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Marcus Foligno is about to develop into the eighth player in NHL historical past to spend 10 seasons with the Minnesota Wild.
The appropriate winger signed a four-year, $16-million contract extension that runs by way of the 2027-28 season, the team announced Friday.
The extension features a full no-move clause for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons, per CapFriendly.
Foligno, who turned 32 in August, was additionally granted a 15-team no-trade record on the ultimate two years of the extension.
The information of his extension continued a day of contract information for the Wild. The staff introduced earlier on Friday a two-year, $8.25 million extension for first-line proper winger Mats Zuccarello.
Foligno, who spent his first six NHL seasons with the Buffalo Sabres, has skated for the Wild since 2017 and was named alternate captain in 2021. He leads the staff over the previous six seasons with 1,159 hits and 415 penalty minutes.
Foligno completed top-10 in Selke Trophy voting for the primary time in his profession in 2021-22 whereas recording a career-high 23 objectives and 42 factors.
These totals had been recorded on a possible unsustainable 23.5 % capturing charge, nevertheless. Foligno’s manufacturing dropped on the Wild’s third line final season, when he scored simply seven objectives and 21 factors in his lowest manufacturing totals since his 2018-19 marketing campaign.
He nonetheless remained defensively solid. If final season was seen as an off 12 months, the Wild may doubtlessly be anticipating Foligno’s offensive rebound this fall.
If Foligno stays with the Wild by way of the top of his extension, he’ll be a part of former gamers Nick Schultz, Nate Prosser, Pierre-Marc Bouchard and Matt Dumba on the record of the franchise’s 10-season veterans.
Solely lively Wild leaders Jonas Brodin (11 seasons) and Jared Spurgeon (13 seasons), in addition to franchise legend Mikko Koivu (15 seasons), have performed extra.
Foligno ranks third all-time in Wild franchise historical past with 415 penalty minutes.
