The Boston Bruins are seemingly in agreement as to what they’d like their identity to be…
Bruins general manager Don Sweeney calling one of his free agent additions a “pain in the (expletive)” should have tipped you off, but if it hadn’t, just listen to the words of one of his other additions.
“The group on this team is still so talented, so good, and bringing in some guys yesterday, we’re going to be a really hard team to play against,” Tanner Jeannot said on Wednesday, as transcribed by MassLive’s Chris Mason. “That’s the type of team that, if you can do it consistently for the entire year and into the playoffs, it’s a really hard team to beat. It just wears other teams down. We’re going to be a team that teams aren’t going to be wanting to go against. When they are going to see the Boston Bruins coming into town, they know it’s going to be a fight.
“That’s how it always has been. That’s been the Bruins culture. I feel like me as a player, I’ve always tried to embody that type of culture. So that’s what really excites me about coming there. I want to be a big part of that. A big part of that culture, a big part of this team success, and it’s a really exciting time.”
Jeannot will literally fight about it, too, as he consistently sits atop the leader boards in fighting majors.
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The Bruins will hope he can bring that to the table, as well as the scoring touch he showed several years back, to help contribute in a season where expectations are anything but high.
