Will the Bruins draft a center, or trade their picks to land one?

The Boston Bruins are in the midst of a quick rebuild, after trading away key pieces ahead of the 2024-25 NHL Trade Deadline. 

After missing the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs and quickly sliding down the Eastern Conference standings, the Bruins look ahead to the 2025-26 season, hoping for a more competitive and younger team. 

With that, they likely need to add a center before the 2025-26 campaign opens on Oct. 7. Will they get one through the 2025 NHL Entry Draft, where they hold the seventh overall pick, or might they look to trade a pick to land one? 

On Wednesday’s episode of Daily Faceoff Live, Tyler Yaremchuk and Frank Seravalli discussed how the Bruins might find themselves some center ice talent. 

Yaremchuk: Frank, we have an AskDFO! We’ve got a Bruins fan in the chat here who wanted to ask a little bit about the Bruins’ plans to find a center. They said the Bruins have all these picks in the NHL Draft in the next few years. Do you think they’ll use them to try to select a centerman, or use them to try to trade for a center?

Seravalli: My guess would be they would try to select a centerman, because they’ve had some pretty decent luck doing that later in rounds. I think the tough part about trying to figure out the Boston Bruins center position is that the team itself, the front office, doesn’t seem to indicate that it’s as big a need as many see on paper.

I think that part is tough to balance. If they don’t see it as a huge need, how aggressive would they be in going out to fill it, unless they’re just playing coy?

You can catch the Bruins segment and the rest of Wednesday’s episode here…