After trading Trent Frederic, what’s next for the Bruins?

The Boston Bruins made their first move at the trade deadline, sending pending unrestricted free agent Trent Frederic to the Edmonton Oilers in return for a second and fourth round pick. The Bruins are only two points out of a wild card spot, but with 2-3 more games played than everyone else, and their current slump losing seven of their last eight games, it feels like more and more of a longshot and made sense to sell.

Frank Seravalli talked about what’s next for the Bruins as Friday’s trade deadline approaches on Daily Faceoff Live.

Frank Seravalli: I think Brazeau is definitely still in the mix. I don’t think they’re going to be coming to terms with him on a new deal. He’s got size. He’s got interest.

I think the Marchand injury complicates things a little bit. He’s not insanely far away from a return, but if you’re adding a guy that might only be there for a playoff run, deleting two or potentially three weeks off of that is less than ideal. So I still think the Bruins want to make an attempt to to re-sign Brad Marchand, and you’re going to see here in these next couple of days. Outside of that, unless someone really comes and knocks their socks off, I don’t know how much more there really is to sell.

So Frederic just made sense on so many levels. Again, he was a guy that they weren’t going to come to terms with. The fact that he’s injured and is going to be out for a couple more weeks at least, he’s not really helping their playoff push and there’s not even a sell to keep him. And you see another game like last night, I don’t know that there’s that many believers at Boston.

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