{"id":434032,"date":"2026-01-29T08:50:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/434032\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:50:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:50:42","slug":"red-wings-extend-chiarot-for-three-years-detroithockey-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/434032\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wings Extend Chiarot for Three Years \u2013 DetroitHockey.Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                         <img width=\"755\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0057.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail-single-image size-thumbnail-single-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>                                    <\/p>\n<p>The Detroit Red Wings announced a three-year contract extension for defenseman Ben Chiarot on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BENNY! \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RedWings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#RedWings<\/a> have signed Ben Chiarot to a three-year contract extension with an AAV of $3,850,000. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MXrDz66tyU\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/MXrDz66tyU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DetroitRedWings\/status\/2016512876253478953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given his play this season, an extension seemed inevitable. After not living up to his contract for the first three years of his current contract, as a pending unrestricted free agent he\u2019s been a calming presence on Detroit\u2019s blueline. Combined with Detroit having only three of their current blueliners signed for next season (prior to this extension), it makes sense for the Wings to keep him around. Bringing him back at $900,000 per year less than his current deal also seems to make sense.<\/p>\n<p>The third year is my concern. He just spent three years not being worth his contract and he\u2019s only getting older. I have a hard time seeing him playing as he is now when he\u2019s 37. Maybe it works out. Maybe the cap keeps rising. There are ways that this could be fine. But right now I\u2019m looking at the third year as a concern.<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Red Wings announced a three-year contract extension for defenseman Ben Chiarot on Wednesday. BENNY! \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,93,5137,5,4,3358,5138],"class_list":{"0":"post-434032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-red-wings","10":"tag-detroitredwings","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-red-wings","14":"tag-redwings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115977534152336039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434032","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=434032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}