Litter Box Cats · Jul 4, 2016
Panthers ink F Reilly Smith to five-year extension
Smith's 25-goal season earns him a lucrative long-term dealThe Florida Panthers continued to lock up its young core, signing second line winger Reilly Smith to a five-year, $25M contract.
Smith's new deal will kick in at the start of the 2017-18 season. He will become an unrestricted free agent in the summer of 2022. The final year of his current contract has a AAV annual of $3,425,000.
The 25-year-old native of Etobicoke, ON scored a career-high 25 goals and added 25 assists in his first season with the Panthers after the club acquired him, and the contract of Marc Savard, from the Boston Bruins for Jimmy Hayes.