{"id":71916,"date":"2020-03-25T14:41:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=71916"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:30:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:30:38","slug":"montreal-canadiens-sign-gustav-olofsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/03\/25\/montreal-canadiens-sign-gustav-olofsson\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens Sign Gustav Olofsson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> have signed defenceman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/olofsgu01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gustav Olofsson<\/a><\/strong> to a one-year, two-way contract. The deal will take Olofsson through the 2020-21 season. It will pay up to $750 thousand if Olofsson is in the NHL. The Canadiens announced the signing late Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Canadiens agree to terms on a one-year, two-way contract with defenseman Gustav Olofsson.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoHabsGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GoHabsGo<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RHx6pGRXP3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/RHx6pGRXP3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/1242858936610553856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Canadiens Sign Gustav Oloffson<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> originally took Olofsson in the second round of the 2013 Draft. The 6&#8217;3&#8243; defender would play in only 56 games over three seasons with Minnesota. Olofsson totalled just 11 points, all assist, in those games. He was a little more productive with the organization&#8217;s AHL affiliate; he scored eight goals and 41 points in 112 games playing in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal acquired Olofsson in the fall of 2018 in exchange for <strong>Will Bitten<\/strong>. Olofsson was hurt for part of this season but still appeared in three games for Montreal. Otherwise, he scored one goal and 16 points in 57 games for the Canadiens&#8217; AHL affiliate in Laval. Olofsson doesn&#8217;t have a record of being a strong offensive player but he did record 23 hits and 44 blocks in 41 games with Minnesota in 2017-18. His size gives him one useful trait even if he won&#8217;t be a scoring option.<\/p>\n<h3>What to Expect from Oloffson<\/h3>\n<p>This is a depth signing for Montreal. Olofsson&#8217;s only use at this point in his career is as a physical enforcer and penalty killer. He could turn into a more effective option if he plays more in the NHL but at 25-years-old, there isn&#8217;t much more he can do to develop physically. However, teams still like big, physical players so Olofsson might always have a roster spot if he can kill penalties effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal could look at Olofsson as an option on the 2020-21 blueline. Most of their current defenders are still under contract but they could trade one or two before NHL play resumes. They also have decisions to make on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/folinch01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christian Folin<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/ouellxa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xavier Ouellet<\/a><\/strong>. Olofsson could challenge for a regular spot on the bottom defensive pairing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/10\/Gustav-Olofsson.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens have signed defenceman Gustav Olofsson to a one-year, two-way contract. The deal will take Olofsson through the 2020-21 season. It will pay up to $750 thousand if Olofsson is in the NHL. The Canadiens announced the signing late Wednesday morning. Canadiens agree to terms on a one-year, two-way contract with defenseman Gustav [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":36492,"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":[7,34],"tags":[1944,2394,5738,152,2569,955,482,574],"class_list":["post-71916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadiens","category-news","tag-christian-folin","tag-gustav-olofsson","tag-hockey-news","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-will-bitten","tag-xavier-ouellet"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71916","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\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}