{"id":138969,"date":"2023-06-30T21:52:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T01:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=138969"},"modified":"2023-06-30T21:52:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T01:52:55","slug":"jesper-fast-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/06\/30\/jesper-fast-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesper Fast Returns to Carolina Hurricanes on Two-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> announced today that they had re-signed right-winger Jesper Fast<\/a> contract. The deal is a two-year contract worth $4.8 million. After signing this new contract, the 31-year-old from Nassjo, Sweden, is getting a raise from his previous deal, $2.0 million per season, to $2.4 million.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/reporterchris\/status\/1674807877247315970?s=20<\/p>\n

Carolina Signs Jesper Fast Contract
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Originally drafted by the New York Rangers<\/a> (157th overall) in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, Fast came to the Hurricanes as a free agent<\/a> in 2020. Thus far, in three seasons in Carolina, he’s collected 82 points in 208 games and has career totals of 229 points in 630 games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Statistically, Fast’s best year came in 2021-22 when he played in all 82 games, collecting career highs in goals (14), assists (24), and points (34) while finishing the year with a plus-24 rating. Fast’s linemate and team captain Jordan Staal<\/a> is also coming back to the Hurricanes for next sason. The duo has chemistry and formed a strong and balanced line.
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Impact of Jesper Fast Contract
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Although many Rangers fans were unhappy with his departure in 2020, their loss has been the Hurricanes’ gain. As a solid bottom-six player<\/a>, Fast can slide into any position head coach Rod Brind’Amour<\/a> needs and contribute. Besides ranking 17th in ice time last year at 14:44, he was a reliable player who only missed two games in the regular season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, the Hurricanes quickly resigned one of their best playoff performers from their recent run to the Eastern Conference Final<\/a>. Despite the club and Fast experiencing a dip in offensive production in the third round, he still finished fourth in team scoring with nine points in 15 games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are plenty of expectations for the Hurricanes next season. Fast is a solid depth forward that can score a few goals and do the little things. He’ll be relied upon to help Carolina get its second Stanley Cup in franchise history.<\/p>\n

Main photo by: Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Carolina Hurricanes announced today that they had re-signed right-winger Jesper Fast contract. The deal is a two-year contract worth $4.8 million. After signing this new contract, the 31-year-old from Nassjo, Sweden, is getting a raise from his previous deal, $2.0 million per season, to $2.4 million.\u00a0 https:\/\/twitter.com\/reporterchris\/status\/1674807877247315970?s=20 Carolina Signs Jesper Fast Contract Originally drafted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4655,"featured_media":138975,"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":[10,4547,34,4548],"tags":[6664,1728,662],"class_list":["post-138969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hurricanes","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-carolina-hurricanes-news","tag-jesper-fast","tag-nhl-free-agency"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138969","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\/4655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}