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 [August 18, 2017]
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08/18/2017 NHL Note - Buffalo Sabres Girgensons, Zemgus
C Zemgus Girgensons agreed to a two-year contract extension with the
Buffalo on Thursday. The team announced the contract holds an annual
average value of $1.6 million. Girgensons signed a one-year
extension last September and totaled seven goals and 16 points in a
career-high 75 games. Since being drafted by Buffalo in the first
round of the 2012 draft, the 23-year-old native of Latvia has 37
goals and 86 points in 277 games.
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NHL Note - Tampa Bay Lightning McGinn, Tye
F Tye McGinn was re-signed by the Tampa Bay Lightning to a one-year,
two-way contract on Thursday. McGinn, 27, skated in 21 games with
the Lightning's AHL affiliate in Syracuse, N.Y. last season, scoring
10 goals and nine assists to go along with 16 penalty minutes.
McGinn missed most of the regular season due to injury. Four of his
10 goals came while on the power play. McGinn also skated in 22
Calder Cup playoff games, recording five goals and 16 points.
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NHL Note - New Jersey Devils Zajac, Travis
C Travis Zajac could miss up to six months after having surgery to
repair a torn left pectoral muscle on Thursday.
Zajac had 14 goals and 31 assists in 80 games for the Devils last
season, playing 19:43 per game, including an average of 2:34 on the
power play and 2:19 on the penalty kill. He also had a 54.7 percent
success rate on faceoffs. The 32-year-old Zajac is signed through
2021 with a $5.75 million per season cap hit. In his 11-year NHL
career, all with New Jersey, Zajac has 155 goals, 280 assists, and a
plus-26 rating in 779 games played.
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