{"id":90415,"date":"2025-07-25T04:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90415\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T04:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:12:10","slug":"hurricanes-lock-in-jackson-blake-with-8-year-45-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90415\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes lock in Jackson Blake with 8-year, $45 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 24, 2025, 11:48 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>RALEIGH, N.C. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/car\/carolina-hurricanes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5103645\/jackson-blake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Blake<\/a> signed an eight-year, $45 million contract extension Thursday that will begin with the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Blake, the son of former NHL forward Jason Blake, had 17 goals and 17 assists in 80 regular-season games last season and added three goals and three assists in 15 playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/45763246\/nhl-power-rankings-2025-2026-offseason-best-teams-standings-playoffs-trends\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/250717_nhl_power-rankings_1x1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Jackson had an outstanding rookie season, and we think he is just scratching the surface of the player he can be,&#8221; Hurricanes general manager Eric Tulsky said in a team statement. &#8220;His tenaciousness on the puck and competitiveness match our team&#8217;s culture, and we&#8217;re excited about his future with our club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 5-foot-11 right wing was drafted by the Hurricanes in the fourth round in 2021. He played two seasons at the University of North Dakota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 24, 2025, 11:48 PM ET RALEIGH, N.C. &#8212; Carolina Hurricanes forward Jackson Blake signed an eight-year, $45&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":90416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-90415","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\/114911926379160726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90415","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=90415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}