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Rangers making Igor Shesterkin highest-paid goalie in NHL historical past with 8-year contract extension

Igor Shesterkin #31 of the New York Rangers heads to the ice for warmups prior to the game against the New Jersey Devils at Madison Square Garden on December 2, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Jared Silber/NHLI via Getty Images) The New York Rangers are set to make goaltender Igor Shesterkin the highest-paid

Rangers making Igor Shesterkin highest-paid goalie in NHL historical past with 8-year contract extension

Ian Casselberry

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 02:  Igor Shesterkin #31 of the New York Rangers heads to the ice for warmups prior to the game against the New Jersey Devils at Madison Square Garden on December 2, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Jared Silber/NHLI via Getty Images)

Igor Shesterkin #31 of the New York Rangers heads to the ice for warmups previous to the sport towards the New Jersey Devils at Madison Sq. Backyard on December 2, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Jared Silber/NHLI through Getty Photos)

The New York Rangers are set to make goaltender Igor Shesterkin the highest-paid participant at his place in NHL historical past. The Rangers and Shesterkin have agreed to an eight-year contract extension with a median annual worth of $11.5 million, studies ESPN’s Kevin Weekes and Emily Kaplan.

With that annual wage, Shesterkin will overtake left wing (and main scorer) Artemi Panarin because the Rangers’ highest-paid participant. Panarin makes $11.6 million per season as a part of a seven-year, $81.5 million deal he agreed to in 2019.

Carey Price was beforehand the highest-paid goalie in league historical past, with a median annual wage of $10.5 million as a part of his eight-year, $84 million contract with the Montreal Canadiens, signed in 2018.

Shesterkin, 28, is in his sixth season with the Rangers and the final 12 months of a four-year contract that pays him $5.66 million per 12 months. He and the crew have been negotiating for the reason that offseason, trying to work out a brand new deal earlier than Shesterkin grew to become a free agent.

He was the crew’s fourth-round choice (No. 118 general) within the 2014 NHL Draft from SKA St. Petersburg in Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League.

You’ve acquired to be kidding me with this save by Shesterkin.

The change of course after sliding to his proper. The stretch. Grabbing the puck proper off the aim line.

Unimaginable pic.twitter.com/L0BBFfcTSd

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— Jesse Granger (@JesseGranger_) December 28, 2022

This season, Shesterkin has an 8-9-1 report in 18 video games with a 3.05 goals-against common and .908 save proportion. For his profession, he is compiled a 143-68-18 report with a 2.48 GAA and .920 save proportion.

Shesterkin had his finest season throughout the 2021-22 marketing campaign by which he completed with a 36-13-4 report and led the NHL with a 2.07 GAA and .935 save proportion. He was awarded the Vezina Trophy, given to the league’s finest goaltender.

The Rangers are presently fourth within the Metropolitan Division with a 13-10-1 report and 27 factors. They maintain the eighth spot within the Jap Convention by proportion factors over the Philadelphia Flyers and one level forward of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

New York just traded defenseman and crew captain Jacob Trouba to the Anaheim Ducks. Clearing Trouba’s $8 million wage off the payroll might have helped get the take care of Shesterkin achieved.

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