The Bruins have a crowded defense core, yet that hasn’t provided any hindrance to the NHL’s hottest team.
Nine defensemen, including the injured Kevan Miller and the soon to return John Moore, grace the Black and Gold roster. Several Bruins prospects, namely Urho Vaakanainen, Jakub Zboril and Axel Andersson are seemingly closer to taking that next step to becoming full-time patrolmen on Boston’s blue line.
But another defenseman has flown under the radar through the first few months of the 2019-20 campaign.
Former Florida Panthers defenseman Alex Petrovic signed a PTO with Boston back in August as a way to provide some depth to the franchise in case negotiations with Brandon Carlo and Charlie McAvoy went haywire.