{"id":893663,"date":"2026-09-16T04:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893663\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T04:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:16:10","slug":"devils-luke-evangelista-agree-to-five-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/893663\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils, Luke Evangelista agree to five-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Devils and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/luke-evangelista\/c35b8a77-89c2-48d8-b707-ae483957c7a2\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"c35b8a77-89c2-48d8-b707-ae483957c7a2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luke Evangelista<\/a> agreed to terms on a five-year, $36.25 million contract extension late Tuesday night. The new contract, which begins in 2027-28 and carries a $7.25 million AAV, is frontloaded and will pay Evangelista in this way:<\/p>\n<p>2027-28: $9,700,000<br \/>2028-29: $8,260,000<br \/>2029-30: $6,120,000<br \/>2030-31: $6,085,000<br \/>2031-32: $6,085,000<\/p>\n<p>The Devils acquired Evangelista from the Predators on Sept. 1 for two draft picks.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old is coming off his fourth NHL season in which he had 12 goals and 56 points, a career-high.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto native has one year remaining on a two-year contract with a $3 million AAV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Devils and Luke Evangelista agreed to terms on a five-year, $36.25 million contract extension late Tuesday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-893663","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\/893663","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=893663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}