Bruins' General Manager Peter Chiarelli announced on Tuesday that Kelly had been activated from the IR, and that the speedy rookie Spooner and defenseman Zach Trotman had been assigned to the team's AHL affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island.
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| Kelly returns for the Bruins on Tuesday night. |
Kelly has been on the shelf since having his fibula snapped on a vicious slash at the hands of Pittsburgh Penguins' Pascal Dupuis in the Bruins' 3-2 win over the Pens on December 7th. At the time of the injury, Kelly had played in 29 games centering the third line, scoring three times and helping on four others...
...Spooner taking over and playing admirably, his 11 assists in 22 games played revealing a weak part of his game to work on in Providence, that being his seeming focus on playmaking and passing the puck - which is well and good until one stops to consider that he took only 41 shots in those games, and average of less than two per game.
"When you look at the stat sheet he’s got a fair amount of assists because he’s a good playmaker, but right now he’s got to work – not only the D zone work – but he’s also capable of scoring some goals,” Bruins' bench boss Claude Julien said last week, “He’s got to find a way to get some of those goals, and get that zero off the score sheet. I think he’s very capable of doing that."
Julien knows what Spooner is capable of, and hopes that his offensive prowess emerges in his time down at the AHL Level.
“I’ve seen him in Providence take pucks to the net and score some nifty goals. For him it’s just a matter of gaining more confidence to take pucks to the net.” Julien said.
http://www.sportsinjuryalert.com/2014/01/bruins-kelly-in-spooner-reassigned-to.html
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