{"id":103938,"date":"2021-04-08T17:34:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=103938"},"modified":"2021-04-08T17:34:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:34:45","slug":"vancouver-canucks-re-sign-tanner-pearson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/04\/08\/vancouver-canucks-re-sign-tanner-pearson\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks Sign Tanner Pearson To Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is good news coming out of Vancouver. The Canucks announced they signed forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pearsta01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tanner Pearson<\/a> to a three-year contract extension worth $9.75 million. The contract carries a salary-cap hit of $3.25 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">3 years. $3.25 mil aav for Tanner Pearson and the Canucks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarrenDreger\/status\/1380268626687692805?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Tanner Pearson Signs Extension<\/h2>\n<p>Pearson originally came to Vancouver in a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/02\/25\/pittsburgh-penguins-trade-tanner-pearson-to-vancouver-canucks-for-erik-gudbranson\/\" target=\"_self\">one-for-one deal<\/a> with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/penguins\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gudbrer01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erik Gudbranson<\/a><\/strong>. The winger fit in perfectly with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/horvabo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bo Horvat<\/a><\/strong>, scoring nine goals for the Canucks in just 19 games that year. Since then, he was a fixture on the team&#8217;s second line with 21 goals and 45 points in 2019-20. His scoring numbers slipped this season, though, and he is in the final year of his $3.75 million deal.<\/p>\n<p>Pearson is a versatile, physical player who works well with whatever role he&#8217;s given. He can play both on the power-play or short-handed, as needed. He&#8217;s been to the playoffs, winning a Stanley Cup in 2013-14 and scoring nine goals and 23 points in 51 total games. Clearly, the Canucks do not want to lose another asset to free agency. And he has a real good player for the Canucks. At the length and money, this is a good deal for both. As part of the deal, he has a full no-trade clause in year one, a modified seven-team no-trade clause in year two, and no-trade protection at all in year three.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0What This Means For The Future<\/h3>\n<p>For Vancouver, this is a clear sign that chemistry is important to them. It took several years to find a winger who could compliment Horvat. Therefore they wanted to keep him around. A three-year deal is a good length for both parties. It allows him to re-establish himself after a crazy year where the Canucks season had to be interrupted because of COVID-19.\u00a0Pearson also said he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescore.com\/nhl\/news\/2106879\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wanted to stay in Vancouver<\/a>, and did so at a team-friendly cost. With this taken care of, let&#8217;s see if this helps Pearson on the ice, whenever the Canucks resume playing the season.<\/p>\n<p>[pickup_prop id=&#8221;4471&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"wsVAO_FeRWVTGmG56tfLig\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1231739936\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'wsVAO_FeRWVTGmG56tfLig',sig:'EJQJGA4Y4vR5Tv96BScilcRn9LmTV-1eHMh0YwzdSs0=',w:'594px',h:'424px',items:'1231739936',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is good news coming out of Vancouver. 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The contract carries a salary-cap hit of $3.25 million. 3 years. $3.25 mil aav for Tanner Pearson and the Canucks. \u2014 Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) April 8, 2021 Tanner Pearson Signs Extension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3171,"featured_media":105246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4547,4548,26],"tags":[6688,6565,5738,955,650,158],"class_list":["post-103938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-canucks","tag-2021-nhl-trade-deadline","tag-canucks-featured","tag-hockey-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-tanner-pearson","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"modified_by":"Jim Biringer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}