[UPDATE] 12:08pm

Funny how these things work out huh? Pierre LeBrun just posted a story about Martin St. Louis not getting traded. 

"Marty St. Louis is not going to be traded," Steve Yzerman told ESPN.com Friday. "He remains one of the best players in the league and an extremely important player to our team, both on and off the ice. We are a team in transition, we just made a coaching change, Marty is one of the leaders of the team, he is not going anywhere."

So take that for it is worth. I know GMs say this a lot and then trade a player, but Yzerman doesn't seem like a bullshitter. 

Jarome Iginla has come and gone. He chose Pittsburgh over Boston and it's a done deal. Yesterday we all collectively woke up and cried abour Ray Shero having wizard powers, picture of Gary Bettman at a glory hole and Donald Fehr drowning in a bag of dicks. Now it's time for the Bruins, and the fans, to move on from having the rug pulled out from underneath them and get ready for a month of NHL hockey games before the playoffs start.

However, Boston still has some issues to address. Obviously they'll get better with health. Johnny Boychuk and Chris Kelly being out of the lineup hurts them if anything for the sheer fact of chemistry. It clear that Boston will have to address some of their holes via trade, namely a veteran winger who can provide scoring and leadership and defense.

Let's start with defense, as I think that's Boston's biggest need. In the summer I wrote why Boston should acquire Keith Yandle from the Coyotes.

KEITH YANDLE

None of these numbers blow you away, especially the hits, but you have to look at them compared to his play style. Yandle's play style is a lot like Joe Corvo in that he's more of an offensive, puck moving defenseman who can help on the power play. Now, we've seen guys like Corvo and Kaberle come to the Bruins system and flame out miserably. I think that Yandle has a better make-up than the two previous players, especially when Carolina's GM called signing Kaberle a mistake and traded him in season.

The good thing about Yandle is that he's durable. Like I mentioned earlier, from 2009-2012 he played in 246 regular season games which equates to 82 games per season. That's not even counting playoff games, which unlike Rick Nash, Yandle has some experience in playing.

So Yandle led Phoenix in ice time for even strength time on ice per game and power play time on ice per game, but only played 9 seconds of short handed time per game. Are you fucking kidding me? To me, that's a big blow when it comes to a defenseman who can't kill penalties. However, he's worth it for the power play time. It's possible that Yandle eats up all of Corvo's minutes (2:24 PP TOI/G) and cuts down on Seidenberg's PP TOI/G (2:36) which would make Seidenberg more available for short handed play.

I still stand by it, by the way.

Yandle can log big minutes and would fit perfectly in the Bruins' scheme. I wouldn't mind seeing someone like Boychuk get traded away for Yandle (or if we're lucky it would be Andrew Ference). But lets say, for shits and giggles, that Boychuk is sent to Phoenix:

Chara-Hamilton

Seidenberg-Yandle

Ference-McQuaid

I immediately see that as an upgrade. Look, I like what Boychuk brings to the table, but Yandle is a better hockey player. The biggest reason I don't see this happening: Salary.

Yandle is schedule to make $5.25M for the next two seasons after this one expires. With a declining salary cap and guys like Tuukka Rask, Nathan Horton and Anton Khudobin ready to become restricted/unrestricted free agents it'll be hard to get and keep a long term and expensive salary.

With that said, Yandle is probably my #1 option.

After the jump, the rest of the potential trade targets...

Peter Chiarelli held a press conference about an hour ago to discuss some of the things that occured yesterday between the Flames, Penguins and of course the Bruins. If case you've been under a rock, Jarome Iginla is a Penguin. I'm not really here to comment on that, it's over and done with but if you missed out on Chiarelli's press conference, you missed out on some Grade A material that makes Jay Feaster look like a real piece of shit. 

Here are a few quotes for Chiarelli: 

"We were informed around noon yesterday that we had the player, we won the sweepstakes so to speak." 

"From that point on there's been some discussions regarding Jarome taking some time to let things soak in. We had our game and prior to that we made moves scratching Bart and Koko and relied on the fact we had a deal." 

"We believe we had a deal. We operated on the premise we had a deal. When things go silent usually something goes screwy. Later that night about quarter to 12 I got a call from Jay that it was the players choice and he opted to go to Pittsburgh and we were out." 

So here is how I think everything went down: 

• Chiarelli to Feaster: Presents package of Koko, Bartkowski and unconditional first round pick
• Feaster to Chiarelli: Deal, I'll talk to Jarome, see what's up. 
• Feaster to Igina: We've accepted a trade from Boston. You know you have to waive your NMC. 
• Iginla to Feaster: Yup, give me some time to soak it in. 
• Iginla puts out a "feeler" that somehow makes it's way to Ray Shero. 
• Shero to Feaster: Here's my package of college kids. 
• Feaster to Shero: LOL
• Iginla to Murray Edwards (Flames owner): Tell Jay to take it. 
• Edwards to Feaster: Take Shero's deal

The rest is history.

