{"id":135948,"date":"2023-02-28T11:35:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T16:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=135948"},"modified":"2023-02-28T11:35:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T16:35:39","slug":"detroit-red-wings-jake-walman-signs-three-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/02\/28\/detroit-red-wings-jake-walman-signs-three-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Red Wings Jake Walman Signs Three-Year Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/redwings\/\" target=\"_self\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> have re-signed defenceman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/walmaja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-02-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Walman<\/a> to a three-year contract extension. The Red Wings announced the signing via Twitter on Tuesday morning. Additionally, the one-way contract carries an average annual value of $3.4 million through the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: The Detroit <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RedWings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RedWings<\/a> today signed defenseman Jake Walman to a three-year contract extension with an average annual value of $3.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0 \u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/srrjtmfpYp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/srrjtmfpYp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HhMwEmkrgO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/HhMwEmkrgO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DetroitRedWings\/status\/1630568549755256833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Jake Walman Re-Signs with Detroit<\/h2>\n<p>Detroit acquired Walman in March 2022 during the trade deadline from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/blues\/\" target=\"_self\">St. Louis Blues<\/a>. The Red wings also received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sundqos01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-02-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oskar Sundqvist<\/a> and a 2023 second-round pick. The Blues traded all three of these assets just for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/leddyni01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-02-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Leddy<\/a>. Additionally, the Blues selected Walman in the third round in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Based on his draft position and trade value, Walman is an underrated gem. His statistics and underlying numbers only further this claim. At 27 year-old, Walman is still growing as a player. Starting with his base metrics, Walman has five goals and five assists in 40 games. Again, these numbers don&#8217;t stick out. However, this isn&#8217;t where Walman makes himself know.<\/p>\n<h3>Walman is Detroit&#8217;s Best Play-Driver<\/h3>\n<p>On-ice metrics show Walman to be a great play-driver this season. Walman has controlled 55.15% of the shots, 55.01% of the xG, 50.34% of the scoring-chances, and 53.85% of the high-danger corsi. These percentages all rank first on the Red Wings this season. The second best xGF% is 50.55% from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/larkidy01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-02-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dylan Larkin<\/a>. Walman&#8217;s 55.15 xGF% ranks 31st among all defenseman this season (500+ TOI).<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Detroit sits at a record of 28-23-8 in their first 59 games of the season. The team sits just three points behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/penguins\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> for the second wild card spot. Walman has been a huge X-factor to the teams&#8217; success so far, expect him to replicate his play for the next three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Walman contract extension is great long term. Detroit got a fantastic deal with the current market for defenceman in 2023. With his 5v5 play-driving, Walman could&#8217;ve earned a much higher salary. Furthermore, he will be a key piece for the left-side going forward for the Red Wings.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Tim Fuller-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Red Wings have re-signed defenceman, Jake Walman to a three-year contract extension. The Red Wings announced the signing via Twitter on Tuesday morning. Additionally, the one-way contract carries an average annual value of $3.4 million through the 2025-26 season. UPDATE: The Detroit #RedWings today signed defenseman Jake Walman to a three-year contract extension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3765,"featured_media":135950,"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":[4548,4,34],"tags":[5067,95,1457],"class_list":["post-135948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nhl","category-redwings","category-news","tag-contract-extension","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-jake-walman"],"modified_by":"Tommy Bennett","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135948","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\/3765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}