Milan Lucic joining AHL’s Springfield Thunderbirds

Former Bruins ahead Milan Lucic is becoming a member of the Springfield Thunderbirds on knowledgeable tryout, in line with a workforce announcement on Tuesday morning.

Lucic, 37, final performed within the NHL for the Bruins in 2023. He had knowledgeable tryout with the Blues earlier in 2025, however was injured in preseason and didn’t make the ultimate roster earlier than the beginning of the common season.

Blues basic supervisor Doug Armstrong said in October that “we’re going [to] rehab him right here and get him again health-wise to 100%, and certain reconnect on an in-season [professional tryout] to get him up and operating and see the place he’s at then.”

The Thunderbirds are a Blues affiliate.

Lucic, who was initially drafted by the Bruins as second-round choose in 2006, helped Boston win the Stanley Cup in 2011. He additionally featured for the Kings, Oilers, and Flames earlier than returning to the Bruins for a second stint in 2023.

Three weeks after being positioned on long-term injured reserve that season, he was arrested in Boston on suspicion of assault and battery of his spouse. Expenses had been ultimately dropped after Lucic’s spouse declined to testify in opposition to him.

He went by means of the NHL’s player assistance program, with the Blues saying over the summer season that Lucic had accomplished it (and was due to this fact allowed to rejoin an NHL workforce).

Lucic has totaled 1,177 profession NHL regular-season video games since making his debut in 2007. Throughout that point he notched 586 factors (233 objectives and 353 assists) together with 1,301 penalty minutes.