{"id":454367,"date":"2024-10-25T15:04:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=454367"},"modified":"2024-10-25T15:04:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T19:04:15","slug":"new-york-rangers-ink-rising-star-to-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/10\/25\/new-york-rangers-ink-rising-star-to-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Rangers Ink Rising Star to New Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/10\/22\/new-york-rangers-face-tough-decision-with-defencemans-return-from-injury\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Rangers<\/a> have already taken care of one piece of big business. News emerged that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lafreal01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-10-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexis Lafreniere<\/a> signs a new contract with the Blueshirts. The 24-year-old signed a deal for seven seasons and just over $52 million. This works out to an average cap hit of $7.45 million per season and the deal runs through the end of the 2031-32 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NYR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NYR<\/a> $7.45M AAV extension with Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re comes in with a cap hit a shade below the $7.6M AAV given to <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/habs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#habs<\/a> Juraj Slafkovsk\u00fd, a fellow No. 1 overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>Slafkovsk\u00fd signed for eight years while Lafreni\u00e8re opted for seven.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reporterchris\/status\/1849883424825258278?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Alexis Lafreniere Signs New Deal with Rangers<\/h2>\n<p>Lafrenerie has only played for the Rangers over his five-NHL career. This season, the St-Eustache, Quebec native has four goals and three assists for seven points in seven games this season. He has a Corsi for of 58.3 and a relative Corsi of 8.9.<\/p>\n<p>The former first overall pick of the 2020 NHL Draft has 79 goals and 76 assists for 155 points in 305 career games. Lafreniere netted a career-high 28 goals and 29 assists for 57 points in 82 games in the 2023-24 campaign. The Rangers <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/10\/19\/new-york-rangers-top-line-flowing-with-chemistry\/\" target=\"_self\">forward has taken off<\/a> in the last two seasons under head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/laviope01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-10-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Laviolette<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also represented home country of Canada on the international level where he&#8217;s won gold at the 2020 IIHF World Junior Championships and the 2018 Hlinka-Gretzky Cup. Both tournaments were held in Alberta.<\/p>\n<h3>What It Means<\/h3>\n<p>Signing Lafreniere to a long-term deal is a huge boost to the roster. This deal is a long-term commitment, but Lafreniere at this contract number may turn out to be an absolute bargain.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still some worry about signing players like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/shestig01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-10-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Igor Shesterkin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/milleka01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-10-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K&#8217;Andre Miller<\/a>. However, this one big thing that Rangers&#8217; General Manager has checked off his to-do list. Drury can turn his attention signing Shesterkin and Miller before they get to July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Lafreniere has blossomed into an important player for the Rangers. This contract will help keep him in the lineup for a number of seasons. He&#8217;ll <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/09\/19\/puck-drop-preview-2024-25-new-york-rangers-season\/\" target=\"_self\">figure prominently<\/a> into the Blueshirts&#8217; plans for a long time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Rangers have already taken care of one piece of big business. News emerged that Alexis Lafreniere signs a new contract with the Blueshirts. The 24-year-old signed a deal for seven seasons and just over $52 million. This works out to an average cap hit of $7.45 million per season and the deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":137581,"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":[4547,14,34,4548],"tags":[4410,1657,4035,3207,6259],"class_list":["post-454367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-rangers","category-news","category-nhl","tag-alexis-lafreniere","tag-chris-drury","tag-igor-shesterkin","tag-kandre-miller","tag-new-york-rangers-news"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454367","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=454367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}