WILMINGTON — If there is one commodity the Bruins organization has in abundance, it is centers.

At the NHL level, the B’s have five for four slots — Patrice Bergeron, David Krejci, David Backes, Ryan Spooner and Noel Acciari. In the minors, Austin Czarnik had himself a good enough first pro season with Providence of the AHL for some to believe he had a good chance to crack the NHL lineup before Backes was signed.

Sean Kuraly also is a natural center. But with his degree in business from the University of Miami (Ohio) in his back pocket, he also seems like a smart young man. He knows it might not be a bad idea to gain a little proficiency on a wing.

“You’ve got to be ready to do whatever. You have to,” Kuraly said at B’s development camp last week at Ristuccia Arena. “That’s something the staff has said to me: You’ve got to be ready to give yourself the best chance. You’ve got to be able to do more than one thing. If you can only do one thing, it limits your value and how you can help the team. For me, the way I can help the team is to be able to do a couple of things, so I’ve been working on getting pucks off the wall. I haven’t played a lot of wing, but I’m working on being ready for it.”

The Bruins have made a big investment in Kuraly. Along with defenseman Colin Miller, Kuraly is the other live body the team received in the Milan Lucic parlay last offseason. The B’s received a first-round draft pick, goalie Martin Jones and Miller from the Los Angeles Kings for Lucic at the 2015 draft and then flipped Jones to San Jose for a first-rounder and Kuraly, originally a fifth-round selection by the Sharks in 2011 (133rd overall).

Kuraly had a strong junior season at Miami, notching 19 goals and 10 assists, and elected to go back for his senior year. He served as captain for the Redhawks and, after obtaining his degree, was glad he did return to finish out his commitment.

“It’s all hockey now, but that’s something that’s nice to have,” Kuraly said. “I got to be captain for a year at school. That meant a lot to me. I didn’t want to leave my teammates. We had a really close group at school. You just see different aspects. You see playing different roles on different teams. I think it was a good experience for me, it opened me to different experiences and roles. But I’m excited to be here now. School was great. I’m glad I did it, but I’m really excited to be here now.”

While his senior year might have been a good life experience, Kuraly did suffer a sharp decline in goalscoring. He scored just six goals, though he upped his helper total to 17. He had no explanation, or excuse, for the drop in goals.

“It’s hockey,” he said with a smile and shrug. “If I knew what to do every year to get 20 goals every year in college, I’d do it. It’s just the way it goes. It’s up and down. You work as hard as you can. There are guys trying to stop you as hard you’re trying to score, and there are other variables. I could never pinpoint exactly what it was. You get in a rut or you get in a scoring streak. That’s the beauty of it. That’s hockey.”

At development camp, Kuraly looked like a man among boys because, at 23, he is, and he stands a strapping 6-foot-2, 201 pounds. At times in 3-on-3 scrimmages, he was able to impose his will on some of the teenagers.

“He’s demonstrated the things he does well,” B’s executive director of player personnel John Ferguson Jr. said “He protects the puck very well. He’s strong on the puck, hard down low, retrieves it well, pursues it well and uses his body to get to the crease. . . . He’s now ready to turn pro, and he’s ready for the next step.”

What position is the best one that can get him to the NHL remains to be seen.

“I think he can move to the wing,” Ferguson said. “He’s certainly capable of that.”