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BOSTON -- After completing the preseason exhibition schedule on Friday and then having Saturday off, the team returned to the practice ice Sunday to find the regular-season roster set.

The team sent forwards Ryan Spooner, Matt Fraser, Matt Lindblad and goaltender Niklas Svedberg to Providence of the AHL, and placed forward Nick Johnson on waivers.

When the Bruins host the Tampa Bay Lightning in the season opener on Thursday night at TD Garden, Boston will have 13 forwards, eight defensemen and two goalies on the roster. Earning spots were forwards Jordan Caron, Reilly Smith and Carl Soderberg, defenseman Kevan Miller and backup goaltender Chad Johnson.

“This was my goal, obviously, coming into camp to be with this club,” Johnson said. “I’m happy. I’m excited. It was a tough camp. Svedberg played great and had great camp, too. It was obviously a tough decision. We both played well. I’m happy I’m here. It was a tough camp, but it’s kind of like the easy part is over because you’ve got to play well during the season. I’m excited for it and I’ll focus on the day-to-day. It’s a tough league. The best players are here and this is where I want to be.”

Goaltender Tuukka Rask will see the bulk of the ice time and Johnson understands that. Meanwhile, Svedberg will split time between the pipes in Providence with prospect Malcolm Subban.

“Having good practices and playing those as they’re games, play those situations like they’re game situations,” Johnson said. “[Rask] is going to play a lot and he’s one of the best goalies in the league and he wins a lot of hockey games. I’ll be ready, and when I do get those games I’ll help this team win hockey games.

Coach Claude Julien doesn’t have a set game schedule for his goaltenders. Julien normally decides it on a weekly basis, taking into consideration the amount of games, the travel schedule, and whether Rask needs a rest.

“Sometimes he looks like he’s fresh and other times he may look tired and I’d rather make that decision then, than look too far ahead,” Julien said. “And that’s not to say that during that week I say, ‘Well maybe we can use him for these games and we’ll use the other goaltender for those ones.’ I do those things but I don’t necessarily stick to them as if it’s carved in stone. So I like to make decisions based on what I see and feel and what I think is right.”

Caron on a mission

It was evident a season ago that the Bruins were not happy with Caron’s development path. The talented forward spent the majority of the season with the P-Bruins. When he returned to Boston after the P-Bruins’ playoff run ended, Caron still couldn’t crack the lineup when the Bruins needed reinforcements due to injuries.

Caron admits he lost his confidence last season but believes it has returned, and still being on the roster helps.

“I know I can do it,” he said. “I just need to go out there, play my game, be confident and good things will happen.”

When he arrived at camp, he was noticeably more engaged and focused.

“The last couple of games I thought there was a little bit more urgency in his game, in doing the things we talked about,” Julien said. “His whole camp was what we know about Jordan. He was reliable and doing the things he has to do. But we asked him to do a little bit more.”

Caron worked on the penalty-killing unit. Offensively, he went to the net more and created more chances.

“That has to continue,” Julien said. “He’s 23 years old, he’s still a young player, and he’s a player that an organization doesn’t want to give up on too early. So we feel as coaches that we can help him improve and we’re going to work with him to make him improve in those areas.”

High expectations for Smith

Reilly Smith also impressed during training camp.

From the start, he was working the wing on the third line with center Chris Kelly. As training camp numbers decreased, Julien decided Soderberg, Kelly and Smith could work as the team’s third line.

Smith, who was one of the prospects the Bruins received from Dallas as part of the Tyler Seguin trade last summer, has 42 games of NHL experience with the Stars. The Bruins heavily scouted Dallas last season and were impressed with what they saw in Smith. The one thing Boston’s management wanted to see from Smith was more tenacity and grit, and he’s added that to his game with the Bruins.

As a result, the 22-year-old right wing earned a spot on the roster.

“It’s a great feeling, obviously, to be a part of this group,” Smith said. “But it doesn’t stop here. I’ve got to keep doing the same thing that I was doing to make this team.

“Playing with Kells and Soderberg is great,” added Smith. “There are two real good players and they help me a lot. It’s a competitive atmosphere here, so I’m just happy to be a part of it.”

After Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli rebuilt the team’s roster last summer, the depth in the organization was evident. He knew there would be an influx of youth for the 2013-2014 season. What he and Julien witnessed during training camp was satisfying and the team is ready to drop on puck for real on Thursday.

