Bruins prospect Fabian Lysell determined to make NHL roster with stron…
Bruins prospect Fabian Lysell determined to make NHL roster with strong camp originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
The Boston Bruins signed five veteran players, including four forwards, on the first day of NHL free agency last weekend.
Despite those additions, there are still opportunities for some of the team’s young players to make the roster with a strong training camp and preseason. Top prospect Fabian Lysell is one of the leading candidates.
Lysell is among the Bruins prospects attending the team’s Development Camp this week. The 2021 first-round pick hasn’t been a full participant because he’s still working his way back from a concussion suffered in the first round of the AHL playoffs in April, but he’s making great progress.
“I think he’s continuing to take the steps forward,” Bruins assistant general manager Jamie Langenbrunner told reporters earlier this week. “Unfortunately for him, he took a cheap shot (in the playoffs) that slowed him a little bit this summer, but it was good on him to be here this week and working hard and it’s good to see him on the ice again.”
The 2022-23 season with the Providence Bruins was a rollercoaster ride for Lysell. He started his first AHL campaign red-hot with 19 points in his first 20 games. Lysell joined Sweden in late December for the World Junior Championships and he tallied zero points in seven games. He returned to Providence and posted just 18 points in his last 34 regular season games before suffering a concussion in Game 3 of the first round. He didn’t play another game in the series as the P-Bruins were eliminated by the Hartford Wolf Pack.
Overall, it was a good learning experience for Lysell, and he’s hoping to use that as a springboard into a better opportunity in Boston.
“It’s a lot of new things, new things to take in. I feel like the start of the year was really good, the first four months. And then I had a dip there in January,” Lysell told reporters earlier this week. “I felt like I was…
