With the Bruins’ 2024-25 season set to get underway on Tuesday night in Florida, let’s run through some of our bold predictions for a new year on Causeway Street.
1. Elias Lindholm finishes with 71 points in his first season with Boston.
Lindholm’s faceoff talents (career-best 56.4 percent last year) and refined two-way game will shore up Boston’s D-zone coverage and execution in late-game situations.
But the Bruins aren’t paying the 29-year-old pivot $7.75 million per year to just be a defensive-minded center.
It might be asking a lot for the Swede to replicate the 42-goal, 82-point campaign he submitted with Calgary in 2021-22.