BOSTON -- With the NHL trade deadline looming, this can be a difficult time of the season to focus for some players and that may explain why after playing strong in the first few games after he was called up on March 8, Bruins winger Jordan Caron has struggled a bit. Caron did have an assist in the 3-2 shootout win over the Maple Leafs on Monday, but he knows he can be better and following the team’s game day skate Wednesday, Caron acknowledged that with his name being mentioned in trade rumors (specifically those concerning Flames winger Jarome Iginla coming to Boston) is hard to ignore.

“You just got to take it day-by-day,” Caron said of the rumors. “It’s hard not to pay attention to it because everybody is talking about it but at the same time there is nothing you can do about it. It is out of our control so you just have to come out here and play and we’ll see what’s going to happen in the next week or so.”

One positive he can spin out of the rumors is that another NHL team possibly values him and wants him to play for them. But as Caron said Wednesday, he’d like to stay with the team that drafted him 25th overall in the first round of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.

“If your name is in there it means your worth something,” Caron said. “You want to play in the NHL so that’s good but for my part, I’d like to stay here and keep playing with the Bruins. But we’ll see what’s going to happen in the next week or so.”

It has been a difficult year of injuries in Providence for Caron -- who had 10 goals and 15 points in 44 games with the Baby Bruins -- and he is looking to find some consistency at the NHL level and finally stay on the Boston roster.

“I hope so and that’s what I’ve been trying to do this year but with the injuries and stuff it hasn’t been easy,” Caron said. “Right now I think I’m playing pretty well though and I’m hoping it continues.”

Bruins head coach Claude Julien said he and his staff have taken into consideration what Caron went through in Providence with injuries and so far have been satisfied with the 22-year old.

“Well, he’s had a tough year. You said it: different injuries, from getting the puck in the eye, to, I think it was a shoulder injury or something like that. So, he’s been through a lot this year,” Julien pointed out. “Every time he got himself going he had a setback. We take that into consideration and at the beginning here he was producing. But in Providence, he did a lot of the things we asked him to do. He was strong along the walls, he was taking pucks to the net more, and he was also a better net-front presence. He was working on the things we asked him to do.”

WILMINGTON, Mass. -- In his first game with the Bruins this season, recent call-up Jordan Caron assisted on Chris Kelly’s second goal of the season in a 3-0 win over the Flyers Saturday.

Only time will tell if Jordan Caron is the right fit on the third line and is able to help Kelly and Rich Peverley contribute offensively and provide some needed scoring depth. But one thing is for sure. In terms of frustration levels this season, Caron will fit right in with Kelly and Peverley, who have just a combined five goals and 13 points between them.

After suffering a shoulder injury that kept him off the training camp roster, Caron returned to the Providence lineup to suffer a scary injury after taking a puck just under his right eye. Caron's production was down as well as he suffered through a stretch with just one goal in 21 games.

After having such a promising stint with the Bruins around this time last season, one wondered when Caron would get the chance to regain that momentum toward a permanent spot at the NHL level. While he has 10 goals in 44 games, the winger had been playing well at both ends of the ice with Providence of late and he’s hoping to find his stride again with Boston.

“You don’t want to think it’s not going to happen [in the NHL] because then you might stop playing if you have no goal,” the Bruins’ 2009 first-round pick said. “I just wanted to stay positive and keep working hard in games and practices. I wanted this year to be my first full regular season, but it just didn’t happen because of the lockout, injuries and other stuff. But I’m still young and I have time to do that.”

Coach Claude Julien has coached Caron for parts of the last two seasons and expected the Quebec native to find his way back onto the Boston roster this season, but he acknowledged some doubt after the frustrating start to Caron's season.

“Things crept up on him and he appeared snake-bitten with the injuries,” Julien said. “But the organization felt he’d played a strong half-dozen games in Providence, and he showed that again [Saturday].

“He worked hard. He was strong along the boards and made those plays on Kelly’s goal. He’s a big, strong power forward that is going to allow us to be better on the walls. He’s also pretty good at giving us some net-front presence and that’s what he was doing [Saturday].”

Caron also was happy with his game and happy to help his new linemates. He wanted to make sure he provided everything he could for Kelly and Peverley considering the scrutiny they have been under lately.

