The Canes’ second-leading scorer from a season ago is about to get a whole lot richer.
The Carolina Hurricanes took care of one of their biggest pieces of lingering offseason business Tuesday, signing restricted free-agent center Victor Rask to a six-year contract worth $24 million. The deal will pay Rask $4 million per year each season of the contract.
Rask’s new contract is similar to those recently signed by the Panthers’ Vincent Trocheck (6 years, $28.5 million) and the Flyers’ Sean Couturier (6 years, $26 million), both of whom will be making less money up front in their deals but will eventually increase their salaries as they approach seasons that bought out unrestricted free-agent years.