{"id":130400,"date":"2022-07-13T12:36:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T16:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=130400"},"modified":"2022-07-13T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T16:36:38","slug":"nicolas-aube-kubel-contract-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/07\/13\/nicolas-aube-kubel-contract-signed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Aube-Kubel Contract Signed with Toronto Maple Leafs After Stanley Cup Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed free agent right winger Nicolas Aube-Kubel to a one-year contract worth $1 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udd8a We&#8217;ve signed forward Nicolas Aube-Kubel to a one-year contract. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LeafsForever?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LeafsForever<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapleLeafs\/status\/1547256892413575169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>RFA Nicolas Aube-Kubel Signed Contract after Cup Run<\/h2>\n<p>Over his four-year NHL career, Aube-Kubel played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/06\/16\/john-tortorella-hired-to-coach-philadelphia-flyers\/\" target=\"_self\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> and Avs thus far. The Flyers drafted him back in 2014 with their second-round, 48th overall selection. In total, Aube-Kubel amassed 21 goals and 29 assists for 50 points through 169 career games. In 2021-22, he posted 11 goals and 12 assists for 23 points in 74 games, setting new scoring highs for his career.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly for himself and his team, Aube-Kubel played an important role in the Stanley Cup run in Colorado. He appeared in 14 of the team&#8217;s 20 postseason contests, including everyone in the first two playoff rounds. He, Alex Newhook and Nico Sturm served as the depth forwards for the team. Each filled bottom-six roles, and slotted in for important special teams minutes. Though they didn&#8217;t appear in every game, injuries to some key pieces (Nazem Kadri, Andre Burakovsky, Andrew Cogliano) afforded more opportunities. He failed to record a postseason point, but aided his team on their quest for the Cup.<\/p>\n<p>After the dust settled, Colorado elected not to tender Aube-Kubel a qualifying offer. That changed his status from RFA to UFA, allowing the forward to test the open market.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Every Avalanche player on their postseason 23-man roster appeared in at least seven contests. And every single one of them made their mark on the team&#8217;s ultimate victory. Some of those were heroic. Cale Makar comes to mind, after scoring 29 points and winning the Conn Smythe just days after winning the Norris as the league&#8217;s top defenceman. Others were emotional, like Cogliano&#8217;s speech between games five and six of the Stanley Cup Final. He inspired the team and helped them mentally reset enough to win the Cup on the road.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The man\u2019s curl spoke to us.<\/p>\n<p>Aube-Kubel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AvsTwitterPsychic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AvsTwitterPsychic<\/a> \ud83d\udc4a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wf6VUbx3cW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/wf6VUbx3cW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Avalanche\/status\/1518363525386801154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Aube-Kubel will always be remembered, too. Not for a highlight reel goal like what Nathan MacKinnon posted against the St. Louis Blues in round two. Not for a clutch play either, like Darcy Kuemper firing the puck up the wall during overtime of game four, catching the Tampa Bay Lightning on a change and ultimately contributing as a secondary assist on the overtime winner by Nazem Kadri. No, the mark Aube-Kubel left is a physical one, specifically a large dent on the Cup itself. As he skated in with the trophy to pose for the Avs&#8217; on-ice Cup picture, Aube-Kubel slipped and dropped the coveted prize. Immediately a large dent became visible on the trophy&#8217;s bottom, a viral moment online that hockey fans won&#8217;t let him forget (and all in good fun, too).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed free agent right winger Nicolas Aube-Kubel to a one-year contract worth $1 million. \ud83d\udd8a We&#8217;ve signed forward Nicolas Aube-Kubel to a one-year contract. #LeafsForever \u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) July 13, 2022 RFA Nicolas Aube-Kubel Signed Contract after Cup Run Over his four-year NHL career, Aube-Kubel played for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2377,"featured_media":130720,"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":[34,28,4547,4548,16],"tags":[1515,77,235,2918],"class_list":["post-130400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-avalanche","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-flyers","tag-cale-makar","tag-nathan-mackinnon","tag-nazem-kadri","tag-nicolas-aube-kubel"],"modified_by":"Alex Metzger, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130400","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\/2377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}