How Current Contract Extensions Doubtlessly Influence Lukas Dostal's Subsequent Deal

October has been a busy month for NHL golf equipment when it comes to locking up their futures between the pipes.

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Jeremy Swayman and the Boston Bruins ended their heated negotiations and agreed on an eight-year contract extension price $8.25 million AAV.

The Minnesota Wild prolonged 21-year-old goalie prospect Jesper Wallstedt, who will enter the ultimate yr of his ELC, with a two-year contract that carries an AAV of $2.2 million.

On Wednesday, after his first season with double-digit video games performed in 2023-24, the Seattle Kraken inked netminder Joey Daccord to a five-year contract extension with an AAV of $5.5 million.

Shortly after Daccord signed his contract, it was reported the Ottawa Senators prolonged newly acquired goaltender and 2023 Vezina Trophy winner Linus Ullmark to a four-year deal price $8.25 million AAV.

Kevin Weekes from ESPN and the NHL Community reported Wednesday that Rangers’ netminder and 2022 Vezina Trophy winner Igor Shesterkin rejected an extension provide for eight years with an AAV of $11 million.

In 2024-25, Anaheim Geese goaltender Lukas Dostal (24) will enter the ultimate yr of his two-year contract with an AAV of $812,500. In his rookie season of 2023-24, he posted a .902 SV%, allowed 4.58 goals above expected, and logged his first profession shutout.

Since, he backstopped Czechia to a gold medal on the IIHF World Championships in Prague, sporting a .939 SV%, zero regulation defeats, and three shutouts in eight video games, together with within the gold medal sport vs Switzerland. For his efforts, he was a finalist for the IIHF Male Participant of the Yr, however completed third in voting.

The Geese had been set to open the season with designs of a tandem in purpose with Dostal and veteran goalie John Gibson. Gibson required emergency appendectomy surgical procedure throughout coaching camp and his timeline for return is ready for one to 4 weeks from the beginning of the season.

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Dostal, in a contract yr, has the chance to grab management of the crease in Anaheim and maximize his earnings in terms of his eventual contract negotiations.

On July 1, 2025, Dostal will change into an RFA with arbitration rights and shall be UFA eligible on July 1, 2027. He’s at present eligible to signal a contract extension with the Geese.

“We’ll take our time on that,” Geese normal supervisor Pat Verbeek acknowledged firstly of workforce coaching camp when requested about potential contract extensions for RFAs. “We have not actually began occupied with that but, however we’ll lay a plan out for after we’ll begin speaking about all that stuff. To me, that is far down the highway and we’ve got to get by means of coaching camp and get a couple of video games below our belt earlier than you can begin occupied with that.”

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In some conditions, like Edmonton, Washington, and Calgary, much less significance is positioned on the goaltending place and so they allocate lower than 5% of the wage cap to their goalies. In others, as has been proven by the aforementioned latest signings and gives, goaltenders are nonetheless seen as useful commodities.

It is tough to attract comparisons with Dostal and any of the latest goaltender signings as two of them had been one yr from UFA eligibility (Ullmark and Daccord), one (Swayman) had ample leverage in his negotiations, and one (Wallstedt) stays a rookie on his ELC.

As documented with the Geese over the previous half decade with John Gibson, a goaltender has a troublesome time turning a poor workforce into a superb workforce. Nevertheless, within the fashionable NHL, a goaltender can nonetheless flip a superb workforce into an amazing workforce.

By the point the Geese are prone to make the soar into the “good workforce” class, Dostal shall be firmly in his prime and if his “large sport” performances translate to the NHL playoffs, he shall be an integral piece to their potential success.

In his tenure to date, Verbeek has but to signal an RFA to a contract extension throughout a season. Nevertheless, if Dostal will get off to a scorching begin within the 2024-25 season, his price ticket will probably solely improve.

It is going to be a worthwhile state of affairs to observe because the Geese, as a workforce, look to make the climb out of the cellar of the NHL league standings in 2024-25 with Dostal set to play a big function.

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