The Bruins have not yet made cuts, but the real competition for jobs came into sharper focus on Thursday at Warrior Ice Arena.

The first of two groups that hit the ice consisted of all the presumptive NHLers plus a few more players vying for a couple of the undetermined jobs. The top line of Morgan Geekie, Elias Lindholm and Pastrnak remained the same, as did the fourth line of Mikey Eyssimont, Sean Kuraly and Mark Kastelic.

The middle six was jumbled, with Pavel Zacha moving back to center between Viktor Arvidsson and Matej Blumel while Casey Mittelstadt dropped down to a third line with Tanner Jeannot and Matt Poitras, getting his first look of the preseason at wing.

There was also a fifth line of Fraser Minten centering Alex Steeves and Marat Khusnutdinov.

On the back end, the top t

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