{"id":50076,"date":"2019-07-01T17:59:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T21:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=50076"},"modified":"2019-07-01T18:00:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T22:00:32","slug":"petr-mrazek-stays-with-carolina-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/07\/01\/petr-mrazek-stays-with-carolina-hurricanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Petr Mrazek Re-Signs with Carolina Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Hurricanes have signed free agent goaltender <strong><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><\/strong> to a two-year contract with a total cost of $6.25 million. This gives him a cap hit of $3.125 million each season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Carolina source confirms Petr Mrazek is returning to the Canes. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/signingseason?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#signingseason<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Shannon (@JShannonhl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JShannonhl\/status\/1145810237712211968?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><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> Signs With the Carolina Hurricanes<\/h1>\n<p>The Hurricanes keep their starting goaltender with this deal. Mrazek spent the first five years of career mostly as a back-up with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/red-wings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a>. In February 2018 he would be traded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/flyers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> for picks before signing with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/hurricanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> in July 2018. He has put up a 101-78-26 career record in 223 career appearances with 200 career starts. He also has a 2.61 goals against average, .911 save percentage, and 18 shutouts. Mrazek has a career 9-11 record in 22 career Stanley Cup Playoff games, with a 2.37 goals against average, .910 save percentage, and five shutouts.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Mrazek played in 40 games all of them being starts. He put up a 23-14-3 record with a 2.39 goals against average and .914 save percentage and four shutouts. In the playoffs he went 5-5 with a 2.73 goals against average, .894 save percentage and two shutouts. This his best year since the 2015-16 season where he went 27-16-6 with a 2.33 goals against, .921 save percentage and four shutouts.\u00a0He also has added three career assists.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future of Petr Mrazek<\/h2>\n<p>Mrazek had a solid season last year in his first year in Carolina. The goaltending duo between Mrazek and <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> was the driving force of the Hurricanes Stanley Cup Playoff run. He&#8217;s shown that he can be a reliable goaltender in net but the one issue is he hasn&#8217;t had a season where he&#8217;s started 50 or 60 games. One of the biggest things that set Mrazek apart from other goalies is his athleticism.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to next season it wouldn&#8217;t be a shock if Mrazek shared the duties in net. However, with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/07\/01\/report-curtis-mcelhinney-to-sign-with-tampa-bay-lightning\/\" target=\"_self\">McElhinney signing<\/a> with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>, this may not be very likely. Over the past few years, we have seen a lot more team relying on both of their goalies including the Islanders last year with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lehnero01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robin Lehner<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/greisth01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Greiss<\/a><\/strong>. Hopefully, Mrazek can pick up where he left off last season and put together another solid season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"oiK1lfywQP1STrk67dvbdA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1135405804\" 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:'oiK1lfywQP1STrk67dvbdA',sig:'s-O89vuHJ2Og-BPYYiK4yl50dU3zFW_N6c6NdKxQ_zs=',w:'594px',h:'487px',items:'1135405804',caption: true ,tld:'com',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 signed free agent goaltender Petr Mrazek to a two-year contract with a total cost of $6.25 million. This gives him a cap hit of $3.125 million each season. Carolina source confirms Petr Mrazek is returning to the Canes. #signingseason &mdash; John Shannon (@JShannonhl) July 1, 2019 Petr Mrazek Signs With the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":50213,"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],"tags":[136,37,38,955,619],"class_list":["post-50076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-hurricanes","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-news","tag-petr-mrazek"],"modified_by":"Gabriel Foley","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50076","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=50076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}