{"id":104390,"date":"2025-08-23T14:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/104390\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:01:07","slug":"former-boston-bruins-defenseman-remarkably-still-looking-for-work-in-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/104390\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Boston Bruins defenseman remarkably still looking for work in 2025-26"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Matt Grzelcyk left the Boston Bruins in free agency following the 2023-24 season, it didn’t come as a surprise. The writing had been on the wall for some time as his last couple of seasons with the Black and Gold were marred with injuires.<\/p>\n

However, after signing a one-year contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> for $2.75 million, he played in all 82 games, go figure, and scored a goal, but finished with a career-high 32 assists for a team that struggled and missed the Stanley Cup Playoffs once again. After his one season in the Steel City, he is not returning to Pittsburgh, as of now, and remains a free agent, which is rather remarkable after the season he’s coming off.<\/p>\n

Former Boston Bruins defenseman Matt Grzelcyk remains a top free agent<\/p>\n

There are still a handful of free agents remaining <\/a>as we head toward the last week of August and training camps beginning in less than a month. Coming off a career year, would think that he would have found a home for next season by now, but it hasn’t been the case, and his agent, Peter Fish, thinks that it may not be a bad thing, telling ESPN last month.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes, it’s not the worst thing to do. It’s a little bit uneasy at times, but when you sit down and you can see exactly what teams have now,” Fish said<\/a>. “When you wait a little bit and can say, ‘Well, this is definitely going to be a good spot for me.”<\/p>\n

Grzelcyk is a player that a lot of teams could use. He is one of the top remaining puck-moving defensemen who is a free agent, and a 31-year-old can still run the power play from the point with the best of them. I get that teams are hesitant to give him a contract beyond a year because of multiple factors, but you have to think that he’ll sign somewhere by training camp. He brings too much to the table not to be in a camp net month. There are still teams with cap space and the need for a player like Grzelcyk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Matt Grzelcyk left the Boston Bruins in free agency following the 2023-24 season, it didn’t come as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-104390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}