{"id":20235,"date":"2025-07-25T04:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20235\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T04:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:18:07","slug":"hurricanes-lock-in-jackson-blake-with-8-year-45-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20235\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes lock in Jackson Blake with 8-year, $45 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 24, 2025, 11:48 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>RALEIGH, N.C. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/car\/carolina-hurricanes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5103645\/jackson-blake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Blake<\/a> signed an eight-year, $45 million contract extension Thursday that will begin with the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Blake, the son of former NHL forward Jason Blake, had 17 goals and 17 assists in 80 regular-season games last season and added three goals and three assists in 15 playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/45763246\/nhl-power-rankings-2025-2026-offseason-best-teams-standings-playoffs-trends\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2025\/0716\/250717_nhl_power-rankings_1x1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jackson had an outstanding rookie season, and we think he is just scratching the surface of the player he can be,&#8221; Hurricanes general manager Eric Tulsky said in a team statement. &#8220;His tenaciousness on the puck and competitiveness match our team&#8217;s culture, and we&#8217;re excited about his future with our club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 5-foot-11 right wing was drafted by the Hurricanes in the fourth round in 2021. He played two seasons at the University of North Dakota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 24, 2025, 11:48 PM ET RALEIGH, N.C. &#8212; Carolina Hurricanes forward Jackson Blake signed an eight-year, $45&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-20235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}