{"id":119057,"date":"2021-09-28T19:13:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T23:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=119057"},"modified":"2021-09-28T19:13:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T23:13:19","slug":"julien-brisebois-extended-by-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/09\/28\/julien-brisebois-extended-by-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Julien BriseBois Extended By Tampa Bay Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julien BriseBois has been given a contract extension by the Tampa Bay Lightning. The general manager&#8217;s contract details are still unknown.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois has reportedly agreed to a contract extension with the NHL club.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KYJeFL2xlO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/KYJeFL2xlO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1442968280432406541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Julien BriseBois Extended By Lightning<\/h2>\n<p>BriseBois has seen his Bolts lift Lord Stanley&#8217;s trophy twice in the past two years. His work as the GM of the team played a massive part in getting those teams to that point. With only two players paid over $9 million a year, the team is both deep and talented. Perhaps the biggest score was signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pointbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brayden Point<\/a> to a massive deal, paying him $6.75 million a year through the 2029-30 season. It&#8217;s no secret Point is going to be a key part of their offence for years to come, so locking him up for cheap and long is critical to Tampa&#8217;s success. On the defensive end, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sergami01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikhail Sergachev<\/a> is under Tampa contract through the 2023-24 season, where he will be an RFA. A seriously underrated defenceman, Sergachev could easily take top line minutes this season.<\/p>\n<h3>Looking Ahead for the Lightning<\/h3>\n<p>Extending Julien BriseBois is an absolute no-brainer for the organization. He&#8217;s created two championship-winning teams, and currently has one that is poised to be a serious threat in the Atlantic Division. BriseBois has no one to extend at the end of this season, but there are a few free agents looming in the near future. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/palaton01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ondrej Palat<\/a>, a gritty yet talented forward, will want an extension at the end of next season. Currently paid $5.3 million a year, he&#8217;ll likely stay around that price range for his next contract.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/ruttaja02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jan Rutta<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/elliobr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Elliott<\/a>, Patrick Maroon, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/josepma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mathieu Joseph<\/a> are all free agents at the end of the 2022-23 season as well. The success of the team over the next two seasons will determine which (if any) of these players will be given a new contract. But that&#8217;s a future issue for BriseBois to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: <a id=\"FSNKfTS0T1FkMZtLWm7hkA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1327571476\" 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:'FSNKfTS0T1FkMZtLWm7hkA',sig:'gc88Tc2GbLSQ3vTOmLwFmTlNzhxEAD17IYvodgntFeU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1327571476',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>Julien BriseBois has been given a contract extension by the Tampa Bay Lightning. The general manager&#8217;s contract details are still unknown. Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois has reportedly agreed to a contract extension with the NHL club.https:\/\/t.co\/KYJeFL2xlO &mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) September 28, 2021 Julien BriseBois Extended By Lightning BriseBois has seen his Bolts lift Lord [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":119061,"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":[9,4547,34,4548],"tags":[6842],"class_list":["post-119057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lightning","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-2021-nhl-offseason"],"modified_by":"Noah Foster, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119057","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\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}