Goaltender Brandon Bussi went from the waiver wire to one of the Carolina Hurricanes\u2019 most important players in the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n
Now he has been rewarded.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes signed Bussi to a three-year contract extension that pays an average of $1.9 million per year through the 2028-29 season. Bussi was acquired on waivers from the Florida Panthers on Oct. 5 and has won 23 of his first 27 games with the Hurricanes, providing Carolina with stellar work in net at a time of need.<\/p>\n
Carolina is 36-15-6 and has 78 points, tied for most in the Eastern Conference entering the Olympic break.<\/p>\n
Bussi, who matched a franchise record with nine consecutive wins earlier this year, was the fastest goaltender in NHL history to reach 10 wins, 15 wins and 20 wins.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven the opportunity at the NHL level this season, he\u2019s proven to be a winner here, too,\u201d Hurricanes general manager Eric Tulsky said. \u201cWe are thrilled that he will continue to provide a steady presence in the crease for this team into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bussi is third in the NHL in wins and second in the league in goals-against average (2.16). Bussi went 63-31-13 in 111 games with Providence in the AHL.<\/p>\n
The Carolina Hurricanes Foundation will make a $10,000 donation to the Autism Society of North Carolina. Bussi\u2019s goalie mask is a tribute to his younger brother Dylan, who has autism, and is meant to raise awareness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goaltender Brandon Bussi went from the waiver wire to one of the Carolina Hurricanes\u2019 most important players in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,3615,575,85],"class_list":["post-484685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484685","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=484685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}