{"id":81773,"date":"2020-07-29T18:02:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T22:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=81773"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:30:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:30:06","slug":"boston-bruins-sign-anders-bjork-to-three-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/07\/29\/boston-bruins-sign-anders-bjork-to-three-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins Sign Anders Bjork to Three Year Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/bruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Bruins<\/a> have extended the contract of 23-year-old <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bjorkan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anders Bjork<\/a><\/strong>. The contract has the winger on the team through the 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLBruins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NHLBruins<\/a> have agreed to terms with Anders Bjork on a three-year contract extension<\/p>\n<p>Details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CH87j49tDK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/CH87j49tDK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zbj4dywldK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/zbj4dywldK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLBruins\/status\/1288553453468475394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Bruins Sign Anders Bjork to an Extension<\/h2>\n<p>On July 29, the team announced it had extended the contract of Bjork by three seasons. The contract, worth $4.8 million. It carries a cap-hit of $1.6 million. Bjork, 23, played in 58 games for the team this year. In that time, he scored nine goals and 10 assists for 19 points, which is a career high. The former fifth round pick saw bottom-six minutes this year, but has shown potential to be a reliable top-nine piece. Bjork was one of the players listed to be traveling to the Eastern Conference hub city in Toronto. With teammate <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kaseon01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ondrej Kase<\/a><\/strong> out of the lineup for the near future, he is the likely candidate to replace him in the team&#8217;s top six.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means For The Future<\/h3>\n<p>With the addition of Bjork&#8217;s contract the team has $16 million to sign any more free agents, one being defenceman <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/krugto01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Torey Krug<\/a><\/strong>. Krug is entering free agency this off-season with a current cap-hit of $5.25 million. Boston is notorious for signing players to team-friendly deals, however Krug might ask for more. The Bruins may only be willing to offer him a certain amount, as they have both of their goaltenders entering contract seasons. Aside from Krug the Bruins also have captain, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/charazd01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zdeno Chara<\/a><\/strong>, and forward, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/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 try to resign too. Chara, 43, will likely be on a similar contract if he re-signs, and Nordstrom is a replaceable bottom-six, depth forward.<\/p>\n<p>For Bjork, this is a sign for the future. He had career bests in all categories this season. If he continues to trend up in his offensive numbers, he could be their top-six winger of the future that plays with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pastrda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Pastrnak<\/a><\/strong>. 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The contract has the winger on the team through the 2022-23 season. #NHLBruins have agreed to terms with Anders Bjork on a three-year contract extension Details: https:\/\/t.co\/CH87j49tDK pic.twitter.com\/zbj4dywldK &mdash; Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) July 29, 2020 Bruins Sign Anders Bjork to an Extension On July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3463,"featured_media":81782,"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":[34,5,4547,4548],"tags":[1706,90,5067,762,37,5738,3479,2569,38,955,2631,1535,179],"class_list":["post-81773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-bruins","category-hockey","category-nhl","tag-anders-bjork","tag-boston-bruins","tag-contract-extension","tag-david-pastrnak","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-news","tag-joakim-nordstrom","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-news","tag-ondrej-kase","tag-torey-krug","tag-zdeno-chara"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81773","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\/3463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}