Bruins purchase Framingham native Reilly Walsh in cope with Devils

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Walsh has been one of many extra productive defensemen within the AHL over the previous couple of seasons.

Reilly Walsh posted a pair of 40-point seasons throughout his time with the Utica Comets. AP Photograph/Stew Milne

Lower than an hour after dealing Taylor Corridor and Nick Foligno to the Blackhawks, the Bruins reeled off an AHL transaction that brings an intriguing blueliner (and Massachusetts native) into the group.

Boston introduced Monday afternoon that it traded Windfall Bruins ahead Shane Bowers to the New Jersey Devils in alternate for defenseman Reilly Walsh.

Walsh, 24, initially hails from Framingham and spent his collegiate profession at Harvard.

The Devils’ 2017 third-round choose has solely logged one sport on the NHL ranks, however has been one of many extra productive blueliners within the AHL over the previous couple of seasons. He’s a pending restricted free agent.

In his 141 video games with the Utica Comets, Walsh has scored 18 objectives and posted 84 factors.

Bowers, 23, was acquired by the Bruins in February in a cope with the Avalanche in alternate for veteran goalie Keith Kinkaid. The previous BU product posted seven factors in 20 video games with the Windfall this season.

Walsh stands because the third right-shot defenseman that Boston added on Monday.

Together with shifting Corridor’s $6 million cap hit off their books of their cope with Chicago, the Bruins additionally added a pair of RFA blueliners in Ian Mitchell and Alec Regula.

It stays to be seen if any of Walsh, Mitchell, or Regula can take a leap and log viable minutes within the NHL ranks shifting ahead.

However the trio does bolster a sparse space of Boston’s prospect pool (right-shot D) and function some much-needed insurance coverage if Connor Clifton does ink a cope with one other crew as soon as free company commences on Saturday.

Originally posted 2023-06-26 21:25:36.