{"id":52743,"date":"2019-07-29T09:51:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T13:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=52743"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:32:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:32:47","slug":"tampa-bay-lightning-extend-andrei-vasilevskiy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/07\/29\/tampa-bay-lightning-extend-andrei-vasilevskiy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning Extend Andrei Vasilevskiy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> have signed goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a><\/strong> to an eight-year contract extension worth $76 million, or $9.5 million per season. This contract carries him through the 2027-28 season. He’ll also make about $45 million in bonuses according to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1155828789143904256<\/p>\n

Andrei Vasilevskiy Signs With Tampa Bay<\/h2>\n

Vasilevskiy has only played for the Tampa Bay Lightning in his five-year NHL career. He has a record of 124-59-15 in 208 games. Vasilevskiy has a career goals against average of 2.55 and a .919 save percentage. The Tyumen, Russia native also has notched 18 shutouts in his career. Tampa Bay originally drafted in the first round, 19th overall of the 2012 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n

Last season he went 39-10-4 with a 2.40 goals against average and .925 save percentage. He also added six shutouts en route to winning his first career Vezina Trophy. The 25-year-old also appeared in his second career All-Star Game.<\/a><\/p>\n

He has represented Russia on the international level as he was named to the 2017 IIHF World Championship All-Star team. Vasilevskiy was also named the goaltender of the tournament<\/p>\n

What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n

Tampa Bay looks to have locked down their goalie of the future for a rate comparable to Carey Price<\/a><\/strong> and Sergei Bobrovsky<\/a><\/strong>. Vasilevskiy took a huge step forward over the last couple of seasons and was a key component in the Lightning winning the President’s Trophy.<\/p>\n

There are still concerns about trying to fit Brayden Point<\/a><\/strong> under the salary cap, but Tampa Bay will likely move some players to create some salary cap space. The Lightning still removed a potential in headache in having to deal with a new contract for their star netminder.<\/p>\n

Tampa once again finds a way to keep a key piece and the salary cap will likely rise in the coming season. The cap hit won’t seem so bad if the number keeps going up in the coming years.<\/p>\n

\"\"TAMPA, FL – NOVEMBER 10: Andrei Vasilevskiy #88 of the Tampa Bay Lightning warms up during a game against the Ottawa Senators at Amalie Arena on November 10, 2018 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy to an eight-year contract extension worth $76 million, or $9.5 million per season. This contract carries him through the 2027-28 season. He’ll also make about $45 million in bonuses according to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman. https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1155828789143904256 Andrei Vasilevskiy Signs With Tampa Bay Vasilevskiy has only played for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":38003,"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":[9,34],"tags":[809,2540,199,5738,2569,955,352,42],"class_list":["post-52743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lightning","category-news","tag-andrei-vasilevskiy","tag-brayden-point","tag-carey-price","tag-hockey-news","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-sergei-bobrovsky","tag-tampa-bay-lightning"],"modified_by":"William Grigsby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52743","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}