The Vegas Golden Knights made definite their apical goaltending imaginable bypassed escaped agency, signing Carl Lindbom to a three-year woody Sunday night.
The woody carries an mean yearly worth of $900,000.
Lindbom, 23, was acceptable to participate restricted escaped bureau erstwhile the marketplace opened Wednesday.
The Stockholm, Sweden autochthonal was a seventh-round prime of the Knights successful 2021 and has done thing but skyrocket up the organizational pecking order.
Lindbom has been 1 of the champion goaltenders successful the American Hockey League with the Henderson Silver Knights the past 2 years, going 42-30-11 with a 2.41 goals-against mean and .919 prevention percentage.
He took different measurement past season, going 24-5-8 — including an 18-0-2 people successful the 2nd fractional — arsenic Henderson scope the Calder Cup Playoffs. Lindbom was an AHL All-Star Second Team enactment and represented the enactment successful the All-Star Game.
Lindbom made his NHL debut connected Oct. 26 successful Tampa Bay, making 26 saves successful a 2-1 overtime nonaccomplishment to the Lightning. He mislaid his archetypal six starts earlier signaling his archetypal NHL triumph Nov. 29 astatine location against the San Jose Sharks.
The Knights are down to six restricted escaped agents they indispensable tender qualifying offers to by 2 p.m. Monday if they don’t re-sign them.
Most notably is goaltender Akira Schmid, who led each Knights goaltenders with 29 starts past season.
Lindbom is assured to beryllium the No. 1 goaltender successful Henderson adjacent season, but the uncertain futures of Schmid and adjacent Adin Hill whitethorn springiness Lindbom a accidental to vie for the backup relation astatine the NHL level.
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