Flames announce multi-year contract extensions for RFA forward, defenseman
The Calgary Flames seem to love handling their business late, first with the Matthew Tkachuk trade after 11pm ET on July 22nd, and now with re-signing restricted free agent winger Andrew Mangiapane after 11pm ET on Tuesday night.
According to Daily Faceoff's Frank Seravalli, the Flames and Mangiapane have avoided salary arbitration with a 3-year deal, which carries an annual average value of $5.8M. Not bad for a player who had never broken the 50-point barrier until this season.
Mangiapane notched 35 goals and 55 points for the Flames last season, good for 4th in team scoring. There's no question that the Toronto, Ontario native outperformed his last contract, earning just 2.425M in each of the last two seasons - a 2.98% cut of the Flames' total salary. With his new deal, the 26-year-old winger will now earn 7% of the Flames' total salary.
The Flames also inked RFA defenseman Oliver Kylington to a 2-year, $5M ($2.5M AAV) deal earlier Tuesday evening as well. GM Brad Treliving doing what he can to get his house in order before engaging in extension talks with Jonathan Huberdeau and MacKenzie Weegar.
