Taking the Boston Bruins-Vancouver Canucks pipeline in the NHL is always a risky decision. The fans in Boston might consider it treason, those in Vancouver might not be willing to take you in. Still, Jake DeBrusk chose that route. According to reports, Elias Pettersson played a major role for the former teammate of Brad Marchand to skip town.

DeBrusk’s first NHL season with Pettersson’s Canucks was anything but smooth-sailing. It was perhaps a means of letting the forward know he’d made a mistake. Still, the past campaign wasn’t any better for the Bruins. How fitting was it for chaos to erupt in both organizations, just weeks apart.

On one end of the continent, the Bruins fired Jim Montgomery and began a garage sale, which included Marchand‘s infamous trade to the Florida Panthers. On th

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