4:46 p.m.: PuckPedia has the full breakdown of Toews’ deal, which reads as follows. Toews has a full no-movement clause in 2024-25 and 2025-26, which downgrades to a 12-team no-trade list in 2026-27 and remains in place for the life of the deal.
2024-25: $7.75MM salary
2025-26: $7.75MM salary
2026-27: $5.25MM salary, $1MM signing bonus
2027-28: $7.75MM salary
2028-29: $7.75MM salary
2029-30: $7.5MM salary
2030-31: $6MM salary
11:16 a.m.: Devon Toews has signed a seven-year contract extension with the Colorado Avalanche. The contract will start in the 2024-25 season and end following the 2030-31 season. The new deal carries an annual cap hit of $7.25MM, per The Athletic’s Peter Baugh, or a $50.75MM total value. The deal starts in Toews’ age-30 season and ends following his age-37 year. This likely means that Toews will spend the rest of his career with the Avalanche, something he expressed interest in before the season started. Toews joined the Avalanche via trade ahead of the 2020-21 season, when Colorado sent two second-round picks to the Islanders for him.
Since then, Toews has played in an even 200 games with the Avalanche, recording 139 points along the way. He’s become a featured piece of the Avalanche roster, averaging around 25 minutes of ice time each night through his first three seasons with the club. He was also a major piece of the Avalanche’s 2022 Stanley Cup run, playing in 20 games and netting 15 points while averaging nearly 26 minutes of ice time through the postseason.
Despite multiple 50-point seasons and a track record of success with the Avalanche, Toews didn’t make the NHL until he was 24. The defender was drafted in the fourth round of the 2014 NHL Draft, following his freshman year at Quinnipiac University. He would go on to play through his junior year, before moving to the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the AHL for the 2016-17 season. Toews recorded 45 points in 76 AHL games that year – his first season of pro hockey. He would go on to play in 54 more AHL games over the next two seasons, before playing his rookie season in the NHL in 2018-19. He appeared in 116 games with the Islanders over two seasons, scoring 47 points, before being dealt to Colorado.
Toews has one assist and a +2 rating in one game this season.
Toews will soon be 30 years old, The term is nothing short of ridiculous. Should have been closer to 3, It’s no surprise is to how these GMs paint themselves into cap hell.
Wilf in with his usual terrible hot take. Towes is considered one of the best D men in the league and will be playing with Makar for 7 years. The cap should be up at least 30 million by then so 7 mill for a bottom paring by then should be fine considering he could easily be around 9-10 aav over 7 years this offseason
Where are you getting your numbers? I know there’s talk of about a 4mil jump next summer, but I don’t think I see 30 mil in 7 years
You ever hear of exponential growth bud
Also not saying it’s going to be up 30 year over year. Saying I’m 7 years cap should be up 30 million compared to today. 4×7 is 28 so 30 isn’t a stretch by any means if not relatively low based on growth and inflation
@bigdaddyt -This league might struggle with linear growth, so exponential grow is highly optimistic. That could turn for the better if Bally Sports craps the bed for good, and either the individual teams create streaming platforms or the league does it for them and basically pays themselves for airing the games. The access angle would have to pass muster with the fans, though, i.e., bogus fake blackout rules because you happen to live within 1000 miles of another team, for instance. And, yes, 1K miles is a little facetious, but a few years ago I read of an NHL Center Ice customer who was jammed out of watching another market that was 500 miles away. Going over-the-air is also an option, as VGK is doing now, reportedly.
This has Burnaby Joe coming in and direct dealing all over it. Really happy w the cap number! Sakic continues to provide for this franchise!
I don’t see any concerns with the length of the contract based on Toews style of play. He is not overly physical or reckless. 7.25M per is an absolute bargain considering other overpayments throughout the league.
I’m not sure “absolute bargain” would be on the lips of anyone but diehard Avs fans, but for the minutes he plays & the production they get out of him, it’s not a bad contract. I think most fans hear “Devon Toews” and don’t really know who he is. Dude gets basically zero press in the wider sports world at large.
Just because he gets no press doesn’t mean he’s not a top 20-30 defenseman in the NHL
Top 20-30 is a stretch. 50ish I could agree to, he is a top pair dman, be he’s not a #1 on pretty much any team.
You’re out of your mind with this ’50ish’ nonsense. He’s one of the best defensive players in the game today and still has put up .695 points per game since joining colorado. You can’t honestly believe there’s 49 better defenseman out there, can you?
Top 25 for sure.
Is that a product of playing on a pair with Makar or is he himself a .695ppg player without Makar? Being a top 50 in a league with about 230 isn’t calling him bad. it’s calling him a #2 on just about every team. And there is nothing wrong with that. Any team would be more than happy to have him. But 7.25M when he is 37 is going to be rich.
Fair argument. I think he’s a top pairing defenseman on any team in the league, and there’s not a huge difference between 25-50 anyways. I just did a quick list for fun and he ended up a 33 ;)
Some teams are going to be really screwed if the cap doesn’t end up going up a lot
Very true! And IF there’s yet another pandemic it may take several seasons to dig out.
Bettman already said 4.5 million next year
It is an absolute bargain contract. There is no doubt he would have received much more if he had hit the open market.
7 x 7.25 is an Amazing deal, great player, plays really well with Makar….thats a steal right there. Longer term with lower salary is the only way they could make it work. Win win for both parties
Seems like a fair deal. All this talk of over and under… just seems fair. Cheap right now, expensive when he is 37. It’s a fair deal.
Think crazy deals like EK65 and Dahlin have screwed everyone’s perspective.
This is a steal of a deal !!
Teams are like junior teams now. When you have players you go for it. Teams like Chicago and kings don’t regret this choice. Teams like San Jose and Nashville do .