{"id":457919,"date":"2024-12-06T17:38:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T22:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=457919"},"modified":"2024-12-06T17:38:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T22:38:29","slug":"new-york-rangers-have-agreed-to-sign-vezina-winning-goalie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/12\/06\/new-york-rangers-have-agreed-to-sign-vezina-winning-goalie\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Rangers Have Agreed To Sign Vezina-Winning Goalie"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Rangers have agreed to an expensive contract extension with star, Vezina-Winning netminder Igor “Shesty” <\/em>Shesterkin. According to ESPN and TSNs Kevin Weekes on X<\/a> this afternoon,\u00a0alongside ESPN hockey reporter Emily Kaplan,<\/a>\u00a0the extension is eight years. It is worth between $11.5M and $12M per year.\u00a0This would outstrip the 2024-25 cap hits<\/a> of very excellent and expensive current NHL goalies. Montreal Canadiens legend Carey Prices cap hit<\/a> this year is 10.5M. Florida Panthers star goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, who played a large role in the Cats first Stanley Cup championship<\/a> last year, has a $10M AAV<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

“Breaking news. Breaking news. I’m told the Rangers have signed an eight-year extension, in principle, with Igor Shesterkin.\u00a0Let’s go,”\u00a0Weekes said in a video included in the post.<\/p>\n

New York Rangers Goalie Igor Shesterkin History<\/h2>\n

It is safe to say Shesty<\/em> has earned this expensive contract, finishing all four of his Broadway Blueshirts playoffs <\/a>so far with at least a .900 save percentage in each, in addition to his great regular seasons. His playoff peak<\/a> save percentage was .931 in 2022-23. The 28-year-old Moscow native has played in two NHL All-Star<\/a> Games,<\/a> and notched four shutouts last regular season. But 2021-22 was when the New York Rangers goalie brought home the crown jewel of goaltending awards, the Vezina Trophy, also won by Rangers legend Henrik Lundqvist nine years prior.\u00a0He notched a 2.09 goals-against average and .935 save percentage, the second being the highest regular-season save percentage of his NHL career.<\/p>\n

The Cats Sergei Bobrovsky is a goalie of\u00a0Shesty’s\u00a0<\/em>caliber and we see an eight-figure cap hit for him, so if paying Shesty\u00a0<\/em>$1.5M or $2M more will affect the goalie market in any way, so be it. The already great Rangers skaters should feel more confident and thus better with a netminder like Shesterkin sitting behind them.<\/p>\n

Main Photo: Kyle Ross-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Rangers have agreed to an expensive contract extension with star, Vezina-Winning netminder Igor “Shesty” Shesterkin. According to ESPN and TSNs Kevin Weekes on X this afternoon,\u00a0alongside ESPN hockey reporter Emily Kaplan,\u00a0the extension is eight years. It is worth between $11.5M and $12M per year.\u00a0This would outstrip the 2024-25 cap hits of very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5243,"featured_media":457936,"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":[14,34,4548],"tags":[4035,48],"class_list":["post-457919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rangers","category-news","category-nhl","tag-igor-shesterkin","tag-new-york-rangers"],"modified_by":"Tommy Bennett","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457919","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\/5243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457938,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457919\/revisions\/457938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}