{"id":32995,"date":"2018-07-17T12:06:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T16:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=32995"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:39:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:39:13","slug":"new-jersey-devils-re-sign-blake-coleman-to-three-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/07\/17\/new-jersey-devils-re-sign-blake-coleman-to-three-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Devils Re-Sign Blake Coleman to Three-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/devils\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Jersey Devils<\/a> have re-signed restricted free agent forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/colembl01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blake Coleman<\/a><\/strong> to a three-year contract worth $5.4 million, or $1.8 million per season. This contract carries him through the 2020-21 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Blake Coleman has signed a new contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NJDevils?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NJDevils<\/a>. 3 years, $1.8 million per season.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Corey Masisak (@cmasisak22) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmasisak22\/status\/1019221750561804288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Blake Coleman Re-signs With the Devils<\/h1>\n<p>Coleman has only played for New Jersey in his two-year NHL career. He has put up 14 goals and 13 assists for 27 career points in <i>102<\/i> career games. The Plano, Texas native was signed as an undrafted free agent out Miami University in Ohio by the Devils in 2015-16.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he scored 13 goals and 12 assists for 25 points in 79 games. He also added 50 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 48.1 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of 0.1.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman and the Devils <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/devils\/index.ssf\/2018\/07\/devils_re-sign_forward_blake_coleman.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">avoided a July 22 arbitration meeting.<\/a> The Devils gave Coleman a qualifying offer to keep him a restricted free agent. He more than doubles his salary from last year&#8217;s rate of $680,000. He&#8217;ll become an unrestricted free agent when the current deal expires.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>Coleman is a versatile forward that made the team thanks to his penalty killing and being a good matchup defender. The 27-year-old earned a roster spot thanks to his hard work in those two areas. He helped the Devils&#8217; penalty kill to an 81.78-percent success rate, which was just under two points above the 79.82 league average.<\/p>\n<p>However, he added scoring to his game with seven of his goals coming in March. Coleman has always been a scorer dating back to his days in the USHL and NCAA. He totaled 61 goals in his time with the RedHawks, including 20 in his senior season in 2014-15. Three of his goals were also shorthanded.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman will likely serve as one of the top penalty killers and the Devils will think that any scoring will be a bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"GsnSFb-jRUpv5cJKZDfA9Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/947567680\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'GsnSFb-jRUpv5cJKZDfA9Q',sig:'fKzQ6MkkAAJWe5XVruCkyKHSivWOsYyvRyixvdGfIyc=',w:'594px',h:'438px',items:'947567680',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Jersey Devils have re-signed restricted free agent forward Blake Coleman to a three-year contract worth $5.4 million, or $1.8 million per season. This contract carries him through the 2020-21 season. Blake Coleman has signed a new contract with the #NJDevils. 3 years, $1.8 million per season. &mdash; Corey Masisak (@cmasisak22) July 17, 2018 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":33004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[3517,5738,151,2569,955],"class_list":["post-32995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devils","category-news","tag-blake-coleman","tag-hockey-news","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-news","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Daniel Brown, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32995","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}