{"id":444260,"date":"2023-07-26T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=444260"},"modified":"2023-07-26T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T16:35:08","slug":"aho-inks-8-year-78-million-dollar-extension-with-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/aho-inks-8-year-78-million-dollar-extension-with-hurricanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Aho inks 8-year, 78 million dollar extension with Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Hurricanes and center Sebastian Aho agreed on an 8-season, 78 million-dollar extension; GM Don Waddell shared today with the media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SEBASTIAN AH-WHOA \u270d\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian Aho signs an eight-year deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Canes<\/a> on his 26th birthday! \ud83e\udd73 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TouuLZVuP9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TouuLZVuP9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/1684207054699864065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The contract, which will start next campaign, will see the player earn almost 10 million dollars annually and finish after the 2031-32 campaign, became public on Sebastian\u2019s 26<sup>th<\/sup> birthday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aho has developed into 1 of the best 2-way centers in the game,&#8221; Carolina\u2019s general manager announced. &#8220;Sebastian is a fantastic leader on and off the ice who sets the tone for our young core. We&#8217;re honored that he&#8217;s decided to stay in our organization for the next 8 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The center made 8.5 million dollars per year with his previous contract, and he is the highest-paid player on Carolina\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n<p>Aho notched 36 goals in the past campaign, scoring at least 24 goals in 7 straight campaigns since he debuted for the franchise in 2016-17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Hurricanes and center Sebastian Aho agreed on an 8-season, 78 million-dollar extension; GM Don Waddell shared today with the media. SEBASTIAN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":444261,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16742,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[18391,20625,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Sebastian signed the contract on his birthday.","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\/444260"}],"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=444260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/444260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444260"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=444260"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=444260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}