MONTREAL -- Without a second round pick, the Bruins selected Alberta native and defenseman prospect Ryan Button with the 86th overall selection in the third round. The 6-foot, 185-pound had a breakout season for Prince Albert of the WHL in 2008-09 and finished with 37 points in 70 games last season. An Oilers fan growing up, Button comes from an athletic family with his dad a triathlete and his cousin an Olympic-level swimmer for the Canadian National Team.
In the fourh round, the Bruins selected big left winger Lane MacDermid from the Windsor Spitfires. MacDermid has the bloodlines as the son of former NHLer Paul MacDermid and he has the size at 6-foot-3, 204-pounds. The lefty shooting MacDermid had 15 goals and 20 assists in 64 games for both the Owen Sound Attack and the Spitfires while splitting the season with both junior teams in 2008-09. MacDermid is known as something of a tough guy in junior circles, and is expected to fit right into the...

The Boston Bruins selected right wing Jordan Caron, an 18-year-old out of Rimouski Oceanic in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, with their first-round pick, the 25th overall. The 6-foot-2, 205-pound right winger had 67 points and 36 goals in 56 gamaes for Rimouski last season, and really opened eyes during the Memorial Cup playoffs. B's GM Peter Chiarelli said that Caron has "power forward tendencies", and that both his shot and his tenacity around the net remind him of former B's scorer Glen Murray. Caron is expected to attend Boston's prospect camp at Ristuccia Arena in July.
"He was in our top 15 on our list," said Chiarelli. "When we saw the trend of the draft and we saw that this guy was available we kind of called off the dogs a bit (for a trade to move up). We were lucky because we thought a couple of teams ahead of us were going to take him. He's got a really good shot, but he's not...