{"id":139376,"date":"2023-07-30T11:38:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T15:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=139376"},"modified":"2023-07-30T11:38:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T15:38:21","slug":"arizona-coyotes-reach-deal-with-rfa-jack-mcbain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/07\/30\/arizona-coyotes-reach-deal-with-rfa-jack-mcbain\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Coyotes Reach Deal with RFA Jack McBain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcbaija03.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-07-20_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack McBain<\/a> is officially a member of the Arizona Coyotes for at least the next two years. With an arbitration date set, the Coyotes and McBain avoided arbitration to agree on a two year contract with a $1.6 million AAV.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Arizona and Jack McBain have a 2x$1.6M settlement, avoiding arbitration<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1685669813287350272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jack McBain Stays in the Desert<\/h2>\n<p>The Coyotes and Jack McBain are staying together as the young forward will look to build on his solid rookie season and help the Coyotes this upcoming season.\u00a0 Arizona traded a 2022 second-round pick to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/wild\/\" target=\"_self\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> in exchange for the rights to McBain in March of 2022. The Coyotes signed him to a two-year deal which began the 2021-22 season. This left him as a restricted free agent this offseason with arbitration rights <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capfriendly.com\/arbitration-calculator\/players\/jack-mcbain\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">due<\/a> to his age and seasons played.<\/p>\n<p>The former Boston College centre was a bright spot on an otherwise fairly underwhelming Coyotes team last season. The six-foot, 201 pounds forward put up 12 goals and 14 assists for 36 points in 82 games. This was all done at even strength. His 12.2 <a href=\"https:\/\/moneypuck.com\/stats.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expected goals<\/a> closely matched his 12 goals scored as well. On the physical side, McBain brought an edge to the Coyotes and <a href=\"https:\/\/moneypuck.com\/stats.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">led<\/a> the team with 304 hits, over 100 more than the second leading hitter on the team.<\/p>\n<h3>What this Means Moving Forward<\/h3>\n<p>With uncertainty looming over the Arizona Coyotes future, locking up promising and productive pieces is a positive for the team. McBain might not have the star power of someone like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kellecl01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-07-20_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clayton Keller<\/a>, but he provides the Coyotes with a nice option down the middle. He showed some promise in his rookie season and also brought a physical element to the team. If he can keep progressing he could become a nice top-six option for the Coyotes. Much like after being drafted, its what a player does moving forward that really matters. McBain will have that opportunity with the Coyotes.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack McBain is officially a member of the Arizona Coyotes for at least the next two years. With an arbitration date set, the Coyotes and McBain avoided arbitration to agree on a two year contract with a $1.6 million AAV. Arizona and Jack McBain have a 2x$1.6M settlement, avoiding arbitration &mdash; Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4428,"featured_media":139377,"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":[21,4547,4548],"tags":[2721,662],"class_list":["post-139376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mammoth","category-hockey","category-nhl","tag-jack-mcbain","tag-nhl-free-agency"],"modified_by":"Tommy Bennett","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139376","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=139376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}