{"id":47845,"date":"2019-09-06T13:38:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=47845"},"modified":"2019-09-06T13:52:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:52:01","slug":"jake-gardiner-signs-contract-with-carolina-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/09\/06\/jake-gardiner-signs-contract-with-carolina-hurricanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Gardiner Signs Contract With Carolina Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/hurricanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> have confirmed that free agent defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gardija01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Jake Gardiner<\/strong><\/a> has signed a four-year contract worth $16 million, or $4.05 million per season. This contract carries him through the 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SIGNING ALERT: Carolina Hurricanes sign D Jake Gardiner to a four-year, $16.2 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>Follow all the deals on our FA Tracker: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XI4JdOHo1j\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/XI4JdOHo1j<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TSNHockey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TSNHockey<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rAV1WhULfc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/rAV1WhULfc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN Hockey (@TSNHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNHockey\/status\/1170025906129313793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jake Gardiner Signs With the Carolina Hurricanes<\/h2>\n<p>Over his eight-year NHL career,\u00a0Gardiner\u00a0has played exclusively for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>. He has put up 45\u00a0goals and 200\u00a0assists for 245\u00a0career points in 551\u00a0career games. He was originally drafted in the 1st round, 17th\u00a0overall of the 2008\u00a0NHL draft by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/ducks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he scored three goals and 27 assists for 30 points. He also added 26 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 52.2 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of 1.9%.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Gardiner is an offensive defenceman, first and foremost. This team is getting a dynamic scoring asset on their back end. He&#8217;s well-sized and still has good skating ability. Gardiner likes to be aggressive and looks to create a scoring play from the back end every chance he has.<\/p>\n<p>But while Toronto media may be known for being overwhelmingly critical, their <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/02\/01\/toronto-maple-leafs-jake-gardiner\/\" target=\"_self\">criticisms<\/a> of him have some foundation. His egregious defensive mistakes are not a figment of your imagination by any stretch. He tends to be a methodical player, so he can get distracted trying to make the perfect play and end up contributing to a goal against. When he&#8217;s on his game, he&#8217;s attentive and focused. The moment he loses that focus, he becomes a liability. The goal for this team is to get him to that constantly-focused level.<\/p>\n<p>Gardiner is in his prime right now at age 28 and should be at his production level for at least three or four more years. With Gardiner, you should be expecting anywhere from 35-50 points, an impactful offensive boost from the defence corps. However, he dealt with injury issues this season, ones that hopefully don&#8217;t flame up and make this deal look like a bust.<br \/>\n<a id=\"Sd1ewjdNQnNNd1r2xjI8Nw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1144383234\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Sd1ewjdNQnNNd1r2xjI8Nw',sig:'eL-bbPY1qCkLNKs3GmKsBYuO33pfhlkTT6LJDKIodSo=',w:'594px',h:'423px',items:'1144383234',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Hurricanes have confirmed that free agent defenceman Jake Gardiner has signed a four-year contract worth $16 million, or $4.05 million per season. This contract carries him through the 2022-23 season. SIGNING ALERT: Carolina Hurricanes sign D Jake Gardiner to a four-year, $16.2 million contract. Follow all the deals on our FA Tracker: https:\/\/t.co\/XI4JdOHo1j [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3006,"featured_media":55718,"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":[34,10,18],"tags":[136,37,611,38,662],"class_list":["post-47845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-hurricanes","category-leafs","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-hockey","tag-jake-gardiner","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-free-agency"],"modified_by":"William Grigsby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47845","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\/3006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}