{"id":444288,"date":"2024-07-01T12:08:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=444288"},"modified":"2024-07-01T12:09:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T16:09:52","slug":"ufa-power-forward-signs-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/07\/01\/ufa-power-forward-signs-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"UFA Power Forward Signs a New Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2024 NHL free agency frenzy beats on, another big UFA signs. When we say big, at 6-foot-5, we mean literally, as Right Wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/manthan01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Mantha<\/a> signs a new deal. Mantha had been a trade deadline acquisition by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/vegas-golden-knights\/\" target=\"_self\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/capitals\/\" target=\"_self\">Washington Capitals<\/a> this past season in 2023-24. Now, he has signed a new contract.<\/p>\n<h2>Power Forward Anthony Mantha Signs a New Contract<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Anthony Mantha signing with the <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLFlames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@NHLFlames<\/a> for one season at $3.5M.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Renaud Lavoie (@renlavoietva) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/renlavoietva\/status\/1807806613027426698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nAnthony Mantha is a consistent contributor on the offensive side of the puck. It is a bit surprising Vegas General Manager Kelly McCrimmon wasn&#8217;t more willing to keep him around by signing him sooner. However, perhaps the price tag factored into things. He was just coming off a deal that was paying him $5.7 million, and it was tough to align his goal with a team&#8217;s. But now that is all in the past.<\/p>\n<h3>What Does Super Mantha Bring to the Club<\/h3>\n<p>At 29 years old, Mantha is coming off a 44-point campaign. Furthermore, he is a three-time 20-goal scorer at the NHL level. An underrated aspect of Mantha&#8217;s game is his efficiency. This past season, he had a 20.4 shooting percentage and only played 14:13 a night, despite the, as noted above, point production. He also carries a career 10.9 CF% Rel. Mantha is a nine-year veteran of the NHL, with 494 career regular season games under his belt.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Mantha is a big, strong force who can dominate on the down-low cycle and pressuring opposing defencemen on the forecheck. Like the Golden Knights were hoping last year, adding Mantha is a statement. It means that you are adding a depth piece that can produce throughout the long grind of the NHL season and into the playoffs. He hasn&#8217;t played much in the playoffs, but as a depth piece, he is exactly the type of secret weapon GMs love to have in their arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo credit: Kiyoshi Mio-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2024 NHL free agency frenzy beats on, another big UFA signs. When we say big, at 6-foot-5, we mean literally, as Right Wing Anthony Mantha signs a new deal. Mantha had been a trade deadline acquisition by the Vegas Golden Knights from the Washington Capitals this past season in 2023-24. Now, he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":436003,"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":[34,4547,31,4548],"tags":[573,243,6453,662,955],"class_list":["post-444288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-hockey","category-predators","category-nhl","tag-anthony-mantha","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nashville-predators-news","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Matthew Mountjoy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444288","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\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}