{"id":69818,"date":"2020-02-24T13:52:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T18:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=69818"},"modified":"2020-02-24T13:55:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T18:55:36","slug":"new-york-islanders-sign-jean-gabriel-pageau-to-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/02\/24\/new-york-islanders-sign-jean-gabriel-pageau-to-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Islanders Sign Jean Gabriel Pageau To Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2020\/02\/24\/jean-gabriel-pageau-shipped-out-ottawa-senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">After trading for<\/a> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pageaje01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jean-Gabriel Pageau<\/a><\/strong> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ottawa Senators<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/islanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Islanders<\/a> re-signed the forward to a new six-year contract. The contract is worth $30 million with an AAV of $5 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Isles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Isles<\/a> Transaction: New York Islanders center Jean-Gabriel Pageau has agreed to a six-year contract extension with the club. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wntk9WvOqm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/wntk9WvOqm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYIslanders\/status\/1232014455661301765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Islanders Sign Pageau To An Extension<\/h2>\n<p>The Islanders were in need of scoring and Jean-Gabriel Pageau brings that to Long Island. General manager Lou Lamoriello has never been a fan of signing players to long-term contracts. However, the Islanders have a good young team they want to build around similar to the Senators. Pageau&#8217;s current deal carries a $3.1 million cap hit for the remainder of the season. The Islanders had some issues keeping players around long-term, but recently players want to stay. Captain <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/leean01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anders Lee<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/07\/01\/anders-lee-signs-with-new-york-islanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed a new seven-year deal<\/a> in the summer of 2019. Not to mention the Islanders signed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nelsobr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock Nelson<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/05\/23\/brock-nelson-re-signs-with-islanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to a seven-year contract<\/a> in May of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Originally drafted by the Senators in the 4th round, 96th overall in the 2011 NHL Draft. The Islanders will be the second team he will ever play for. This season with the Senators, Pageau has recorded 40 points (24 goals and 16 assists) in 60 games. In 428 career games, he has 182 points (87 goals and 95 assists).<\/p>\n<h3>What Lies Ahead<\/h3>\n<p>The Islanders are lucky to have three young players like Pageau, Nelson, and Lee signed to long-term deals. Not to mention the team has <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/eberljo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Eberle<\/a><\/strong> locked up on a long-term deal as well. With these players locked up, the next priority for the Islanders will be <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/barzama01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mathew Barzal<\/a><\/strong>. Since being drafted by the Islanders, Barzal has picked up his game since <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tavarjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Tavares<\/a><\/strong> left for Toronto. Pageau&#8217;s salary cap hit is reasonable enough for the Islanders to get Barzal signed at a reasonable number as well.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Islanders will have a nice young nucleus on offence to go with a solid defence and goaltending in Barry Trotz&#8217;s system.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After trading for Jean-Gabriel Pageau from the Ottawa Senators, the New York Islanders re-signed the forward to a new six-year contract. The contract is worth $30 million with an AAV of $5 million. #Isles Transaction: New York Islanders center Jean-Gabriel Pageau has agreed to a six-year contract extension with the club. https:\/\/t.co\/wntk9WvOqm \u2014 New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3130,"featured_media":69848,"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":[17,34],"tags":[996,2701,1766,703,491,955],"class_list":["post-69818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islanders","category-news","tag-anders-lee","tag-brock-nelson","tag-jean-gabriel-pageau","tag-mathew-barzal","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Jim Biringer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69818","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\/3130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}