BUFFALO - The Bruins closed out the 2021 Prospects Challenge on Sunday with a 4-3 loss to the New Jersey Devils after defeating the Buffalo Sabres, 5-2, on Saturday. After scoring two goals on Saturday, Jesper Froden picked up where he left off on Sunday, picking up two more goals in the loss. Jakub Lauko netted his first goal of the weekend as well after recording two assists on Saturday.

BUFFALO - The Boston Bruins opened the 2021 Prospects Challenge with a win, defeating the Buffalo Sabres, 5-2, on Saturday afternoon at Harborcenter. Jesper Froden and Samuel Asselin led the charge for Boston with three points each. Jack Ahcan and Jakub Lauko both picked up two assists of their own, while Brett Harrison and Fabian Lysell each scored a goal.

BUFFALO - With Opening Night less than one month away, the Bruins are set to compete in the first game action of the 2021-22 season at the 2021 Prospects Challenge in Buffalo, New York. The B's will play in two contests over the weekend against the Buffalo Sabres and New Jersey Devils as some of Boston's top prospects will don the Spoked-B for the first time in their career. 

BOSTON - Three games is hardly a substantial sample size.

But Jack Ahcan and Oskar Steen are grateful for the taste of the National Hockey League they received last spring. And as the Bruins prospects - who are both taking part in this week's Rookie Camp - get set to make an impression on the Boston brass this fall, they'll both be aiming to draw on their experiences.

BOSTON - Fabian Lysell is using this week to learn.

While the Bruins' 2021 first-round pick boasts plenty of raw ability, he knows there is also ample room for improvement - both on and off the ice - as he begins his first Rookie Camp with the Black & Gold.

BOSTON - The Boston Bruins have announced the team's roster and schedule for 2021 Rookie Camp and the Prospects Challenge from September 18-19 at LECOM HarborCenter in Buffalo.

The Bruins' rookies will compete against the Buffalo Sabres and New Jersey Devils' rookies in the round-robin challenge featuring prospects from each team. The participating teams will each play two games during the course of the event, which is being held entirely at HarborCenter.

PROVIDENCE - After eight consecutive seasons as an assistant coach in the American Hockey League, it's safe to say Ryan Mougenel has earned the long-deserved opportunity to serve as a head coach. On August 13, the Bruins announced a trio of staff updates within the organization with Chris Kelly being named an assistant coach in Boston, Adam McQuaid earning the title of Player Development Coordinator, and Mougenel being named the 13^th head coach in Providence Bruins history.

BOSTON - Kyle Keyser is just 22 years old.

But the Florida product has already been a part of the Bruins organization for nearly four years. And while Keyser has yet to make his regular-season NHL debut, he'll enter the 2021-22 campaign as the club's longest-tenured goaltender.

With Tuukka Rask recovering from offseason hip surgery and still an unrestricted free agent, as well as the departures of Jaroslav Halak and Daniel Vladar, Keyser has a leg up on newly signed netminders Linus Ullmark and Troy Grosenick, depth backstop Callum Booth, and even rookie Jeremy Swayman, who was drafted in June 2017 but didn't sign his entry-level deal until March 2020.

BOSTON - There's been no shortage of star power at Warrior Ice Arena this summer.

For weeks, a bevy of NHLers has been training at the Bruins' practice facility in Brighton, led by the likes of Brad Marchand, Charlie McAvoy, Chris Wagner, Matt Grzelcyk, as well as former Black & Gold mainstays Torey Krug and Noel Acciari and Buffalo Sabres star and Massachusetts native Jack Eichel.

But another face among the crowd may not be quite as familiar - at least for now.

BOSTON - Mason Lohrei had a season to remember for the Green Bay Gamblers.

The Wisconsin native led all USHL defensemen with 19 goals, 40 assists, 59 points, and six game-winning tallies in 48 games during the 2020-21 campaign. Lohrei also set a franchise record for points in a season by a defenseman and finished his tenure with the Gamblers ranking second in club history among defensemen with 27 goals, 69 assists, and 96 points.

It was a striking offensive uptick for the blue liner, who had notched just eight goals and 37 points in the same number of games in 2019-20. But the Bruins top pick in the 2020 NHL Draft (58^th overall) believes it was his work in the defensive zone that set him apart and led him to become a force at the opposite end of the rink.