{"id":254503,"date":"2025-11-01T02:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T02:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254503\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T02:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T02:18:09","slug":"devils-sign-g-jakob-markstrom-to-two-year-12m-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254503\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils sign G Jakob Markstrom to two-year, $12M extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Devils have agreed to a two-year extension with the netminder with an average annual value of $6 million, the team announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to action Tuesday in an 8-4 loss to the Colorado Avalanche following a two-week absence with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Markstrom was acquired from the Calgary Flames in June of 2024 in exchange for a first-round pick in 2025 (Cole Reschny) and defenceman Kevin Bahl.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old has posted two wins with an .830 save percentage in four appearances so far this season. Since joining the Devils, he is 28-18 with four shutouts in 53 games.<\/p>\n<p>He has a career record of 243-214-63 since making his NHL debut with Florida in Jan. 2011 after he was selected 31st overall by the Panthers in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Gavle, Sweden, he was set to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Devils have agreed to a two-year extension with the netminder with an average annual value of $6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-254503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254503","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=254503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}