{"id":50783,"date":"2019-07-02T14:26:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T18:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=50783"},"modified":"2019-07-02T15:09:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T19:09:26","slug":"arizona-coyotes-sign-lawson-crouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/07\/02\/arizona-coyotes-sign-lawson-crouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Coyotes Sign Lawson Crouse to Three-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/coyotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arizona Coyotes<\/a> signed free agent\u00a0forward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/crousla01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Lawson Crouse<\/strong><\/a> to a three-year contract. The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capfriendly.com\/players\/lawson-crouse\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deal will be for $4.6 million<\/a>. Crouse is coming off of his three-year entry level contract where he had a $894,167 cap hit. This contract carries him through the\u00a02020-21 season. The team had only $1.7 million of cap space after acquiring both <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/06\/25\/colorado-avalanche-carl-soderberg-traded-to-arizona-coyotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Carl Soderberg<\/strong><\/a> ($4.75M) from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/06\/25\/colorado-avalanche-carl-soderberg-traded-to-arizona-coyotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/06\/30\/phil-kessel-is-now-a-member-of-the-arizona-coyotes\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Phil Kessel<\/strong><\/a> ($6.8M) from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/penguins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pittsburgh Penguins\u00a0<\/a>last week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It&#8217;s official. 3 more years of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LawCrouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@LawCrouse<\/a>. ?<\/p>\n<p>Details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dUxf2f3uVU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/dUxf2f3uVU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7YYgFBAqlV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/7YYgFBAqlV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arizona Coyotes (@ArizonaCoyotes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArizonaCoyotes\/status\/1146101103005581314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Lawson Crouse Signs With the Arizona Coyotes<\/h1>\n<p>Over his three-year NHL career Crouse has played for the Arizona Coyotes. He has put up 17 goals and 21 assists for 38 career points in 164 career games. He was originally drafted in the first\u00a0round, 11th overall of the 2015 NHL draft by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/panthers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florida Panthers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he scored 11 goals and\u00a014 assists for\u00a025 points. He also added a team leading 67 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were\u00a044.8 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of -5.3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very pleased to sign Lawson to a multi-year contract,&#8221; said general manager<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/coyotes\/news\/coyotes-sign-crouse-to-three-year-contract\/c-308168868\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong> John Chayka<\/strong><\/a>. <em>&#8220;He had a very good season last year and really established himself as an NHL power forward. We look forward to having him in our lineup.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>The 6&#8217;4&#8243;, 220-pound Crouse is a physical player who will be on the ice to protect players like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kellecl01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Clayton Keller<\/strong><\/a> and newly acquired Phil Kessel. Crouse knows the physical end of the game but has learned how to be a valuable fourth-line contributor as well. He has become more of a presence in front of the opposing team&#8217;s net to help with screening the goalie as well as grabbing rebounds and deflections.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona Coyotes needed to sign Crouse and they did. Now they may want to add a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/archijo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Josh Archibald<\/strong><\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/cousini01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Nick Cousins<\/strong><\/a> to go along with Crouse on that fourth line. Both Archibald and Cousins were effective in that role. They both did not however receive a qualifying offer from the team. They still may, but the team will need to add <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capfriendly.com\/players\/marian-hossa\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Marion Hossa<\/strong>&#8216;s $5.275M contract<\/a> to the long-team injured reserve list to acquire some additional cap space.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"li7STCwOSP9lbAGH3gwKWQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1134378320\" 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:'li7STCwOSP9lbAGH3gwKWQ',sig:'ukZwZlXbQvH6CDDiqFttznsW79gOpKO1jEeCF43yyjM=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1134378320',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 Arizona Coyotes signed free agent\u00a0forward Lawson Crouse to a three-year contract. The new deal will be for $4.6 million. Crouse is coming off of his three-year entry level contract where he had a $894,167 cap hit. This contract carries him through the\u00a02020-21 season. 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