{"id":437999,"date":"2023-06-16T18:03:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T22:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437999"},"modified":"2023-06-16T18:03:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T22:03:16","slug":"vancouver-to-buy-out-oliver-larsson","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/vancouver-to-buy-out-oliver-larsson\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver to buy out Oliver Larsson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/vancouver-canucks\/\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> decided to buy out the deal of Oliver Ekman-Larsson; as a result, the defenceman would become an unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Canucks have bought out Oliver Ekman-Larsson will owe him $19.5 million over the next 8 years \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GzMcQFim8L\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/GzMcQFim8L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1669805386415603712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ekman-Larsson (31) was on the ice in 54 matches in the last campaign, as he scored 2 goals and gave 20 assists.<\/p>\n<p>He has 4 more seasons remaining on an 8-year, 66 million dollar deal as he gets paid more than 8 million dollars annually. With the buyout, part of his salary will be vs. the Canucks\u2019 cap through the 2028-29 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver joined the Canadian team from the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/arizona-coyotes\/\">Arizona Coyotes<\/a> before the 2021-22 campaign began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Canucks decided to buy out the deal of Oliver Ekman-Larsson; as a result, the defenceman would become an unrestricted free agent. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438000,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16850],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[19903,19902],"acf":{"announce":"Canucks will buy out the defenceman contract.","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\/437999"}],"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=437999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437999"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437999"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}