MONTREAL – Forward Cole Caufield has signed an eight-year contract extension worth a total of US$62.8 million with the Montreal Canadiens, team general manager Kent Hughes confirmed on Monday.
The 22-year-old Caufield scored 26 goals and added 10 assists in 46 games in 2022-23 before undergoing season-ending shoulder surgery. The Mosinee, Wis. native led the Habs in goals scored for the second straight year, tied with team captain Nick Suzuki.
According to CapFriendly.com, Caufield will receive a base salary of $4.975 million in each of the first two years of the deal. To this salary will be added signing bonuses of $5M for each of these two campaigns.
In addition, his contract includes no-trade clauses in each of the last three years of the pact.
The average annual value of the contract will be $7.85 million.
The five-foot-seven, 174-pound forward has scored 53 goals and 31 assists in 123 NHL games since making his debut in 2020-21.
Caufield was selected in the first round, 15th overall, by the Canadiens in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft.
