{"id":138978,"date":"2023-07-01T13:47:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T17:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=138978"},"modified":"2023-07-01T13:47:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T17:47:45","slug":"nashville-predators-sign-gustav-nyquist-to-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/07\/01\/nashville-predators-sign-gustav-nyquist-to-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Predators Sign Gustav Nyquist to Two-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/predators\/\" target=\"_self\">Nashville Predators<\/a> announced the signing of Swedish right-winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nyquigu01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gustav Nyquist<\/a> to join the team on a two-year deal valued at $3.185 million. After making $5.5 million a year for the past four seasons, he&#8217;s taken a pay cut to $1.59 million to land a job with the Predators, who aim to be contenders in the Western Conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">During the 2022-23 season, he split time between the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/bluejackets\/\" target=\"_self\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/wild\/\" target=\"_self\">Minnesota Wild.<\/a> He compiled 27 points in 51 games during that time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gustav Nyquist 2x$3.185M in Nashville. Big day for the Predators<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1675189541735477253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Nyquist Inks New Contract<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Originally drafted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/redwings\/\" target=\"_self\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> (121st overall) in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft, Nyquist showed great promise as a rookie. He eventually became a regular in 2013. After that year, he routinely scored over 40 points a year, with a career-best 60 in 2018-19. Thus far, he&#8217;s posted career totals of 428 points in 703 games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Even though Nyquist has rarely missed time due to injury early in his career, he eventually left Detroit. He went to play with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/sharks\/\" target=\"_self\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> and Blue Jackets before his most recent stop in Minnesota. Now, at 33, Nyquist&#8217;s best days may be behind him. However, he&#8217;ll fit nicely with the Predators in a role on their second or third line.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Impact of Nyquist Contract<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Statistically, he&#8217;s never failed to reach double digits in goals or assists, which should complement the Predators&#8217; offensive production. Considering the club already has Filip Forsberg and now Ryan O&#8217;Reilly, Nyquist will be a nice addition at a relatively cheaper cost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Even though he missed some time last season <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/blue-jackets-nyquist-to-miss-remainder-of-season-with-shoulder-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">because of a shoulder injury<\/a>, Nyquist expects to be fully healthy for the start of the new season. Considering his aliment didn&#8217;t require surgery, he&#8217;s a strong candidate for a bounce-back season in a new system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Interestingly, this isn&#8217;t the Predators&#8217; first off-season newsworthy move after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/ryan-oreilly-agrees-to-four-year-18m-contract-with-predators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">acquiring O&#8217;Reilly earlier in the day<\/a>. Signing Gustav Nyquist to the lineup is just another step towards building toward contender status.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nashville Predators announced the signing of Swedish right-winger Gustav Nyquist to join the team on a two-year deal valued at $3.185 million. After making $5.5 million a year for the past four seasons, he&#8217;s taken a pay cut to $1.59 million to land a job with the Predators, who aim to be contenders in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4655,"featured_media":139030,"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":[31,4547,4548],"tags":[296,662],"class_list":["post-138978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predators","category-hockey","category-nhl","tag-gustav-nyquist","tag-nhl-free-agency"],"modified_by":"Alec Roberson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138978","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=138978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}