Photo taken from NHL.com 
Photo taken from NHL.com
The Bruins close out the road portion of their preseason schedule tonight against the Chicago Blackhawks at the United Center. Puck drop is scheduled for 8:30 pm ET. Here are tonight’s projected lineups.
Boston Bruins:
The Bruins have yet to release their projected lines for tonight, but they have released their traveling roster, which is as follows.
Forwards: Anders Bjork, Par Lindholm, Brett Ritchie, Jakub Lauko, Trent Frederic, Karson Kuhlman, Paul Carey, Oskar Steen, Ryan Fitzgerald, Brendan Gaunce, Pavel Shen, Peter Cehlarik, Samuel Asselin
Defensemen: Charlie McAvoy, Brandon Carlo, Matt Grzelcyk, Steven Kampfer, Jakub Zboril, Wiley Sherman, Cooper Zech
Goaltenders: Maxime Lagace, Kyle Keyser, Dan Vladar
Chicago Blackhawks:
Nylander-Toews-Kane
DeBrincat-Strome-Shaw
Saad-Wedin-Kubalik
Smith-Carpenter-Caggiula
Keith-Gustafsson
Maatta-Seabrook
Murphy-Koekkoek/Boqvist
Lehner
Lankinen
On paper, the Bruins are going to get absolutely destroyed tonight. Their only three lineup regulars from last season are defensemen (McAvoy, Carlo, and Grzelcyk), and their most experienced forward is Brett Ritchie. That’s not a recipe for success when you are going up most of the Blackhawks regular lineup. Things get particularly bad for the team in net, as they will have an AHL goalie going up against one of the (if the not) most dangerous forwards for a goalie in the NHL in Patrick Kane, as well as other top offensive players in Toews and DeBrincat. In short, yikes. However, hockey is a weird sport, and the Bruins’ young guns may be able to hold their own against what is basically the Blackhawks’ NHL roster, but I’m not necessarily going to hold my breath. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens tonight!
Hockey Addict 