{"id":74244,"date":"2020-05-01T17:46:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T21:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=74244"},"modified":"2020-05-01T17:46:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T21:46:47","slug":"jaroslav-halak-signs-extension-boston-bruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/05\/01\/jaroslav-halak-signs-extension-boston-bruins\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaroslav Halak Signs Extension with Boston Bruins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/bruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Bruins<\/a> signed goaltender <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/halakja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jaroslav Halak<\/a> <\/strong>to a one-year contract extension worth $2.25 million. The contract only carries him through the end of next season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLBruins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NHLBruins<\/a> sign Jaroslav Halak to a one-year contract extension with a cap hit of $2.25 million: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jiPzGA0HQ9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/jiPzGA0HQ9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3wixaUqowO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/3wixaUqowO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLBruins\/status\/1256331237100158978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jaroslav Halak Signs Extension with Boston<\/h2>\n<p>Over his 14-year NHL career, Halak\u00a0has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blues\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Louis Blues<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/capitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Capitals<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/islanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Islanders<\/a> in addition to the Bruins. He has put up a 272-167-58 career record in 520 career appearances. He also has a 2.48 goals-against average, .916 save percentage, and 50 shutouts. Halak has a career 13-15 record in 30 career Stanley Cup Playoff games, with a 2.39 goals-against average, .924 save percentage, and no shutouts.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, Halak played in 31 games with 29 starts for the Bruins. He put up an 18-6-6 record with a 2.39 goals-against average and .919 save percentage and three shutouts. His best season was in 2011-12 for the Blues, when he put up a 26-12-7 record with a 1.97 goals-against average, .926 save percentage and six shutouts.<\/p>\n<p>He also has added 12 career assists.<\/p>\n<p>Halak&#8217;s deal is a 35+ contract, which makes him eligible for performance bonuses. If Halak plays 10 games next season, he&#8217;ll receive a games-played bonus of $1.25 million.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s another year of solid goaltending in Beantown next season. Jaroslav Halak reprises his role as one of the better backups in the league to starter\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rasktu01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tuukka Rask<\/a><\/strong>. The Bruins, who are already on track to win the Presidents&#8217; Trophy if the season resumes, are incredibly lucky to retain Halak&#8217;s services at this price.<\/p>\n<p>Halak has a history of performing well in smaller sample sizes, and he&#8217;s found a role in which he truly excels in Boston. The Bruins and their fans hope age doesn&#8217;t catch up to him and he can reclaim his stellar play.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"fUhQMsRiSyJ6D5JFTQUTFw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1208411299\" 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:'fUhQMsRiSyJ6D5JFTQUTFw',sig:'I3Q3Io7rNFjUp6IsICksvbxUVjVbZDJx5c1wkwx6tjA=',w:'594px',h:'392px',items:'1208411299',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Bruins signed goaltender Jaroslav Halak to a one-year contract extension worth $2.25 million. The contract only carries him through the end of next season. #NHLBruins sign Jaroslav Halak to a one-year contract extension with a cap hit of $2.25 million: https:\/\/t.co\/jiPzGA0HQ9 pic.twitter.com\/3wixaUqowO \u2014 Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) May 1, 2020 Jaroslav Halak Signs Extension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3006,"featured_media":74245,"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":[5,4547,34,4548],"tags":[90,606,37,838,38],"class_list":["post-74244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bruins","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-boston-bruins","tag-eastern-conference","tag-hockey","tag-jaroslav-halak","tag-nhl"],"modified_by":"Josh Erickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74244","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\/3006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}