Capitals Re-sign Defenseman Rasmus Sandin To A 5-year Contract Worth $23 Million – News18

Rasmus Sandin is sticking round with the Washington Capitals for some time after re-signing Wednesday on a 5-12 months contract value $23 million.

Sandin will rely $4.6 million in opposition to the wage cap by the 2028-29 NHL season as a part of the brand new deal.

Set to be a restricted free agent this summer time with the potential for arbitration, Sandin has rounded out his recreation since becoming a member of the Capitals a 12 months in the past from Toronto in a commerce deadline deal that value them a primary-spherical draft choose. That worth has confirmed to be value it, as Sandin has averaged greater than 21 minutes of ice time and has 20 factors in 52 video games this season.

“It all started really a year ago when I got here,” Sandin advised reporters after the group’s observe in Arlington, Virginia. “It really felt like the organization really believed in me, and I love this organization and just living here. Very excited to get that extension.”

The Swede, who turns 24 on Thursday, will now be a part of Washington’s blue line of the longer term together with franchise cornerstone John Carlson and younger Slovak Martin Fehervary. Forward Aliaksei Protas additionally lately was prolonged by 2029, and solely winger Tom Wilson — whose seven-12 months contract by 2031 begins subsequent season — is signed for longer.

Re-signing Sandin comes on the heels of the Capitals buying and selling Anthony Mantha to the Vegas Golden Knights for a 2024 second-spherical and a 2026 fourth-spherical choose. They additionally might make strikes involving fellow pending free brokers Joel Edmundson, Max Pacioretty and Nicolas Aube-Kubel and are receiving calls about useful fourth-line heart Nic Dowd.

“It can be a tough time,” Edmundson mentioned Tuesday. “It can wear you down if you keep thinking about what could happen, so we’re just trying to keep things light at the rink and take everyone’s mind off it. This comes around every year, it can be a stressful time for a lot of guys, but it’s part of the business.”

For his half, Aube-Kubel — who helped Colorado win all of it in 2022 and famously dented the Stanley Cup by dropping it on the ice in the course of the postgame celebration — mentioned he doesn’t take into consideration commerce prospects.

“I think it just brings anxiety and stress, which I’m against,” Aube-Kubel mentioned. “Just try to stay as Zen as possible.”

General supervisor Brian MacLellan has mentioned he wish to add younger gamers to the combination even whereas promoting, just like the commerce he made with the Maple Leafs for Sandin. Getting excessive picks and flipping them might nonetheless occur earlier than the deadline Friday.

“That would be ideal,” MacLellan mentioned final week. “That would be the type of thing we’re looking to do, yes.”

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