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Why teams should be panning for gold on the NHL waiver and PTO trail

The waiver wire. Traditionally the dumping ground of has-beens, never-weres and NHL PTO dreams. But this season in particular, it's a place for potential diamonds to be found in the NHL trash-heap-and more teams should be looking. Including the Bruins.

The NHL waiver wire. Traditionally a footnote in sports reports, the waiver wire is usually where NHL careers go to die a slow death, or inconveniences to a NHL squad cap hits take their last breaths above water before being submerged in the anonymity and release from cap issues that is the AHL (we're looking at you, Wade Redden, and more relevantly, you too, Andrew MacDonald).