The Boston Bruins traded Milan Lucic to the Los Angeles Kings. (USATSI)
The Boston Bruins traded Milan Lucic to the Los Angeles Kings. (USATSI)

The rebuild is on in Boston.

Just about an hour after trading defenseman Dougie Hamilton to the Calgary Flames for three draft picks, the Bruins made another major move on Friday afternoon by sending Milan Lucic to the Los Angeles Kings.

In return for the power forward, the Bruins will receive the No. 13 overall pick in the 2015 draft, goaltender Martin Jones, and prospect Colin Miller.

According to ESPN's Pierre LeBrun, the Bruins retained $2.7 of Lucic's remaining salary to make it work against the cap for the Kings. He is in the final year of his current contract.

The Bruins salary cap situation and Lucic's $6 million cap hit made him a potential trade target coming into the draft weekend. It also seems to set the stage for potentially even more deals to come. The two trades on Friday give the Bruins the 13th, 14th and 15th picks in the 2015 draft and leads to speculation that they could be positioning themselves for a move to the top of the draft, perhaps even targetting the No. 3 overall pick that currently belongs to the Arizona Coyotes.

Getting Jones, a restricted free agent, in the deal also leads to more questions because they already have Tuukka Rask signed long-term and have Malcolm Subban, one of the top goaltending prospects in the league, already waiting in the wings. 

For the Kings, it adds yet another big, physical body to their team and also adds to their own salary cap crunch.

Lucic is still a very good player, though one that probably became a little overrated in recent years due to the "big, bad, Bruins" hype that was always coming out of Boston and he's probably not a great value at $6 million. But that doesn't mean he's bad. Not at all.

He is still only 27 years old, is extremely durable, and should still have several productive years ahead of him.

Throughout his career he has been a consistent 20-25 goal, 50-60 point player every season. That is first or second line production in the league these days, and if you add that to a 6-3, 235-pound body that isn't afraid to mix things up and you have a player that a lot of general managers are going to covet.