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PROVIDENCE -- Like the parent club in Boston, the Providence Bruins have been starved for goals since Vladimir Sobotka, Brad Marchand and Trent Whitfield were recalled.

Coach Rob Murray hopes that left wing Mark Derlago, brought in on a tryout from the Idaho Steelheads of the East Coast Hockey League, can help.

"We're looking for offense,'' Murray said.

In eight games for Idaho, Derlago has six goals and four assists for 10 points. He is a plus-six and has recorded 30 shots on goal. The 23-year-old winger is 5'11 and 197 pounds.

Heading into his second season with the Brandon Wheat Kings of the Western Hockey League, Derlago broke his neck in a preseason game in 2004 and missed the 04-05 season. After recovering, he played two more seasons in Brandon and put up 46-35-81 numbers in 72 games in 2006-07.

He scored 39 goals in 68 games for the ECHL Bakersfield Condors in 07-08, and had a 32-45-77 line in 49 games in Bakersfield last season.

Derlago also played a total of 25 games with the AHL Manitoba Moose over the past two seasons, with a 6-8-14 line.

Mark Derlago is the nephew of Bill Derlago, who is a footnote in Boston Bruins history.

After a contract dispute in the fall of 1985, GM Harry Sinden shipped promising center Tom Fergus to Toronto in exchange for Derlago, a former 40-goal scorer.

It turned out to be terrible trade for the Bruins. Fergus had several productive years with the Leafs, while Derlago put up a 5-16-21 line in 39 games as a third- and fourth-line center with Boston. Sinden later peddled him to Winnipeg for Wade Campbell.


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Jimmy Fraser was returned to Reading of the ECHL. He was scoreless in two games over the weekend.


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Adam McQuaid (upper-body injury) practiced today and should be available this weekend, Murray said.


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Don Sweeney was on the ice for practice. Afterward, he took first-year pros Alain Goulet and Jamie Arniel aside and chatted with them individually for a few minutes.

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