{"id":493697,"date":"2025-06-28T02:07:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T06:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=493697"},"modified":"2025-06-28T02:07:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T06:07:24","slug":"sam-bennett-signs-64-million-extension-with-florida-panthers-after-historic-playoff-run","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sam-bennett-signs-64-million-extension-with-florida-panthers-after-historic-playoff-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bennett signs $64 Million extension with Florida Panthers after historic playoff run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Cup champion Sam Bennett has signed a new eight-year, $64 million contract with the Florida Panthers, nearly doubling his annual salary to $8 million per season, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett was crucial in Florida&#8217;s back-to-back Stanley Cup victories, leading a dominant postseason campaign with 22 points\u201415 goals and 7 assists\u2014across 23 games. His 13 goals on the road set a new NHL playoff record, while his overall playoff scoring broke the franchise record for most goals in a single postseason.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">EIGHT MORE YEARS.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcdd \u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ftzi3kkHFv\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ftzi3kkHFv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sefpir9lQL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/sefpir9lQL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlaPanthers\/status\/1938719104111722759?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Canadian forward, who joined Florida in a 2021 trade from the Calgary Flames, has steadily grown into a crucial piece of the Panthers&#8217; core. Originally selected fourth overall by Calgary in the 2014 NHL Draft, Bennett has found his stride in Florida, culminating in his recent Conn Smythe Trophy win as the most valuable player of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Florida defeated the Edmonton Oilers 4\u20132 in the Stanley Cup Final for a second consecutive year, with Bennett once again proving to be one of the most lethal postseason performers in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Cup champion Sam Bennett has signed a new eight-year, $64 million contract with the Florida Panthers, nearly doubling his annual salary to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":493698,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16872,25076],"news_category":[16709,16715],"gn_keywords":[25078,18134,25077],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The new deal doubles Bennett salary to $8 million per season","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\/493697"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493699,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/493697\/revisions\/493699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493697"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=493697"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=493697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}