{"id":53003,"date":"2019-07-31T11:55:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T15:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=53003"},"modified":"2019-07-31T11:55:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T15:55:09","slug":"avalanche-extend-samuel-girard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/07\/31\/avalanche-extend-samuel-girard\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche Extend Defenceman Samuel Girard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Avalanche have extended defenceman\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/girarsa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Samuel Girard<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to a 7-year contract worth $35 million, or $5 million per season. This contract carries him through the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SEVEN YEARS FOR SAM GIRARD!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoAvsGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GoAvsGo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rnp8xXqi4C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/rnp8xXqi4C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Avalanche\/status\/1156583666920935428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 31, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Samuel Girard Signs Extension With the Colorado Avalanche<\/h2>\n<p>Over his 2-year NHL career,\u00a0Samuel Girard has played for the Nashville Predators\u00a0and the Avalanche. He has put up 8\u00a0goals and 42\u00a0assists for 50\u00a0career points in 155\u00a0career games. He was originally drafted in the\u00a02nd round,\u00a047th\u00a0overall of the\u00a02016\u00a0NHL draft by the Predators.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he scored 4 goals and 23 assists for 27 points. He also added 6 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 48.9 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of -1.5.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/colorado-avalanche-sign-restricted-free-agent-samuel-girard-to-a-seven-year-contract-1.1344741\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cSamuel has been one of our best all-around defensemen since joining the Avalanche,&#8221;<\/a> general manager <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sakicjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Sakic<\/a> said in a team release. \u201cHe plays important minutes and is someone our coaches count on to play against other teams\u2019 top lines.\u00a0 He has an exceptional ability to skate and move the puck.\u00a0 As a member of our core, we felt it was important to sign him to a long-term deal and we are excited to announce this extension.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Samuel Girard is still a young, talented defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche. Locking him up long term is beneficial for the team. The 21-year-old has proven he can be an elite puck mover at such a young age and is primed for a breakout season. Likely set to play with\u00a0<strong>Cale Makar<\/strong> next year for the Avalanche, they have a plethora of youth on the blue line and will be dominant at that position for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>With players like Makar and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/04\/03\/bowen-byram-scouting-report\/\" target=\"_self\">Bowen Byram in the system<\/a>, the Avs have the rest of their young defence on their entry-level contracts, allowing them to sign Girard long term. Girard is a core piece of the team now, and for an additional seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"-UFWYLxaTXJom8rHLqP15A\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1147492390\" 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:'-UFWYLxaTXJom8rHLqP15A',sig:'2tHhKhlpypNWecEBJnKaf3iv87wiPODHmSt5cFijpk4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1147492390',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 Colorado Avalanche have extended defenceman\u00a0Samuel Girard\u00a0to a 7-year contract worth $35 million, or $5 million per season. This contract carries him through the 2026-27 season. SEVEN YEARS FOR SAM GIRARD!#GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com\/rnp8xXqi4C &mdash; Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) July 31, 2019 Samuel Girard Signs Extension With the Colorado Avalanche Over his 2-year NHL career,\u00a0Samuel Girard has played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2399,"featured_media":53009,"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":[28,34],"tags":[3509,1515,36,37,2001,38,2671],"class_list":["post-53003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avalanche","category-news","tag-bowen-byram","tag-cale-makar","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-hockey","tag-joe-sakic","tag-nhl","tag-samuel-girard"],"modified_by":"Oscar Elieff","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53003","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\/2399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}