from Matt Porter of the Boston Globe,

A fire was ripping through his home. The windows and rooms were blacked out with smoke. Flames danced and grew, feeding on oxygen from the seaside breeze and the air trapped in his attic. Over an agonizing 12 hours that followed, nearly everything inside the house would be destroyed.

The local fire department of Höganäs had to call in reinforcements from nearby Ängelholm, Helsingborg, and Landskrona. Lindholm saw about 100 first responders “working their asses off” to tame the blaze.

“The firemen were there quick,” Lindholm said, recounting the incident in the Bruins’ dressing room this past week. “I got into the mode of telling the firemen, how can I help them out?

“But then after, you can’t do much. You just stand there and look at your house burning.”

Lindholm purchased the place four years ago with hopes of renovating it into a summertime haven. By the time of his March 2022 trade from the Ducks to the Bruins, it had become his paradise. It had a porch that overlooked the Öresund, the waterway between southwestern Sweden and northeast Denmark. He liked to sit and listen to the birds while drinking his morning coffee, and get out on the water during the sunny Swedish evenings.

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