{"id":570512,"date":"2026-05-09T05:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/570512\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:06:29","slug":"bruins-winger-ranked-among-nhls-best-pending-free-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/570512\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins Winger Ranked Among NHL’s Best Pending Free Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Viktor Arvidsson had an excellent season with the Boston Bruins in 2025-26. In 69 games this season with the Black and Gold, he had 25 goals, 29 assists, 54 points, and a plus-20 rating. This is after he had 15 goals and 27 points in 67 games with the Edmonton Oilers during the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n

Arvidsson’s bounce-back season with the Bruins came at a great time. This is because he is now entering the summer as a pending unrestricted free agent (UFA) and has improved his value.<\/p>\n

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Arvidsson’s season has now earned some praise, too. This is because The Athletic’s Chris Johnston included Arvidsson on his latest top 20 pending UFA rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arvidsson was given the No. 18 spot on Johnston’s pending UFA rankings. When noting that Arvidsson proved that he can still be an impactful top-six winger this season, it is understandable that he is being considered one of this summer’s best pending UFAs.<\/p>\n

Yet, if the Bruins have it their way, they will be able to keep Arvidsson around with a contract extension before he has the chance to test the free-agent market. The 33-year-old winger was one of the major reasons behind the Bruins turning things back around this season due to how well he fit into their top six.<\/p>\n

However, if Arvidsson ends up testing the free-agent market, he should generate plenty of interest around the league. Time will tell what happens between the Bruins and Arvidsson from here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viktor Arvidsson had an excellent season with the Boston Bruins in 2025-26. In 69 games this season with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[154,95,5132,530,6865,146,5,4,1745],"class_list":["post-570512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-bruins","tag-boston","tag-boston-bruins","tag-bostonbruins","tag-bruins","tag-chris-johnston","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-viktor-arvidsson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116542884029820815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570512","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=570512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}