“I knew about it,” Caron said of criticism directed at Kelly and Peverley. “I have been reading a lot about it in the media and I just wanted to come up and play my game. I didn’t have any pressure so I just wanted to jump in there and chip in offensively. It went well and hopefully we’re going to keep it going.”

Kelly appreciated Caron’s presence.

“I thought Jordy played extremely well,” Kelly said. “He got in on the forecheck, he moved the puck well, he was skating well, he was good in his own end and he made a nice pass on the goal. He did a lot of the little things that helped us throughout the course of the game, like not turning the puck over and knowing when to make a play. I thought he played extremely well.”

BOSTON -- The Boston Bruins finally gave Jordan Caron an opportunity on Saturday and he helped the team to a 3-0 win over the Philadelphia Flyers at TD Garden.

The Bruins recalled the gritty forward from the Providence Bruins on Friday, and Claude Julien put him in the lineup on the team’s third line, alongside Chris Kelly and Rich Peverley.

Caron responded and posted an assist on Kelly’s goal at 13:28 of the first period to give Boston a 2-0 lead.

“I thought Jordy played extremely well,” Kelly said. “He played well in the offensive zone and he got in on the forecheck. He played great in his own end and did a lot of the little things that helped us tonight."

That line created sustained pressure in the offensive zone when Peverley made a pass to Caron, breaking to the net. He missed the pass at first, but recovered the puck in the corner and fed Kelly, who was camped out in the slot to give Boston a two-goal lead. It was Kelly’s second goal of the season.

“It was a great pass,” Kelly said. “He and Pevs almost connected on a great two-on-one just before that. For him to get the puck back and make a nice play was pretty heads up play by him.”

Caron finished with 13:45 of ice time in his first NHL game since the first round of the playoffs last spring.

“He had a really good game and so did (Kelly and Peverley),” Julien said. “Let’s not overlook the fact that Caron didn’t make that line be better all of a sudden – all three guys were really good today. That whole line was better today as a threesome.”

Ever since the Bruins selected Caron in the first round (25th overall) of the 2009 draft, the organization has been waiting for him to make an impact at the NHL level. The 22-year-old forward has shown glimpses in his previous 71 career games for the Bruins, but he hasn’t been consistent enough to stick in Boston.

Prior to his recall from Providence on Friday, he’s spent the entire season in the AHL. He wanted to keep his game simple on Saturday and he accomplished that.

“Just wanted to play my game and be good on the forecheck and create turnovers,” he said. “(Wanted to be) strong in the corner and be good defensively, as well. I don’t want to be caught in my D-zone too much. I just wanted to chip in offensively.”

In discussing the roster shuffle that saw Jordan Caron recalled from Providence and Chris Bourque sent down after clearing waivers, Bruins coach Claude Julien explained that any changes to the lineup are not solely to improve the team’s third line, which has struggled for the majority of the season.

“We’re trying to improve our team and we’re going to find whatever way we need to, to make our team better,” Julien said at Friday's practice in Wilmington.

The coach wouldn’t say whether Caron would be in the lineup against the Flyers on Saturday.

During the lockout, Julien spent a lot of time watching games in Providence, and the most recent scouting report he received on Caron was a positive one.

“From what I’ve been told, he’s been really good the last five or six games,” Julien said. “He’s a player that’s been here and has some experience, so you send a guy down and bring somebody else up. We’re trying to improve our team and we’re going to give those guys an opportunity to show that they belong here or they don’t.”

Caron has played 71 career games in the NHL with the Bruins. Last season, he played 17 games and recorded seven goals and eight assists.

“I thought he played pretty well at the end of last year,” Julien said. “He’s a big body. He’s strong along the walls. We asked him to do some things in Providence this year, take pucks to the net and go to the net and he’s done that. It’s about giving him that opportunity now to show us he’s gotten better.”

Caron hasn’t had the best of luck this season. He suffered an upper-body injury the weekend the NHL lockout ended and missed more than a week.

“He had to work on his consistency, and he starts finding his game and he gets injured, so it’s been one of those years for Jordan where he’s had a couple of nasty injuries that set him back,” Julien said. “That’s tough sometimes when you’re in and out, in and out, to get yourself on a roll. He’s been playing well the last half dozen games, so that’s why they’re giving him an opportunity to come here and maybe give him a chance to play.”

