Ducks sign Ryan Poehling to 4-year contract extension
The center, in the final year of his deal after being acquired from the Philadelphia Flyers in the Trevor Zegras trade, will be under contract through 2030.
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The Ducks signed center Ryan Poehling to a four-year, $15 million contract extension Thursday, locking the versatile pivot down through 2030.
Poehling, 27, was acquired via an offseason trade for former team-leading scorer Trevor Zegras. It also netted the Ducks a second-round pick that became prospect Eric Nilson and a fourth-rounder that will likely confer to the Boston Bruins in exchange for winger Jeffrey Viel.
Though Zegras, who has played in all 60 games for Philly after missing 76 matches for the Ducks across the past two seasons while maintaining a career-best scoring clip, has given the Flyers all they expected, Poehling has certainly done the same for the Ducks.
He has created tempo and pushed pace, with winger Troy Terry calling him the heartbeat of the team. He has also carried a heavy load on an improved but still inconsistent penalty kill, matched up capably with offensive threats and produced 24 points.
Fourteen of his 17 assists have been of the primary variety. Poehling’s 62 blocked shots are more than twice as many as any other Ducks forward has accumulated this season. Mason McTavish’s 28 represent the next highest total and Poehling’s 4.72 blocks per 60 minutes elevate him even higher on the team leaderboard.
Poehling scored in a 5-1 win over the New York Islanders on Wednesday after recently expressing his desire to remain in Anaheim ahead of Friday’s noon trade deadline. He is in the final year of a two-year, $3.8 million contract he signed with the Flyers.
He was originally a first-round pick, No. 25 overall, of the Montreal Canadiens, who also drafted his uncle, Stan Palmer. Poehling developed in their system before spending a season with the Pittsburgh Penguins, moving onto Philadelphia and now landing in what projects to be his longest tenure to date.
