. His 1996-97 season with the Hamilton Bulldogs still ranks second all-time for penalty minutes in a single AHL season, when he piled up 522 PIMs in 73 games.
Rogalski’s rise comes after nine seasons as Boston’s Director of Analytics and four earlier years as the club’s video coach. He had worked closely with Gold on modernizing the Bruins’ approach, which led to speculation that the two might leave together per Joe Haggerty of the Boston Sports Journal. Instead, Gold is out and Rogalski is moving into his first assistant GM title, with the division of AHL responsibilities between him and Bonvie still to be determined.
Gimenez adds another layer to the overhaul. A Cornell graduate, he spent 10 years with the Boston Red Sox in scouting and baseball operations roles before most recently serving as Manager of Hockey Analytics and Strategic Projects for the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL). After that stretch in baseball and a brief stop in the women’s league, he now enters an NHL front office that is working with only $5.39MM in projected cap space per PuckPedia.
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