{"id":130126,"date":"2022-10-15T22:56:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T02:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=130126"},"modified":"2022-10-15T22:56:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T02:56:47","slug":"sonny-milano-signs-with-washington-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/10\/15\/sonny-milano-signs-with-washington-capitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonny Milano Signs with Washington Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/milanso01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sonny Milano<\/a> came off a career season and into a new contract today with the Washington Capitals. The deal is a one-year, one-way contract worth $750,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sonny Milano&#39;s one-year, one-way deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/caps?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#caps<\/a> is worth $750,000.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reporterchris\/status\/1581451638266814464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Sonny Milano Gets Contract with Capitals<\/h2>\n<p>Despite his high draft position &#8211; 16th overall in 2014 &#8211; Milano has not had an easy time trying to establish an NHL career. He was drafted as a pure offensive threat, and for good reason. He was an absolute terror for the U.S. National U-18 Team, scoring 29 goals and 86 points in just 58 games. He wasn&#8217;t great defensively, which dropped him down a bit, but his scoring ability was worth taking a chance on.<\/p>\n<p>Most of 2015-16 and 2016-17 as spent in the AHL, honing his game while getting the occasional call-up. By 2017-18, he was getting a regular shift with a decent <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/bluejackets\/\" target=\"_self\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> team. He lost coach John Tortorella&#8217;s trust, though, and was once again mainly in Cleveland for 2018-19. He was eventually sent to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/ducks\/\" target=\"_self\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/shorede01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devin Shore<\/a>, arriving just in time for the chaos that was the NHL&#8217;s COVID seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Milano&#8217;s first two years with Anaheim were a write-off. He did modestly well after the trade, scoring two goals and five points in nine games. That was good enough for the Ducks to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/07\/28\/ducks-sign-sonny-milano-extension\/\" target=\"_self\">sign him<\/a> to a two-year, $1.7 million\/per deal. Concussion and smaller injuries limited him to just six games in the first year of the deal. Not the ideal start.<\/p>\n<p>The past season was much, MUCH better. He still missed some games to injury, but no concussion symptoms. He found a home with veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rakelri01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rickard Rakell<\/a> and super sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/z\/zegratr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trevor Zegras<\/a>. Last year&#8217;s 14 goals, 34 points, and 66 games are all career highs.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means<\/h3>\n<p>Obviously, they hope his numbers continue to improve. He won&#8217;t be more than secondary scoring, but Milano has speed to burn. Last year clearly improved his confidence and creativity, taking full advantage of the power-play time he was given. It&#8217;s not all peaches and cream, though. While his defence has improved markedly since that long-ago scouting report, it&#8217;s still not exactly a hallmark of his game.<\/p>\n<p>If his injury history is behind him, Sonny Milano is a proven &#8211; if not exactly prolific &#8211; secondary scorer. 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Sonny Milano&#39;s one-year, one-way deal with #caps is worth $750,000. &mdash; Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) October 16, 2022 Sonny Milano Gets Contract with Capitals Despite his high draft position &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3171,"featured_media":132845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[15,4547,34,4548],"tags":[663,662,955,530,6111],"class_list":["post-130126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capitals","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-john-tortorella","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-nhl-news","tag-sonny-milano","tag-washington-capitals-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130126","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\/3171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}