German hockey player Leon Draisaitl has extended his contract with the Edmonton Oilers NHL team for another eight years. He will earn an additional $112 million and will become the highest-paid player in the overseas competition from next summer.
The 28-year-old forward has the last year of his valid contract ahead of him, which guarantees him an income of 8.5 million dollars a year.
From the next season, he will have an income of 14 million per year, surpassing Auston Matthews from the Toronto Maple Leafs, who currently has the most expensive contract in the NHL. The four-year contract guarantees him an income of 13.25 million dollars per year.
Draisaitl has been in Edmonton his entire career, the club drafted him in 2014. In the last season, he scored 106 points, including 41 goals in the regular season, and 31 points, including 10 goals in the playoffs.
In total, during his career, he scored 347 goals for the “Oilers” and collected 850 points in 719 duels. He won the Hart Trophy, Art Ross Trophy and Ted Lindsay Award. “Leon is an extremely talented player, a big part of what we are trying to achieve.
He has been with us for a long time and that will not change. It’s hard to find a real star in the NHL, and once you have one, your goal must be to keep it,” the TSN server quotes the words of the team’s general manager, Stan Bowman, who will face further difficult contract negotiations with club captain Connor McDavid next year.
Source: sportweb.pravda.sk
