{"id":433016,"date":"2023-10-13T13:39:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T17:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=433016"},"modified":"2023-10-13T13:39:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T17:39:50","slug":"colorado-avalanche-sign-devon-toews-long-term-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/10\/13\/colorado-avalanche-sign-devon-toews-long-term-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche Sign Devon Toews to Long-Term Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Avalanche announced they have signed key defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/toewsde01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-13_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devon Toews<\/a> to a seven-year extension. This deal comes with an AAV of $7.25 million and will keep Toews in Denver through the 2030-31 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SEVEN MORE YEARS OF TOEWSER!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/toewsde01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-13_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devon Toews<\/a> has agreed to a seven-year contract extension \u270d\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoAvsGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GoAvsGo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8AD6FCVqQm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/8AD6FCVqQm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Avalanche\/status\/1712862489619149005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Colorado Avalanche Sign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/toewsde01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-13_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devon Toews<\/a> Seven Years<\/h2>\n<p>Keeping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/toewsde01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-13_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devon Toews<\/a> in Colorado for the foreseeable future was likely a top priority for the Avalanche. The 29 year old, 6&#8242; 1&#8243;, 191 lb left-shot defenceman came to Colorado in a trade with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/islanders\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Islanders<\/a> in 2020 for two second-round picks. Since that time, he has been a solid top defenceman for the Avalanche. Toews provides a stable presence on the back end to compliment the star offensive ability of fellow defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/makarca01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-13_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cale Makar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Toews played in 80 games for the Avalanche and scored seven goals and 43 assists with a +39. Even though it is somewhat of a skewed stat, Toews led the Avalanche and finished sixth in the NHL in +\/-. Meanwhile, he was second for team defence in scoring with fifty points. In the playoffs last season, Toews led the team in assists with eight and was second in points with nine in seven games played. Over his career, he has 40 goals and 145 assists.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means<\/h3>\n<p>With Toews needing a new contract after this season, locking him up was a big move for Colorado. While the move to sign Devon Toews to a seven-year deal may be a little long for a 29-year-old and may prove troublesome at the end, Colorado is in a win-now mode. Fresh off a Stanley Cup Championship two seasons ago, Colorado has the pieces to continue to be a contender for the foreseeable future. With big stars in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mackina01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-13_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nathan MacKinnon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rantami01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-10-13_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikko Rantanen<\/a>, and Makar, the team is in no place to slow down. Toews has really established himself as an upper-tier defenceman in the league and Colorado knows how valuable he is to the team. Meanwhile, Toews gets to cash in with this long-term deal. The seven-year term takes the pressure away from having to re-negotiate anytime soon for both parties. Now let&#8217;s see if Colorado can make some noise for the next few seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Steven Bisig-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Avalanche announced they have signed key defenceman Devon Toews to a seven-year extension. This deal comes with an AAV of $7.25 million and will keep Toews in Denver through the 2030-31 season. SEVEN MORE YEARS OF TOEWSER! Devon Toews has agreed to a seven-year contract extension \u270d\ufe0f#GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com\/8AD6FCVqQm \u2014 Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4428,"featured_media":433017,"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":[28,4547,34,4548],"tags":[2301,955],"class_list":["post-433016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avalanche","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-devon-toews","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Alec Roberson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433016","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=433016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}