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Five years ago today: The Bruins make "the big ones"

Before we had "Bruins rumored to be making a David Krejci for Bobby Ryan" swap, we had "Tomas Kaberle to the Bruins."

It was THE Bruins trade rumor of the social media era. It seemed like every season, there was a new one. It made sense: the Bruins repeated the phrase "puck-moving defenseman" so often that one couldn't help but wonder if the team was secretly collecting royalties every time it was spoken.

Kaberle was that puck-moving defenseman, one of the best in the league when he was in his prime, and was a pending free agent on a really bad Toronto team.