{"id":137217,"date":"2023-05-03T17:10:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T21:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=137217"},"modified":"2023-05-03T17:10:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T21:10:59","slug":"nhl-rumours-boston-bruins-captain-unsure-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/05\/03\/nhl-rumours-boston-bruins-captain-unsure-future\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Rumours: Boston Bruins Captain Unsure Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another edition of NHL rumours. We are now into the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. However, some first-round exits are still being talked about. The Boston Bruins were many people&#8217;s pick to win the Stanley Cup and break the President&#8217;s Trophy curse. However, the Florida Panthers shocked the Bruins and beat them in seven games. Boston now faces plenty of unknowns and will have to answer them in the off-season. Today&#8217;s NHL rumours deals with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bergepa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-03_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrice Bergeron<\/a> future with the club.<\/p>\n<p>All NHL rumours come from the original source and are subject to change.<\/p>\n<h2>NHL Rumours<\/h2>\n<h3>Patrice Bergeron Future Unknown<\/h3>\n<p>Rumour: Amalie Benjamin of NHL.com <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/patrice-bergeron-undecided-on-future-with-boston-bruins\/c-344050756\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported on the future<\/a> of the current Bruins&#8217; captain. Bergeron said that he would talk to his family and the decide on if he&#8217;ll return for the 2023-24 campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What does the future hold for Bergeron and Krejci?  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7qXB4adeRa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/7qXB4adeRa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Amalie Benjamin (@AmalieBenjamin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmalieBenjamin\/status\/1653759388308340736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to take some time, talk with the family, go from there,&#8221; Bergeron said. &#8220;Right now, it&#8217;s hard to process anything. Obviously we&#8217;re shocked and disappointed and so that&#8217;s it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 37-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/04\/19\/boston-bruins-star-out-for-game-2\/\" target=\"_self\">missed the first four games<\/a> of the series before returning in Game 5. However, he did not look like the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/05\/02\/selke-finalists-for-the-2022-23-season-announced\/\" target=\"_self\">perennial Selke Trophy winner l<\/a>ooked like a shell of himself. A healthy Bergeron usually locks down the other team&#8217;s best player, but that wasn&#8217;t the case in loss to the Panthers.<\/p>\n<h3>What it Means<\/h3>\n<p>Bergeron is an unrestricted free agent, but it&#8217;s hard to imagine him in another team&#8217;s sweater.\u00a0 It&#8217;s likely that he&#8217;ll only sign with Boston if he does decide to return. He was on a one-year deal worth $2.5 million, but could take the same or less if he does stay.<\/p>\n<p>If Bergeron retires, it will be the end of a Hall of Fame career. However, there&#8217;s the temptation to come back one more season. There may be the urge to try to get the bad taste of a first round exit out of his mouth. He may want to try to end his career on a better note.<\/p>\n<p>Boston general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sweendo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-03_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don Sweeney<\/a> has some tough to decisions to make with the club. However, Bergeron&#8217;s return could be welcome to shore up the team&#8217;s centre depth. It would also be a chance to give Bergeron a sort of farewell tour. However, the ball is the Bruins&#8217; captain&#8217;s court.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: Eric Bolte-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another edition of NHL rumours. We are now into the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. However, some first-round exits are still being talked about. The Boston Bruins were many people&#8217;s pick to win the Stanley Cup and break the President&#8217;s Trophy curse. However, the Florida Panthers shocked the Bruins and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":137219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4547,4548,4321],"tags":[5860,1999,1156],"class_list":["post-137217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bruins","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-rumours","tag-boston-bruins-rumours","tag-don-sweeney","tag-patrice-bergeron"],"modified_by":"Tommy Bennett","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}