Bruins' Morgan Geekie has shockingly become one of NHL's top goal-scorers

If you look at the goal-scoring leaders in the NHL through the first two months of the 2025-26 season you will see a lot of names who make sense there. Colorado Avalanche superstar Nathan MacKinnon is at the top. Pittsburgh Penguins superstar and future Hall of Famer Sidney Crosby is high on the list. In-their-prime stars like Kirill Kaprizov (Minnesota Wild) and Jason Robertson (Dallas Stars) are in the top five. Connor Bedard (Chicago Blackhawks), one of the best young players in the world, is also lurking just outside of the top five. 

Then you see one name who might make you do a double-take, and one name who does not seem like it would belong.

That name is Boston Bruins forward Morgan Geekie. 

With his goal on Thursday night in the Bruins' 5-2 win over the St. Louis Blues, he is now up to 21 goals on the season and has been one of the league's best goal-scorers going back to the second half of the 2024-25 season. 

It is totally unexpected and a very pleasant development for the Bruins.

Morgan Geekie keeps scoring goals for Bruins

What makes it so unexpected is that going into the 2024-25 season, he had never really shown any sign that he would be a top-line goal-scorer. 

He was a third-round pick in by the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2017 NHL Draft and spent time with both them and the Seattle Kraken before joining the Bruins at the start of the 2023-24 season. Through his first 256 games, he managed just 39 goals, which averages out to about 12 goals per 82 games. He never scored more than 17 goals in a single season. 

Even going back to his junior hockey and minor league days, he was never really an elite goal-scorer at any level. He never scored more than 35 goals as a junior player, and was a 20- to 25-goal player in the American Hockey League.

Solid. Productive. Useful. But never really an elite finisher. 

That all started to change for him during the 2024-25 season when he ended up scoring 33 goals for the Bruins in 77 games, earning a six-year, $33 million contract extension in the process. Given how much of an outlier that performance seemed to be, it was a huge risk for the Bruins. It is now looking like it might be a bargain.

Going back to Jan. 1, almost a full calendar year, no player in the NHL has scored more goals than Geekie's 46, and he has done that in only 72 games. 

The Bruins have been lacking impact offensive players for a couple of years now, becoming almost completely dependent on David Pastrnak to carry their offense. They may have stumbled on to a surprising complement to him in Geekie.