When the 2024-25 season finally ended for the Boston Bruins, there were questions as to who general manager Don Sweeney was going to bring back and who he was going to let walk in free agency.
There were a lot of decisions as to which way Sweeney was going to address free agency. In the end, he added a lot of depth to the bottom-six and remade what it looked like. That made it even more eye-opening that Boston brought back center John Beecher.
Over the last couple of seasons, Beecher had been a fourth-line forward and one of Boston's better face-off pivots.