While the Stanley Cup and Calder Cup Playoffs have reached their conference finals, teams out on the outside have begun to make their moves. One such player is Left-Handed Defender Emil Johansson, who will be leaving North America to return to his longtime junior and one-time main club HV71 per the swedish blog (brought to our attention by SBNation’s senior sweden expert Patrik Bexell) Rakapuckar. Their scoop, lightly translated and paraphrased:
Defender Emil Johansson, the 23-year-old for the Boston Bruins who - as I heard - agreed to a release even though one year remains on his contract.