Colton Sissons signs 3-year, $1.875 million contract with Nashville Predators
The pending RFA is going to give Nashville depth center options for at least three more years.
The Nashville Predators have signed Colton Sissons to a 3-year, $1.875 million contact.
#Preds sign forward Colton Sissons to a 3-year, $1.875 million contract.
— Nashville Predators (@PredsNHL) February 22, 2016
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Colton Sissons' deal is a 2-way in 16-17; then a 1-way the next 2 years.
— Thomas Willis (@TomAWillis) February 22, 2016
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Though he's seen very limited time in the NHL over the past few years, Sissons has shown he'll be a fantastic bottom six center option for Nashville. He routinely drives possession when he's skating with players like Austin Watson, Gabriel Bourque or Miikka Salomaki, and gives the fourth line a jump it hasn't seen in years.
Nashville, Tenn. (February 22, 2016) – Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced Monday that the club has signed forward Colton Sissons to a three-year, $1.875 million contract. He will make $575,000 at the NHL level and $100,000 at the AHL level in 2016-17, and $650,000 in both 2017-18 and 2018-19.
Sissons, 22 (11/5/93), has appeared in 19 games for the Predators in 2015-16, notching a pair of points (1g-1a) and a 59 percent success rate in the face-off circle, best among all NHLers taking at least 100 draws. He has also served as the youngest captain in Milwaukee Admirals history this season, amassing 16 points (6g-10a) in 33 games. Now in his third professional season, the North Vancouver, B.C., native has six points (2g-4a) in 36 career NHL games, and 102 points (56g-46a) in 171 AHL contests. The 6-foot-1, 200-pound center ranked among the Top 20 AHLers in goals in both 2013-14 (25) and 2014-15 (25), becoming the first player in the Admirals AHL history to start his career with back-to-back 25-goal seasons. He was one of three rookies to be named to the 2014 AHL All-Star Team that took on Farjestads BK in the 2014 AHL All-Star Classic.