Bruins spotlight undrafted Swedish goalie Max Lundgren at development camp
Max Lundgren reached Bruins development camp with a new entry-level deal and a track record that includes a Merrimack record, a Hockey East title and a 49-save shutout.
Boston signed the undrafted Swedish goaltender Max Lundgren to a one-year entry-level contract on March 29 for the 2026-27 season, a deal carrying an NHL cap hit of $952,500, and Lundgren said he will report to the Providence Bruins.
The Bruins opened their 2026 development camp at Warrior Ice Arena on Monday, June 29, and will run it through July 2 under director of player development Adam McQuaid.
Lundgren, 6-foot-5 and 229 pounds, was born March 4, 2002, in Ängelholm, Sweden, and won a TV-Pucken gold medal in 2018. His path to this point ran from watching NHL players in Gotland as a child, to a conversation sparked by a stick from Jacob Markstrom, to the USHL and then Merrimack College.
The route was not clean. A prior appearance in the SHL made him ineligible for his freshman season, a setback that cost him interest from several schools and nearly stalled his U.S. college career. Merrimack stayed in the picture, and the school knew Lundgren would have to sit two games in 2024-25 because he had dressed for one game in HockeyAllsvenskan before enrolling.
Once he got on the ice, Lundgren built a case Boston could not ignore. He finished his Merrimack career with 63 appearances, a 2.67 goals-against average and a .916 save percentage, then turned in a junior season of 21-16-2 with a 2.55 GAA, a .920 save percentage and 1,172 saves in 38 starts. That total set Merrimack’s single-season saves record.
His defining night came in the Hockey East championship, where he made 49 saves in a shutout that lifted Merrimack to its first Hockey East title. The Warriors became the first No. 8 seed to win the tournament and the first team to beat the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 seeds in the same run. Scott Borek said Lundgren was not on all-star teams or a Goalie of the Year finalist, but ultimately showed everyone who he was.
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