{"id":438801,"date":"2023-06-29T13:07:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438801"},"modified":"2023-06-29T13:07:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:07:24","slug":"babcock-to-get-2-year-8m-deal-from-columbus","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/babcock-to-get-2-year-8m-deal-from-columbus\/","title":{"rendered":"Babcock to get 2-year, $8M deal from Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Babcock\u2019s appointment as the Columbus Blue Jackets head coach will happen during the weekend with a 2-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Mike will earn 4 million dollars per campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The 8-year deal he inked with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2015 will expire this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in June, there were rumors that Babcock would return to the league with Blue Jackets. Columbus would wait to make it official when his contract with Maple Leafs expires.<\/p>\n<p>Mike will replace Brad Larsen, who was the head coach of the franchise in the past 2 campaigns, as he finished last season with a 25-49-9 record and 59 points.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto dismissed Babcock in 2019 with 3 years remaining on his 8-year, 50 million-dollar deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mike Babcock will officially be announced as the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CBJ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CBJ<\/a> head coach on Saturday with a two-year deal worth $4 million a season, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@PierreVLeBrun<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XcMbdtnHxr\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/XcMbdtnHxr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN Hockey (@TSNHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNHockey\/status\/1674131303975866379?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>Mike Babcock\u2019s appointment as the Columbus Blue Jackets head coach will happen during the weekend with a 2-year contract. Mike will earn 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438802,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16870,19418,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[17874,19419,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Mike will officially become Blue Jackets\u2019 new manager on Saturday.","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\/438801"}],"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=438801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438801"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438801"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}