{"id":2101,"date":"2026-06-06T16:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2026-06-06T16:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:34:13","slug":"on-heels-of-red-wings-captain-dylan-larkins-trade-request-bruins-gm-don-sweeney-thinks-teams-will-be-busy-this-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2101","title":{"rendered":"On heels of Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin\u2019s trade request, Bruins GM Don Sweeney thinks teams will be busy this offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>BUFFALO \u2014 Dylan Larkin sent tremors throughout the NHL Thursday when the longtime Red Wings captain requested a trade out his hometown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2099\">The NBA still has not figured out the right timing for its regular-season awards<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Aftershocks, in the form of more trade requests (some public, others private) and myriad moves league wide, will likely be the norm this offseason, Bruins general manager Don Sweeney said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think it\u2019s a bunch of different [reasons],\u201d Sweeney told the Globe Friday as he wrapped up a week of chinwags with potential draftees and staff meetings at the NHL\u2019s annual scouting combine. \u201cI\u2019ll reference Larkin and then rumblings of other top players starting to decide whether or not are they\u2019re happy with their current situations, regardless of whether or not they\u2019re signed, and maybe they only have a year left or such. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>\u201cI just think players themselves are trying to be a little more proactive in what they\u2019re trying to accomplish and that sometimes disrupts the teams, but sometimes it doesn\u2019t. It presents opportunity where managers are either asked to \u2014 I don\u2019t think anybody\u2019s forced to be \u2014 but asked to explore things from maybe what you hadn\u2019t been planning for. So, I do believe there\u2019ll be some movement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Larkin, a bona fide No. 1 center, will have plenty of suitors, and Detroit GM Steve Yzerman will have to sift through a plethora of offers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Those offers will spark rumors of who would be heading to Motown in return. It\u2019s similar to what happened in January when Bruins defenseman Mason Lohrei\u2019s name was mentioned in several reports as being dangled as part of a pitch for then-Flames defenseman Rasmus Andersson, who eventually landed in Las Vegas and is trying to help the Golden Knights win the Stanley Cup for the second time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sweeney is aware of how rumors can affect a player\u2019s psyche on and off the ice, and that\u2019s the reason honesty is his best policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWell, as a former player, I think you do develop an appreciation for when you may have some things that bother you, and the vast majority of guys do have social media,\u201d he said. \u201cUltimately, I think our players know me well enough that things are not coming from inside our walls. I do have a job to do and they respect that. They understand the business, but deep down, if a player has a question, I\u2019m going to answer a question.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2097\">Now\u2019s a good time to rank the top 10 NFL offseason moves \u2014 player signings and trades, as well as coach hirings<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Lohrei\u2019s name will undoubtedly be mentioned when trade talk heats up \u2014 usually around draft weekend. Sweeney said the young defenseman is a player teams inquire about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs I said at the end of the year, Mason\u2019s a young, developing player that\u2019s put up points. He went to the [right] side this year and complemented Hampus [Lindholm],\u201d said Sweeney. \u201cHe had a good rebound year from a defensive standpoint. It\u2019s an attractive \u2014 I don\u2019t like the word asset \u2014 but as I said, he\u2019s got qualities that other teams are going to ask about. When you\u2019re exploring situations, and again, I\u2019m not trolling with players that are out there from our standpoint, teams ask. I ask. &#8230; You\u2019re starting to ask questions around about a player. They might be asking questions for people that have interacted with Mason, and that\u2019s how things sort of start to hypothetically leak out. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut yeah, you should have conversations with the player to understand where he is in his standing. We value the players and I don\u2019t want to be disruptive to what they\u2019re trying to accomplish, certainly from a team perspective, and equally at the personal level.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Forty years later, Cam Neely looks back on the trade that brought him to Boston<\/div>\n<p><span>Though this week is mainly about potential draftees, other items \u2014 particularly trade talk \u2014 happen. With all the GMs in the same place, conversations are inevitable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYou just have opportunities to [talk],\u201d said Sweeney. \u201cWhat are you looking for? What are you trying to accomplish? So that you have an idea and a pulse of what Team A is doing? Do you have things \u2014 and you go back to your group \u2014 that might line up? Who may be available? And if you don\u2019t ask the questions, you\u2019re never going to know. So, everybody does it.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sweeney also said it\u2019s unlikely forwards Oskar Jellvik and Andre Gasseau, both of whom were drafted in 2021 and recently wrapped up their Boston College careers, will be joining the franchise. Jellvik (fifth round) signed a two-year deal with Rogle BK of the Swedish Hockey League and Gasseau (seventh round) has decided to \u201cexplore opportunities elsewhere,\u201d said Sweeney. \u201cIn all likelihood we\u2019ll find a trade opportunity for [Gasseau] between now and August, but he controls that at this point in time. We wanted to sign Andre. Our development guys have done a fabulous job in communicating with him, worked with him for six years, so it\u2019s disappointing organizationally, but the player has this decision to make and he\u2019s made it. You have to respect that.\u201d &#8230; Sweeney confirmed the Bruins are parting ways with assistant coach Jay Leach after two seasons and that the search for his replacement is underway. Leach, 46, worked with Boston\u2019s defensemen and was in charge of the club\u2019s penalty kill, which struggled at times in 2025-26. The Bruins\u2019 kill ranked 24th at 77 percent and allowed 64 power-play goals. Only the Canucks (65) yielded more. Leach previously coached the Providence Bruins from 2017-22 and will return to the AHL to coach the Hartford Wolf Pack, the Rangers\u2019 top affiliate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2095\">With MLB teams already discussing in-season trades, should any player in the Red Sox organization be untouchable?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweeney wrapped up a week with potential draftees and staff meetings at the NHL\u2019s annual scouting combine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>On heels of Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin\u2019s trade request, Bruins GM Don Sweeney thinks teams will be busy this offseason - 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