{"id":56478,"date":"2019-09-14T14:05:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T18:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=56478"},"modified":"2019-09-14T14:06:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T18:06:54","slug":"minnesota-wild-sign-jared-spurgeon-to-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/09\/14\/minnesota-wild-sign-jared-spurgeon-to-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild Sign Jared Spurgeon to Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> have extended defenceman\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/spurgja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jared Spurgeon<\/a><\/strong> to a 7-year contract worth $53.025 million, or $7.575 million per season. This contract carries him through the 2026-27 season. The AAV of 7.575 is the biggest cap hit the Wild have ever signed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MNWild?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MNWild<\/a> re-signs defenseman Jared Spurgeon on a 7-year, $53,025,000 million contract extension. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0 More details \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/20DaN1ya36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/20DaN1ya36<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j5oSf3oCcO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/j5oSf3oCcO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mnwild\/status\/1172925648517632000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Minnesota Wild Extend Jared Spurgeon<\/h2>\n<p>Over his 9-year NHL career, Jared Spurgeon has played exclusively for the Minnesota Wild. He has put up 70 goals and 178 assists for 248 career points in 591 career games. He was originally drafted in the 6th round, 156th overall of the 2008 NHL draft by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/islanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Islanders<\/a>, but the Wild signed him as a free agent after the Islanders cut him.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he scored 14 goals and 29 assists for 43 points. He also added 20 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 51.5 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of 1.0.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/1210827\/2019\/09\/14\/not-going-anywhere-wild-jared-spurgeon-agree-to-7-year-contract-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Guerin said to The Athletic<\/a> \u201cThese are the type of people we want to play for the Minnesota Wild. Character is huge to me, and this guy epitomizes that and you just don\u2019t let guys like that go.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>The Wild have locked up Spurgeon for the next eight years (the last year of his current contract and the next seven of his extension). He is a core part of their defence and is an excellent player. Along with\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/suterry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Suter<\/a><\/strong> and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dumbama01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mathew Dumba<\/a><\/strong>, the Wild have a good defensive core locked up for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>Spurgeon has been an integral part of this Wild team and has been an excellent defenceman for his entire tenure with the Wild. He is one of their veteran players and has a presence that greatly benefits his team every time he steps on the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"7f63Hm-bTzVz0aSXWpGfpQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1127426742\" 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:'7f63Hm-bTzVz0aSXWpGfpQ',sig:'G-RwxN5cOPymdz-uje1KMvenljI_VQdd8EW1s_JNn_s=',w:'594px',h:'397px',items:'1127426742',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 Minnesota Wild have extended defenceman\u00a0Jared Spurgeon to a 7-year contract worth $53.025 million, or $7.575 million per season. This contract carries him through the 2026-27 season. The AAV of 7.575 is the biggest cap hit the Wild have ever signed. NEWS: #MNWild re-signs defenseman Jared Spurgeon on a 7-year, $53,025,000 million contract extension. \ud83d\udcf0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2399,"featured_media":56481,"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":[30,34],"tags":[37,1267,2722,221,38,240],"class_list":["post-56478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wild","category-news","tag-hockey","tag-jared-spurgeon","tag-matt-dumba","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-ryan-suter"],"modified_by":"Oscar Elieff","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56478","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=56478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}