Patrice Bergeron

2022 - 5 - 14

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Bruins' Patrice Bergeron mum on future: 'It's too fresh right now' (Sportsnet.ca)

With the Boston Bruins eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs by the Carolina Hurricanes, captain Patrice Bergeron might've played his final NHL game, ...

Bergeron has spent all 18 of his NHL seasons with the Bruins. He finished the regular season with 25 goals and 40 assists in 73 games while adding another three goals and four assists during the playoffs. But, according to Conor Ryan of the Boston Sports Journal, these hugs are part of Bergeron's regular post-game routine. Longtime teammate Brad Marchand was also asked about Bergeron's future, and while Marchand has pleaded his case for Bergeron to stay, he did admit that it's completely up to him to decide.

Patrice Bergeron undecided on his hockey future after Bruins' playoff ... (Boston.com)

Bruins captain Patrice Bergeron isn't sure if Saturday was his final game with the team he's played for the last 18 seasons. Read more on Boston.com.

We had a couple of good shifts, good looks – a couple good looks in the first as well that those bounces, if they go your way, it’s a different game. But Hurricanes goalie Antti Raanta and the skaters in front of him made the stops needed to prevent the game from going to overtime. We started off a little slow this year, this series was kind of the same, but we battled our way back and played the type of hockey we needed to advance. It’s great to see.” “At that point, you’re a shot away,” Bergeron said of the final seconds. But tonight, we came up short and obviously we needed a little more.” “He’s the backbone of our team. If he ever wanted to open up and talk about it, then that’s up to him. It’s not the feeling that you want. “A moment to share with them and thanking them for battling together every day, basically,” Bergeron said of the final moments on the ice on Saturday. “It stings. Bergeron, who turns 37 in July, is in the final year of his contract. Not after – it’s too fresh right now,” Bergeron said when asked if he decided if he would return next season.

Brad Marchand has emotional response to question about Patrice ... (NBC Sports Boston)

Brad Marchand couldn't hide his emotions when asked about Patrice Bergeron's future with the Bruins after the team's Game 7 loss to the Hurricanes.

They are elite two-way players -- Marchand as the league's best all-around left wing and Bergeron as a top 10 center. Bergeron is the longest-tenured player on the B's roster. It could have been Bergeron's final game with the Bruins. The 36-year-old center's contract is about to expire, and he hasn't given any hint of what his decision might be.

Did Patrice Bergeron just play his last game for Boston Bruins? He ... (masslive.com)

BOSTON — After the traditional handshake line marking the end of the series was complete, Bruins captain Patrice Bergeron skated to the corner and waited by ...

If Bergeron hasn’t made up his mind, he could want to see what the Bruins choose to do with the roster. “He’s the backbone of our team,” Marchand said. “He’s obviously the biggest part of our team. The Bruins have expressed interest in resigning him, he hasn’t said whether he plans to return to the team or even the NHL as retirement rumors have increased around him. “I have no idea. He shared a hug and a handshake with each teammate as they walked down the ice following Boston’s 3-2 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes.

Will Patrice Bergeron retire? Hockey world awaits Bruins legend's ... (Sporting News)

As the seconds ticked down on Boston's Game 7 loss to the Hurricanes, Bruins fans' attention quickly shifted to the future of their captain.

Whether we've seen the last of Bergeron remains unclear. He and many Bruins fans probably share the same sentiment. "Enjoy practice, enjoy everything that's going to unfold throughout the whole thing," Bergeron told reporters, per team-provided video.

Bruins Captain Patrice Bergeron Asked About Potential Retirement (Sports Illustrated)

Bergeron's actions at the end of the Bruins' loss seemed to indicate a possible farewell.

The Boston Sports Journal shared a video of the 2003 draft pick hugging each of his teammates as they made their way off the ice for one last time in Raleigh. Bergeron, 36, said throughout the season he intended to discuss his future when Boston’s year officially concluded, an outcome that came to pass Saturday in the first round of the playoffs. “It’s too early right now,” he said when asked about his future, per NBC Sports Boston. “Not after—it’s too fresh right now.

Patrice Bergeron rumors: Will Bruins captain retire after loss to ... (DraftKings Nation)

The Boston captain could hang up the skates after the Bruins loss in the first round to the Hurricanes.

If Boston is bad, the team can trade him to a contender to chase a ring before retiring and he gives back to the franchise before calling it quits. Coming back on a one-year deal where if the Bruins are contenders, he can give it another shot at a Cup run and make it to 1,000 career points. The Bruins captain has finally come to the end of an 8-year, $55 million deal he signed with the team back in the summer of 2013.

It's over for the Bruins. Is it over for Patrice Bergeron? (The Boston Globe)

Patrice Bergeron scored his 127th career playoff point in his 13th career Game 7 playoff game.

And nothing looms larger than what happens with Bergeron, the man who has been at the center of all things Bruins for so long now it’s all but impossible to imagine them without him. “It’s always tough when it ends like that, so it was more to share with them, thanking them for battling every day,” is how he explained it. Obviously the biggest part of our team. “He’s the backbone of our team. He was a factor in every win of the series, erupting with particular force in Game 4 at home, when his one goal and two assists (Who can forget that perfect faceoff to set up David Pastrnak?) were matched by the bleeding cut under his eye that he had to have stitched up before returning. There he was in the middle of the Bruins’ last best gasp of the season, a second-period sequence that cut their one-goal deficit in half and stood out as about the only time the rollicking, reverberating building seemed to hold its breath in fear. Not after … it’s too fresh right now. “It’s too early right now. “I hope not,” coach Bruce Cassidy said. Advertisement Advertisement But about what Patrice Bergeron means to the Bruins.

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