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Do-over: Bruins sign Jarome Iginla for one year, $6M

Jarome Iginla, Nathan Horton

Hey, if you can’t beat them (one time in a playoff series), join them.

Perhaps that’s what Jarome Iginla’s was thinking on Friday as he signed a one-year, $6 million contract with the Boston Bruins, according to TSN’s Darren Dreger.

Iginla’s deal hinges on performance-based incentives, which ESPN’s Pierre LeBrun breaks down:

Base salary: $1.8 million
Games played bonus: $3.7 million
Goal-scoring/team playoff performance: $500K

On a frenzied day full of wild twists, this move ranks up among those most unexpected - and amusing - turn of events.

As you may remember, many believed that the 36-year-old was traded to Boston around trade deadline time. Instead, Iginla asked for a trade to the Pittsburgh Penguins, who were summarily swept by the Bruins in the 2013 Eastern Conference finals.

Of course, that Bruins team already looks dramatically different from the one that held the aging winger pointless in four high-profile postseason contests.

Tyler Seguin and Rich Peverley were traded out of town. Nathan Horton signed a big deal with the Columbus Blue Jackets while Andrew Ference left for the Edmonton Oilers. All of that sets the table for Iginla to be a welcome addition.

So ... Bruins fans might want to take back all of those mean things they screamed when he was wearing a Penguins sweater.