Greg Wyshynski, ESPN
Alexis Lafreniere and the New York Rangers have agreed on a seven-year contract extension for the primary general decide within the 2020 NHL draft, a supply confirmed to ESPN.
The brand new contract for Lafrenière, 23, will carry a $7.45 million common annual worth (AAV) and runs by the 2031-32 season. After three NHL seasons that did not reside as much as Lafrenière’s lofty draft place, final season was a breakout for the Quebec-born left wing.
Lafrenière had 28 objectives and 29 assists (57 factors) in 82 video games. He was excellent within the Rangers’ run to the Jap Convention finals, with 14 factors in 16 video games, tying Vincent Trocheck for the workforce lead in objectives (8).
In his fifth NHL season, Lafrenière has 155 factors (79 objectives, 76 assists) in 305 video games. Via seven video games this season, Lafrenière has 4 objectives and three assists, averaging a profession finest 17:51 per recreation in ice time.
“It is a confidence that constructed final 12 months to him being one in every of our greatest gamers within the playoffs,” Rangers coach Peter Laviolette mentioned earlier this month. “You must be carrying some confidence to attempt to pull off a number of the stuff that he did efficiently [in the playoffs]. It looks as if he has picked up proper the place he left off final 12 months, when he made some performs that had been fairly particular.”
Particulars on Lafrenière’s contract had been first reported by PuckPedia.
