Bruins Reveal If Brandon Carlo, Kevan Miller Would Have Played Game 7

It plagued the Bruins all year, and was a glaring issue in their ultimate demise as the New York Islanders ended Boston’s season with a 6-2 verdict in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Injuries to blueliners proved quite bothersome.

Boston was without defensemen Brandon Carlo and Kevan Millar on Wednesday. Miller had been out since Game 4 of the Bruin’s first-round series against the Washington Capitals after taking a high hit in open ice. Carlo, who missed quite a bit of time this season after a regular season hit from Tom Wilson, has been out since hitting his head on the boards after another from Islanders’ Cal Clutterbuck in Game 3.

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Not that it matters now, but Bruce Cassidy believes they would have made a difference, and was willing to share that Miller at least may have been available for Game 7. You know, if Boston forced another elimination game.

“As for Carlo and Miller, I don’t think Brandon would have played Game 7,” Cassidy said after the game. “Miller was skating and had an opportunity. We’ll never know now so I don’t want to speculate or speak for Kevan but he was trending well, that if we’re able to get to Game 7 that he had an opportunity to play. Carlo, no.”

It is what it is, and we’ll never know what could have been had Boston’s defense been 100 percent.