The Greg Hill Show’s Jermaine Wiggins believes this team is going nowhere and has advocated for trading Patrice Bergeron and/or Brad Marchand to bring back a massive haul that will set them up for the future.
Making his weekly appearance on the show Thursday morning, former Bruins coach and longtime NHL analyst Mike Milbury agreed with Wiggy.
“The fact that they might not make [the playoffs] is a real possibility. So what do you do in that situation? Bergeron’s,” Milbury said. “…If he’s going to go any place, he’d want to go somewhere he might win a Stanley Cup. But this is a question that good teams face all the time. They run through a cycle and they get to a point where, you have Bergeron, we have this affinity for him, we love the guy, but if you’re really going to do business the right way, it’s probably time to move on, to be honest with you.
“It’s time to move on. Go to him, have the conversation. And then to take it a step further, although it would be hard -- it would be really hard to trade Marchand as well -- it’s probably worth a discussion. If you’re going to retool, you need assets to retool, which means you need good draft picks, you might need some great prospects, and both of those guys can bring you that kind of stuff. If you think the time is up for this run, then it’s time to move on and time to make really hard decisions, and they’re risky too. They’re really risky. So that’s where I’m at. It’s a very fair question.”
It’s worth noting that, according to CapFriendly, Bergeron has a modified no-movement clause (he can submit a three-team trade list and block a trade anywhere else) and Marchand has a full no-trade clause through the end of this season (it then turns into a six-team trade list).
Listen to the full interview below:
NHL Analyst Mike Milbury Joins The Greg Hill Show: "Its Probably Time To Move On" And Trade Patrice Bergeron