{"id":187178,"date":"2026-02-21T05:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187178\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:43:27","slug":"what-could-jeff-skinner-offer-the-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187178\/","title":{"rendered":"What Could Jeff Skinner Offer the Bruins?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Bruins are at best a wild-card team this season<\/a>. That is, if they can dig themselves out of the hole they\u2019re in. They\u2019ll need to step up their game as the Atlantic Division competition tightens with the Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, and Tampa Bay Lightning jockeying for the top spot.<\/p>\n

Under head coach Marco Sturm, the team is fifth in the division, just under the Buffalo Sabres with a record of 32-20-5.<\/p>\n

Sturm\u2019s Bruins hold fast in the second wild spot with 69 points, just below Lindy Ruff\u2019s<\/a> Sabres, who have 70 points. To dig themselves out of the bottom rung, they\u2019ll need more firepower in the top nine.<\/p>\n

This is where Jeff Skinner<\/a> would come into play.<\/p>\n

Skinner was a seventh overall pick in 2010 by the Carolina Hurricanes. He\u2019s had a tough career in the NHL, being bounced around the league from the Hurricanes, to the Buffalo Sabres, Edmonton Oilers, and San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n

He peaked early in his career as a rookie, recording 63 points in 2011, and winning the Calder Trophy<\/a> as a Hurricane.<\/p>\n

What Would Jeff Skinner Bring to the Bruins?<\/p>\n

His short time in the Oilers system ended after his 2024-25 run as a free agent, where he signed with the Sharks on a one-year, $3 million deal. His chance to rebound<\/a> as a reliable producer floundered, which is why he\u2019ll be looking for a new role elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Skinner played a total of 1,110 games in the NHL and has had multiple 60-plus point seasons, including his most recent, which was in 2022-23 with the Sabres, where he scored 35 goals and 82 points. He\u2019s not so far removed from that season that he\u2019s an incompetent player, but he could offer an intriguing solution to a Bruins team that needs more firepower in the top nine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Bruins are at best a wild-card team this season. That is, if they can dig themselves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-187178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187178","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=187178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}