Boston Bruins General Manager said that Bruins’ defenseman Hampus Lindholm will likely miss the remainder of the season with a fractured patella. The 31-year-old blueliner was injured while blocking a shot in a game against the St. Louis Blues on November 12 and has not returned to play. “As everybody knows, he had a significant knee injury, fractured his patella, had surgery,” Sweeney said. There was no real definitive timeline, and we were pretty open about that and didn’t want to peg a timeline on it because of the complexity of the injury.”
Sweeney said that Lindholm will be having a follow-up exam to remove hardware that caused discomfort during rehab. Lindholm had resumed skating for a short period of time but has not returned to the ice in any capacity since. “Again, the healing process has gone long, gone well and he’ll have no setbacks moving forward,” Sweeney said. “That being said, it’s going to take a little more time to heal naturally and we don’t want to put a timeline on when he’ll be back to 100 percent.”
The 6-foot-4, 225-pound defenseman has tallied 313 points (73 goals, 240 assists) in 762 regular-season games with the Anaheim Ducks and Bruins, and 25 points in 79 postseason games. Lindholm has three goals and four assists in 17 games this season while averaging 20:51 of ice time.
The Bruins are currently 27-24-7 this season and lost 3-2 in overtime to the Ducks on Saturday and will host the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday.
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