Oilers’ Draisaitl lands historic $112M extension
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Leon Draisaitl’s NHL stats that led to his contract extension with Oilers (0:49)
Test out the head numbers from Leon Draisaitl’s NHL profession that led to his eight-year contract extension with the Edmonton Oilers. (0:49)
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Greg Wyshynski, ESPNSep 3, 2024, 10:54 AM ET
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- Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL author.
Leon Draisaitl has signed a blockbuster eight-year extension with the Edmonton Oilers that presents the considerable particular person center essentially the most difficult moderate annual contract sign within the salary cap know-how.
Draisaitl, 28, agreed to a deal that begins within the 2025-26 season and carries a median annual sign of $14 million for a total of $112 million. He’s coming into the closing season of an eight-year contract signed in 2017 that carries a $8.5 million cap hit.
The contemporary absolute most realistic NHL cap hit belongs to Toronto Maple Leafs considerable particular person Auston Matthews ($13.25 million), who signed his deal in August 2023.
Draisaitl has 850 elements in 719 video games for the length of his 10 NHL seasons — the third-absolute most realistic total in that span within the attend of Oilers teammate Connor McDavid (982) and Tampa Bay Lightning winger Nikita Kucherov (855). Draisaitl led the NHL in scoring in 2019-20 and received the Hart Trophy as league MVP that season.
His 347 profession targets is the fourth absolute most realistic of any player in that span.
It is the first well-known pass for impress spanking contemporary Edmonton long-established supervisor Stan Bowman, who modified Ken Holland within the offseason. The Oilers misplaced to the Florida Panthers in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final in June.
The Oilers hold two more well-known contract choices on the horizon: Standout defenseman Evan Bouchard, 24, is a restricted free agent after the 2024-25 season; and McDavid is an unrestricted free agent after the 2025-26 season, with two more seasons left at $12.5 million AAV.
