Three years after the Boston Bruins set a league record with 65 wins, the roster looks almost nothing like it did in 2022-23. Only six players from that team are still around, and one of them, Connor Clifton, is back in the fold after three years away and will be back on TD Garden ice in the fall.
The holdovers are David Pastrnak, Charlie McAvoy, Pavel Zacha, Hampus Lindholm, and Jeremy Swayman, with Pastrnak standing as the longest-tenured player on the roster. Everyone else from that record-setting group has gone a different direction, and in a lot of cases, gone far.
Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci retired after that season, closing the book on two of the defining Bruins careers of the era. From there, the exits kept coming.
Tyler Bertuzzi, Dmitry Orlov, and Garnet Hathaway were all deadline additions in 2022-23, and all three left in free agency that July. Bertuzzi signed with Toronto on a one-year deal, was eliminated from the playoffs by Boston, then landed a four-year deal in Chicago.
He followed that with a career-high 32 goals last season. Orlov spent two years in Carolina before moving on to San Jose, and he posted career-best numbers with 37 points last season.
Hathaway went to Philadelphia for a stretch and is now with Florida after being traded there this summer.
Mike Reilly’s path was even more winding. Don Sweeney bought him out, Reilly ended up with the Stanley Cup on his resume after a stop in Florida, then bounced through waivers to the Islanders before Carolina signed him to a one-year deal. He put up nine points in 42 regular-season games and is currently a free agent.
Boston also moved on from Taylor Hall and Nick Foligno when money was tight that summer, sending both to Chicago for two depth pieces who are no longer with the Bruins. Hall and Foligno are no longer with the Blackhawks either.
Hall picked up a Stanley Cup with Carolina this summer and produced 48 points, his best total since the 2021-22 season in Boston. Foligno was dealt to Minnesota at the 2026 trade deadline to join his brother Marcus, then signed a one-year deal to stay with the Wild this summer.
AJ Greer was lost on waivers before the 2023-24 season, and his career took off after that. He moved from Calgary to Florida, won a Cup, and then set new highs with 32 points before landing a four-year, $4.25 million AAV deal with Anaheim this summer.
Linus Ullmark was traded to Ottawa before the 2024 draft and signed a four-year extension early in the 2024-25 season. His numbers haven’t matched the Vezina season he delivered in Boston, but he has helped the Senators get to the playoffs twice.
Jake DeBrusk and Derek Forbort both left for Vancouver in free agency the same day Boston added Nikita Zadorov and Elias Lindholm. DeBrusk kept doing what he does best for the Canucks, scoring 20 goals in both seasons, though most of the damage came on the power play.
He had just four goals at even strength last season and has again surfaced in trade talk. Forbort barely played in 2025-26, dressing for only two games before hip problems and a bad reaction to a PRP injection shut him down.
Matt Grzelcyk looked like he had found a home in Pittsburgh for 2024-25, where he set a career high with 39 assists while spending a lot of time next to Kris Letang. Pittsburgh let him walk, and after a long wait the Blackhawks gave the Charlestown native a PTO before last season. He made the roster, finished with 12 assists, and is now looking for another landing spot.
A few other names eventually headed overseas. Tomas Nosek, Jakub Lauko, and Jakub Zboril all ended up in Czechia. Zboril is entering his second season with HC Vítkovice, while Lauko and Nosek are set to be teammates at HC Dynamo Pardubice this season.
The 2025 trade deadline brought another wave of change. Trent Frederic was the first from that Bruins team to go, getting dealt to Edmonton.
He appeared in one regular-season game and 22 playoff games, then signed an eight-year deal with a $3.85 million AAV. Frederic finished the year with seven points in 74 games, well below the 31 and 40-point seasons he posted in Boston.
Charlie Coyle was next. Colorado got him for its playoff push, then moved him to Columbus with Miles Wood that summer. He found his footing there, putting up 58 points last season before signing a six-year extension with a $6 million AAV.
The biggest jolt came minutes before the 3:00 PM ET deadline, when Don Sweeney sent Brad Marchand to Florida. The Panthers’ former and latest Bruins captain went on to win the Stanley Cup, then signed a six-year, $5.25 million AAV deal last summer that keeps him under contract until he’s 43. Florida missed the playoffs last season, but Marchand still scored 27 goals and finished at 1.04 points per game.
Brandon Carlo was dealt just before the buzzer too, going to Toronto in a move that brought back a haul. He spent two seasons there, logging 10 assists in 75 regular-season games, before being moved to St.
Louis for two third-round picks. He’ll now reunite with former bench boss Jim Montgomery.
A few more names from 2022-23 have taken different paths. Craig Smith was traded at the deadline and announced his retirement in December 2025.
Keith Kinkaid, also moved at the deadline, is now a goalie coach on Long Island. Anton Stralman made the team off a PTO, played eight games, and then retired.
Marc McLaughlin, another 2025 trade-deadline piece, remains under contract with New Jersey. Vinni Lettieri is in the Maple Leafs organization after spending last season in the AHL.
Walpole native Chris Wagner is the captain of the AHL’s Springfield Thunderbirds. Jack Studnicka is with the Flyers organization after splitting last season between Florida and Charlotte.
Elsewhere, Oskar Steen has been with Färjestad BK in Sweden, Joona Koppanen is at Luleå HF, Dan Renouf is playing in Germany, and Connor Carrick most recently played in Switzerland before mutually agreeing to part ways with HC Lugano after this past season.
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