Unrestricted free agent forward Jamie McGinn has signed a three-year deal with the Arizona Coyotes worth $10 million. McGinn, 27, began the 2015-16 season with the Buffalo Sabres, who traded the versatile winger to the Anaheim Ducks at the NHL trade deadline for a conditional third-round draft pick.
Per @Real_ESPNLeBrun, Jamie McGinn to ARI, three year deal, $10M total.
— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) July 1, 2016
Jamie McGinn Signs With Arizona Coyotes
McGinn was originally a second-round draft pick of the San Jose Sharks in 2006 and has carved out a solid career as a middle-six forward. The Sharks traded McGinn to the Colorado Avalanche in 2012 and his best statistical season came in the Mile High City when he posted 19 goals and 19 assists during the 2013-14 campaign.
The following year he only appeared in 19 games for the Avalanche after undergoing a back operation in December 2014. McGinn was then traded to the Buffalo Sabres along with Ryan O’Reilly, for defenseman Nikita Zadorov, forward Mikhail Grigorenko, prospect J.T. Compher and the 31st pick in the 2015 NHL entry draft.
McGinn is reported to have a genetic back issue, but the surgery he underwent in 2014 appears to have been successful as he was one of the better players on a struggling Sabres squad. His limited time with the Ducks saw the spunky forward register eight goals and four assists in 21 regular season games and added two more goals in seven postseason games during the Ducks first-round playoff loss to the Nashville Predators.
McGinn signed his last, and most lucrative, contract of his career with the Avalanche ahead of the 2014-15 season for $5.9 million over two years.
McGinn is a somewhat risky option for the Coyotes, due to his reconstructed back and high-tempo style of game. While not an elite talent, there are few holes in McGinn’s game. McGinn is a high-energy winger that can post modest offensive numbers and is considered a responsible forward who plays a physical style of hockey.
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