{"id":138265,"date":"2023-06-25T11:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T15:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=138265"},"modified":"2023-06-25T11:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T15:23:02","slug":"veteran-shutdown-centre-signs-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/06\/25\/veteran-shutdown-centre-signs-new-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Shutdown Centre Signs New Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/staaljo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-06-13_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Staal<\/a> has signed a four year contract with the an AAV of $2.9 million per season. A long-time cornerstone of the Carolina Hurricanes, Staal&#8217;s elite shutdown ability is a key piece going forward for the club. The captain is staying right where he is and has a full no movement clause the first three seasons.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Captain isn&#39;t going anywhere \ud83d\ude24<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Canes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Canes<\/a> have re-signed Jordan Staal to a 4-year contract. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EKSENimU4V\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/EKSENimU4V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Carolina Hurricanes (@Canes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canes\/status\/1672984610437754880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jordan Staal Signs<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Staal is one of the top shutdown centres in the league and a penalty-kill specialist. He uses his six-foot-four-inch, 220 lb. frame to muscle players off the puck and shield it when having possession. In 81 games this <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/06\/10\/carolina-hurricanes-offseason-grades-jordan-staal\/\" target=\"_self\">season<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">, he scored 17 goals and 17 assists. His 34 points were only two less from his 36 last season with the same amount of goals and only a dip in assists. A lot of his goal-scoring came in close with tips and rebounds. His 34 points came while he\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/moneypuck.com\/stats.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">led<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> the team in defensive zone starts. As a shutdown centre, he has always been strong in the faceoff circle. He held a 55.7% rate this season and also led the team in hits with 155. With taking some of the hardest matchups, he <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalstattrick.com\/playerteams.php?fromseason=20222023&amp;thruseason=20222023&amp;stype=2&amp;sit=all&amp;score=all&amp;stdoi=oi&amp;rate=n&amp;team=CAR&amp;pos=F&amp;loc=B&amp;toi=0&amp;gpfilt=none&amp;fd=&amp;td=&amp;tgp=410&amp;lines=single&amp;draftteam=ALL\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0the highest expected goals against on the team at 71.59 but actual goals against of 66.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>What Staal Brings<\/h3>\n<p>As mentioned above, Staal is one of the league&#8217;s best shutdown centres. He plays a heavy possession game and can match up with almost anyone in the league to play that shutdown role. In Staal, you get a quintessential third-line centre who can also slot up the lineup when needed. With the right line-mates, Staal can drive a line that makes it almost impossible for opposing teams to knock off the puck.<\/p>\n<p>At 34 years old, Staal is on the back end of his NHL career but is still effective in his role. Even though he won a Stanely Cup with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/penguins\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>, Staal would love to get another. Jordan Staal&#8217;s new contract will provide him with another bite at the apple. A true leader who tends to show more with his play than with his mouth, Staal is still a valuable asset in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: James Guillory-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Staal has signed a four year contract with the an AAV of $2.9 million per season. A long-time cornerstone of the Carolina Hurricanes, Staal&#8217;s elite shutdown ability is a key piece going forward for the club. The captain is staying right where he is and has a full no movement clause the first three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4428,"featured_media":138271,"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":[10,4547,4548],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-138265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hurricanes","category-hockey","category-nhl","tag-jordan-staal"],"modified_by":"Tommy Bennett","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138265","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\/4428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}