{"id":432689,"date":"2026-01-28T15:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/432689\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:32:10","slug":"detroit-red-wings-sign-d-ben-chiarot-to-three-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/432689\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Red Wings sign D Ben Chiarot to three-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a> have signed defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ben-chiarot\/8475279\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ben-chiarot\/8475279\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Chiarot<\/a> to a three-year, $11.55 million extension with an annual cap hit of $3.85 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chiarot, 34, played the last four seasons with the Red Wings, recording four goals and 11 points in 54 games this season while averaging 21:07 of ice time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot-3, left-shot defenceman was in the final season of a four-year, $19 million deal and was scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drafted 120th overall by the Atlanta Thrashers in 2009, Chiarot has 49 goals and 181 points in 777 career games split between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a>, and Red Wings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chiarot helped the Canadiens to the Stanley Cup Final in 2021, recording a goal and two points in 22 playoff games while averaging 25:15 of ice time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Red Wings sit in second place in the Atlantic Division with a 32-17-5 record and are one point behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/tampa-bay-lightning\/14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/tampa-bay-lightning\/14\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Red Wings have signed defenceman Ben Chiarot to a three-year, $11.55 million extension with an annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[4759,44863,599,93,33363,5137,5,4,3358,5138],"class_list":{"0":"post-432689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ben-chiarot-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8475279","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-red-wings","12":"tag-detroit-red-wings-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-17","13":"tag-detroitredwings","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-red-wings","17":"tag-redwings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115973453398110340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}