Bruins sign Patrick Brown, four others

The Boston Bruins have been busy. On Saturday, they announced that they have signed five players to contracts. They inked Patrick Brown to a two-year, $1.6 million contract that pays an average annual value (AAV) of $800,000.

The Bruins also signed Luke Toporowski to an entry-level contract, while Jayson Megna, Parker Wotherspoon and Anthony Richard all signed one-year $775,000 AAV contracts.

Brown, 31, spent the 2022-23 season with the Philadelphia Flyers and Ottawa Senators. While with the Flyers, he notched seven points in 43 games. With the Sens, he notched five points in 18 games and racked up 27 penalty minutes. Brown spent the 2021-22 season with the Flyers as well, notching nine points in 44 games. Brown was signed out of college by the Carolina Hurricanes after winning back-to-back NCAA championships with Boston College. He made his NHL debut in 2014-15 but didn’t score his first NHL goal or point until 2015-16. Following a four-year stint with Carolina, Brown found himself on the Vegas Golden Knights and eventually captain of their American Hockey League (AHL) farm team, the Henderson Silver Knights.

Toporowski, 22, signed an American Hockey League try-out contract with Providence following a five-year major junior career with the Spokane Chiefs and Kamloops Blazers of the Western Hockey League. Toporowski notched 15 goals and 29 points in 47 games with the Providence Bruins this past season; he added two goals in four AHL Playoff games.

The Bruins also signed 33-year-old Megna, who spent the 2022-23 season with the Anaheim Ducks and Colorado Avalanche and notched eight points in 54 games. Wotherspoon, 25, spent the season with the Bridgeport Islanders of the AHL where he notched 12 points in 27 games; he also saw 12 games of action in the NHL. Meanwhile, Richard spent the season with the Montreal Canadiens and their farm team, the Laval Rocket, where he collected five points in 13 NHL games.