Bruins sign Tyler Pitlick to one-year, $775,000 contract

The Boston Bruins have announced that they’ve signed center Tyler Pitlick to a one-year, $775,000 contract.

The #NHLBruins have signed Tyler Pitlick to a one-year, two-way contract through the 2024-25 season with an NHL cap hit of $775,000: https://t.co/5dBpM1zqtm

— Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) March 6, 2025

Pitlick had spent the season on an AHL contract with the Bruins’ minor league affiliate, the Providence Bruins, so the new contract allows Boston to recall him from the minors and play for the NHL squad this season, as well as prevent him from being signed by any other NHL team.

With Pitlick’s contract being signed so late in the season, some proration is expected, although the specific total that he would be paid is not confirmed. That said, it will only matter when he is on the NHL roster, as the contract is a two-way deal, so he will still be paid an AHL salary while with Providence.

Pitlick has had a strong season in the AHL, with 16 goals and 17 assists for 33 points in 43 games with the Providence Bruins this year. While signing an NHL deal indicates that he’ll join the NHL roster at some point in the final month of the season, if he doesn’t, it’ll be his first season without a game in the NHL since the 2015-16 season.

Pitlick was a second round pick by the Edmonton Oilers in the 2010 NHL Draft, making his NHL debut with the team in the 2013-14 season and playing 58 games with them over the next four seasons before he was left unsigned and went to free agency in 2017.

Pitlick then signed with the Dallas Stars and spent two seasons with them before he was dealt to the Philadelphia Flyers in 2019. He spent one season with the Flyers and one with the Arizona Coyotes before he was claimed by the Seattle Kraken in their expansion draft in 2021 and traded to the Calgary Flames a couple days later.

Pitlick was traded to the Montreal Canadiens later that season as part of the return for Tyler Toffoli, and after finishing the season in Montreal, he had stops with the St. Louis Blues and New York Rangers before signing his current AHL deal with the Bruins last summer.

Should Pitlick play a game with the Bruins this season, they will be the ninth NHL team he’s played for.