Whitfield’s season in doubt after achilles injury
Trent Whitfield may miss the entire season, Brandon Macdonald has the scoop.
It appears that Boston Bruins forward Trent Whitfield will miss the entire 2010-11 season with a torn achilles.
It was reported by Comcast Sports New England that Whitfield sustained the injury while working out. Whitfield played 20 games, including four playoff games, in the 09-10 season for Boston and registered just one assist. In 52 games with the Providence Bruins, of the AHL, he tallied 17 goals for 43 points.
The journeyman centre was not likely to crack the Bruins roster and would end up playing another year in Providence. Boston already has a logjam up the middle and it wasn’t likely he would beat out Daniel Paille for the fourth line job.
In the 1996 NHL entry draft the Bruins selected Whitfield in the fourth round, but he also spent time with the Washington Capitals, New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues before returning to Boston in 2009.
It is not a significant loss by any means for the Bruins, although his leadership and experience can’t hurt to have in a young locker room.
Whitfield will be a UFA at the end of the upcoming season.
Brandon Macdonald
NHLHS Boston Bruins Correspondent
bmacdonald@nhlhotstove.com
Twitter @bMacdonald8
