{"id":397003,"date":"2023-02-05T16:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T21:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=397003"},"modified":"2023-02-05T16:23:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T21:23:15","slug":"islanders-agree-to-8-year-extension-with-horvat","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/islanders-agree-to-8-year-extension-with-horvat\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders agree to 8-year extension with Horvat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bo Horvat has agreed an eight-year contract extension with the New York Islanders, six days after his acquisition in a trade from the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bo Horvat is on The Island. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bzwbERm9X5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bzwbERm9X5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYIslanders\/status\/1622343928979640320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Horvat&#8217;s contract carries an $8.5 million average annual value against the salary cap.<\/p>\n<p>He was in the final season of a six-year contract that carried a cap hit of $5.5 million and was scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Canadian was acquired by the Islanders on Jan. 31 for a conditional first-round draft pick in 2023, forward Anthony Beauviller and prospect Aatu Raty.<\/p>\n<p>Horvat, who served as the Canucks&#8217; captain from 2019, will have a new contract with the Islanders before he has technically played as a member of the team.<\/p>\n<p>His final regular-season game was Vancouver&#8217;s victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Jan. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bo Horvat has agreed an eight-year contract extension with the New York Islanders, six days after his acquisition in a trade from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":397004,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17279,17066,16850],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"His contract carries an $8.5 million average annual value against the salary cap","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/397003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/397003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397003"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=397003"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=397003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}