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Boqvist scored 10 targets final season with the New Jersey Devils.
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The Bruins are throwing yet one more ahead into the combo for bottom-six minutes subsequent season.
Boston introduced on Wednesday that it signed ahead Jesper Boqvist to a one-year NHL contract with a cap hit of $775,000.
The 24-year-old Boqvist beforehand performed with the New Jersey Devils for his complete four-year profession within the NHL. In 70 video games final season, Boqvist scored 10 targets and posted 21 factors whereas averaging 11:36 of ice time per recreation.
In 189 profession video games, Boqvist has lit the lamp 28 occasions and posted 55 factors.
Regardless that Boqvist can play each at wing and middle, his poor faceoff numbers (36.2% by 4 seasons) sign that Boston would possibly need to hold him away from the pivot spot.
Boqvist’s strong defensive metrics and ending price (14.9% capturing share in 2022-23) supply hope that he can carve out a task on Boston’s roster this season.
However the image is way from clear in the case of simply how precisely Boston fills out its bottom-six group.
The state of the Bruins’ depth chart up entrance nonetheless hinges on whether or not or not Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci return. As of proper now, free-agent signings like Boqvist, Morgan Geekie, Milan Lucic, and Patrick Brown all determine to fit into common roles on the third and fourth strains.
Youthful gamers inside Boston’s system like Jakub Lauko, Marc McLaughlin, Johnny Beecher, and Oskar Steen are additionally anticipated to be within the combine as soon as camp opens in September.
Don Sweeney and the Bruins have routinely preached the significance of inside competitors when the time involves fill in vacancies throughout the roster. Boston shouldn’t have any scarcity of candidates this fall given its busy free company.
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