Bergeron, Marchand, Horton man B’s top line

BOSTON -- It sounds like Claude Julien has decided theres a new No. 1 line for the Bruins heading into their seventh game of the year, and its not the forwards donning the white practice jerseys.

Claude Julien took delight in shooting down the supposition that Chris Kelly was being placed into a top line center position with his current reshuffling of the lines, but Kelly is essentially being a center on a top-six forward line no matter which way you slice it.

The Bruins are going forward with their new look forward lines, and heres the breakdown with Julien essentially throwing everybody from the top three forwards into a bag, shaking it up and then taking a look at the contents out on the ice against a red-hot Toronto Maple Leafs team.

Tim Thomas was also the first goaltender off the ice for the Bruins at Thursdays morning skate at TD Garden, and will get the start vs. the 4-0-1 Maple Leafs the NHLs leading scorer in former Bs winger Phil Kessel.

Here are the lines with the safe assumption that Steve Kampfer will make the start for the Bruins:

Marchand-Bergeron-Horton
Lucic-Kelly-Seguin
Peverley-Krejci-CaronPouliot
Paille-Campbell-Thornton

Chara-Boychuk
Seidenberg-Corvo