{"id":253856,"date":"2025-11-01T05:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/253856\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T05:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:09:07","slug":"markstrom-signs-2-year-12-million-contract-with-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/253856\/","title":{"rendered":"Markstrom signs 2-year, $12 million contract with Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jacob-markstrom-8474593\" title=\"Jacob Markstrom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Markstrom<\/a> has signed a two-year, $12 million contract with the New Jersey Devils.<\/p>\n<p>It has an average annual value of $6 million and begins with the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old goalie is 2-2-0 with a 5.13 goals-against average and .830 save percentage in four games this season. After being injured in a 3-2 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Oct. 13, Markstrom returned for Tuesday&#8217;s 8-4 loss to the Colorado Avalanche, making 34 saves on 42 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Markstrom was 26-16-6 with a 2.50 goals-against average, .900 save percentage and four shutouts in 49 games for the Devils last season, his first with the team after being acquired in a trade on June 19, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He is in the final year of a six-year, $36 million contract ($6 million AAV) he signed with the Calgary Flames on Oct. 9, 2020, and could have become an unrestricted free agent after the season.<\/p>\n<p>A second-round pick by the Florida Panthers in the 2008 NHL Draft (No. 31), Markstrom is 243-214-63 with a 2.72 GAA, .908 save percentage and 24 shutouts in 538 regular-season games (520 starts) for the Panthers, Vancouver Canucks, Flames and Devils and 14-17 with a 2.88 GAA, .911 save percentage and two shutouts in 31 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Markstrom has signed a two-year, $12 million contract with the New Jersey Devils. It has an average&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-253856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}