{"id":117188,"date":"2021-08-26T11:17:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T15:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=117188"},"modified":"2021-08-26T11:17:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T15:17:17","slug":"hurricanes-extend-andrei-svechnikov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/08\/26\/hurricanes-extend-andrei-svechnikov\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Hurricanes Extend Andrei Svechnikov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Hurricanes have extended restricted free agent forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/svechan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrei Svechnikov<\/a> for the next several seasons. The 21-year old&#8217;s new deal is for eight years at $7.75M per year. The team announced the extension this Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"sv\">Svech happened \ud83d\udc4a<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/86OsyUONp0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/86OsyUONp0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carolina Hurricanes (@Canes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canes\/status\/1430911022592839680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Andrei Svechnikov Extended By Hurricanes<\/h2>\n<p>Svechnikov was one of the NHL&#8217;s most dynamic young talents in 2020-21. The 6&#8217;2&#8242; wing posted 15 goals and 42 points in 55 games to finish tied for third amongst all &#8216;Canes skaters in total scoring. He also posted 114 hits as a quality two-way option. Some may want to see a Corsi For and relative Corsi better than 54.8 percent and 1.6, respectively, but it was a quality third season for the Russian.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina originally drafted Svechnikov second overall in the 2018 Draft behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dahlira01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rasmus Dahlin<\/a>. The Hurricanes look like they picked correctly as he leads all skaters from his class with 58 goals and 140 points in 205 games. The team can&#8217;t give Svechnikov as much playing time as he deserves with their depth. However, he is a core piece that will help lead the team to many postseason births for as long as he is with the franchise.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means<\/h3>\n<p>Go ahead and pencil Svechnikov into a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/07\/05\/2021-carolina-hurricanes-offseason-primer\/\" target=\"_self\">top role for 2021-22<\/a>. There is little reason to expect him to be anywhere but the first line next to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=ahose01,ahose02&amp;search=Sebastian+Aho&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sebastian Aho<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/teravte01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teuvo Teravainen<\/a>. Great things will be expected from the young skater in the next season.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina has very little left to settle before the coming year begins. All of their key free agents are re-signed and there are very few gaps on the roster. What you see on their current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capfriendly.com\/teams\/hurricanes\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">depth chart<\/a> is likely what you will get on opening night unless they decide to use some of their remaining cap space. One possible move is signing one more veteran goaltender. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lyonal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Lyon<\/a> is probably third for that position, but they could add another body if he struggles in camp.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"8qdzWdm-QzZS5khJkNXdJw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1321597415\" 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:'8qdzWdm-QzZS5khJkNXdJw',sig:'dJ7_Vm0uIvLl45ZcKUQzE9Oez6u848PYoctWwJs0eKc=',w:'594px',h:'397px',items:'1321597415',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Hurricanes have extended restricted free agent forward Andrei Svechnikov for the next several seasons. The 21-year old&#8217;s new deal is for eight years at $7.75M per year. The team announced the extension this Thursday. Svech happened \ud83d\udc4ahttps:\/\/t.co\/86OsyUONp0 \u2014 Carolina Hurricanes (@Canes) August 26, 2021 Andrei Svechnikov Extended By Hurricanes Svechnikov was one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":117270,"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":[10,4547,34,4548],"tags":[604,2130,6664,955],"class_list":["post-117188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hurricanes","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-alex-lyon","tag-andrei-svechnikov","tag-carolina-hurricanes-news","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Jake Rivard","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117188","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\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}