The first thing to learn about Pär Lindholm is that he was born in October. That means he’ll be 27 before a single NHL game is played. He is almost two years older than Miro Aaltonen, which makes him almost three years older than Aaltonen was last year in training camp. He’s only two years younger than Tyler Ennis.
Lindholm is a different sort of signing to Andreas Borgman or Calle Rosen. He’s much more in the vein of Josh Jooris and Tyler Ennis. He might need a learning curve for the smaller ice — which in my view is largely about shooting angles and how you move in the neutral zone — but he’s not going to develop.