Hard-nosed Bruins winger Guillaume Lefebvre has been assigned to the AHL's Providence Bruins Sunday morning after failing to appear in a Bruins game during his callup for the B's successfully concluded two-game road trip. Lefebvre has played in one game for the Bruins and has an assist and 42 penalty minutes in five games for the P-Bruins.

Yusei Kikuchi, the highly regarded Japanese phenom with whom the Red Sox met on Monday, has decided to remain in Japan and enter the NPB draft rather than pursue a career in the U.S. The Sox were one of eight teams Major League Baseball teams with whom the left-handed pitcher met.
 
Kikuchi features a fastball that sits at 89-92 mph and that touches the mid-90s. That, combined with a potentially plus-curveball, made him a talent who intrigued teams in the U.S. and Japan alike.
 
Kikuchi, 18, could have signed as an international amateur free agent with an MLB team. He is more highly regarded than countryman Junichi Tazawa, who signed a $3.3 million major-league deal with the Sox as an amateur last offseason.
 
He announced his decision in a press conference in Japan.