Bruins defenseman Hampus Lindholm noticed a dip in his offensive output final season after recording a career-high 53 points within the 2022-23 marketing campaign. The 30-year-old blue liner is hoping to regain his offensive contact this season.
“Discovering methods to get extra pucks to the web,” Lindholm informed reporters after pregame skate at Warrior Ice Enviornment on Tuesday, per team-provided video. “You have a look at the D’s who’ve a number of stuff taking place in entrance of the web, they funnel pucks and discover methods to be shot-ready. As a D-corps and myself, I feel we will do a greater job of that, however undoubtedly myself, getting extra pucks to the web.
“High quality photographs too. Getting them, capturing them. Getting them to the place you need them to be to perhaps create second probabilities or perhaps get one within the web.”
Lindholm stated throughout the offseason he not solely labored on getting the puck to the web on the ice but in addition watched movie of his personal photographs to see the place he had success and areas he might enhance. Final season, Lindholm generated 99 photographs, in comparison with the 158 photographs he took the earlier season.
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Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery stated he needs the defensemen to regulate the tempo of the sport by pushing the offense up the ice in all three zones. Lindholm is thrilled to simply accept the problem.
“You might have 5 guys on the market and I’ve all the time prided myself on attempting to make everybody else round me higher,” Lindholm stated. “That comes rather a lot from working as a gaggle on the market, doing a number of give-and-go, speaking. And with me and (Brandon Carlo) having performed a full yr collectively, you be taught the place you could have one another. It is a partnership. Once you play with a D accomplice, it does not matter should you play one sport collectively or 100, you could work collectively. It makes a sport a complete lot simpler.”
Lindholm and Carlo will see their first sport motion on Tuesday evening when the Bruins play the Washington Capitals at TD Backyard in a preseason matchup. The duo turned a formidable pair for Boston final season.
“Two massive guys, each can skate. I do not suppose guys prefer to play towards us due to these two elements,” Lindholm stated. “Brando, you actually know what you may get out of him — massive, sturdy, regular man. And I feel that is the place I can type of lean on him and try to create much more offense as a result of I all the time know that I’ve him there.”
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