{"id":138250,"date":"2023-07-10T12:12:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T16:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=138250"},"modified":"2023-07-10T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T16:12:41","slug":"noah-cates-inks-new-contract-after-solid-rookie-season-with-philadelphia-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/07\/10\/noah-cates-inks-new-contract-after-solid-rookie-season-with-philadelphia-flyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Cates Inks New Contract After Solid Rookie Season with Philadelphia Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Flyers signed forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/catesno01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-06-13_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noah Cates<\/a> to a two-year contract extension worth $5.25 million. The deal carries an annual average of $2.625 million per season until.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OFFICIAL: We&#39;ve agreed to terms with forward Noah Cates on a two-year, $5.25 million contract ($2.625 million AAV). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h4DV0xxEbX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/h4DV0xxEbX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLFlyers\/status\/1678422855216668672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Noah Cates Re-Signs with Philadelphia Flyers<\/h2>\n<p>Cates pieced together a quality rookie campaign this past season. In his first full season with Philadelphia, Cates scored 13 goals and registered 25 assists for 38 points in 82 games. Moreover, he led the Flyers with 60 takeaways.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his career, Cates has recorded 18 goals and 47 points in 98 games. Cates was selected by the Flyers in the fifth round, 137th overall in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft. Before joining Philadelphia, Cates spent four seasons with <a href=\"https:\/\/umdbulldogs.com\/sports\/mens-ice-hockey\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The University of Minnesota-Duluth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Cates Earned John Tortorella&#8217;s Trust Early On<\/h3>\n<p>The first attribute that comes to mind when describing Cates&#8217; play-style is his defensive ability. It didn&#8217;t take long for Flyers&#8217; Head Coach, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/coaches\/tortojo99c.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Tortorella<\/a> to trust Cates in key moments. Tortorella was comfortable alternating his position between left-wing and centre.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Cates started 13.52% of his shifts in the defensive zone. This was the second highest percentage amongst all Flyers last season, only behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/laughsc01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-06-13_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scott Laughton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Cates Posted Stellar Defensive Metrics as a Rookie<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hockeyviz.com\/howto\/shotMap\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shot Maps<\/a> created by Micah Blake McCurdy from <a href=\"https:\/\/hockeyviz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HockeyViz<\/a> are a great tool to understand how efficiently teams generate shots in a wide variety of situations.\u00a0The blue regions identify a team that generates <em>less\u00a0<\/em>than the league average rate of shots, the red regions for\u00a0<em>more<\/em> than league average.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138258\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/06\/IMG_1627-280x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/06\/IMG_1627-280x300.jpeg 280w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/06\/IMG_1627.jpeg 501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cates defensive zone shot map shows he was able to suppress opponents&#8217; shot generation thirteen percent better than the league average rate of shots. Furthermore, Cates wasn&#8217;t allowing any high-quality shots from the slot or the front of the net.<\/p>\n<h3>Philadelphia Awards Building Block For The Future<\/h3>\n<p>Cates solidified himself as one of Philadelphia&#8217;s top priorities this off-season. He will play an important role for the Flyers in the future. Philadelphia made <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/05\/11\/philadelphia-flyers-front-office-changes-made\/\" target=\"_self\">changes to the front office<\/a>\u00a0with the hirings of General Manager, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/brierda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-06-13_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniel Briere<\/a> and Director of Hockey Operations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/joneske01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-06-13_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keith Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Flyers signed forward Noah Cates to a two-year contract extension worth $5.25 million. The deal carries an annual average of $2.625 million per season until. OFFICIAL: We&#39;ve agreed to terms with forward Noah Cates on a two-year, $5.25 million contract ($2.625 million AAV). https:\/\/t.co\/h4DV0xxEbX &mdash; Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) July 10, 2023 Noah Cates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3765,"featured_media":138257,"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":[16,34,4548],"tags":[5067,2741,663,4626,3828],"class_list":["post-138250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flyers","category-news","category-nhl","tag-contract-extension","tag-daniel-briere","tag-john-tortorella","tag-keith-jones","tag-noah-cates"],"modified_by":"Tommy Bennett","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138250","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=138250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}