In Monday’s Boston Globe, Fluto Shinzawa reported Milan Lucic, the Bruins’ polarizing power forward, is under trade consideration. The Vancouver-born winger has a $6 million cap hit entering the final year of his contract, and the Black and Gold could persuade him to waive his no-trade clause so they could get something in return, rather than risking him walk for nothing at the end of the 2015-16 season.

Like many of the Bruins, Lucic had an up and down season. He started the first half with just a handful of goals and had trouble forming chemistry with someone other than David Krejci. That is until Ryan Spooner and David Pastrnak came along and his game picked up nicely over the last two-plus months of the season.

Still, for a talented player who produced just 44 points (18 goals, 26 assists) in 81 games, and for a guy who didn’t provide as much of a physical presence as in years past, it was a disappointing season for the eighth-year Bruin.

“Too inconsistent, personally, especially the way I started the season, I was very inconsistent and a very poor player in the first 35 games,” Lucic said Monday at TD Garden during the B’s breakup day.

“I think I only had six goals by New Year’s, and that’s not acceptable from a personal note and from a team standpoint as well. But then I kind of got my game going in the right direction in the last six, seven weeks of the season, got things going again as far as the way I wanted to play. Obviously I had a lot of fun playing with Spoons [Ryan Spooner] and Pasta [David Pastrnak] to end the season there.”

Over the past few seasons, Lucic benefitted from having Jarome Iginla and Nathan Horton on his opposite wing, with Krejci centering. This season, he didn’t have that same right-wing presence until Pastrnak and Spooner came along, nor did he have a healthy Krejci.

Mentally, Lucic didn’t bring his best stuff either. And GM Peter Chiarelli suggested that he might not have gotten over the Game 7 handshake in last year’s loss to the Canadiens where he “threatened to kill” Alexei Emelin and Dale Weise, at least before the start of this year.

“One of the things he said to me that I’ll share with you is he wasn’t in the right frame of mind, and it might have been the follow up to what he said with [the media] following the Montreal series,” Chiarelli said. “He didn’t have the right frame of mind whether it was a defensive frame of mind meaning he didn’t want to be as aggressive as he usually is, who knows.”

Lucic does have a no-trade clause. At the age of 26, he hopes to be a Bruin for the rest of his career. But even though he has the NTC in his back pocket, he still knows that his future is in the hands of Chiarelli or anyone else who holds the title of B’s General Manager for the 2015-16 season.

“I hope to be here, and my plan moving forward is to always remain a Bruin. But like I said, the management group is going to do what’s best for this team and this organization,” Lucic said. “I hope that it’s me on the team moving forward, and I hope that I’m in their vision for the future, but I can only control so much.”

With a longer off-season and a contract year approaching, there’s more motivation for Lucic to improve after a disappointing season. Otherwise, he may not get that raise, regardless of his future in Black and Gold.

“My plans are to remain a Bruin and the best way to get an extension is by my play and my actions on the ice,” he said. “I need to prove to the team and the organization and the fans, with my play on the ice, that I deserve an extension. So I definitely have to use that as motivation.”