The Boston Bruins have reportedly signed forward Elias Lindholm to a seven-year contract once free agency opened on Monday.
The Boston Bruins reportedly signed Elias Lindholm to a seven-year, $54.25 million contract on Monday. The 29-year-old Swede will make an average of $7.75 million per season, and Boston hopes they have their No. 1 center locked in long-term.
Lindholm was tied to Boston ahead of the trade deadline, but he ultimately went from the Calgary Flames to the Vancouver Canucks on Jan. 31. The Canucks reportedly considered flipping Lindholm to Boston closer to the March 8 deadline in a potential pursuit to acquire Jake Guentzel, but that never came to fruition.
Lindholm scored 15 goals and 44 points in 75 games between Calgary and Vancouver last season. His point production has steadily decline over the past three seasons, with his 82-point campaign in 2021-22 followed up by 64 points in 2022-23.
Bruins general manager Don Sweeney emphasized the focus on getting deeper in the middle, and he does exactly that with this signing.
“We’d like to deepen the middle of the ice with us," Sweeney said before the NHL Draft on Thursday. "So that’s where we’ve been focused on trying to have those talks with our group to say, ‘Ok, well who would be the guy?’ and then make, hopefully, the pitch at the right time that we can add a player of that nature.”
Five months after his trade to Vancouver, Lindholm winds up in Boston after all.
This story is developing, with information to be added as it comes.
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