{"id":548018,"date":"2026-04-08T20:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548018\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:57:20","slug":"hagens-signs-3-year-entry-level-contract-with-bruins-could-debut-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548018\/","title":{"rendered":"Hagens signs 3-year, entry-level contract with Bruins, could debut Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/james-hagens-8485395\" title=\"James Hagens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Hagens<\/a>\u00a0signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Boston Bruins on Wednesday and could make his NHL debut as early as Saturday against the Tampa Bay Lightning (12:30 p.m. ET; ABC, SNW).<\/p>\n<p>The contract begins this season and has an average annual value of $975,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins (43-26-10) enter Wednesday as the first wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference, four points ahead of the Ottawa Senators. They have lost four in a row (0-2-2) and have three regular-season games remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Hagens\u00a0was selected by Boston with the No. 7 pick in the 2025\u00a0NHL Draft. The 19-year-old forward joined Providence of the American Hockey League on an amateur tryout agreement (ATO) on March 24 and has four points (one goal, three assists) in six AHL games.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to signing his ATO, Hagens had a team-leading 47 points (23 goals, 24 assists) in 34 games in his second season with Boston College. He also led the team with six game-winning goals and two hat tricks. Hagens was named to Hockey East\u2019s All-Rookie Team last season, when he had 37 points (11 goals, 26 assists) in 37 games.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his collegiate career, Hagens played two seasons (2022-24) with the United States National Team Development Program (USNTDP), where he had 187 points (72 goals, 115 assists), the fifth most in program history.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Hauppauge, New York, native, Hagens has represented the U.S. internationally in two IIHF World Junior Championships (2025, 2026) and two IIHF U-18 Men\u2019s World Championships (2023, 2024). He won gold at the 2025 WJC and the 2023 U-18 tournaments and holds the IIHF U-18 men\u2019s World Championship single tournament record with 22 points in 2024, earning tournament MVP honors and helping the U.S. take home the silver medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Hagens\u00a0signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Boston Bruins on Wednesday and could make his NHL debut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5099],"tags":[154,95,5132,530,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-548018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-boston","9":"tag-boston-bruins","10":"tag-bostonbruins","11":"tag-bruins","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116371092199045488","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}