{"id":32209,"date":"2018-07-01T13:39:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T17:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=32209"},"modified":"2018-07-01T13:39:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T17:39:33","slug":"joakim-nordstrom-signs-boston-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/07\/01\/joakim-nordstrom-signs-boston-bruins\/","title":{"rendered":"Joakim Nordstrom Signs With The Boston Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Bruins announced that they signed 26-year-old\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nordsjo02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joakim Nordstrom<\/a><\/strong> to a two-year deal, with an AAV of $1 million. This is a $250,000 downgrade from his last contract with the Carolina Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A two-year, $2 million deal for the Bruins and Joakim Nordstrom. Bruins cornering the market on fourth line forwards on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Haggerty (@HackswithHaggs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HackswithHaggs\/status\/1013459886770966528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Joakim Nordstrom Headed To Boston On Two-Year Deal<\/h1>\n<p>Nordstrom was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in the third round of the 2010 NHL Draft. Since then he&#8217;s played 282 NHL games and netted 49 points. He was then shipped to Carolina, in 2015, along with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/verstkr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kris Versteeg<\/a><\/strong>, in exchange for <strong>Dennis Robertson<\/strong> and <strong>Jake Massie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Since that, Nordstrom has played 228 games in Carolina. Last season was his lowest scoring year since his rookie year and was his lowest points-per-game average in his career. In 75 games, the then 25-year-old Nordstrom netted a slim seven points. This was the lowest scoring totals by anyone who played over 50 games in Carolina. It was also the least amount of ice time he&#8217;s seen in one season. He only averaged 10 minutes and 34 seconds of ice per game, 24 seconds fewer than he did in his rookie year.<\/p>\n<p>Nordstrom did have a decent record at the faceoff dot, though, going 36-41 for a percentage of 46.8 percent. This made him a consistent center for the bottom line, a role he&#8217;ll likely keep in Boston. This is if he is able to stay consistent in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Nordstrom is undoubtedly a depth-signing for Boston. Last season was a very successful one for the Bruins. They lost to the Tampa Bay Lightning in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, after setting a record of 50-20-12. This placed them second in the Atlantic Division, and the Eastern Conference, behind the Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>Nordstrom is coming into Boston along with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/halakja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jaroslav Halak<\/a><\/strong>, who the team also signed today. Halak is a 33-year-old goalie who has seen periodical success over his career. Last season he finished with a 20-26-6 with the New York Islanders. He&#8217;ll be replacing <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/khudoan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anton Khudobin<\/a><\/strong> as the backup for<b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rasktu01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tuukka Rask<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"yXcBvohWSpxZNcywynbBOA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/890604202\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'yXcBvohWSpxZNcywynbBOA',sig:'3X0dfNsJbbVNcHAmzmSTZ0IGmbu-0UzWymReMfa-76U=',w:'594px',h:'389px',items:'890604202',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Bruins announced that they signed 26-year-old\u00a0Joakim Nordstrom to a two-year deal, with an AAV of $1 million. This is a $250,000 downgrade from his last contract with the Carolina Hurricanes. A two-year, $2 million deal for the Bruins and Joakim Nordstrom. Bruins cornering the market on fourth line forwards on July 1. \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1628,"featured_media":32230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34],"tags":[90,136,37,3479,38],"class_list":["post-32209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bruins","category-news","tag-boston-bruins","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-hockey","tag-joakim-nordstrom","tag-nhl"],"modified_by":"Ariel Melendez","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}