{"id":312627,"date":"2025-11-28T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312627\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T16:53:08","slug":"montreal-canadiens-sign-mike-matheson-to-five-year-30-million-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312627\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens sign Mike Matheson to five-year, $30 million contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> have signed defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mike-matheson\/8476875\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mike-matheson\/8476875\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Matheson<\/a> to a five-year, $30 million contract extension on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deal carries an average annual value of $6 million for the 31-year-old blueliner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matheson has four goals and 14 points in 22 games this season while averaging 24:50 of ice time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A first-round pick (23rd overall) by Florida in 2012, Matheson spent four seasons with the Panthers before he was dealt to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> in September of 2020. He was acquired by Montreal in July of 2022 in exchange for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jeff-petry\/8473507\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jeff-petry\/8473507\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Petry<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ryan-poehling\/8480068\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ryan-poehling\/8480068\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Poehling<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is in the final season of an eight-year, $39 million contract with an AAV of $4.88 million and was scheduled to be an unrestricted free agent this summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Internationally, Matheson has represented Canada twice at the World Championships, winning gold in 2016 and silver in 2017. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Pointe-Claire, Que., native has appeared in 649 career NHL games, scoring 78 goals with 279 points, split between the Panthers, Penguins and Canadiens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens have signed defenceman Mike Matheson to a five-year, $30 million contract extension on Friday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,139415,78846,448,82],"class_list":["post-312627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mike-matheson-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8476875","tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312627","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=312627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}