{"id":89310,"date":"2020-10-15T16:07:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T20:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=89310"},"modified":"2020-10-30T15:47:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T19:47:13","slug":"new-york-rangers-re-sign-goaltender-alexandar-georgiev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/10\/15\/new-york-rangers-re-sign-goaltender-alexandar-georgiev\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Rangers Re-Sign Goaltender Alexandar Georgiev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/rangers\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Rangers<\/a> have signed restricted free agent goaltender <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/georgal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexandar Georgiev<\/a><\/strong> to a 2-year contract worth $4.85 million, or $2.425 million per season. This contract carries him through the 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NY <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rangers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Rangers<\/a> have signed G Alex Georgiev <br \/>2 year \/ $2,425,000 deal<\/p>\n<p>2020-21: $2,200,000<br \/>2021-22: $2,650,000<\/p>\n<p>Georgiev had filed for arbitration and was scheduled to go before an arbitrator on Oct 31.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l6IITZSoI6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/l6IITZSoI6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CapFriendly (@CapFriendly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CapFriendly\/status\/1316824882349592576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Alexandar Georgiev Re-Signs With the New York Rangers<\/h2>\n<p>The Rangers keep their strong backup goaltender. Over his 3-year NHL career, Georgiev has played exclusively for the New York Rangers. He has put up a 35-31-7 career record in 77 career appearances with 71 career starts. He also has a 3.00 goals-against average, 0.913 save percentage, and 4 shutouts. Georgiev has yet to record a game in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Georgiev played in 34 games with 32 starts for the New York Rangers. He put up a 17-14-2 record with a 3.04 goals-against average and 0.910 save percentage and 2 shutouts. Georgiev did not get a start in the New York Rangers 2019-20 play-in round, losing the position to fellow Rangers goaltenders <strong>Igor <\/strong><strong>Shesterkin<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lundqhe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henrik Lundqvist<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>The Rangers solidify their goaltending for the next two seasons, committing to a Georgiev and Shesterkin duo after the buyout of longtime starter Henrik Lundqvist. Shesterkin began to assert himself as the team&#8217;s current and future starter after being called up from the AHL. It seems like moving forward Georgiev will be either the backup or the 1B goaltender to Shesterkin.<\/p>\n<p>Georgiev has had respectable results as the Rangers backup for the past few seasons. With the ability to steal a hockey game, Georgiev has proven his ability in the NHL. At just 24 years old, Georgiev is still young enough to continue growing into a stronger goaltender with the ability to become a starter someday. While he isn&#8217;t seen as the future of goaltending on the Rangers, he still can continue to develop as the years go on.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"B2nKN9eZQZl1GlvlzKSUgg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1195142763\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" 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:'B2nKN9eZQZl1GlvlzKSUgg',sig:'xWH8JOU7cEdvMWmgt7U8N9r7oHWqKtlPFtianczhEcQ=',w:'594px',h:'403px',items:'1195142763',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 New York Rangers have signed restricted free agent goaltender Alexandar Georgiev to a 2-year contract worth $4.85 million, or $2.425 million per season. This contract carries him through the 2021-22 season. NY #Rangers have signed G Alex Georgiev 2 year \/ $2,425,000 deal 2020-21: $2,200,0002021-22: $2,650,000 Georgiev had filed for arbitration and was scheduled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2399,"featured_media":89323,"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":[4547,14,34,4548],"tags":[3758,372,37,4035,48,38],"class_list":["post-89310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-rangers","category-news","category-nhl","tag-alexandar-georgiev","tag-henrik-lundqvist","tag-hockey","tag-igor-shesterkin","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl"],"modified_by":"William Grigsby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89310","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=89310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}