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Authentic Matt Ryan Jersey , Fla. (AP) The Tampa Bay Lightning have re-signed forward J.T. Miller to a five-year contract worth $26.25 million.Miller will count $5.5 million against the salary cap through 2022-23. General manager Steve Yzerman announced the deal with the pending restricted free agent on Tuesday.Acquired from the New York Rangers at the trade deadline, Miller put up 18 points in 19 regular-season games with Tampa Bay and then eight more in 17 playoff games. The 25-year-old Miller has 82 goals and 108 assist in 360 NHL games.Miller’s contract puts cap-strapped Tampa Bay closer to the $79.5 million ceiling, with new contracts still needed for restricted free agent defenseman Slater Koekkoek and forward Cedric Paquette.The Lightning are one of a handful of teams set to meet with New York Islanders star John Tavares in Los Angeles to try to persuade the pending free agent to join them.— GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) The Arizona Coyotes acquired goalie Darcy Kuemper from the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday for forward Tobias Rieder and goalie Scott Wedgewood.The 27-year-old Kuemper was 10-1-3 with a 2.10 goals-against average in 19 games for the Kings this season. He’s 51-35-17 with a 2.52 GAA in 104 career games with Minnesota and Los Angeles.The 6-foot-5 Kuemper will join No. 1 goalie Antti Raanta as the netminding pair for the Coyotes.Article continues below ...”Our team
Matt Ryan Jersey Limited , when we’ve gotten quality goaltending, has played very well. This gives us two goaltenders that we are very confident in,” Coyotes general manager John Chayka said. ”When I look at our season, I feel like our season could have gone differently with better goaltending early on.”The Coyotes
http://www.atlantafalconsteamonline.com/matt-ryan-jersey , with Raanta opening the season unavailable due to injury, lost their first 11 games. Raanta has played in 35 of the team’s 59 games.”You need great goaltending in this league in order to be successful and with Antti and Darcy, we are confident that we have an excellent tandem for the future,” Chayka said in a statement from the team.Kuemper and the Coyotes were finalizing a contract extension Wednesday night. He said he is excited to be part of the growth of an Arizona franchise with a lot of young players.He knows Raanta is the top goalie at present.”I’m just going to come in and work hard and try to earn as many starts as I can
Authentic Calvin Ridley Jersey ,” Kuemper said. ”I’m not coming in with any expectations.”The 25-year-old Rieder, from Germany, had eight goals and 11 assists in 58 games for Arizona this season. He has 51 goals and 60 assists in 292 career games, all with the Coyotes.”We continue to look for opportunities to improve our team speed and Tobias will bring that dynamic to our club
Calvin Ridley Jersey Limited ,” Kings general manager Rob Blake said in a team statement. ”We appreciate Darcy Kuemper’s contributions this season as he has played very well for us in his role.”Chayka said Rieder was deemed expendable with a number of other wingers with strong left shots, both with Arizona and in the minor leagues.Wedgewood was 5-9-4 with a 3.45 GAA in 20 games this season for Arizona. The 25-year-old goalie appeared in four games for New Jersey in 2015-16.
