It's early in the year, we want to get people in the lineup, we want to get people acclimated to game speed. The guys that are coming out, it's not a reflection (of them). The whole team was porous last game. It's just an opportunity to get two guys in.
The Bruins certainly will lose some playmaking from the blue line with Lohrei out, but will look for Wotherspoon to help shore up the back end in front of Jeremy Swayman.
Tufte, who signed a one-year, $775,000 deal with Boston in the offseason, stands at 6-foot-6 and 230 pounds and contributed just one goal and one assist in five games with the Colorado Avalanche last season.
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