{"id":136570,"date":"2023-03-29T19:38:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T23:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=136570"},"modified":"2023-03-29T19:38:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T23:38:12","slug":"new-york-rangers-sign-forward-to-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/03\/29\/new-york-rangers-sign-forward-to-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Rangers Sign Forward to Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/rangers\/\" target=\"_self\"> New York Rangers<\/a> have taken care of one of their off-season priorities early. New York has signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/chytifi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-03-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Filip Chytil<\/a> to a four-year contract worth $4.4 million dollars per season. The deal carries him through the 2026-27 season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/rangers\/news\/rangers-agree-to-terms-with-filip-chytil-on-four-year-extension\/c-342878310?fbclid=IwAR39vYqzbwffn2eawSzdb-C-kzSJIkvZRU3chQ0FB_tcmfzHg1ssUQDJ6wE\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News of the deal broke<\/a> early Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fil details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WAHpkJpbZz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/WAHpkJpbZz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Rangers (@NYRangers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYRangers\/status\/1641214501910396928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Filip Chytil Contract Signed<\/h2>\n<p>Over his six-year NHL career, the 23-year-old has only played for the Rangers. The Kromeriz, Czech Republic native has totaled 64 goals and 71 assists for 135 points in 314 career games. Chytil has already put a career-high 22 goals and 20 assists for 42 points 66 games this season with the Blueshirts. He has a Corsi for of 54.3 and a relative Corsi of 3.9.<\/p>\n<p>Chytil was drafted in the first round, 21st overall of the 2017 NHL Draft. The member of the &#8220;Kid Line&#8221; with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lafreal01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-03-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexis Lafreniere<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kakkoka01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-03-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kaapo Kakko<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/10\/02\/breakout-new-york-rangers-season\/\" target=\"_self\">endeared himself to the Ranger faithful<\/a> and part of a dynamic forward group. Chytil came alive in the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs with seven goals in 20 games.<\/p>\n<p>The young forward has also represented Czechia on the international level. He&#8217;s played for his home country on the junior and senior levels. Chytil won a gold at the Hlinka\/Gretzky Cup in 2016.<\/p>\n<h3>What the Filip Chytil Contract Means<\/h3>\n<p>The Rangers have already taken care of one of their big three RFA priorities. General manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/drurych01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-03-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Drury<\/a> has checked off one of his biggest needs by inking Chytil. He still has work to do in signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/milleka01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-03-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K&#8217;Andre Miller<\/a> and Lafreniere, but a big deal has been done.<\/p>\n<p>Miller might want a longer-term deal while Lafreniere may get a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/07\/28\/young-kaapo-kakko-re-signs-with-the-new-york-rangers\/\" target=\"_self\">short bridge deal to prove it<\/a> just like Kakko did. However, the younger players are a part of the reason the Blueshirts are a contender. Chytil will hopefully stay healthy during this four-year deal set to kick in next season.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still sorting things out like seeing if unrestricted free agents and deadline pickups <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tarasvl01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-03-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vladimir Tarasenko<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kanepa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-03-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrick Kane<\/a> want to come back. However, the Rangers won&#8217;t have another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/buchnpa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-03-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pavel Buchnevich<\/a>-like situation <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/07\/23\/new-york-rangers-trade-pavel-buchnevich\/\" target=\"_self\">where they lose out<\/a> on a young forward due to cap constraints.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Rangers have taken care of one of their off-season priorities early. New York has signed Filip Chytil to a four-year contract worth $4.4 million dollars per season. The deal carries him through the 2026-27 season. News of the deal broke early Wednesday evening. Fil details: https:\/\/t.co\/WAHpkJpbZz &mdash; New York Rangers (@NYRangers) March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":136571,"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":[14,4547,34,4548],"tags":[1654,6259,7447],"class_list":["post-136570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rangers","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-filip-chytil","tag-new-york-rangers-news","tag-the-kid-line"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136570","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=136570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}