{"id":438788,"date":"2023-06-29T09:12:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T13:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438788"},"modified":"2023-06-29T09:12:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T13:12:06","slug":"meier-signs-8-year-70-4-million-dollar-extension-with-devils","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/meier-signs-8-year-70-4-million-dollar-extension-with-devils\/","title":{"rendered":"Meier signs 8-year, 70.4 million dollar extension with Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Jersey Devils will keep another very important player from the past year\u2019s franchise, reinking forward Timo Meier to an 8-season, 70.4 million dollars deal that through the 2030-31 National Hockey League campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">IT&#8217;S T(IMO)-SHIRT TIME \ud83d\ude08<\/p>\n<p>Timo Meier has signed an eight-year contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NJDevils?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NJDevils<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/43DHDeIAnG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/43DHDeIAnG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/1674109183539413016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>GM Tom Fitzgerald shared the restricted free agent deal today, as the contract was signed hours before the 2023 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Meier will receive almost 9 million dollars annually, with the contract starting at 12 million dollars this upcoming campaign and finishing with 7.2 million dollars in the last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to praise the players, our core players who continue to pull us ahead and show the rest of the NHL that we have championship caliber team that soon will compete for the Stanley Cup,\u201d the general manager claimed. \u201cSo again, I risked everything, and I risked on what we can offer players, and we triumphed.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fresh off a new contract extension, why don&#8217;t we remind <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NJDevils?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NJDevils<\/a> fans what they should get used to seeing from Timo Meier? \ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cok4Wdwm6F\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Cok4Wdwm6F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/1674119471282245675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Jersey Devils will keep another very important player from the past year\u2019s franchise, reinking forward Timo Meier to an 8-season, 70.4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438789,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17062,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[17979,18824,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Timo will remain a New Jersey player.","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\/438788"}],"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=438788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438788"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438788"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}