{"id":109575,"date":"2025-08-31T23:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109575\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T23:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:16:07","slug":"elias-lindholm-poised-for-bounce-back-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109575\/","title":{"rendered":"Elias Lindholm Poised For Bounce-Back Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an injury-affected first season with the Boston Bruins, center <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lindhel01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elias Lindholm<\/a> is looking forward to a productive 2025-26 season, per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/after-a-difficult-first-season-with-bruins-elias-lindholm-wants-revenge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ronnie R\u00f6nnkvist of The Daily Faceoff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite playing all 82 games last season, Lindholm revealed during his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2025\/04\/atlantic-notes-lindholm-roy-mccabe-ekman-larsson-puljujarvi.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">exit interviews<\/a> in April that he had been dealing with a back injury since the previous August. The issue caused him to miss time in training camp and limited him offensively throughout the year. After signing a seven-year, $54.25 million contract with Boston last summer, both Lindholm and the team were expecting more than just 0.57 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t get off to a strong start, had problems with my back, and missed the entire camp. To be able to play from the beginning, I had to take an injection, and it took a few weeks before it helped. I couldn\u2019t do anything for a month or two, so I felt behind and had to catch up. It wasn\u2019t a great start, but I hope this coming season can be better,\u201d Lindholm said.<\/p>\n<p>Selected fifth overall in the 2013 draft by the Carolina Hurricanes, Lindholm has long been recognized as a defensively responsible center, earning Selke Trophy votes in five of his 12 NHL seasons, including a second-place finish following the 2021\u201322 campaign with the Calgary Flames. That same season, he also showcased his offensive potential by recording a career-high 42 goals and 82 points. That is the type of production the Bruins were hoping to get from the 30-year-old native of Sweden. But Lindholm, who noted that last season was full of \u201cdistractions,\u201d is confident he can turn things around in year two with Boston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve brought in some players, more hardworking types, so the feeling is that we\u2019ve added more of a Boston style to our game,\u201d Lindholm said. \u201cA lot went wrong, but hopefully, things will go better this season and allow us to make the playoffs at least.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After an injury-affected first season with the Boston Bruins, center Elias Lindholm is looking forward to a productive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,5789,78399,575,85],"class_list":["post-109575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boston-bruins","tag-elias-lindholm","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}