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Defenseman Drew Doughty has agreed to an eight-year http://www.saintsauthorizedshops.com/authentic-rick-leonard-jersey , $88 million contract extension through the 2026-27 season to stay with the Los Angeles Kings.
Los Angeles announced the whopping deal Friday for its two-time Stanley Cup-winning cornerstone.
After cracking the Kings roster as an 18-year-old, Doughty has been among the NHLs top defensemen throughout a 10-year career spent entirely with the Kings.
He won the Norris Trophy as the leagues best defenseman in 2016. As an aggressive, skilled two-way blueliner, he has been a finalist for the award in three other seasons including 2017-18, when he scored a career-high 60 points while playing in all 82 games for the fourth consecutive season.
Doughty played a major role in the Kings Stanley Cup triumphs in 2012 and 2014, and he also has two Olympic gold medals from playing for Canada.
Drew Doughty is one of the best defensemen in the world, and we are obviously excited to have reached this point in the process in which he has committed to the Kings long-term, Kings general manager Rob Blake said.
He still has one year left on an eight-year http://www.ravensauthorizedshops.com/authentic-mark-andrews-jersey , $56 million contract signed in September 2011. Doughty cant formally sign the new deal until July 1, when he will be one year away from free agency.
By the time his new deal ends, Doughty will be 37 years old. Neither the Kings nor Doughty seriously expected the defenseman to leave his adopted home in free agency next year. He grew up a Kings fan in southern Ontario, and he was thrilled when Los Angeles chose him with the second overall pick in 2008.
Doughty is second among Kings defensemen in career goals (102), assists (320) and points (422), trailing only Blake in every category. He also has appeared in 84 playoff games, scoring 51 points.
The 28-year-old Doughtys new contract has the NHLs highest average annual value among defensemen, although it could be surpassed by the next contract for Ottawas Erik Karlsson http://www.steelersauthorizedshops.com/authentic-james-washington-jersey , whose current contract expires in 2019.
Los Angeles core of elite veterans is all signed to long-term contracts through at least the next three seasons. Those players include captain Anze Kopitar, goalie Jonathan Quick, Dustin Brown, Jeff Carter, Alec Martinez, Dion Phaneuf and newcomer Ilya Kovalchuk, who signed with the Kings earlier this week.
If there is a glaring hole on Golden States championship resume, its that the Warriors have never gone back-to-back.
That will change.
The Warriors are about to win their second straight NBA championship and their third in the last four seasons all of them coming at the expense of the Cleveland Cavaliers http://www.jetsauthorizedshops.com/authentic-trenton-cannon-jersey , who wont have enough even if LeBron James plays to the absolute utmost of his capabilities. The Warriors have home-court advantage, and have three of the best four players who will appear in the series.
Theyre just too good to lose.
If they were going to lose, it would have been in the Western Conference finals against the Houston Rockets. Houston was a team that was built for one purpose beating the Warriors. And the Rockets might have done it, too, had Chris Pauls hamstring not popped in the final seconds of Game 5 and forced him to the sideline for the rest of the series.
Golden State rallied in both Game 6 and Game 7, as Paul looked on helplessly. Yes, the Warriors caught a huge break. They wont waste this chance.
The teams have changed mightily over the last four seasons. There were 20 players who appeared in first Cavaliers-Warriors game of the 2014-15 season only eight of them will be in uniform during this series. Kevin Durant is in Golden State now, Kyrie Irving isnt with the Cavaliers anymore Authentic Martin Fehervary Jersey , the benches are very different particularly in Clevelands case.
But the principals are still there: James, Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green.
And over these four years since James returned to northeast Ohio, the Warriors are 17-9 against the Cavaliers. Golden State needed six games to beat Cleveland for the title in 2015, five games last season and if Andrew Bogut didnt get hurt in Game 5 of the 2016 Finals the Warriors who ended up blowing a 3-1 lead that year probably would have won that series as well.
James might be playing the best basketball of his life. Thats why Cleveland is still in these playoffs.
Even he wont be able to save the Cavs this time.
Cleveland looked like a team that couldnt guard anyone in the regular season, and to its credit has greatly improved on that end of the court during this postseason. But facing Golden State will be such a bigger challenge than Indiana, Toronto and Boston could provide. And if the Warriors get Andre Iguodala back Ronnie Harrison Color Rush Jersey , their spacing will be even better and put further demands on the Cavs.
The Cavs wont have any pressure on their shoulders. The Warriors will have it all, but after Curry, Durant and Thompson found a way to rally from 15 points down in Houston to win a Game 7 on the road and capture the Western Conference, Golden State will come into this series brimming with confidence.
That confidence will keep growing until they get handed another Larry OBrien Trophy.
The pick: Warriors in five.
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