{"id":461161,"date":"2023-09-29T19:32:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T23:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=461161"},"modified":"2023-09-29T19:32:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T23:32:57","slug":"minnesota-announces-2-year-contract-extension-for-zuccarello","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/minnesota-announces-2-year-contract-extension-for-zuccarello\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota announces 2-year contract extension for Zuccarello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Wild GM Bill Guerin shared today that the franchise has inked forward Mats Zuccarello to a 2-year, 8.25-million-dollar deal extension.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Zuccy is very happy here. He&#8217;s got a huge role with our team.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MNWild?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MNWild<\/a> GM Bill Guerin on Mats Zuccarello&#8217;s contract extension and what the veteran forward provides on the ice and in the dressing room. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PbFLv873oJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/PbFLv873oJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bally Sports North (@BallySportsNOR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BallySportsNOR\/status\/1707849660369346915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The veteran attacker (36) had 22 goals and earned 67 points in 78 matches for Minnesota in the past campaign, his 4<sup>th<\/sup> with the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Zuccarello set new career highs in power-play goals with 9 and shot on net with 198 in the past campaign. Mats&#8217;s 45 assists are the highest for the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>NY Rangers inked him as an undrafted free agent in 2010, and Zuccarello made his debut in the league in the 2010-11 campaign for the franchise from the Big Apple and spent the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 9 campaigns of his career there before he was sent to the Dallas Stars on February this year.<\/p>\n<p>Zuccarello inked with Minnesota as a free agent during the offseason in 2019 and has led the organization in assists with 146 since he became a Wild player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Wild GM Bill Guerin shared today that the franchise has inked forward Mats Zuccarello to a 2-year, 8.25-million-dollar deal extension. &#8220;Zuccy is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":461162,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17358,17844],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[21577,18065,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Wild inked the forward for 2 more seasons.","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\/461161"}],"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=461161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461164,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461161\/revisions\/461164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461161"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=461161"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=461161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}