The Boston Bruins announced today that the team has signed forward Marat Khusnutdinov to a three-year contract extension through the 2029-30 season with an annual cap hit of $3.95 million.<\/p>\n
Khusnutdinov (hoos-noot-DEEN-ahv) has posted two goals and three assists for five points in 10 games with the Bruins in 2026-27 and currently ranks fourth among Boston skaters with a plus-six rating.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old forward skated in 77 games during the 2025-26 season, setting career highs in goals (15), assists (18) and points (33). He ranked third on the team in shooting percentage (19.2%), tied for seventh in goals and ninth in points.\u00a0His 2025-26 season was highlighted by his first career NHL hat trick on January 10, 2026, against the New York Rangers. He finished the game with four goals and one assist for a career-high five points in the team\u2019s 10-2 victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Moscow, Russia native has played in 178 career NHL games with the Boston Bruins and Minnesota Wild, totaling 23 goals and 31\u00a0assists for 54\u00a0points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Khusnutdinov was acquired by Boston on March 6, 2025 from the Minnesota Wild, along with forward Jakub Lauko and a 2026 sixth-round pick, in exchange for forward Justin Brazeau. He was originally selected by Minnesota in the second round (37th overall) of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Bruins announced today that the team has signed forward Marat Khusnutdinov to a three-year contract extension…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-936103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936103","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=936103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}