{"id":118276,"date":"2021-09-19T23:56:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T03:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=118276"},"modified":"2021-09-19T23:56:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T03:56:47","slug":"nolan-patrick-signed-by-vegas-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/09\/19\/nolan-patrick-signed-by-vegas-golden-knights\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolan Patrick Signed by Vegas Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vegas Golden Knights announced that they have signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/patrino01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nolan Patrick<\/a> to a two-year deal worth $2.4 million. The deal will carry an AAV of $1.2 million and will carry him through the 2022-23 NHL Season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Closing out his birthday with a new contract!!! \ud83e\udd73<\/p>\n<p>Nolan Patrick has signed a two-year contract with the Vegas Golden Knights \u270d\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VegasBorn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#VegasBorn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xTA6NeXOvt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/xTA6NeXOvt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoldenKnights\/status\/1439786607943376897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Nolan Patrick Signed<\/h2>\n<p>Nolan Patrick was originally drafted second overall by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/flyers\/\" target=\"_self\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft. Despite a difficult final season in Junior where he put up 46 points in just 33 games due to injury, Patrick maintained his position at the top of the draft. A few months later, he cracked the opening night roster for the Flyers. He registered his first point in his third game and his first goal in his fourth game. He finished his rookie season with 30 points in 73 games. Patrick\u2019s sophomore season was very similar, as he compiled 31 points in 72 games.<\/p>\n<p>While preparing for the 2019-2020 season, Patrick began to experience serious headaches which hindered his performance. After being initially tagged as an upper-body injury during camp, he was later diagnosed with a migraine disorder. The issue was believed to be genetic and not related to hockey. He began skating with the team in February in hopes of a return, but the pandemic put an end to the NHL season. He was not on the Flyers \u201cReturn to Play\u201d roster in July and thus would finish the season without playing a single game.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Patrick accepted a one-year qualifying offer worth $874,125. Thankfully, he was healthy enough to open the season with the team. In his first game in 650 days, Patrick scored in an opening night win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/penguins\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>. He failed to build on that performance though and finished the season with just nine points in 52 games. On July 17<sup>th<\/sup>, the Flyers traded Nolan Patrick and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/myersph01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philippe Myers<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/predators\/\" target=\"_self\">Nashville Predators<\/a> in exchange for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/ellisry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Ellis<\/a>. The Predators then flipped Patrick to the Vegas Golden Knights in exchange for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/glassco01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cody Glass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means Going Forward<\/h3>\n<p>Unfortunately, injuries have derailed the progress of Patrick\u2019s young career. After accumulating just 30 goals and 40 assists for 70 points in 197 games, Patrick will look to live up to his draft position in a new situation with the Golden Knights. He will likely skate between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/janmama02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mattias Janmark<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dadonev01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evgenii Dadonov<\/a> on the third line, giving him two wingers with more than 330 games of NHL experience each. A successful season for Patrick would see him play more than 70 games and somewhere between 30-35 points, as he did when he broke into the league.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"gVZzpuUuREVRZtX9LAlV2g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1312379672\" 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:'gVZzpuUuREVRZtX9LAlV2g',sig:'vygNjK4lFqpLSklSFK2dJ2fLSqdAMlFl-9g1lETeeqs=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1312379672',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>The Vegas Golden Knights announced that they have signed Nolan Patrick to a two-year deal worth $2.4 million. The deal will carry an AAV of $1.2 million and will carry him through the 2022-23 NHL Season. Closing out his birthday with a new contract!!! \ud83e\udd73 Nolan Patrick has signed a two-year contract with the Vegas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3917,"featured_media":118702,"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":[34,4547,4548,807],"tags":[941,955,683,489,1546],"class_list":["post-118276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-vegas-golden-knights","tag-cody-glass","tag-nhl-news","tag-nolan-patrick","tag-philippe-myers","tag-ryan-ellis"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118276","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\/3917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}