{"id":114223,"date":"2021-07-29T19:31:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T23:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=114223"},"modified":"2021-07-29T19:45:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T23:45:29","slug":"ufa-mathieu-perreault-signs-with-the-montreal-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/07\/29\/ufa-mathieu-perreault-signs-with-the-montreal-canadiens\/","title":{"rendered":"UFA Mathieu Perreault Signs with the Montreal Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/perrema01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mathieu Perreault<\/a>, an unrestricted free agent forward, to a one-year contract worth $950,000. Perreault spent last season with the Winnipeg Jets. Renaud Lavoie was first with the news. A versatile veteran, Perreault can play at all three forward spots.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Mathieu Perreault s\u2019entend avec les <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadiensMTL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@CanadiensMTL<\/a> sur les termes d\u2019un contrat d\u2019un an qui va lui rapporter 950 000$. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TVASports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TVASports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Renaud Lavoie (@renlavoietva) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/renlavoietva\/status\/1420887286502264832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Montreal Canadiens Sign UFA Mathieu Perreault<\/h2>\n<p>Over his 12-year NHL career<i>, <\/i>Perreault suited up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/capitals\/\" target=\"_self\">Washington Capitals<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/ducks\/\" target=\"_self\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/jets\/\" target=\"_self\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a>. Originally drafted in the sixth round, 177th overall of the 2006 NHL draft by Columbus, the 33-year old holds 139 goals and 204 assists in 683 career games. Of those 343 points, 87 came on the powerplay. He averaged 11:43 in ice time per game last season and averages 13:45 per game across his career. He also scored nine goals and 10 assists for 19 points in 56 games last season with the Jets.<\/p>\n<p>Perreault&#8217;s Corsi-for percentage over the season ranked at 55.6 percent and+8.3 percent relative, numbers that perfectly reflect his two-way style of play. He added 18 blocked shots and 84 hits to his career totals in 2020-21 too. He also posted 16 penalty minutes, further illustrating his ability to play hard defensively, throw hits, and still stay out of the box.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Perreault is a team-first kind of player, willing to do whatever it takes to help his team succeed. Getting Mathieu Perreault signed adds grit, determination, physicality, and leadership to his team&#8217;s roster. He can play up or down in the lineup, as his five seasons with 15+ goals demonstrate. He didn&#8217;t take many faceoffs in Winnipeg, yet still has a career faceoff percentage north of 50 percent (50.5). So, not only can he play up and down the lineup, but is comfortable dressing as a winger or centre and contributes in either position.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, though, Perreault isn&#8217;t deployed to score usually, but to shut down opponents and establish the physical game. His workman-like approach helps lead by example, as his 825 career hits can attest. That&#8217;s as much as teams can want from a third or fourth-line centreman. Perreault provides that with flying colours and has been doing so consistently his entire career.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER, BC &#8211; FEBRUARY 19: Mathieu Perreault #85 of the Winnipeg Jets skates with the puck during NHL hockey action against the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena on February 19, 2021 in Vancouver, Canada. (Photo by Rich Lam\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens signed Mathieu Perreault, an unrestricted free agent forward, to a one-year contract worth $950,000. Perreault spent last season with the Winnipeg Jets. Renaud Lavoie was first with the news. A versatile veteran, Perreault can play at all three forward spots. Mathieu Perreault s\u2019entend avec les @CanadiensMTL sur les termes d\u2019un contrat d\u2019un [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2377,"featured_media":102106,"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":[34,4547,7,4548,33],"tags":[1205,662,357,5998],"class_list":["post-114223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-hockey","category-canadiens","category-nhl","category-jets","tag-mathieu-perreault","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-winnipeg-jets","tag-winnipeg-jets-news"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114223","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\/2377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}