BOSTON -- It was an almost startling admission.

Maybe, Boston Bruins general manager Don Sweeney said, it wasn’t the right choice. Maybe Dean Letourneau should have gone back to the United States Hockey League, an intermediate step before jumping full force into college hockey at Boston College. Maybe Letourneau would have been better off, would have developed more, would have learned to use the towering body that is both one of his best assets and, perhaps, the thing holding him back.

Maybe it all would have been different.

Maybe.

But the 19-year-old forward, taken as a surprise pick by the Bruins with the No. 25 pick in the 2024 NHL Draft, did go to Boston College last season, coming from Canadian prep school at St. Andrew’s College, heading into the teeth of NCAA hockey where he

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