Anaheim Ducks, Lukas Dostal reaches the five -year expansion

The Anaheim Ducks and the limited Free Agent goalkeeper Lukas Dostal have reached a contract extension of five years, the team said on Thursday afternoon.

According to Eric Stephens from The Athletic, the deal is a total of 32.5 million US dollars and has a upper limit of $ 6.5 million for the limited Free Agent.

“Saying super excited that I stay in Anaheim for another five years. I like to play in front of you and I love to live in this community. We are a team that is on the advance, and I can hardly wait to see them soon in the Honda Center,” said Dostal as part of a video message shared by the Ducks.

The 25-year-old had an average of 3.10 goals last season and a percentage of 0.903 savings in 54 games, his fourth at the NHL level.

In a cap goal of $ 6.5 million, Dostal will be the 10th active goalkeeper of the NHL in the NHL this season. He stands behind Juuse Saros, who will earn 7.74 million US dollars and shortly before the former duck goalkeeper John Gibson, who will bring a cap of 6.4 million US dollars with Detroit's Red Wings this season.

“Lukas has proven that he is a goalkeeper of number 1 and we are very happy to complete this deal,” said General Manager of Ducks, Patverbeek, in a press release. “With his best hockey, he is in the heyday of his career.”

In 121 career -NHL season games, Dostal has a percentage of 3.29 GAA and a saving of 0.902.

Previously, he had completed a two-year $ 1.63 million deal, which paid him $ 813,000 annually.

Ducks Big off -season continues, Mctavish is still not signed

To lock up Dostal is only the latest big step in a busy summer for the ducks.

The team commissioned Joel Quenneville as the new head coach to start the low season. The team then acquired the veteran winger Chris Kreider from the New York Rangers, Trevor Zegras exchanged the Philadelphia Flyers against striker Ryan Poehling and the second and fourth round in June and exchanged Gibson against Petr Mrazek.

The ducks added their top Six on July 1 and signed Mikael Granlund for a three-year contract of $ 21 million.

Even after the integration of Dostal, the ducks still have more than 22 million US dollars at CAP place, with the limited Free Agent Mason McTavish still needing a new deal.

Team owner Henry Samueli stated in May that he was ready to end the seven -year -old drought after the season.

“We won't write stupid checks,” said Samueli, according to The Athletic. “But I said it [GM Pat Verbeek]They do what is necessary to make this a really steady, multi -year playoff candidate and Stanley Cup candidate on the street. And if it means signing well -known freelance agents, do it. We told him that they were not restricted by the budget. “

The Ducks scored 80 points since 2019 in 82 games this season. The team last reached the playoffs in 2018.