{"id":138254,"date":"2023-07-02T17:09:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T21:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=138254"},"modified":"2023-07-02T17:09:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T21:09:19","slug":"tyler-bertuzzi-signs-contract-with-enter-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/07\/02\/tyler-bertuzzi-signs-contract-with-enter-maple-leafs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Bertuzzi Signs Contract With Toronto Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After the daunting task of negotiating contracts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bertuty01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-06-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyler Bertuzzi<\/a> finally got his. Bertuzzi has signed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/07\/01\/ufa-john-klingberg-signs-new-contract-with-the-toronto-maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_self\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> and will be there for the next year. In addition, his AAV on his new contract is $5.5 million. The young forward gets to bank on a big free agent payday next season.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd8a We\u2019ve signed forward Tyler Bertuzzi to a one-year contract <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T8PLhhOqRP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/T8PLhhOqRP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapleLeafs\/status\/1675608886898835456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bertuzzi Signs Short-Term Contract<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After failing to come to an agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/y\/yzermst01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-06-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Yzerman<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/redwings\/\" target=\"_self\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> shipped him off to the Boston Bruins. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=hallta02,hallta01&amp;search=Taylor+Hall&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-06-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taylor Hall<\/a> being injured helped facilitate that move. In addition, that trade paid dividends for Boston as he was a key contributor down the stretch. He was the perfect player for Boston and enjoyed his first taste of playoff action. Now he will take his talents to Toronto and show why he was worth the contract. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Why This Deal Makes Sense<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Tyler Bertuzzi contract makes sense for the team. You can never have too much depth on your roster and Bertuzzi fits the bill. Despite injuries plaguing some of his seasons, Bertuzzi has hit the 60+ point mark once. This season, he scored eight goals, 22 assists, and 30 points in 50 games. But the biggest key for Bertuzzi was settling in and thriving in the postseason. It was his first time, and he enjoyed the opportunity. Bertuzzi was tied for the team lead in goals (5) and was first in points (10). He was a machine at generating chances <a href=\"https:\/\/moneypuck.com\/stats.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with<\/a> 3.1 expected goals. That was second behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pastrda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-06-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Pastrnak<\/a>. Bertuzzi made his mark and turned heads to end the season garnering this contract. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This team knows what they are getting with Bertuzzi. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Why This Contract Makes Sense For Bertuzzi <\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This contract makes sense for Tyler Bertuzzi. After not being able to ink a long-term extension in Detroit, he is going to be on himself. He is still searching for a monster payday. Bertuzzi is still looking for security. However, he can focus on hockey for now and do this against next July 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Main Photo: Jim Rassol-USA TODAY Sports<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the daunting task of negotiating contracts, Tyler Bertuzzi finally got his. Bertuzzi has signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs and will be there for the next year. In addition, his AAV on his new contract is $5.5 million. The young forward gets to bank on a big free agent payday next season. \ud83d\udd8a We\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4194,"featured_media":138255,"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":[18,4547,34,4548],"tags":[662,5951,679],"class_list":["post-138254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leafs","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-news","tag-tyler-bertuzzi"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138254","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\/4194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}