The 2024-25 season hasn’t exactly gone according to plan for the Bruins.
Elias Lindholm finds himself in a similar boat in the midst of the first year of a seven-year, $54.25 million contract with Boston.
Several factors have played a part in the Bruins’ sluggish 8-8-3 start, with the lack of scoring punch looming large for a team operating with little margin for error.
The inability of Lindholm to inject some scoring punch into the top-six unit — and especially on the power play — has been hard to miss.
While it might have been a stretch to expect Lindolm to replicate the 42-goal, 82-point campaign he submitted with Calgary in 2021-22, Boston had plenty of hope that the 29-year-old pivot would be a productive player in the middle of the team’s forward corps.