NHL Insider Reveals Why Bruins Couldn't Land Mark Stone.
The Boston Bruins walked away from the NHL trade deadline with no blockbuster deals which was disappointing for some fans.�
According to multiple reports the team was in on some of the big names including Mark Stone, Ryan Dzingel and Wayne Simmonds but walked away empty handed.�
All three of those players currently play in the Eastern Conference and it sounds like that played a major factor in the Bruins not getting them
According to NHL insider Darren Dreger, the Senators just didn't want to see Stone in a Bruins jersey for the next 8 years.�
"I don't know. I'm not saying that Pierre Dorion wouldn't have traded Mark Stone to either the Boston Bruins or New York Islanders, who were very, very keen, but I think he'd have preferred to not have to look at Mark Stone for the next eight years playing with an Eastern Conference rival.�
"And maybe the New York Rangers feel the same way, although I don't know that Winnipeg is going to have a strong appetite to re-sign Kevin Hayes, because they've got a boatload of contracts to wrestle with. So I wouldn't be surprised if Hayes go back to the New York Rangers as an unrestricted free agent.
"So sometimes it's just that competitive balance, and where the key targets - the players - hail from initially.
Sounds like it definitely would have costed an arm and a leg for the Bruins to even come close to landing stone.�
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