{"id":962117,"date":"2026-11-07T19:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T19:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/962117\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T19:08:08","slug":"bruins-place-james-hagens-on-ir-recall-michael-eyssimont-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/962117\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins Place James Hagens On IR, Recall Michael Eyssimont \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The back injury<\/a> that Bruins forward James Hagens<\/a> suffered on Thursday night will keep him out for at least a week.\u00a0 The team announced today that they\u2019ve placed Hagens on injured reserve.\u00a0 Taking his place on the roster will be forward Michael Eyssimont<\/a>, who has been recalled from AHL Providence.<\/p>\n

The IR placement for Hagens puts a stop to what had been a very strong start to his first full professional season.\u00a0 After getting his feet wet late in the year and in the playoffs with limited playing time, the 20-year-old has been a full-time regular in Boston\u2019s lineup so far.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fair to say that Hagens has made the most of that opportunity.\u00a0 Through 17 games this season, the 2025 seventh overall pick has six goals and six assists, good for a tie for fifth in team scoring despite playing less than 15 minutes per night.\u00a0 A natural center, Hagens has been deployed exclusively on the wing this year to help acclimate him to playing at the top level and he has adapted well.\u00a0 The placement was backdated to November 5th while head coach Marco Sturm told reporters including Steve Conroy of The Boston Herald (Twitter link<\/a>) that the youngster will be out for at least two weeks.<\/p>\n

As for Eyssimont, he had been a regular with the Bruins last season after signing with them in free agency in the 2025 offseason.\u00a0 He had eight goals and ten assists in 56 games last season on Boston\u2019s fourth line.\u00a0 At first glance, it seemed likely that he\u2019d have a similar role this year but instead, he failed to earn a spot in the lineup and cleared waivers early last month instead, getting assigned to Providence.<\/p>\n

In his first taste of AHL action since a brief stint back in 2022-23, the 30-year-old has been nothing short of dominant.\u00a0 Eyssimont leads the league in goals with 13 in just eight games while sitting one point off the league lead despite playing at least four fewer games than anyone he\u2019s trailing.\u00a0 Suffice it to say, he has earned the promotion.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see if the Bruins deploy Eyssimont in Hagens\u2019 vacated spot, allowing him to try to take advantage of his offensive hot streak in the minors.\u00a0 Alternatively, he could return to the role he has typically held across his 269 NHL appearances and be an energy player on the fourth line.<\/p>\n

With these moves, Boston\u2019s roster remains at the maximum of 23 players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The back injury that Bruins forward James Hagens suffered on Thursday night will keep him out for at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":962118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[6066,740,49,48,21200,328626,448,82,4584],"class_list":["post-962117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ahl","tag-boston-bruins","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-james-hagens","tag-michael-eyssimont","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962117","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=962117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}