How Much Money Does Patrik Laine Make A Year

The Blue Jackets have a contract offer on the table that would make winger Patrik Laine the highest paid player on the team next season, and he is considering accepting the offer.

Patrik Laine is mulling a new contract.

Laine, 23, is considering whether to sign a $vii.5 one thousand thousand qualifying offering from the Blue Jackets. It would make him the team's highest paid player next flavour and marking an increase of $750,000 from his $6.75 million bacon cap value this past season.

The Dispatch has learned the Finnish star forrad may sign the deal, which would give him a one-year contract and buy the squad'due south management more than time to convince him to sign a longer extension. Blue Jackets general director Jarmo Kekalainen did not respond to a asking for comment. Andy Scott, one of Laine's representatives, declined to annotate.

Laine struggled last season subsequently the Winnipeg Jets traded him and forrad Jack Roslovic to the Blue Jackets Jan. 23 for Pierre-Luc Dubois and a 2022 3rd-round pick. He posted career lows in virtually every offensive category — finishing with simply 12 goals, 12 assists and 24 points in 46 games — simply there is significant rebound potential.

Later on the Jets selected him second overall in 2016, one ahead of Dubois, Laine put up 140 goals, 110 assists and 250 points in four-plus seasons in Winnipeg (306 games). He scored a career-loftier 44 goals in his second NHL season and topped 30 goals in each of his beginning three campaigns.

Those numbers earned him a two-year "bridge" contract signed Sept. 29, 2019 worth $13.5 million and carried an average annual value (salary cap striking) worth $6.75 million. He earned $half dozen million of the deal in the first yr of the contract and $7.5 1000000 this past season, which determined the amount of his qualifying offering.

Should Laine sign the qualifying offering, he volition accept ane additional year left of restricted free agency and could eventually become an unrestricted gratuitous agent at 25, a remarkably immature age to striking the NHL'due south open up marketplace.

Zach Werenski, who counts as a $5 one thousand thousand bacon cap hit once his contract is averaged out, is the closest on the roster to Laine in actual income for next season at $7 million.

Getting Laine'due south signature on the qualifying offer would give Kekalainen cost certainty, non only for budgeting purposes but also for potential trade discussions. Contempo reports accept said the Bluish Jackets are listening to offers for Laine, only no specifics were given.

Laine is in Finland going through an offseason training regimen. He recently made headlines by telling a Finnish media outlet that he was miscast by the Blue Jackets coaching staff last flavor, specifically erstwhile head coach John Tortorella.

Laine's comments, translated to English, were straight.

"Everyone should be given the opportunity to be themselves," he said. "Then, of class, you have to play within the team's organization. I call back information technology's stupid not to use my potential. But then it'south another matter what the coaches think."

Tortorella declined to comment. The Dispatch has since learned that Brad Larsen, who was promoted this summer from an assistant part to replace Tortorella, was the target of comments fabricated by Laine that led to the star frontward getting benched in a three-2 loss on Feb. 8 against the Carolina Hurricanes.

Larsen declined to comment on Laine, only a source close to the state of affairs said at that place should exist no lingering issues.

The Blue Jackets recently hired banana double-decker Pascal Vincent away from the Jets' arrangement, reuniting Vincent with Roslovic and Laine.

"That wasn't a deciding gene for me at all," Larsen said afterward Vincent's add-on was announced in June. "That's kind of a bonus. He knows who they are and has worked with Jack, and Patty knows him from beingness effectually the same arrangement. I only experience like that'southward a bonus."

Now, barring an unforeseen merchandise and assuming Laine signs the offer, Vincent and Larsen will get another spin coaching the talented winger, who should come into next season highly motivated.

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