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WILMINGTON, Mass. -- After riding the I-95 express between Providence of the AHL and Boston for most of the season, it appears Jordan Caron is finally seizing the opportunity to stick at the NHL level. Caron has three goals and three assists in his last three games and now finds himself getting top six forward minutes as he was promoted to a line with Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand during the Bruins’ 3-1 win over the Sabres on Thursday. Caron is thriving off the increased playing time and is feeling very confident right now.

“I feel pretty good right now and I’m getting more and more ice time so I think that’s something that I really like,” Caron said following the win over Buffalo. “I think it’s easier when you play 12, 13, 14 minutes a game. It really gets you in the game and gets your legs going and you get more confidence when you get out there.”

The 2009 first-round draft pick also credited his success to a better forecheck and his switch back to his natural position at right wing.

“I think our forecheck has been really good the last few games and I think it’s always been a part of my game to get the puck down low,” Caron pointed out. “I’m playing low and when I get a chance to forecheck, I forecheck and getting it to the net from the corners. I think that’s always been my game.

Also, I was left wing when I got to Providence and I asked to go on the right side to get back to my junior position and I think that’s something that I really like. Playing right wing, it’s sometimes harder on the defensive zone, but offensively I think I really like it.”((

Julien has been thrilled to see the offensive outburst from Caron and that is why he promoted him to the line with Bergeron and Marchand.

“I think Jordan has been playing extremely well the past two, three games,” said Julien. “He’s really seemed to find his stride and confidence, and that line has been good for us -- the ‘Bergy’ [Bergeron] line with ‘Rolly’ [Brian Rolston] and ‘Marsh’ [Marchand]. But I felt like somewhere along the way, we needed a little bit more offense and since Caron has been going well, I wanted to see what that was going to give us.”

The Bruins announced Sunday that they have assigned forward Jordan Caron to Providence of the AHL.

Caron played in four games this season, averaging 9:03 in ice time, with no points. The Bruins' 2009 first-round pick made the team out of camp for the second straight season after playing 23 NHL games in 2010-11, but was unable to sustain a spot in the lineup.

As of now, the Bruins are carrying only 12 forwards and seven defenseman (counting the injured Adam McQuaid). With four days off between games, a call-up for a forward from Providence could be coming before Thursday's home game against the Montreal Canadiens, the first of a home-and-home set with their rivals that concludes Saturday at the Bell Centre.

BOSTON -- At this time last season, Bruins rookie Jordan Caron was just happy to still be on the roster. But he was admittedly wide-eyed and overwhelmed at the fact he was playing in the NHL and the surprised by the physical toll this league takes on players. But now, with 23 NHL games under his belt last season and then traveling with the NHL squad during their Stanley Cup run as one of the “Black Aces”, Caron is poised to show he can withstand that daily grind of the NHL.

“I think last year I wasn’t really ready for all it takes to stay in this league,” Caron said after practice Wednesday. “I was just happy I made it but didn’t realize what it takes. Now I know and I think that experience has helped me.”

Caron also feels more comfortable in the Bruins system and playing amongst NHLers.

“I was definitely nervous,” Caron said. “Now I am just comfortable and know what is expected of me. So I am able to play my game and not worry as much.

Head coach Claude Julien sees a calmer Caron as well and agrees that the experience Caron got last season will help him not only on the ice but also off. As Julien pointed out, Caron was a kid that came from a predominantly French-speaking culture and then was thrown into a different, English-speaking one.

“I think he's a little calmer. He's not as nervous,” Julien said Wednesday. Obviously he came up from the Quebec league and this is a player that's grown up in a totally, totally French environment. So when you move from home for the first time or from that area for the first time and get into this kind of environment, there's an adjustment period but I thought he did a great job last year.

After making the roster out of camp again and impressing Julien and his coaching staff, Caron appears ready for the next step. Julien is confident he will.

“I really liked his camp and obviously he was good enough to make our line up to start the season,” Julien said. “This year he's a lot more comfortable and being with us during the playoffs and being around the players and so on and so forth. All those things kind of help but to me he's had a real good camp again this year, which he did last year, but there's probably a little bit more confidence there's probably a little bit more experience in his thinking about he knows what happened last year and he's not going to want that to happen again so that's the way he's thinking right now.”

Bruins training camp opens two weeks from Friday, and with the core of the Stanley Cup championship team intact, along with some recent additions in defenseman Joe Corvo and forward Benoit Pouliot, there don’t appear to be too many openings on the roster.

