{"id":106013,"date":"2025-07-30T23:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106013\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T23:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:04:11","slug":"blake-rewarded-with-8-year-contract-after-checking-all-boxes-for-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106013\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake rewarded with 8-year contract after checking all boxes for Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RALEIGH, N.C. &#8212;<\/strong> When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jackson-blake-8482809\" title=\"Jackson Blake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Blake<\/a> signed an eight-year, $45 million contract with the Carolina Hurricanes last Thursday, he knew it might be time to spring for a celebratory purchase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bought a boat last weekend for the last month and a half of summer,\u201d Blake said Wednesday. \u201cOur family had a surf boat four years ago. I don\u2019t really like to spend money very much. That was a tough purchase for me, but I think I\u2019ll have it for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blake, who has one year remaining on his entry-level contract, had 34 points (17 goals, 17 assists) in 80 regular-season games as a rookie last season and added six points (three goals, three assists) in 15 Stanley Cup Playoff games. The forward, who will turn 22 on Aug. 3, was selected in the fourth round (No. 109) of the 2021 NHL Draft and played two seasons at University of North Dakota before making the Carolina roster out of training camp last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA year ago today, I probably would have told you you\u2019re crazy,\u201d said Blake, whose new contract begins in 2026-27 and has an average annual value of $5.625 million. &#8220;It\u2019s been an absolute whirlwind. I\u2019m not going to lie. I didn\u2019t know if I was going to make the team last year, and then to play on the team the full year and now have this long-term deal with Carolina, it\u2019s pretty surreal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blake, whose father, Jason, played 871 games as a forward in the NHL, credits Hurricanes coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour for bringing him along slowly as a rookie. Blake spent the first half of the season playing on Carolina\u2019s fourth line but earned top-line minutes with Sebastian Aho late in the regular season and the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. &#8212; When Jackson Blake signed an eight-year, $45 million contract with the Carolina Hurricanes last Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-106013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114944689342973330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}