{"id":253652,"date":"2025-10-31T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253652\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:24:10","slug":"bruins-elias-lindholm-out-multiple-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253652\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins’ Elias Lindholm Out Multiple Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruins center\u00a0Elias Lindholm<\/a>\u00a0will miss at least a few weeks with the lower-body injury he sustained in Thursday\u2019s overtime win over the Sabres, head coach\u00a0Marco Sturm<\/a>\u00a0told reporters today (including Adam Pellerin of NESN<\/a>). He\u2019s having an MRI today to more finely pinpoint the severity and recovery timeline.<\/p>\n

Boston is not making a corresponding recall from AHL Providence at this time, Sturm said. They had 14 healthy forwards on the active roster, so they still have a healthy extra on hand with Lindholm sidelined.\u00a0John Beecher<\/a>\u00a0will enter the lineup on Saturday against the Hurricanes after serving as a healthy scratch in three straight games and sitting out 10 of 13 contests this season, according to Sturm.<\/p>\n

Lindholm was involved in a knee-on-knee collision with Buffalo forward\u00a0Jordan Greenway<\/a> near center ice just short of the halfway point of regulation. He needed assistance from trainers to leave the ice and didn\u2019t return to the game.<\/p>\n

Now in his second season in Boston, Lindholm has been stapled in as the Bruins\u2019 top-line center with\u00a0David Pastr\u0148\u00e1k<\/a>\u00a0on his right wing since opening night. They\u2019ve had a rotating cast of left-wingers that\u2019s included\u00a0Marat Khusnutdinov<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Pavel Zacha<\/a>, but have mainly been deployed with Morgan Geekie<\/a>\u00a0at 5-on-5. Lindholm, 31 in December, is averaging 17:42 per game and has won 57.5% of his faceoffs. He\u2019s fourth on the club with nine points (four goals, five assists) in 13 games, but despite his line\u2019s offensive success, they\u2019re giving up far more than they\u2019re generating. He has a -3 rating while Geekie and Pastr\u0148\u00e1k have a -5. The trio has controlled just 38.1% of expected goals, by far the worst in the league among the nine forward lines that have spent over 100 minutes together this season, per MoneyPuck<\/a>. They\u2019ve been outscored 8-4 and out-attempted 134-103.<\/p>\n

Boston\u2019s offense has come out of the gates slightly better than expected, sitting just around league average at 3.31 goals per game. That\u2019s largely been fueled by an early-season shooting bender from Geekie, who\u2019s tied for the league lead with nine goals and is finishing at a 33.3% clip. Losing his middleman isn\u2019t great news, but it won\u2019t be the worst opportunity for Sturm to trial different names in the first-line pivot spot between him and Pastr\u0148\u00e1k to try and boost their two-way numbers. It will be Khusnutdinov getting the first crack at the job, according to the team\u2019s Belle Fraser<\/a>, fresh off an overtime winner against the Sabres.<\/p>\n

With Lindholm out for at least seven days, the Bruins can retroactively place him on injured reserve if they need a roster spot. With over $1.6MM in cap space, they won\u2019t need to do anything other than that to facilitate a recall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruins center\u00a0Elias Lindholm\u00a0will miss at least a few weeks with the lower-body injury he sustained in Thursday\u2019s overtime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,5789,78399,3899,125691,10232,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-253652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boston-bruins","11":"tag-elias-lindholm","12":"tag-injury","13":"tag-marco-sturm","14":"tag-newsstand","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253652","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=253652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}