{"id":137558,"date":"2026-01-17T10:13:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/137558\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:13:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:13:32","slug":"bruins-roster-moves-boston-makes-a-trade-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/137558\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins roster moves: Boston makes a trade, call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CPR3PASNHZAEVMQAHIB7XF2L2Q\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/bruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/bruins\/\">Bruins<\/a> made a trade and a call-up before heading to Chicago on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DLQXLP6VMNBWTAVAWXYPNYGY3E\">Boston sent seldom-used tough-guy Jeffrey Viel to Anaheim for a 2026 fourth-round pick and called up defenseman Billy Sweezey on an emergency basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5USALXTHDREQXAIQ56VTY2RKOI\">According to the Bruins announcement, it will be the earlier of Anaheim\u2019s two fourth-round selections, originally acquired from Detroit and Philadelphia. The Bruins now have three fourth-round picks in the 2026 draft and nine total selections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VODDWSN4X5ELZI4FXI3P5AIR3E\">Viel, 28, had played in just 10 games this season without recording a point. He had 30 penalty minutes, including 17 against the Ducks, stemming from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/topic\/bruins-fights\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/topic\/bruins-fights\/index.html\">fight<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/bruins\/2025\/11\/bruins-coach-responds-to-forwards-fight-with-ducks-captain-thats-why-hes-here.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/bruins\/2025\/11\/bruins-coach-responds-to-forwards-fight-with-ducks-captain-thats-why-hes-here.html\">with Anaheim captain Radko Goudas, who will now be his teammate.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XJQEGEQRW5EPVDHRNTFBM3B2CU\">Sweezey\u2018s call-up comes after Andrew Peeke left Thursday\u2019s game with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DOKOY3TZQJHY5GX4VD3AOINO3A\">Sweezey, 29, is a Hanson native, who has nine games of NHL experience, all with Columbus in 2022-23. He\u2019s spent the last two seasons with the Providence Bruins. He had a goal and 10 assists in 34 games in the AHL this year and 51 points in 303 career AHL games.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bruins made a trade and a call-up before heading to Chicago on Friday. Boston sent seldom-used tough-guy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-137558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}