Jakub Voracek and the Philadelphia Flyers agreed to a multiyear contract extension Thursday.
Terms of the contract were not disclosed, but TSN reports it is for eight years and $66 million, an average annual value of $8.25 million.
"Once the season ends, you start looking at your priorities, and clearly [signing Voracek to an extension] was our No. 1 priority," Flyers general manager Ron Hextall said. "The Jake Voraceks of the world are few and far between, and he’s certainly not a player that we were willing to take the risk of losing.