Adin Hill agrees to a two-year contract extension with the Golden Knights

The Vegas Golden Knights have announced a two-year contract extension with goalkeeper Adin Hill.

The deal is worth $4.9 million a year.

Hill’s value seems to rise with each new round of the postseason. In leading the Vegas Golden Knights to the Stanley Cup, the 27-year-old veteran climbed the depth charts among free goaltenders.

Playing on an expired $2.2 million salary cap deal, Hill raised his profile with series wins over the Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars only to reach the final. And then, opposed by the postseason’s most iconic goaltender, Florida’s Sergei Bobrovsky, Hill stole the show in the title round as well.

All told in the postseason, Hill was 11-4 with a 2.17 goals-against average and a . 932 save percentage, and his only loss in the Finals—Game 3—came in overtime.

“We’re very happy for him,” Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said of Hill during the final. “He’s a guy who’s had some injuries and he’s had to work his way back into the lineup.” “Obviously he’s done a great job for us, and he’s a big reason we’re here.”

All that said, while teams were weighing his entire body this summer, he was still a goaltender who hadn’t started 30 games in a season before and only won 26 over the past two regular seasons.

But Hill, a 2015 third-round draft pick from the Arizona Coyotes, has a 2.67 goals against average with a 0.910 save percentage, numbers often associated with summer signings suitable for goalie, and he also has five stops in 88 starts.