So now we’ve a clue as to why Bruins’ defenseman Hampus Lindholm’s sport dropped off so dramatically within the playoffs.
In a communication with the Swedish publication Aftonbladet final week in explaining why he couldn’t characterize Sweden within the World Championships, Lindholm revealed that he’d simply came upon that he’d been taking part in with a fractured foot “for the past month,” he wrote in a textual content.
Lindholm blocked a shot within the Bruins’ March 11 win over the Red Wings and didn’t play within the second half of the weekend back-to-back the following day. He was additionally given the March 26 sport in Carolina off to maintain a nagging harm, coach Jim Montgomery mentioned on the time.
Those had been the one two video games he missed all season. Whether the fracture occurred in that March 11 sport or there was subsequent trauma that brought about the break is just not clear.
In the primary 12 months of an eight-year, $52 million deal, the massive Swede loved a breakout season by which he set a profession excessive in factors (10-43-53) and lifted the workforce when it was with out Charlie McAvoy to begin the season.
But Lindholm was a no-show within the playoffs. While all of the Bruins’ defensemen had bother breaking by means of the Florida Panthers’ forecheck, Lindholm’s 0-0-0 stat line stood out. There was a tentativeness to his sport. How a lot you may attribute that to the harm and the way a lot to the Panthers is anybody’s guess.
In his closing assembly with reporters two days after the record-setting B’s had been ousted by the Panthers, Lindholm wouldn’t use the foot as an excuse.
“I’d say I was fine,” mentioned Lindholm on May 2. “Everyone has bumps and bruises that time of year. There’s no excuses on that stuff … it’s just that time of year. You try to find ways. We couldn’t really do that this year.”
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