{"id":872057,"date":"2026-08-26T11:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872057\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:36:12","slug":"grading-the-34-long-term-nhl-contracts-signed-during-the-2026-offseason-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872057\/","title":{"rendered":"Grading the 34 Long-Term NHL Contracts Signed During the 2026 Offseason So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nContract: Eight years. $84 million ($10.5 million salary cap)\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The Washington Capitals made some big splashes this offseason, and in the process addressed two of their biggest issues from the 2025-26 season: Goal-scoring and generating offense off the rush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The trade for Jordan Kyrou and acquisition of Alex Tuch should go a long way toward fixing both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Tuch&#8217;s contract is the classic case of a deal that&#8217;s probably going to work out very well in the short-term, but age very poorly by the time it is over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">He has been a pretty consistent 30-goal scorer the past few years, and he might still have a few more years of that level in him before he really starts to slow down. The Capitals should not count on that same level of production from a 34, 35 or 36-year-old Tuch. If they can win big before it gets to that point, with Tuch playing a big role in that, nobody in Washington is going to care. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contract: Eight years. $84 million ($10.5 million salary cap) The Washington Capitals made some big splashes this offseason,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-872057","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\/872057","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=872057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}