Realistically there will be one forward spot available and possibly a spot on defense as well. But as general manager Peter Chiarelli said recently, there is always room for a young player or camp invitee to impress the coaching staff and team brass enough to earn a spot.

“First and foremost, if someone is going to create an opening by their play, we’ll gladly play along and make that opening,” Chiarelli said. “We’ll either send someone to the minors or trade them. We’re able to carry 23 guys, so there’s room to carry some extra players. We’ve got some young guys that we know are going to push some guys, and I expect that.”

One player who did that last season was Jordan Caron, who made the Bruins out of camp and played in 23 games (three goals, four assists) before being sent to Providence (AHL). Caron will be entering his third training camp at the NHL level, and Chiarelli said if any younger player is going to push for a roster spot, the team’s first-round pick in 2009 is a likely candidate.

“He made our team out of camp last year and for whatever reason -- and there’s a number of reasons -- he wasn’t able to sustain his play,” Chiarelli said of Caron. “So at the end of last year we felt he got his play and his steam back up and would have been the next guy into our lineup during the playoffs. So I would expect that he would push strong for a spot in the lineup.”

There are other youngsters who will be in the mix as well.

“We’ve got guys that have had good years in Providence,” Chiarelli said. “A guy like [Max] Suave. He had a terrific year in Providence. A guy like [Jamie] Arniel, he had a terrific year in Providence. Even [Zach] Hamill, he’s been much maligned but he can play at the pro level. So you’ve got guys that are going to push and they may surprise.

"Caron is at the top in the forward group because he made the team and the way he performed at the end. In the defensive group, we’ve got some guys like [Matt] Bartkowski, [Steven] Kampfer, [Colby] Cohen, [David] Warsofski, [Andrew] Bodnarchuk. Even [Marc] Cantin -- he’s older. We’ve got some guys there on D that will push too. But as I said, Caron is the more likely to find a spot.”

The defenseman who enters camp with the best shot at earning that seventh spot with the big club appears to be Kampfer, who Chiarelli thinks will benefit from the experience he got playing 38 games with Boston last season.

“He brought an efficient puck-moving element with some speed to our game,” Chiarelli said of Kampfer. “I think he got caught up in the speed at the end, which is understandable when you reach that playoff crescendo or the tempo leading up to the playoffs. I think Steve got caught up a little in that and then unfortunately got hurt and kind of fell a little bit down the depth chart. He brings that kind of light-on-your-feet, quick-thinking defenseman, which is a good add to our group.”

“I think what he learned throughout the year is that he has to be in tip-top shape and he’s a guy that has to watch what he eats -- and he’s in good shape -- he just has to continue to watch what he eats. But he learned how to be a pro so I thought he learned a lot last year.”

BOSTON -- Boston Bruins rookie Jordan Caron joined the main group during Wednesday’s game-day skate at TD Garden.

The reason the 20-year-old forward participated was due to the fact that veteran Mark Recchi rarely skates on game days. Plus, with the injury to Nathan Horton (concussion) the Bruins were down a forward.

Bruins coach Claude Julien did confirm after the skate that Tyler Seguin would be back in the lineup for Game 4 of the Stanley Cup final against the Vancouver Canucks.

Caron played a total of 23 games for the Bruins this season, but spent the majority of the year in the AHL with the Providence Bruins. His last stint in Boston was Feb. 7-14. He was recalled on April 12 and has been a member of the Black Aces throughout the playoffs.

“It’s different. I didn’t know what to expect,” Caron said. “The coaches and players have been great to us, and we’ve had a chance to travel and stuff. Now, just to be with the team and being in the room during the Stanley Cup final is a lot of fun.”

Being around a Cup contender has already served as motivation for Caron.

“By watching the game you see how different it is from the regular season,” Caron said. “The pace is so high. I’m going into the summer [with the mindset] that I want to make the team out of training camp and stay for the whole season and hopefully get back to the final next year.”

Barring an injury to another Bruins forward this series, however, Caron will remain a keen observer.

Julien did say that Caron would participate in the pregame warmup for Game 4.

“You never know what can happen over the course of a day,” Julien explained. "A player can get sick or something can happen. We’re playing it safe. We put 23 guys out there [for warmup].”

Even when Seguin was a healthy scratch in the first two rounds of the playoffs, he still participated in the game-day skates and pregame warmups. The same can be said for rookie defenseman Steven Kampfer.

