{"id":11060,"date":"2023-06-30T00:43:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T05:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=11060"},"modified":"2023-07-06T13:05:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T18:05:54","slug":"boston-bruins-acquire-framingham-native-reilly-walsh-from-nj-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2023\/06\/30\/local-sports\/boston-bruins-acquire-framingham-native-reilly-walsh-from-nj-devils\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins Acquire Framingham Native Reilly Walsh from NJ Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> --  <strong>Boston Bruins<\/strong> General Manager&nbsp;<strong>Don Sweeney<\/strong>&nbsp;announced on June 26th, 2023 that the Bruins has <strong>acquired Framingham native Reilly Walsh<\/strong> from the New Jersey Devils in exchange for forward Shane Bowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-luminous-vivid-amber-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"665\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230636_reilly-walsh-framingham-boston-bruin-nhl.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230636_reilly-walsh-framingham-boston-bruin-nhl.jpg 665w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230636_reilly-walsh-framingham-boston-bruin-nhl-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230636_reilly-walsh-framingham-boston-bruin-nhl-150x106.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>(above is a <em>June 20, 2023<\/em><\/em> <em>screen capture from NHL website, Boston Bruins section which shows Reilly still in his NJ Devils #8 uniform)<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Framingham in 1999, Walsh grew up in New Hampshire and played high school\u00a0hockey for Proctor Academy where his <strong>father Mike Walsh<\/strong>, <em>(a former <strong>New York Islander<\/strong>) <\/em>was Proctor's varsity coach.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While hockey is literally in Reilly's blood -- he has also put in the sweat, working his way up and made the jump at just 6-year-old to earn a spot on the Concord Capitals (NH) program for players age 9 to 10 after proving he was ready, <em>(and one of the best 5 skaters in that age group).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While in high school Walsh, a defenseman played for the U.S. National (Under 17) Team where he represented the United States twice internationally; in 2016 in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament at Breclav, Czech Republic wherer the team took Second Place.  Reilly skated in all four games.  He also play in the 2015 U-17 Five Nations Tournament in Arosa, Switzerland where the team took First Place.  Reilly skated in every game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After high school, Walsh went on to play for <strong>Harvard University<\/strong> from 2017-2020 in the Division 1, Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), then for the <strong>Binghamton Devils<\/strong>, then the <strong>New Jersey Devils<\/strong> and played for their AHL affiliate the <strong>Utica Comets<\/strong> appearing in 174 games before being traded to the Bruins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/bruins\/news\/bruins-acquire-reilly-walsh-from-devils-in-exchange-for-shane-bowers\/c-345015878\" target=\"_blank\">NHL.com<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/teamusa.usahockey.com\/page\/show\/4322363-2018-wjss-reilly-walsh\" target=\"_blank\">Reilly Walsh - USA Hockey Page<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/Reilly-Walsh-Concord-NH-Harvard-New-Jersey-Devils-NHL-Hockey-11931045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Concord Monitor article by Nick Stoico<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<figure style=\"width:0px;height:0px;\" class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"175\" height=\"105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230636_reilly-walsh-framingham-boston-bruin-nhl-175x105.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"height:0px;object-fit:cover;\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8212; Boston Bruins General Manager&nbsp;Don Sweeney&nbsp;announced on June 26th, 2023 that the Bruins has acquired Framingham native Reilly Walsh from the New Jersey Devils in exchange for forward Shane Bowers&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2023\/06\/30\/local-sports\/boston-bruins-acquire-framingham-native-reilly-walsh-from-nj-devils\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":11061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2787],"tags":[5117,2011,5116,3508,5115],"class_list":["post-11060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","tag-born-in-framingham-ma","tag-boston-bruins","tag-framingham-native","tag-hockey","tag-reilly-walsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11066,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions\/11066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}