{"id":735824,"date":"2026-07-01T00:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T00:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/735824\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T00:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T00:02:11","slug":"dorofeyev-signs-7-year-77-million-contract-with-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/735824\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorofeyev signs 7-year, $77 million contract with Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/pavel-dorofeyev-8481604\" title=\"Pavel Dorofeyev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pavel Dorofeyev<\/a> signed a seven-year, $77 million contract with the New York Rangers on Tuesday. It has an average annual value of $11 million.<\/p>\n<p>Dorofeyev, who could have become a restricted free agent on Wednesday, set an NHL career high in goals (37), assists (27) and points (64) in 82 games for the Vegas Golden Knights this season. The 25-year-old forward also had 16 points (12 goals, four assists) in 22 Stanley Cup Playoff games to help Vegas advance to the Cup Final.<\/p>\n<p>He was traded to the Rangers by the Golden Knights on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas received the No. 26 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, a third-round pick (No. 92) in the 2026 draft, and a conditional first-round pick in the 2028 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas later traded the No. 26 pick to the Montreal Canadiens for the No. 28 pick and a third-round selection in the 2027 NHL Draft. It then traded the No. 28 pick to the Anaheim Ducks for the No. 29 pick (defenseman Juho Piiparinen) and a fourth-round selection (No. 117) in the 2026 draft.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Golden Knights in the third round (No. 79) of the 2019 NHL Draft, Dorofeyev has 149 points (92 goals, 57 assists) in 231 regular-season games, and 18 points (13 goals, five assists) in 31 playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>New York (34-39-9) missed the playoffs for the second straight season after finishing last in the Eastern Conference. It selected defenseman Alberts Smits with the No. 5 pick in the 2026 draft.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas (39-26-17) lost to the Carolina Hurricanes in six games in the Cup Final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pavel Dorofeyev signed a seven-year, $77 million contract with the New York Rangers on Tuesday. It has an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-735824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735824","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=735824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}