{"id":573307,"date":"2026-04-09T06:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573307\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:16:09","slug":"bruins-sign-boston-college-star-james-hagens-to-3-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573307\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins sign Boston College star James Hagens to 3-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"585503ab-1462-2afe-7a70-aafea4f6b1b6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-bruins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a> signed former Boston College forward and reigning Beanpot MVP James Hagens to a three-year deal with an annual cap hit of $975,000.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old Hagens was the No. 7 pick in last year&#8217;s draft. He led Hockey East with 23 goals and 47 points as a sophomore this season and scored six game-winning goals and two hat tricks.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/48292940\/bruins-sign-top-prospect-james-hagens-ahl-deal\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/r1447955_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/olympics\/story\/_\/id\/47450080\/boston-bruins-prospect-james-hagens-scores-twice-us-win\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/r1594899_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>He was the MVP in BC&#8217;s Beanpot victory after scoring two goals with three assists to help the Eagles claim the coveted bragging rights of Boston for the first time in a decade. Hagens joined Providence of the AHL in March and had one goal and three assists in six games.<\/p>\n<p>Hagens won a gold medal at the 2025 World Junior Championship and was the MVP in the under-18 world championships in 2024, when he set the single-tournament scoring record with 22 points.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to join the Bruins immediately and could make his NHL debut Saturday, when they play the Atlantic Division-leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-lightning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>. Boston leads the Eastern Conference wild-card race with 96 points with three games left and is on the verge of clinching a playoff berth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON &#8212; The Boston Bruins signed former Boston College forward and reigning Beanpot MVP James Hagens to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-573307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573307","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=573307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}