Bruins Sign Torey Krug, Reilly Smith To Contract Extensions
BOSTON (CBS) -- The Boston Bruins announced two big moves on Friday morning.
The team announced it signed defenseman Torey Krug to a one-year contract extension and forward Reilly Smith a two-year contract extension.
The Krug deal will pay him $3.4 million next year, while Smith will make $3.425 million annually in the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons.
Krug and Smith are currently playing on one-year, $1.4 million deal.
Krug, 23, has 11 goals and 20 assists in 59 games played this year, after posting 14-26-40 totals in 79 games last year.
Smith, also 23, has 12 goals and 23 assists 63 games played, after posting 20-31-51 totals last year, his first in Boston.
Krug, who signed with the Bruins as a collegiate free agent in 2012, burst onto the Boston scene in the 2013 playoffs, when he scored four goals and added an assist in five games against the Rangers. In 27 career playoff games, he has six goals, 10 assists and a plus-3 rating.
Smith came to Boston in the famed Tyler Seguin trade in the summer of 2013, along with Loui Eriksson, Matt Fraser and Joe Morrow. In 185 career NHL games, Smith has 35 goals and 60 assists. In 12 playoff games last season, Smith scored four goals, including two game-winners, and assisted on one more game-winner.
