{"id":438056,"date":"2025-01-05T16:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T21:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=438056"},"modified":"2025-01-05T16:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T21:07:10","slug":"anaheim-ducks-frank-vatrano-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/01\/05\/anaheim-ducks-frank-vatrano-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks Make Decision to Keep Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anaheim Ducks have opted to make the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/vatrafr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frank Vatrano<\/a> extension happen. He is having a dominant season for the Ducks, who are 6-4 in the last 10 games. Vatrano will be getting three-year deal worth a total of $18 million. The Ducks will keep a forward with a wicked wrist shot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Frank Vatrano\u2019s 3-year, $18M extension is an interesting one. He will get paid $3M a year in base salary but then $9M in deferred salary. Starting 10 years from now in 2035, will make $900,000 a year for 10 years, and his plan is to live outside of California (and its tax system)\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/1875994285079753199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Anaheim Give Frank Vatrano an Extension<\/h2>\n<p>Vatrano<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/frank-vatrano-signs-3-year-contract-with-anaheim-ducks\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> is a large portion<\/a> of the Ducks\u2019 offence this season. He was the representative for the Ducks at the 2024 All-Star game, which was a deserving honour. The forward has taken his game to new heights despite some down years for the Ducks..<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s third on the team in points with 20 with nine goals and 11 assists. Last season was <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.statmuse.com\/nhl\/player\/frank-vatrano-7146\/career-stats\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his second straight<\/a> 20 goal season and he has thrived since arriving in California. There was some concern that he&#8217;d be a trade piece. However, Ducks General Manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/verbepa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-01-05_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pat Verbeek<\/a> seems to be making a commitment to the veteran forward.<\/p>\n<p>This deal has a different structure than others. According to Pierre LeBrun, the Frank Vatrano extension will get $3 million <span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">a year in base salary<\/span>. However, there will be $9 million <span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">in deferred salary. Starting 10 years from now in 2035, will make $900,000 a year for 10 years, and his plan is to live outside of California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Ducks will <span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"> benefit with deferred payments by having $4.57M AAV (instead of $6M AAV) on the deal according to LeBrun.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>What This Means<\/h3>\n<p>Vatrano is a key factor to what they are building. However, some think the team is still far away from being a true playoff contender. The team is still building further for the future. Anaheim does have a future that is bright. Building around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mctavma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mason McTavish<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/carlsle01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-26_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leo Carlsson<\/a>, Pavel, Mintyukov, andCutter Gauthier is a great foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides were able to make a deal work. Vatrano gets to have his payday, but the Ducks get to have some flexibility on their books.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anaheim Ducks have opted to make the Frank Vatrano extension happen. He is having a dominant season for the Ducks, who are 6-4 in the last 10 games. Vatrano will be getting three-year deal worth a total of $18 million. The Ducks will keep a forward with a wicked wrist shot. Frank Vatrano\u2019s 3-year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4194,"featured_media":438058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[20,4547,34,4548],"tags":[5910,983,2611],"class_list":["post-438056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ducks","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-anaheim-ducks-news","tag-frank-vatrano","tag-pat-verbeek"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438056","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\/4194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460156,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438056\/revisions\/460156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}