{"id":130687,"date":"2022-09-12T11:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T15:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=130687"},"modified":"2022-09-12T11:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T15:23:04","slug":"evan-rodrigues-reaches-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/09\/12\/evan-rodrigues-reaches-new-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan Rodrigues Reaches New Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Avalanche have signed unrestricted free agent forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rodriev01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evan Rodrigues<\/a> to a one-year contract worth $2 million. This contract carries him through the 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">One year, $2M <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ObdBVvq9Au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/ObdBVvq9Au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1569333207295721475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Evan Rodrigues Gets Contract<\/h2>\n<p>Over his seven-year NHL career, Rodrigues has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/sabres\/\" target=\"_self\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/penguins\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>. He has put up 53 goals and 76 assists for 129 career points in 316 career games. Buffalo signed Rodrigues as an undrafted free agent after a standout 2014-15 campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/penguins\/news\/evan-rodrigues-fathers-day\/c-334433954\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with Boston University<\/a>. He was second in the nation in scoring behind future Sabres teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/eicheja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Eichel<\/a>. The former Terrier finished as the Hockey East conference player of the month in January and April of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he scored a career-high 19 goals and 24 assists for 43 points in a full 82-game slate. He also added 14 penalty minutes during the 2021-22 campaign. His possession numbers were 59.8 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of 10.5.<\/p>\n<p>The Etobicoke, Ontario native notched his first career hat trick this season with a three-goal effort in an 8-5 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Jan. 2. He also added three goals in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Penguins were eliminated by the rival New York Rangers.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>The soon-to-be 29-year-old had a breakout season with the Penguins, reaching double-digit goals for the first time in his professional career. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/05\/08\/evan-rodrigues-powers-pittsburgh-penguins\/\" target=\"_self\">He was a bright spot<\/a> for the Penguins in a playoff run that saw them cough up a 3-1 series lead.<\/p>\n<p>Rodrigues can play throughout the lineup and has shown a knack for scoring goals. He did play with some solid teammates like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/crosbsi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sidney Crosby<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/malkiev01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evgeni Malkin<\/a>. However, the forward did pot seven goals on the power play this season for Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s under 6 feet tall but can get into spots that create scoring chances. Rodrigues is a good forward to have around on a team. He will help replace some of the production the Avalanche lost this offseason.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here is a photo of Evan Rodrigues, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rustbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bryan Rust<\/a>&#8216;s favorite player. We&#8217;ve heard he is a lot of people&#8217;s favorite player.<\/p>\n<p>Time for the 3rd period of play!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LetsGoPens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LetsGoPens<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QgybjNOyNA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/QgybjNOyNA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/penguins\/status\/1479269631349170179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Avalanche have signed unrestricted free agent forward Evan Rodrigues to a one-year contract worth $2 million. This contract carries him through the 2022-23 season. One year, $2M https:\/\/t.co\/ObdBVvq9Au \u2014 Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) September 12, 2022 Evan Rodrigues Gets Contract Over his seven-year NHL career, Rodrigues has played for the Buffalo Sabres and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":130688,"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":[4547,28,34,4548],"tags":[2740,662,955],"class_list":["post-130687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-avalanche","category-news","category-nhl","tag-evan-rodrigues","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Alex Metzger, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130687","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}