{"id":55706,"date":"2019-09-06T09:55:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=55706"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:31:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:31:47","slug":"vegas-golden-knights-sign-jimmy-schuldt-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/09\/06\/vegas-golden-knights-sign-jimmy-schuldt-to-one-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Golden Knights Sign Jimmy Schuldt to One-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/knights\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> have signed restricted free agent defenceman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/schulja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jimmy Schuldt<\/a><\/strong> to a one-year contract worth $850,000 for the season. This contract carries him through the 2019-20 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s official, the Golden Knights have signed Jimmy Schuldt to a 1-year, one-way contract worth $850,000. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VegasBorn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#VegasBorn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jesse Granger (@JesseGranger_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JesseGranger_\/status\/1169692222863769600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jimmy Schuldt Signs With Vegas<\/h2>\n<p>The former St. Cloud State University product provided an assist in his only NHL game of his career. He signed with the club on April and made his NHL debut three nights later. His possession numbers were 51.4 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of -12.5 in that one game.<\/p>\n<p>The defenceman went undrafted out college and signed with Vegas after his college career ended.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old played in 39 games for the Huskies in the NCAA last season. He scored 10 goals and 25 assists for 35 points. The Minnetonka, Minn. native played in 156 consecutive games for St. Cloud State and was a captain for three years. Schuldt earned NCHC Conference player of the year and defenceman of the year honors for the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/goldenknights\/news\/vegas-golden-knights-sign-defenseman-jimmy-schuldt-to-a-one-year-contract\/c-308901766?tcid=tw_news_content_id\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recorded 118 points<\/a> (38 G, 80) for the Huskies, which ranks first among defensemen in school history. Schuldt was named a Hobey Baker Award Finalist during the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons. He was the only repeat Hobey Baker top 10 finalist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the organization I want to be a part of,\u201d Schuldt <a href=\"https:\/\/lasvegassun.com\/news\/2019\/sep\/05\/golden-knights-sign-schuldt-to-1-year-850000-contr\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said to the Las Vegas Sun<\/a>. \u201cThe people here are the best in the league in my eyes, and I\u2019m just excited for the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>Schuldt was one of the best defencemen in the collegiate ranks and netted an assist in his only game of the season. He&#8217;s a solid scorer from the blueline and a good low-cost option for the time being for the Knights, who are up against the cap.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll be competing with <strong>Nicolas Hague, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/whiteza01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zach Whitecloud<\/a>, Jake Bischoff<\/strong> and others for a spot as the team heads to Anaheim, Calif., for the Rookie Faceoff.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/09\/jimmy-schuldt-of-the-vegas-golden-knights-looks-on-during-the-second-picture-id1140906021.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA &#8211; APRIL 06: Jimmy Schuldt #4 of the Vegas Golden Knights looks on during the second period against the Los Angeles Kings at Staples Center on April 06, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Yong Teck Lim\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vegas Golden Knights have signed restricted free agent defenceman Jimmy Schuldt to a one-year contract worth $850,000 for the season. This contract carries him through the 2019-20 season. It\u2019s official, the Golden Knights have signed Jimmy Schuldt to a 1-year, one-way contract worth $850,000. #VegasBorn &mdash; Jesse Granger (@JesseGranger_) September 5, 2019 Jimmy Schuldt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":55708,"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":[807,34],"tags":[5738,1383,2569,955,1543,961,3093],"class_list":["post-55706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vegas-golden-knights","category-news","tag-hockey-news","tag-jimmy-schuldt","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-st-cloud-state-huskies","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-zach-whitecloud"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55706","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=55706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}