{"id":87037,"date":"2020-09-25T14:51:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T18:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=87037"},"modified":"2020-09-25T14:51:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T18:51:26","slug":"montreal-canadiens-extend-jeff-petry-for-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/09\/25\/montreal-canadiens-extend-jeff-petry-for-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens Extend Jeff Petry for Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_self\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> general manager <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bergema01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc Bergevin<\/a><\/strong> has announced that they have agreed to a four-year extension for defenceman <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/petryje01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeff Petry<\/a><\/strong>. The deal is worth $6.25 million and will run through the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Four more years for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/petryje01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeff Petry<\/a>!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoHabsGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GoHabsGo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/1309555490595241985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jeff Petry Signs Four-Year Contract Extension<\/h2>\n<p>The 32-year-old D-man had a pretty good season with 11 goals and 29 assists in 71 games. That was his third straight 40-point season. He also handed out 177 hits, which led the team. In his 10-year NHL career he has scored 69 goals and 184 assists totaling 253 points in 680 games. He also has averaged almost 23 minutes of ice time, showing he is a stable blueliner. His career Corsi For stands at 51.5, while his Relative Corsi is 1.0.<\/p>\n<p>The 6&#8242;-3&#8243;, 201 pound player hails from Ann Arbor, Michigan and was chosen in the second round, 45th overall by the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/oilers\/\" target=\"_self\"> Edmonton Oilers<\/a>. Petry joined the Canadiens in a 2015 trade deadline deal with the Oilers. Edmonton sent a second-round pick and a conditional fifth-round choice. It seems to be the trend to extend players beyond the 35-year mark and Petry has not shown any signs of slowing down. Still, it&#8217;s a marginal risk to sign a player turning 33-years-old about the time the new season may begin.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means Going Forward<\/h3>\n<p>The Canadiens needed to stabilize their blueline, so this is a good signing for them. They certainly had enough cap space with still over $10 million left to attempt to improve the team&#8217;s roster. Of course they still need to come to terms with forward <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/domima01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Domi<\/a><\/strong> ($3.15M) and defenceman <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/metevi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Mete<\/a>. <\/strong>Mete is coming off of his entry-level contract so he won&#8217;t be as expensive as Domi. It&#8217;s still unclear at this time if Domi will go to free agency or re-sign with the Habs.<\/p>\n<p>Inking Petry is a good sign that the team values his contributions and wants him to stay around. 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The deal is worth $6.25 million and will run through the 2024-25 season. BREAKING: Four more years for Jeff Petry!#GoHabsGo \u2014 Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) September 25, 2020 Jeff Petry Signs Four-Year Contract Extension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2959,"featured_media":87048,"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":[4547,7,34,4548],"tags":[269,264,174,152,481],"class_list":["post-87037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-canadiens","category-news","category-nhl","tag-jeff-petry","tag-marc-bergevin","tag-max-domi","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-victor-mete"],"modified_by":"William Grigsby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87037","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\/2959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}