{"id":115763,"date":"2021-07-28T09:06:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T13:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=115763"},"modified":"2021-07-28T09:06:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T13:06:50","slug":"panthers-carter-verhaeghe-inks-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/07\/28\/panthers-carter-verhaeghe-inks-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Florida Panthers Carter Verhaeghe Inks Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to TSN&#8217;s and The Athletic&#8217;s Pierre LeBrun, the Florida Panthers will sign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/verhaca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carter Verhaeghe<\/a> to a three-year extension. The deal starts in the 2022-23 season with the cap hit just north of $4 million. Verhaeghe is on the last year of his current contract this season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hearing that Florida Panthers forward Carter Verhaeghe, such a great story this past season, is signing a three-year extension later today worth just north of $4M AAV per season. Has another year next season at $1M. So signing one year out. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNHockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TSNHockey<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheAthletic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/1420347676630081538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Carter Verhaeghe to Sign Extension<\/h2>\n<p>Verhaeghe has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/lightning\/\" target=\"_self\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> and the Florida Panthers in his two-year NHL career. The Waterdown, Ontario native had a breakout season with 18 goals and 18 assists for 36 points in 43 games with the Panthers. He also added a pair of goals in Florida&#8217;s six Stanley Cup playoff games this season.<\/p>\n<p>The soon-to-be 26-year-old has a career total of 27 goals and 22 assists for 49 points in 95 games between the two Sunshine State teams. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/leafs\/\" target=\"_self\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> originally drafted him in the third round, 82nd overall of the 2013 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Verhaeghe put up 34 goals as a member of Tampa&#8217;s AHL affiliate in Syracuse in the 2018-19 season. He&#8217;s also represented Canada at the international level at the World Under-18 championships. He was part of the gold medal-winning Team Canada squad in 2013.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>The young forward<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/03\/29\/florida-panthers-carter-verhaeghe-surging-in-sunrise\/\" target=\"_self\"> bet on himself<\/a> and came up big last season. He looks like he&#8217;ll cash in on a good-money deal that will give him some term and security.<\/p>\n<p>Verhaeghe seemed to be squeezed out of Tampa&#8217;s system thanks to their salary cap issues, but showed to have plenty of game last season. The Panthers will likely reap the benefits of Verhaeghe&#8217;s strong play for the next few seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Florida general manager Bill Zito has seemingly turned the team around and they should be a threat in the Atlantic Division next season when the team&#8217;s get back together. The Panthers have some solid players and they&#8217;re coming in at a reasonable price with the lone exception of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bobrose01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sergei Bobrovsky<\/a>&#8216;s $10 million deal.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"GmLpSxIlSBpCarKiC9SOpQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1318470049\" 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:'GmLpSxIlSBpCarKiC9SOpQ',sig:'oYyaFYQQvfbzC3YPykpANdbzok1fqwmPywBrT02rQgo=',w:'594px',h:'399px',items:'1318470049',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>According to TSN&#8217;s and The Athletic&#8217;s Pierre LeBrun, the Florida Panthers will sign Carter Verhaeghe to a three-year extension. The deal starts in the 2022-23 season with the cap hit just north of $4 million. Verhaeghe is on the last year of his current contract this season. Hearing that Florida Panthers forward Carter Verhaeghe, such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":115768,"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":[6,4547,34,4548],"tags":[288,662,955],"class_list":["post-115763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-panthers","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-bill-zito","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115763","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}