{"id":437334,"date":"2023-06-05T13:06:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T17:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437334"},"modified":"2023-06-05T13:06:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T17:06:24","slug":"montreal-signs-caufield-to-8-season-extension","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/montreal-signs-caufield-to-8-season-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal signs Caufield to 8-season extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The franchise reported today that the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/montreal-canadiens\/\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> had inked restricted free agent Cole Caufield to an 8-campaign, almost 63 million dollars extension.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Canadiens have agreed to terms on an eight-year contract extension (2023-24 to 2030-31) with forward Cole Caufield.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoHabsGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GoHabsGo<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BZ1gBIzndL\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/BZ1gBIzndL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/1665705549474742272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cole will earn almost 8 million dollars annually, and his contract will expire after the 2030-31 season. The forward is now the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> highest-paid player in the Canadian franchise; only captain Nick Suzuki has a higher salary who makes a little more than that.<\/p>\n<p>Cole (22) played only 46 matches last campaign after shoulder surgery at the beginning of the year but still finished with 26 goals and 36 points for the Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p>Habs drafted him 15<sup>th<\/sup> overall in 2019, and he has 53 goals and 84 points in the 123 matches he played for the franchise in the NHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The franchise reported today that the Montreal Canadiens had inked restricted free agent Cole Caufield to an 8-campaign, almost 63 million dollars extension. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":437335,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17025,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[19726,17981,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The forward will remain with the franchise.","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\/437334"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437334"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437334"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}