{"id":479466,"date":"2024-03-03T08:31:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T12:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479466"},"modified":"2024-03-03T08:31:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T12:31:06","slug":"vancouver-elias-reach-8-year-almost-93-million-dollars-extension","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/vancouver-elias-reach-8-year-almost-93-million-dollars-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver, Elias reach 8-year, almost 93 million dollars extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crucial center Elias Pettersson and the Vancouver Canucks have agreed to an 8-season, 92.8 million dollar deal extension, ending rumors about the star&#8217;s future with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Elias (25) has 75 points in 62 matches since the beginning of the campaign, including 29 goals. Over 6 National Hockey League campaigns, Pettersson has 165 goals and 233 assists in 387 matches. Vancouver selected him 5<sup>th<\/sup> overall at the 2017 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m really satisfied to be continuing my career as a player of the Vancouver Canucks. I admire this city and playing in front of the supporters. We have an excellent team, and I think we can succeed in the upcoming seasons,&#8221; Pettersson shared after inking his 8-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>His deal would see him earn 11.6 million dollars per year, giving Elias the 5<sup>th<\/sup> highest cap hit of any player in the league next campaign behind Matthews from the Maple Leafs, MacKinnon from the Avalanche, McDavid from the Oilers, and Panarin from the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Pettersson&#8217;s salary for the next campaign (14.5 million dollars) ranks behind only Auston (16.7 million dollars) and \u00a0Nathan (16.5 million dollars).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cReally excited for him and our team\u2026Everyone here is really happy for him and proud, and happy he\u2019ll be here for awhile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udde3 Quinn Hughes speaks on Elias Pettersson&#8217;s extension following Saturday&#8217;s practice at home. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eS64V775pY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eS64V775pY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canucks\/status\/1764029257398002085?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2, 2024<\/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>Crucial center Elias Pettersson and the Vancouver Canucks have agreed to an 8-season, 92.8 million dollar deal extension, ending rumors about the star&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":479467,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17844,16850],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[22723,19902,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Canucks and Pettersson agreed on a long-term deal.","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\/479466"}],"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=479466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479476,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479466\/revisions\/479476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479466"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479466"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}