Time To Bring Milan Lucic Back To Boston

The Boston Bruins and Lucic missed an opportunity to reunite this past spring, but now they can make things come full circle for a hockey winner

Milan Lucic is many things as a hockey player.

He’s still as fearsome and as intimidating as they come with the willingness to throw around his massive 6-foot-3, 240-pound body, and the ability to pound the living daylights out of even the NHL’s toughest customers.

Lucic is also still an effective hockey player as he showed again with the Calgary Flames playing a vital bottom-6 role this past season on a team that threatened for the playoffs, and in being part of a Team Canada that won Gold at the IIHF World Championships this past weekend.

The 34-year-old Lucic played the role of veteran leader for a younger group of Canadian players and also showed he can still make plays all over the ice as he did while helping set up a huge goal for Adam Fantilli during the medal rounds.

Fantillli talked after the game about how meaningful it was to be playing with a guy like Lucic that he grew up idolizing as things have come full circle for the power forward that broke in with the Bruins in 2007-08 as a 19-year-old.

But most of all, Lucic is just a flat-out winner. Similar to a guy like Boston Bruins captain Patrice Bergeron, Lucic has won at just about every level of hockey with a Memorial Cup, a Stanley Cup and now a gold medal for Team Canada on a puck resume that also includes 1,173 NHL games played with the Boston Bruins, LA Kings, Edmonton Oilers and Flames.