The veteran defenseman met with the Boston media prior to Saturday afternoon’s game against the Bruins, and he said that he was cleared a couple of days ago and was ready to go.
Ference hasn’t played at TD Garden since the Bruins lost Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final to the Chicago Blackhawks this past June.
Here are the projected lines for Saturday’s Bruins-Oilers game.
Bruins (34-16-3, 71 points)
Milan Lucic — David Krejci — Jarome Iginla
Brad Marchand — Patrice Bergeron — Reilly Smith
Carl Soderberg — Chris Kelly — Loui Eriksson
Shawn Thornton — Gregory Campbell — Daniel Paille
Zdeno Chara — Johnny Boychuk
Matt Bartkowski — Dougie Hamilton
Torey Krug — Kevan Miller
Oilers (18-32-6, 42 points)
Taylor Hall — Ryan Nugent-Hopkins — Jordan Eberle
David Perron — Sam Gagner — Nail Yakupov
Matt Hendricks — Boyd Gordon — Ryan Jones
Luke Gazdic — Ryan Smyth — Jesse Joensuu
Nick Schultz — Justin Schultz
Anton Belov — Philip Larsen
Jeff Petry — Martin Marincin
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