


Taylor Hall is on the move again.
The veteran left wing was dealt to the Chicago Blackhawks, the team announced Monday, ending his tenure is Boston after two-plus seasons.
Hall and the rights to pending UFA forward Nick Foligno will fetch defensemen Alec Regula and Ian Mitchell from the Blackhawks.
The 2017-18 Hart Trophy winner with the New Jersey Devils will join his fifth team since he was traded away from Edmonton in 2016.
He is coming off a season in which he played 61 games for the first-place Bruins, notching 36 points, the second-lowest mark of his career.
The 31-year-old skater’s departure provides $6 million salary cap relief for Boston, which entered the offseason with just under $5 million in cap space.
Boston posted a league-record 135 points and 65 wins in the 2022-23 season, but collapsed in the playoffs in a disastrous seven-game loss to the Florida Panthers in the first round.
Days ahead of an 2023 NHL Draft in which the Blackhawks are expected to select generational prospect Connor Bedard, it appears Chicago is fortifying its veteran presence to place around the budding star.
The Blackhawks, who finished 26-49 last year with 59 points, are one of the few teams with cap space this offseason and hold 11 picks in this year’s draft.
Legendary Blackhawks winger Patrick Kane was traded to the Rangers midseason last year after a 15-year career with Chicago in which he won three Stanley Cups and one Hart Trophy.
Bedard, who has been labeled the best prospect since Connor McDavid, could help elevate Chicago — which hasn’t made the playoffs since 2020 — back into contention.


Mitchell, a 24-year-old defenseman, had eight points last year and 16 hits, played under Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery at the University of Denver.
Regula is a 22-year-old skater who has played just 22 games over three seasons in his NHL career.