Oh goody, the ever soft Blake Wheeler at center for the Boston Bruins, that is almost as silly as putting Blake Wheeler on the top line like they did during the playoffs against the Flyers. Yeah, that didn’t work so well either.

MONTREAL — Blake Wheeler has spent most of his first two NHL seasons on the left wing. Tonight, Wheeler will get some shifts at center, a position he played in college at the University of Minnesota.

“He’s a guy who’s played center his whole career until he came to us, and we put him on the wing,” coach Claude Julien said. “Right now, with [Marc Savard] not with us right away, I wouldn’t mind seeing the different options. We want Tyler [Seguin] to have that opportunity. But here’s another guy in Wheels who’s played center before. We’re going to look at different options. Joe Colborne is another guy who’s having a good camp. So we’re going to really look at those options. Hopefully they’ll help us make some decisions.”

There was some talk this past summer that the Boston Bruins were trying to trade Marc Savard after signing him to a cap friendly contract. I can imagine that there are a lot of Bruins fans relieved that Marc Savard is staying put.

ESPNBoston.com —Chiarelli acknowledged Friday that he did indeed have trade discussions regarding Savard, but apparently they weren’t enough to entice the GM to pull the trigger on a deal. Chiarelli also acknowledged that teams have inquired about other Bruins players, as well.

“There is all these things that happen and there are always things that swirl around about moving guys, and I cannot respond to anything in kind because I don’t directly comment on trade rumors,” Chiarelli said. “I can tell you, though, that there was discussion and inquiries on Marc and they became public.