{"id":453854,"date":"2023-08-04T12:40:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T16:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=453854"},"modified":"2023-08-04T12:40:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T16:40:05","slug":"washington-inks-wilson-to-7-year-45-5-million-dollar-extension","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/washington-inks-wilson-to-7-year-45-5-million-dollar-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington inks Wilson to 7-year, 45.5 million dollar extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Wilson&#8217;s future in the NHL is tied to Washington.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WILLY&#8217;S HERE TO STAY\u203c\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Capitals have re-signed forward Tom Wilson to a seven-year, $45.5 million contract extension beginning with the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>Full Details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cAjzxmQvnf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/cAjzxmQvnf<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ALLCAPS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ALLCAPS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ktdvx4umm8\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ktdvx4umm8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Washington Capitals (@Capitals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Capitals\/status\/1687470742705709056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He signed a 7-season, 45.5 million dollar extension with the franchise from the capital.<\/p>\n<p>The forward extension starts with the 2024-2025 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto-born player was picked 16<sup>th<\/sup> overall at the 2012 NHL Entry Draft out of the Ontario Hockey League&#8217;s Plymouth Whalers. After that, he played only for the Capitals in his 11 campaigns until now.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian played only 33 matches in the past campaign after undergoing off-season surgery a year ago for an ACL tear. After his return, he notched 13 goals and gave 9 assists.<\/p>\n<p>He has appeared in 680 matches in his NHL career, as he has scored 128 goals and given 167 assists. Tom was an All-Star in 2022 and triumphed in the Stanley Cup with the Caps in 2018.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tom Wilson records a message for Caps fans following his seven-year extension announcement. \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>(\ud83c\udfa5: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Capitals?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Capitals<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IncIkYP5Z1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/IncIkYP5Z1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1687474839374766080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 4, 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>Tom Wilson&#8217;s future in the NHL is tied to Washington. WILLY&#8217;S HERE TO STAY\u203c\ufe0f The Washington Capitals have re-signed forward Tom Wilson to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":453855,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17844,17091],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[20768,17894,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Tom will spend much time in the future in the US capital.","video":["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\/453854"}],"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=453854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453854"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=453854"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=453854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}