{"id":751532,"date":"2026-06-21T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751532\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:28:12","slug":"hurricanes-deslauriers-signs-two-year-deal-at-championship-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751532\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes&#8217; Deslauriers signs two-year deal at championship parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Already letting loose at his team&#8217;s Stanley Cup parade, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/nicolas-deslauriers\/4281840a-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"4281840a-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nicolas Deslauriers<\/a> was given another reason to get festive. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/carolina-hurricanes\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"carolina-hurricanes\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> signed the winger to a two-year, $1.75 million extension worth $875,000 in average annual value, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/hurricanes\/news\/canes-sign-forward-nicolas-deslauriers-to-two-year-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>While the numbers were likely hammered out before the parade, Deslauriers put pen to paper on the deal <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/2068382733701710107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">while at the podium<\/a> in Raleigh.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes acquired Deslauriers from the Philadelphia Flyers at the March 6 trade deadline for a 2027 seventh-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNic has fit in with our locker room and culture from Day 1 when he got to Raleigh,\u201d\u00a0general manager Eric Tulsky said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cHe provides a veteran presence and adds a physical element to our roster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though he only made seven regular-season and one post-season appearance \u2014 finishing with one assist total \u2014 the 35-year-old brought grit to the Hurricanes&#8217; lineup, picking up 39 hits over his eight games. <\/p>\n<p>His lone playoff game came in the first round against the Ottawa Senators, where he suited up for only 3:09 of ice time as the Hurricanes completed the four-game sweep.<\/p>\n<p>The Lasalle, Que., native has 53 goals and 53 assists in 708 career regular-season games, split between the Hurricanes, Flyers, Buffalo Sabres, Montreal Canadiens, Anaheim Ducks and Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Already letting loose at his team&#8217;s Stanley Cup parade, Nicolas Deslauriers was given another reason to get festive.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-751532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751532","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=751532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}