Begin goes to Bruins – so everyone hoping for the All-Star checking line, sorry.
Not to say I was overly impressed with this short time in Dallas – granted I wasn’t …Not… impressed either. At that point I was over analysing (not to be confused with over-analysing) the Stars play and just prayed for a victory or the lack of an embarassing loss in some cases (e.g. Chicago games). Begin however, is a credible checking line presence and probably would have made our checking line more than legitimate with some time with his team-mates. But now we’ll get to see him do that in Boston.
[...] goals in each of the past four seasons for New Jersey. Checking line standout Steve Begin headed to Montreal’s other rival, Boston. Meanwhile, Toronto traded Pavel Kubina to Atlanta for Garnet Exelby (a couple of other relatively [...]