After drafting defenseman Mason Lohrei in the second round and center Trevor Kuntar in the third, the Bruins wrapped up their 2020 NHL Draft by taking a pair of players with local ties in the fifth and sixth rounds.
In the fifth round, the Bruins selected right-shot defenseman Mason Langenbrunner 151st overall. Langenbrunner's father is Jamie Langenbrunner, who played 18 seasons in the NHL and is currently the Bruins' director of player development.
Langenbrunner is listed at 6-foot-2 and 165 pounds, so the Bruins will almost certainly want him to do some bulking up as he develops. He is viewed as a puck-moving, offensive defenseman and had 19 points in 25 games for Eden Prairie High (Minnesota) last season.
He will play for the Sioux City Musketeers in the United States Hockey League this season before heading to Harvard in the fall of 2021.
The Bruins didn't have to look far for their sixth-round pick either, taking Woburn native Riley Duran 182nd overall. Duran is a 6-foot-2, 179-pound right-shot center who had 22 goals and 22 assists in 27 games for Lawrence Academy last year.
Duran previously played for Woburn High and Malden Catholic as well, and will play for the Youngstown Phantoms in the United States Hockey League this season. He is committed to Providence College for 2021-22.
Speaking to the media via Zoom, Duran said he has been a lifelong Bruins fan and that getting drafted by them is a dream come true.
"From the day I was born, I was a Bruins fan," he said. "Still am now."
The Bruins finished off their draft by trading their seventh-round pick (213 overall) to the Maple Leafs for a 2021 seventh-round pick.
All four members of the Bruins' 2020 draft class are American.
