Canadiens D Mike Matheson agrees to 5-year, $30M extension

Field Level Media
28 Nov 2025, 22:25 GMT+10

(Photo credit: Eric Bolte-Imagn Images)

Montreal Canadiens defenseman Mike Matheson agreed to a five-year, $30 million contract extension on Friday morning.

The deal begins next season and extends through the 2030-31 campaign.

Matheson is playing in the final season of an eight-year, $39 million contract. He was scheduled to be an unrestricted free agent this summer.

Matheson, 31, has collected 14 points (four goals, 10 assists) and a plus-13 rating in 22 games this season. He averages a team-best 24:50 of ice time.

Matheson has totaled 279 points (78 goals, 201 assists) in 649 career games with the Florida Panthers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Canadiens. He was selected by the Panthers with the 23rd overall pick in the 2012 NHL Draft.

--Field Level Media

Watch latest videos

News RELEASES

Publish news of your business, community or sports group, personnel appointments, major event and more by submitting a news release to Herald Globe.

More Information

International

Section

Serial breaches of ceasefire with Lebanon admitted by IDF

In an extraordinary statement issued Thursday by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), it admits it has carried out about 1,200 diverse...

Hong Kong residential towers ablaze, death toll skyrockets

HONG KONG (ANI/Big News Network): A devastating fire has torn through several high-rise apartment blocks in a Hong Kong housing complex,...

Steel Tycoon Laksmi Mittal to relocate from UK over tax changes

LONDON, U.K.: Lakshmi N. Mittal, one of the world's wealthiest businessmen, is preparing to leave the UK after nearly 30 years, according...

50 abducted Nigerian pupils flee captors; Pope wants others released

ABUJA, Nigeria: Fifty of the 303 students kidnapped from a Catholic school in Niger state, Nigeria, have escaped and returned home,...

Beijing warns Tokyo after PM Takaichi’s Taiwan salvo raises tensions

HONG KONG: China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi on November 23 called it shocking that Japan's prime minister publicly sent what he described...

Grok faces legal scrutiny in France after holocaust denial post

PARIS, France: France is taking action against Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok after it generated French posts that questioned the use...

Sports

Section