{"id":27870,"date":"2025-06-30T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/27870\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:13:08","slug":"islanders-sign-alexander-romanov-to-50m-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/27870\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders sign Alexander Romanov to $50M contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Islanders got another piece of business done before the opening of free agency on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pending restricted free agent defenseman Alexander Romanov inked an eight-year extension worth $6.25 million annually, an industry source confirmed to The Post.<\/p>\n<p>The deal will see the 25-year-old Romanov play out the prime of his career on Long Island, where he\u2019s spent the last three seasons after coming over in a 2022 trade with the Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36394821\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/28-new-york-islanders-moves-100940580.jpg\" alt=\"Islanders defenseman Alexander Romanov has agreed to an eight-year extension ahead of NHL free agency.\" class=\"wp-image-36394821\"  \/>Islanders defenseman Alexander Romanov has agreed to an eight-year extension ahead of NHL free agency. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/27\/sports\/islanders-trade-noah-dobson-to-canadiens-in-pre-draft-shakeup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Isles traded Noah Dobson over the weekend<\/a>, Romanov was set to be their highest-paid RFA, and thus the most important piece of business for Mathieu Darche to get done ahead of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Holmstrom, Max Tsyplakov, Emil Heineman and Marc Gatcomb are the club\u2019s remaining RFAs.<\/p>\n<p>Romanov had four goals and 16 assists in 64 games this season, averaging 22:18 of ice time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Islanders got another piece of business done before the opening of free agency on Tuesday. Pending restricted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1301,293,11249,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-27870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-new-york-islanders","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-nhl-free-agency","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114773912143858228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27870","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=27870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}