Half a decade after trading him to the Dallas Stars, the Boston Bruins could have the chance to atone for one of the greatest blunders in franchise history next summer and bring superstar forward Tyler Seguin back to Boston.
Entering the final year of an absurdly team-friendly contract signed in Boston but thoroughly enjoyed in Dallas at $5.75 million per year, Seguin's extension talks with the Stars have gone nowhere. In fact, the sides haven't even had a real discussion of sorts since June. It's been enough for Seguin to have a downright discouraging tone when talking about the situation.
"It’s been a little disappointing," Seguin, who dropped the 'disappointed' bomb four times in all, candidly told reporters on Tuesday. "I thought I’d have some exciting news to talk about at BioSteel Camp, especially this late in the summer. It’s been disappointing. But at the end of the day, I obviously have one year left [in Dallas]. I’m just going to focus on that."
The 26-year-old forward also seems to be on the fence about negotiating an extension in-season, too.
That kind of uncertainty means that the league could be in for another John Tavares-esque sweepstakes with Seguin in 2019. And if Boston's interest in a player of J.T.'s caliber was enough for the Boston braintrust to fly out and get behind closed doors with Tavares in Los Angeles, there's little to suggest that they would not do the same with a player like Seguin.
On the surface, this all sounds completely crazy, I know.
But with an itch left unscratched after an empty offseason in terms of a tangible upgrade at any forward spot -- and with five years of change (six by the time Seguin would become a free agent) in Boston -- Seguin more than fits the bill for the Bruins.
Remember: When the Bruins went as close to all in as one can on both Ilya Kovalchuk and Tavares this summer, it was with the intention of bolstering a top six forward grouping that the organization believed was a little too top-heavy to succeed in the playoffs. Their secondary scoring woes in their five-game beatdown at the hands of the Lightning, which included a 253:17 stretch without a five-on-five goal from a Boston forward, spoke to this concern.
Sweeney's summertime want was clear: He wanted another high-end, dynamic scoring threat.
When Sweeney's hope for such an additional slipped through his fingers, though, he settled for low-risk, low-money signings that maintained the club's long-term flexibility. That want has since become a need, though, with Tampa Bay being Tampa Bay (that's not changing anytime soon, either) and Tavares locked into Toronto's plans for the next seven years.
So, again, if the Bruins are looking to do more than keep pace as the Atlantic's second or third-best team, Seguin fits the bill.
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Ty Anderson is a digital content producer for 98.5 The Sports Hub in Boston. You can even hear him on the radio over there sometimes! Ty has been covering the National Hockey League for HockeyBuzz.com since 2010. Ty has also been part of the Boston Chapter of the PHWA since 2013. Contact him on Twitter or send him an email at Ty.AndersonHB[at]gmail.com. 
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