NHL-best Bruins acquire forward Tyler Bertuzzi from Red Wings

Tyler Bertuzzi is going to the NHL-best Boston Bruins, the latest Stanley Cup contender to strike a deal in the loaded Eastern Conference.

Bertuzzi is a 28-year-old pending free agent winger who gives Boston depth up front and possible insurance if Taylor Hall's injury is long term. Bertuzzi has 14 points in 29 games this season with the Red Wings.

That will almost certainly change next month. The Bruins are on pace for the best regular season in hockey history.

But this isn't the first move they've made in an attempt to get better. They got defenceman Dmitry Orlov and forward Garnet Hathaway from Washington last week — a move that made them bigger and tougher in advance of a rough road through the East.