Ryan McDonagh is under contract to the Tampa Bay Lightning for the 2025-26 season. That much we can all agree on, right? That’s the good news. He’s going to be back in the blue and white for at least one more season, and if things work out the right way, at least a couple of more. How many more seasons, and for how much money is where things start to get a little murky.
The 36-year-old defenseman is finishing up the final season of a 7-year, $47.25 million contract that he signed back in the summer of 2018 as one of the final big contracts Steve Yzerman handed out before re-signing in September (Nikita Kucherov’s 8-year extension was the other one).