{"id":39650,"date":"2025-08-01T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39650\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T15:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:32:07","slug":"bruins-free-agent-leaves-nhl-to-sign-contract-in-czech-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39650\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins&#8217; free agent leaves NHL to sign contract in Czech Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this stage of free agency, the players still available might feel they can do better by departing the NHL for another league.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the choice that Jakub Lauko has made.<\/p>\n<p>HC Dynamo Pardubice in the Czech Republic <a href=\"https:\/\/hcdynamo.cz\/clanek.asp?id=Jakub-Lauko-je-novou-posilou-Dynama-14650\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:announced;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">announced<\/a> that it has signed Lauko to a three-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Lauko was non-tendered by the Bruins in June.<\/p>\n<p>The forward began the 2024-25 season with the Minnesota Wild but ended it with Boston after a trade deadline deal.<\/p>\n<p>In 56 games between the two teams, Lauko finished with five goals and six assists to go along with 39 blocked shots and 119 hits.<\/p>\n<p>Lauko had spent the prior two seasons with the Bruins, as well.<\/p>\n<p>In all, he has played 139 NHL games across three seasons with 11 goals, 17 assists, 69 blocks and 339 hits.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/news\/maple-leafs-max-pacioretty-850k-contract-update-strong-postseason\/42822af6c229b1292fe87651\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The latest on Max Pacioretty&#039;s free agency;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The latest on Max Pacioretty&#8217;s free agency<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lauko was a third-round pick by Boston in 2018 who didn&#8217;t make his NHL debut until the 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Still just 25, Lauko is going to his native Czech Republic to continue his hockey career for now.<\/p>\n<p>Lauko had already played for two other teams in the Czech Extraliga before coming to the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Dynamo Pardubice has lost in the last two Extraliga championship series. They feature former NHL players like Libor Hajek, Lukas Sedlak and Vladimir Sobotka.<\/p>\n<p>If Lauko has a good showing, he can put himself back on the NHL radar.<\/p>\n<p>For now, he&#8217;s heading home hoping for the best next step in his hockey career.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/news\/capitals-phenom-verge-nhl-breakthrough-132-whl-points\/215e40caf07605822c482b23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Capitals&#039; phenom on verge of NHL breakthrough;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Capitals&#8217; phenom on verge of NHL breakthrough<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At this stage of free agency, the players still available might feel they can do better by departing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[3333,28614,49,48,24980,455,14108,25128,28613,28618,28617,12363,761,448,28615,82,28616],"class_list":["post-39650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-boston","tag-bruins","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-czech-extraliga","tag-czech-republic","tag-free-agency","tag-hc-dynamo-pardubice","tag-jakub-lauko","tag-libor-hajek","tag-lukas-sedlak","tag-max-pacioretty","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-players","tag-sports","tag-vladimir-sobotka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}