Bruins send seven players to Providence

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By Joe Haggerty
CSNNE.comThe Bruins gave the players Tuesday off after back-to-back exhibition games against the Canadiens, then cut seven of them as training camp heads into its final week.The B's waived Zach Hamill and Trent Whitfield for the purpose of assigning them to the Providence Bruins (American Hockey League). They also directly assignedyoung skatersColby Cohen, Jamie Arniel, David Warsofsky, Michael Hutchinson and Zach McKelvie to the Providence farm club.That leaves young forwards Max Sauve and Lane MacDermid still in camp with the Bruins after stellar play in the exhibition games over the last few weeks, 35-year-old veteran Chris Clark still competing with Jordan Caron and Benoit Pouliotfor a roster spot among a largely established cast of Bruins characters and young defensemen Matt Bartkowski and Steve Kampfer battling it out for the seventh defensemen post.Given the performances in camp the expectation at this addressis that it should be Caron and Bartkowski claiming the final two spots coming out of camp, but Clark and Kampfer have also been extremely solid performersfrom beginning to end. Much could still hinge on the final two games with so few extra players still in camp with the regular cast of B's characters.The Bruins have only two more exhibition games -- Thursday night at home against the Ottawa Senators and Saturday against the Islanders in Bridgeport, CT -- before they open defense of their Stanley Cup championship against the Philadelphia Flyers on Oct. 6 at TD Garden.

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