John Tavares will remain a member of Maple Leafs of Toronto.
The team announced on Friday that the former captain had accepted an extension of the four-year contract, an average annual value of the latter being 4.38 million US dollars.
The 34 -year -old man appeared in 75 games last season, recording 74 points: 38 goals and 36 assists. Unfortunately, Mississauga, Ontario, the individual efforts of the natives were not sufficient because the team has again failed in the playoffs.
The future of Tavares has been one of the big questions to which the Maple Leafs are out of season, with a free agency which should start on July 1. Tavares said he wanted to remain a maple leaf, but the star teammate Mitch Marner was more mom in the matter.
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Director General Brad Treliving said Thursday that he expects the star Marner to arrive on the free market on Tuesday, unless there is a radical change in contractual negotiations.
Treliving said in pre-NHL media availability that Leafs communicated with Marner. The team can always sign Marner after the opening of the free agency, but lose the right to offer it an eight -year contract. NHL teams can sign players to a maximum of seven years on the free market.
Marner has just come out of a 102 -point career season, the last one in a contract of US $ 65.4 million.
However, he took the weight of the frustration of the base of Toronto fans in the face of the team’s repeated disappointments.
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