This doesn't bury the Bruins. I know a lot of us around here were excited about Iginla coming to Boston because he would help the offense, but it wouldn't have solved everything. Other players can fill the role that Iginla would have filled. Boston still has issues on their backend, especially their 3rd pairing. It's horrible and a guy like Ryan Whitney could make it better. 

The Bruins aren't dead in the water by any means. They're a point out of second place in the Eastern Conference and first place in their division. Let's all breathe and see what happens going forward. There's no way PC is done because Iginla chose Pittsburgh over Boston. It probably adds fuel to the fire, if anything.

Hopefully it's a wake up call to the guys on the roster that their peers don't view them as a Stanley Cup winning hockey team. 

EDIT:  Sooo we went to bed at 12:30 told Iginla was a Bruin. We wake up to a bunch of early April Fools jokes from Pens fans about Iginla going to Pitt or something...

Jarome Iginla traded to PIT for PIT's 1st rounder in 2013 and college prospects Kenneth Agostino (Yale) and Ben Hanowski (St. Cloud State).

— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) March 28, 2013

WHAT. THE. FUCK. HAPPENED?

Seriously... went to bed and Iggy was a Bruins. Wake up to the world ending outside. Gonna go jump off the Tobin. It's still cold enough that I'll die of hypothermia in like thirty seconds. If only there was a GIF that truly explains how I feel right now

Meanwhile Pens fans are like...

Gonna leave the original post 'cause it'll be funnier this way...

Original post:

Aaron Ward is reporting that Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla is now a Boston Bruins:

Iginla traded to Bruins#TSN

— Aaron Ward (@aaronward_nhl) March 28, 2013

Word is Bruins gave up two eggs and a bag of flour for Iggy... or in modern speak Matt Bartkowski, Alex Khokhlachev & a 1st round pick.

Unconfirmed but BOS-CGY appears to be Khokhlachev/Bartkowski/conditional 1st round pick for Iginla. 1st rder conditional on Iggy re-signing.

— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) March 28, 2013

What a fucking steal by Peter Chiarelli.

Somewhere Ray Sheero is like:

We talked about what Iginla could add to the Bruins in our DOYLive Pregame Show. We'll definitely be talking more about this over next two days.

TIme to get your jerseys:.

Image from @BloackGold_White

Fucking Bruins man. First period the Bruins came out like The Walking Dead, except with worse writing and sound. They were fucking garbage. Complete and utter horse crap. They looked like my butt hole after an increased intake of Mexican food and Coors Light. It was putrid. Pathetic. It was just down right awful. 

And then the second period happened and it was like listening to a bunch of big tittied angels orgasming. The Bruins stopped trying to beat the shit out of the Habs on the ice and beat the shit out of them on the scoreboard. It was a beautiful thing man. I had all the feels. 

The Bruins went into the second intermission riding a high and a two goal lead and then the third period started and they completely shit their pants. Again. 

And it's starting to show us who this team is. This is a team that can not hold a fucking lead anymore. Maybe they busted their nut too early and we were so excited we couldn't see the writing on the wall. It's inexcusable to allow a team that played the night before to go up two goals then lose that lead and then win the game in a shootout. 

And man, some of those shootout attempts were as ugly as sin. 

Fuck it lets gooooooooooooooooooooo!

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This happened.

Boston claims Daugavin off Ottawa

— Pierre LeBrun (@Real_ESPNLeBrun) March 27, 2013

If you don't remember, Daugavins was this dude:

And then after the game David Krejci was all like:

“I wouldn’t like it if someone on my team tried that move."

Awwwkward.

Daugavins has 3 points in 19 games with the Senators, so perfect for the Bruins thirdline or the AHL.

Soooo.... here's weird video of Cam Neely teaching the Easter Bunny how to shoot a puck.

Cam can still shoot. Think he's healthy enough for the third line?

Easter Bunny can't shoot. But it appears he also took some pugilistic lessons from Cam, too.

It smells like grease, tire fires and shame so that must mean the Montreal Canadiens are in town! Those slimy, diving, crybaby mother fuckers in the bleu, blanc and rouge are coming off of a loss to Pittsburgh and Price was in net, so its possible that Peter Budaj is between the pipes tonight. Either way, I expect the Bruins to make whatever goalie is in net look like the love child of Ken Dryden and Patrick Roy. The Bruins favorite shot on net is the one in the goalie's crest. 

Remember for the past few years when people actually believed that the Canucks were more of a rivalry than the Canadiens? Whoever these dolts were, I hope they put their Red Sox hats back on because aint nobody got time for that stupidity. Look at these standings: 

They're tighter than a prospective altar boy's butthole. You couldn't fit a stinky pink between the Bruins and Habs right now. It's close - and it's awesome. All I need now is some jealous fucking Canuck fan to make some stupid video and set it to The Daily Show. Because that's real clever, especially when it's already been done a shit ton of times. I have another idea - how about that prick from Vancouver stops being so jealous his team lost a Stanley Cup in 2011 and get on with his life. 

