{"id":47345,"date":"2019-07-01T11:16:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T15:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=47345"},"modified":"2019-07-01T14:20:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T18:20:31","slug":"report-curtis-mcelhinney-to-sign-with-tampa-bay-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/07\/01\/report-curtis-mcelhinney-to-sign-with-tampa-bay-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis McElhinney Signs With Tampa Bay Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, The Tampa Bay Lightning have agreed to sign free agent goaltender <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcelhcu01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Curtis McElhinney<\/a><\/strong> to a two-year contract worth $2.6 million ($1.3 million AAV).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">Avec Curtis McElhinney qui va se joindre au <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBLightning?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TBLightning<\/a> Louis Domingue pourrait \u00eatre \u00e9chang\u00e9. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tvasports?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#tvasports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Renaud Lavoie (@renlavoietva) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/renlavoietva\/status\/1145711182868811778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have signed Curtis McElhinney to a two-year contract worth an AAV of $1.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcdd: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A4ClTYikMJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/A4ClTYikMJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bPTk3hklgj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/bPTk3hklgj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBLightning\/status\/1145757902323560449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Curtis McElhinney Joins His Eighth Team<\/h1>\n<p>The Lightning get a quality back-up goaltender with experience under his belt. Over his 11 -year NHL career, McElhinney has played for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/flames\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calgary Flames<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/ducks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ottawa Senators<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/coyotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phoenix Coyotes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blue-jackets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/hurricanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>. He has put up an 82-82-15 career record in 219 career appearances with 167 career starts. He also has a 2.81 goals-against-average, .909 save percentage, and 12 shutouts. McElhinney has a career 3-3 record in seven career Stanley Cup Playoff games, with a 2.40 goals-against-average and .913 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, McElhinney started 33 games for the Canes. He put up a 20-11-2 record with a 2.58 goals-against-average and .912 save percentage and two shutouts. McElhinney took over for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mrazepe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Petr Mrazek<\/a> after Mrazek got hurt in game two of the second round against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/islanders\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Islanders<\/a>. He would go 3-2 with a 2.01 goals-against-average and .930 save percentage in five starts.<\/p>\n<p>McElhinney also has added four career assists.<\/p>\n<h1>Curtis McElhinney Coming off a Career Year<\/h1>\n<p>McElhinney had a solid year for the Canes splitting time with Petr Mrazek in the Canes net this season. His 20 wins were a career high for him as he had the most playing time in his career this season for Carolina. He also proved to be an asset in the playoffs when Mrazek went down with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to next season McElhinney should once again find himself in a back-up role with his new club. There is no doubt that he showed off that he can be a reliable back-up for his team and should about the same playing time he saw this season. The Lightning are expected to move on from Louis Domingue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, The Tampa Bay Lightning have agreed to sign free agent goaltender Curtis McElhinney to a two-year contract worth $2.6 million ($1.3 million AAV). Avec Curtis McElhinney qui va se joindre au @TBLightning Louis Domingue pourrait \u00eatre \u00e9chang\u00e9. #tvasports \u2014 Renaud Lavoie (@renlavoietva) July 1, 2019 We have signed Curtis McElhinney to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":46508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[34,9],"tags":[1265,38,955,42],"class_list":["post-47345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-lightning","tag-curtis-mcelhinney","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-news","tag-tampa-bay-lightning"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47345","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\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}