It wasn’t Elias Lindholm who jammed a rebound past Dustin Wolf with 20 seconds to go in overtime.
The Bruins’ top free-agent pickup wasn’t one of the three stars honored on the ice after the Bruins’ 4-3 win over the Flames.
All things being equal, the 29-year-old pivot’s final stat line didn’t leap off the page: 18:13 of ice time, one assist, and a 44 percent showing at the faceoff dot.
But that one helper in the extra frame — and the sequence of plays that led to that assist — showcased exactly why the Bruins handed Lindholm a $54.