{"id":89723,"date":"2020-12-17T17:51:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=89723"},"modified":"2020-12-17T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T23:04:06","slug":"anthony-duclair-inks-deal-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/12\/17\/anthony-duclair-inks-deal-panthers\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Duclair Inks a Deal With Florida Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/duclaan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Anthony Duclair<\/strong><\/a> has reportedly secured a job for 2020-21. He rejected a qualifying offer before free agency began, but he has a new home for the coming season. The contract is for one year at $1.7 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FlaPanthers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FlaPanthers<\/a> Territory, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aduclair10?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@aduclair10<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Official: Duclair has agreed to terms\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lglXiPyGAt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/lglXiPyGAt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OcPp0EXdUb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/OcPp0EXdUb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlaPanthers\/status\/1339707270276521985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Anthony Duclair Signs With Florida Panthers<\/h2>\n<p>Duclair was a solid contributor on a bad <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/senators\/\" target=\"_self\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> team in 2019-20. He scored a career-best 23 goals and 40 points in 66 games. His average ice time was up almost 2:30 minutes more per game compared to his career average, and he took advantage of the increased opportunities. Duclair still didn&#8217;t have great possession numbers with just a 47.5 Corsi For, but that might turn around on his new squad.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/rangers\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Rangers<\/a> originally drafted Duclair in the third round of the 2013 Draft. He debuted in 2014-15 but didn&#8217;t get regular playing time until the following season after a trade to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/coyotes\/\" target=\"_self\">Arizona Coyotes<\/a>. 2015-16 gave fans the first glimpse of what he could do. That was the season in which the 5&#8242;-11&#8243; wing scored 20 goals and 44 points in 81 games. That was his highest output until last season with Ottawa. His numbers don&#8217;t jump off of the page, but he has never stayed on a team for more than two full seasons. A lack of a consistent home could be a huge factor in his lack of production.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Duclair should be given a chance at a regular middle-six role. His scoring rate was over 0.60 per game over the course of 87 games with Ottawa, which is very good. Only the league&#8217;s elite talent exceeds that rate consistently. He is still just 25-years-old now with only 353 games in six seasons. There is no reason that Duclair can&#8217;t be an above-average scoring option in the right system. He could turn into an excellent bargain with this new contract.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"VhWqIXn-QCh1CfmRyBxlgw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1181844399\" 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:'VhWqIXn-QCh1CfmRyBxlgw',sig:'se4qEiA_vs7g73b56de4K5SwV-r5CU8OnUriGb-yXuY=',w:'594px',h:'417px',items:'1181844399',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>Forward Anthony Duclair has reportedly secured a job for 2020-21. He rejected a qualifying offer before free agency began, but he has a new home for the coming season. The contract is for one year at $1.7 million. Welcome to #FlaPanthers Territory, @aduclair10! Official: Duclair has agreed to terms\u00bb https:\/\/t.co\/lglXiPyGAt pic.twitter.com\/OcPp0EXdUb \u2014 Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":89766,"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":[4547,6,4548],"tags":[175,106,37,38],"class_list":["post-89723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-panthers","category-nhl","tag-anthony-duclair","tag-florida-panthers","tag-hockey","tag-nhl"],"modified_by":"Josh Erickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89723","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\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}