“Jordan has an opportunity to live that same experience,” Julien said. “Besides the game, you look at ways to help your young players grow and that’s one of the ways.”

BOSTON -- With the return of Daniel Paille and Tyler Seguin to the Bruins’ lineup, rookie prospects Zach Hamill and Jordan Caron were sent back to Providence.

Paille returns from a four-game suspension for an illegal hit to the head, and Seguin is back for his second consecutive game after being a healthy scratch for the previous two games.

Hamill (one assist) and Caron each played a total of three games during their recent call-up before being reassigned to the P-Bruins, where they will continue to hone their skills.

“They got called up because they deserved to get called up,” said Bruins coach Claude Julien.

“We saw Zach make some good plays and he was seeing the ice well. He’s going to continue to work on his game.

“Same thing with Jordan. What I thought was tough for Jordan was he came in and played against one of the best teams in the league. The pace was fast and when guys come up from the American League it usually takes them a few games to catch up to the pace of the NHL.”

Julien added that he believes Caron struggled a bit because the Bruins played a home-and-home series against the Detroit Red Wings last weekend. The coach was supportive of both Hamill and Caron and said he believes they will be back at some point.

BOSTON -- Bruins rookie Tyler Seguin will be a healthy scratch for the second consecutive game when Boston hosts the Detroit Red Wings tonight at TD Garden.

“We’re going with the same lineup,” said Bruins coach Claude Julien, referring to the Seguin-less lineup that beat the Montreal Canadiens 8-6 on Wednesday.

The 19-year-old forward has played 51 games and has registered eight goals and nine assists in his first season in the NHL. Julien said prior to Wednesday’s game that Seguin “had a lot on his plate” and the team thought it best to give last year’s No. 2 pick time to catch his breath.

Seguin participated in the Bruins’ optional skate Friday morning.

“He’s fine. He’s very understanding,” Julien said. “We also understand that he wants to play.”

While Seguin will watch from level 9, rookie Zach Hamill will center Blake Wheeler and Michael Ryder. Jordan Caron will remain on the line with Shawn Thornton and Gregory Campbell.

Despite the team’s decision to sit Seguin, Julien said he is impressed with the rookie's progress this season.

“He’s been good,” the coach said. “He’s a player who has a ton of talent. Maybe he hasn’t had the benefit of other players, such as [Taylor] Hall in Edmonton, to play for a Memorial Cup team. We all know [Seguin’s] skill is high and his potential is also very high. He’s developed with us, and he’s made some great strides. His game might have slipped a little lately, but he doesn’t have the privilege of playing on a re-building team.

“He’s on a team that aspires for bigger and better things, and probably a team that has a lot more experience. At times, he has to be patient with that. Other than that, he’s got a great attitude and he understands. He’s willing to do what it takes to be a better player and that’s all you can ask from him.”

WILMINGTON, Mass. -- For the first time since being assigned to the Providence Bruins of the AHL on Dec. 6, rookie Jordan Caron is back with the Boston club.

The 20-year-old forward, who was recalled on Monday, practiced with the Bruins on Tuesday morning at Ristuccia Arena and is expected to be in the lineup against the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday night at TD Garden.

Caron began the season with Boston and played 20 games, posting three goals and four assists, until he was assigned to the P-Bruins. He played in 27 games for Providence and has registered 6 goals, 11 assists for 17 points.

“We liked the way he played,” said Bruins coach Claude Julien. “Maybe his play dipped a little bit earlier on and we felt he was one of those young guys who could benefit from going down, playing more and finding his game.

“He’s been playing pretty well [in Providence] and it was an opportunity for him to come up and help us out,” Julien added.


After practice, Caron said he’s ready to take full advantage of his latest opportunity.

“I was pretty happy,” he said. “Everybody wants to play in the NHL and I was very happy when I got the call.


“I was disappointed when I got sent down, but I think it was good for me to get a lot of ice time [in Providence] and improve what I need to work on. It was a good thing for me.”

BOSTON -- The Bruins have recalled Jordan Caron from Providence of the AHL. The 20-year-old forward will join the Bruins at practice on Tuesday.

Caron began the season with Boston and played 20 games, posting three goals and four assists until he was assigned to the P-Bruins on Dec. 6. The rookie has played in 27 games for Providence and has registered 6 goals and 11 assists for 17 points.

The Bruins selected him in the first round (25th overall) in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.