{"id":801958,"date":"2026-07-15T14:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801958\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T14:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:04:15","slug":"anthony-mantha-signs-two-year-9-5-million-contract-with-new-jersey-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801958\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Mantha signs two-year, $9.5-million contract with New Jersey Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After turning a one-year prove-it deal into the best offensive season of his career, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/anthony-mantha\/e16bf6b8-b7ba-4ab1-b3b2-b21c83cd622e\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"e16bf6b8-b7ba-4ab1-b3b2-b21c83cd622e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anthony Mantha<\/a> has found a new home.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran winger signed a two-year contract worth $9.5 million ($4.75 million in average annual value) with the <a data-team=\"new-jersey-devils\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/new-jersey-devils\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Jersey Devils<\/a>, the team announced on Wednesday, cashing in after a bounce-back campaign that restored his value and made him one of the more intriguing names available in a thin free-agent market.<\/p>\n<p>Mantha will earn\u00a0$5.4 million in 2026-27 and\u00a0$4.1 million in 2027-28.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Mantha\u2019s stock surged after a remarkable season with the Pittsburgh Penguins, where he scored 33 goals and 64 points in 84 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Longueuil, Que., signed a one-year, $1.25-million deal with Pittsburgh after having ACL surgery that limited him the previous season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After turning a one-year prove-it deal into the best offensive season of his career, Anthony Mantha has found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-801958","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\/801958","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=801958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}