Seriously - if you're going to sit in your house for hours searching Youtube for Brad Marchand videos and splicing them to some Daily Show video, it may be time to go outside. Go breathe in some wonderful Vancouver smog. Drink some Starbucks. Burn down a daycare. Grab a cork from whatever wine bottle you have and shove it up to your ass to stop the release of the butt juice you're leaking. 

And I'm not even going to do into the Canadiens embellishing calls because it's been beaten to death like Pacioretty dating a stanchion. 

Too soon or....

Ah fuck it like I care. What are the Habs fan going to do? Come in here and call me classless? OOOOOOOOOOOH SHIT IM SO SCARED! Look at me shaking in my boots.

Anyway, Boston will have to watch out for the Canadiens flopping around tonight. It's what they do best. I could go on youtube like the piece of shit from Vancouver and post all the amazing dives - Subban in the playoffs where he looks like he was shot in the head - but we're better than that. We are a high class society over here in Boston. 

Whatever happens tonight, I hope the Bruins wipe the ice with the Canadiens. Normally I'm not one for goonery, but I'm all a Bruins/Habs throw down where Lucic and/or Horton are just ripping throats from necks and little froggie hearts from bodies. Montreal isn't packing tough guy Brandon Prust since he's on injured reserve so I'm sure they'll pull some dirty shit like Brian Gionta did last night: 

Clearly that bag of shit trips the pug/goat manchild known as Tyler Kennedy into his own goalie - who left the game due to injury. Still, the Canadiens couldn't do anything and were shutout. But that's the kind of play you expect from the Canadiens without some muscle to back them up. If that was Milan Lucic who tripped a Hab into Price - Montreal would be shitting their pants. 

We're talking fucking poutine everywhere. 

Screaming up and down about how dirty the Bruins are and bringing up the Pacioretty shit from 2011 and calling Shanahan and asking for suspensions and cookies and rainbow farts. But it was Gionta, which means only this happens: 

Weird huh? 

Alright, let's finish this bad boy up....

NEWS FLASH: Jeremy Jacobs is one rich mother fucker. So goddamn rich that he has an equestrian palace in some uber-rich town in Florida where he goes to during the winter while he bends over fans watching the Bruins play. Seriously, look at the above image and think of that next time you spend $8 on a beer or drop over $100 on last row seats in the balcony. 

Anyways, some Boston local businessman Mark Bellissimo moved in on Jacobs' territory and is causing all the crazy rich folk to lose their shit down there. It's the ultimate Rich White People Problem story. Give it a read if you so inclined to learn about the struggles of owning barns bigger than most people's apartments. Anyways, here's our favorite quotes from this story:

"It just got to the point where I said, This guy really doesn’t understand the sport. From my view at the outset, it was all about development.” -- Lou Jacobs, who probably doesn't understand the irony of a Jacobs saying that.

“A big night out for us growing up was going to Faneuil Hall on the Green Line, and just hanging out and getting a Regina’s pizza, and watching street performers. It was some of the best memories I have of my childhood.” -- Mark Bellissimo name dropping to make himself look like a regular ol' chap.

“With the circus atmosphere that’s being promoted, I think we’ve lost a certain amount of high-class dignity,” said Michael Whitlow, a board member of the Wellington Equestrian Preservation Alliance, a group set up by the Jacobs family to support their interests. “I would like to see Wellington be the elite of the elites. The absolutely crème de la crème, the top of the top, as opposed to something for everybody.”

Here's a bit about Ballissimo wanting to have an Akon concert in town:

“That didn’t go over too well,” said Mason Phelps, a former equestrian who today serves as a Jacobs family spokesman in Wellington. “Nor did we want to attract the kind of people the Akon concert would attract to this community…. The people that go and listen to and like Akon are not Wellingtonites. It’s just a different crowd of people. I don’t mean to sound like a snob, but this is a fairly upscale community, and we don’t need to bring the low- and middle-income hooligans into town and have them all of a sudden say, Wow, good pickins’ out here.”

Holy shit that last quote. 

Nothing better than rich white people getting into legal battles over horses and other bullshit.

TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL job by Geoff Ward. He must have been getting bitched out by someone about how dreadful the power play is. 

From Diehard Sport: 

During the Boston Bruins 3-2 shootout win over the Toronto Maple Leafs, Bruins assistant coach Geoff Ward had his earpiece start to malfunction.  Understandably there was no more use for it, so he took it out.  Why he decided to toss it over his shoulder into the stands once he took it out though is beyond me.  Thankfully he did because it provided us with this hilarious clip.  As it lands into the fan’s beer, the best part of the whole situation is how the fan looks at the ceiling wondering how that just fell into his beer.  The odds of this happening had to be astronomical.