{"id":456055,"date":"2023-08-22T21:23:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T17:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456055"},"modified":"2023-08-22T21:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T17:23:46","slug":"brandon-hagel-inks-8-year-extension-with-lightning","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/brandon-hagel-inks-8-year-extension-with-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Hagel inks 8-year extension with Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Hagel inked an 8-season, 52-million-dollar deal extension with the Tampa Bay Lightning today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">EIGHT MORE YEARS \ud83e\udd6f<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBLightning?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TBLightning<\/a> have signed Brandon Hagel (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bhags9?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Bhags9<\/a>) to a long-term extension! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QQI21bvcvw\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QQI21bvcvw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/1693987309564346786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The contract will carry an average annual value of 6.5 million dollars for Brandon, who was previously set to become a restricted free agent after the end of the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>The forward had a career-high 30 goals and 64 points in 81 matches last campaign, notching 1 goal and earning 5 points in 6 postseason matches.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay acquired Hagel ahead of the exchange deadline in 2022 from the Chicago Blackhawks in a trade for a package that consisted of two 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round selections, Boris Katchouk, and Taylor Raddysh.<\/p>\n<p>Hagel was drafted in the 6<sup>th<\/sup> round by the Buffalo Sabres in 2016, and he has scored 64 goals and earned 132 points in 211 matches in the NHL since then with Chicago and Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon will earn 1.5 million dollars in the upcoming season as his new deal will become active in 2024-2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Hagel inked an 8-season, 52-million-dollar deal extension with the Tampa Bay Lightning today. EIGHT MORE YEARS \ud83e\udd6f The @TBLightning have signed Brandon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":456056,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17844,17164],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[21063,18408,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The forward signed an 8-year extension with Tampa Bay.","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\/456055"}],"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=456055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456055"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456055"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}