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Bruins not ruling out playoff return for Seidenberg

Dennis Seidenberg

From our friends at CSN New England:

The Bruins certainly aren’t getting their hopes up, but coach Claude Julien -- like team president Cam Neely the day before -- on Friday wouldn’t rule out the possibility that defenseman Dennis Seidenberg could rejoin the Boston lineup during the playoffs.

The German defenseman had surgery for a torn right ACL/MCL in early January after injuring his knee in a Dec. 27 game against the Ottawa Senators, and the Bruins said at the time he was done for the year.

The best-case scenario is that Seidenberg wouldn’t be ready until deep into a Boston playoff run, and even then there would be some hesitation to parachute someone who hadn’t played in six months into the most important games of the year.

Of late, the Bruins have been doing just fine without Seidenberg. And that’s an understatement. They head into tonight’s game with the Avs on a 10-game winning streak, a streak that’s pushed them four points ahead of Pittsburgh for the top seed in the East.

There does, however, remain concern that Boston’s back end -- featuring the likes of Matt Bartkowski, Kevan Miller, Dougie Hamilton, and Torey Krug -- lacks the requisite experience to excel in the playoffs.

Then again, even without Seidenberg, there’s still Zdeno Chara and Johnny Boychuk, and a team could do worse than those two as veteran presences.