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  • Bruins acquire Mark Recchi

  • March 4, 2009 1:22 pm ET

    Boston acquires:
    Tampa Bay acquires:
    • Matt Lashoff
    • Martins Karsums
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    Analysis

    Jim Kelley: Not much has been happening in the East so far, but the Boston Bruins made a move of some significance when it ransomed Mark Recchi from the Tampa Bay Lightning. Sure he's old, and sure, he moves seemingly every year. But he’s a competitor and he’s done enough with a bad team to reinvent some interest in his game. He might not be a scoring threat for the Bruins, but he brings experience and for a team that went from nowhere to first in the East in one year -- and is perceived as a Stanley Cup contender-- that experience is useful. The Lightning didn’t do badly on this deal. Matt Lashoff is considered a definite NHL defenceman down the road and Martin Karsums is a left winger who has shown a scoring touch in the AHL and also projects to have an NHL future.

Jim Kelley: Not much has been happening in the East so far, but the Boston Bruins made a move of some significance when it ransomed Mark Recchi from the Tampa Bay Lightning. Sure he's old, and sure, he moves seemingly every year. But he’s a competitor and he’s done enough with a bad team to reinvent some interest in his game. He might not be a scoring threat for the Bruins, but he brings experience and for a team that went from nowhere to first in the East in one year -- and is perceived as a Stanley Cup contender-- that experience is useful. The Lightning didn’t do badly on this deal. Matt Lashoff is considered a definite NHL defenceman down the road and Martin Karsums is a left winger who has shown a scoring touch in the AHL and also projects to have an NHL future.

THE CANADIAN PRESS

BOSTON -- Mark Recchi is going to get another chance to win the Stanley Cup.

The veteran forward is on his way to the Boston Bruins in a deal that will see prospects Matt Lashoff and Martins Karsums go to the Tampa Bay Lightning.

The Bruins also get a second-round draft pick.

The 41-year-old Recchi will join his seventh NHL team and is after his third Stanley Cup. He won a championship with Pittsburgh in 1991 and Carolina in 2006.

He's earning US$1.5 million and will become an unrestricted free agent this summer.

Recchi is having a bit of a renaissance season. He had five assists in a game against Calgary over the weekend.

In 62 games with the Lightning, he had 13 goals and 32 assists.



  Boston acquires:  Tampa Bay acquires:
Mark Recchi
    • POS:
      RW
    • GP:
      62
    • G:
      13
    • A:
      32
    • PTS:
      45
    2008 stats with Tampa Bay


2nd round pick (2010)
Matt Lashoff
    • POS:
      D
    • GP:
      16
    • G:
      0
    • A:
      1
    • PTS:
      1
    2008 stats with Boston

Martins Karsums
    • POS:
      RW
    • GP:
      8
    • G:
      1
    • A:
      1
    • PTS:
      2
    2008 stats with Boston