Rangers sign Alexis Lafrenière to 7-year contract extension

The New York Rangers person signed winger Alexis Lafrenière to a seven-year statement extension

The New York Rangers signed winger Alexis Lafrenière to a seven-year statement hold Friday.

The woody is worthy $52.15 million, according to a personification pinch knowledge of nan contract. The personification said to The Associated Press connected information of anonymity because position were not disclosed.

Lafrenière will count $7.45 cardinal against nan net headdress annually from erstwhile nan caller statement kicks successful adjacent NHL play done 2032.

The No. 1 prime successful nan 2020 draught group profession highs pinch 28 goals, 29 assists and 57 points past season. Lafrenière, 23, is disconnected to a point-a-game commencement to this one, arsenic well, pinch 7 successful seven.

He has 178 points successful 348 regular-season and playoff games for a squad that has made 2 trips to nan Eastern Conference last since he made his debut.

Lafrenière’s headdress deed is conscionable beneath nan $7.6 cardinal Montreal annually committed to 2022 apical prime Juraj Slafkovsky. New Jersey’s Jack Hughes, No. 1 successful 2019, is making $8 cardinal a twelvemonth done 2030 and Buffalo’s Rasmus Dahlin, who was atop nan draught successful ’21, $11 cardinal done 2032.

While Lafrenière would person been a restricted free supplier this summer, nan Rangers still person a awesome re-signing to return attraction of. Goaltender Igor Shesterkin is simply a pending unrestricted free supplier who, without a caller contract, could deed nan unfastened marketplace July 1.

Shesterkin could motion nan astir lucrative statement of a goalie successful nan 2 decades of nan net headdress era, surpassing nan 8 years and $84 cardinal Carey Price sewage from nan Canadiens successful 2017. Within nan past respective weeks, Dallas signed Jake Oettinger and Boston signed Jeremy Swayman to matching deals of $66 cardinal complete 8 years.

The Rangers sent guardant Matt Rempe to Hartford of nan American Hockey League connected Thursday night. Rempe played conscionable complete 11 minutes mixed successful 2 games and was a patient scratch successful nan others.

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