Projected Lines, Defensive Pairings For Bruins’ Season Finale

The Bruins will close out their 2024-25 season Tuesday night when they welcome the Devils to TD Garden.

Although Boston won’t be competing in the Stanley Cup playoffs, Tuesday nonetheless will be an eventful day for the Black and Gold. John Farinacci and Frederic Brunet both are set to make their NHL debut after being called up from Providence on Monday.

Farinacci, a Harvard product who signed an entry-level contract with the B’s in August 2023, is expected to skate on Joe Sacco’s fourth line. Brunet, a fifth-round pick by Don Sweeney and company in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft, is projected to join Parker Wortherspon on Boston’s third defensive pairing.

Jeremy Swayman is in line to start in between the pipes in the Bruins’ season finale after Joonas Korpisalo made 23 saves in Saturday’s win in Pittsburgh.

Here are the projected lines and defensive pairings for the Devils-Bruins tilt:

BRUINS (33-39-9)
Morgan Geekie — Elias Lindholm — David Pastrnak
Jakub Lauko — Pavel Zacha — Fabian Lysell
Cole Koepke — Casey Mittelstadt — Vinni Lettieri
Marat Khusnutdinov — Fraser Minten — John Farinacci

Nikita Zadorov — Henri Jokiharju
Mason Lohrei — Andrew Peeke
Frederic Brunet — Parker Wotherspoon

Jeremy Swayman

DEVILS (41-32-7)
Stefan Noesen — Nico Hischier — Jesper Bratt
Erik Haula — Dawson Mercer — Timo Meier
Ondrej Palat — Cody Glass — Tomas Tatar
Nolan Foote — Marc McLaughlin — Nathan Bastian

Luke Hughes — Brett Pesce
Brian Dumoulin — Jonathan Kovacevic
Brenden Dillon — Simon Nemec

Jake Allen