{"id":319007,"date":"2025-11-28T17:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/319007\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T17:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:44:07","slug":"five-year-contract-extension-for-mike-matheson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/319007\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-year contract extension for Mike Matheson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2013 Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Friday that the team has agreed to terms on a five-year, $30 million contract extension (2026-27 to 2030-31) with defenseman Mike Matheson. The deal will pay him an average annual salary of $6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Matheson has recorded 14 points (4G, 10A) in 22 games with the Canadiens this season and carries a +13 differential. The 31-year-old defenseman leads the team in average ice time at 24:50 per game, ranking 10th in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Since joining the Canadiens, the Pointe-Claire native has established numerous career highs, including assists (51), points (62), power play goals (5) and power play points (28) during the 2023-24 season. He also matched a personal best in goals (11) that year, previously set with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2021-22. Since arriving in Montreal prior to the 2022-23 campaign, Matheson ranks seventh in the NHL with an average ice time of 25:06.<\/p>\n<p>Matheson, who is currently playing his fourth season with the Canadiens, was acquired from the Penguins on July 16, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2013 Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes announced on Friday that the team has agreed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-319007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}