Joe Pavelski saved the Dallas Stars from the loss with Calgary Flames on 16 August 2020 and turned the game on by 5-4 victory. Joe Pavelski scored a hattrick against the Calgary Flames in a 5-4 overtime win and saved his team from the 3-1 deficit.
Pavelski scored the tying goal against Calgary, with 11.9 seconds remaining in the third period off a rebound. Before that, he scored the power-play goal in the first period off a rebound and second goal on the period off the rush.
Joe Pavelski against the game with Calgary Flames (©: dallasnews.com)
And with the hattrick of Pavelski, Stars won the game by with 3:55 remaining in the first overtime. It was the first hattrick for Joe Pavelski since his signing with the Dallas Stars back in summer 2019, and it happened in one of the biggest games of the team.
Concerning the narrow escape with Calgary Flames and his performance in the game, Pavelski mentioned:
"It was just an attitude that we were going to find a way to win,” Pavelski said. “Took a while to get that game tied, but there was never a sense that we weren’t going to win once we got to overtime. A couple big plays there, and we were on the right side tonight."
Joe Pavelski has been one of the aggressive strikers for Dallas Stars this season with vicious attacks on the opponents.
Joe Pavelski's Stats And Contract
Joe Pavelski signed with the Dallas Stars at National Hocket League in 2019. And he has been one of the valuable players of the Stars in the league.
His current NHL stats show him playing seven games where he scored five goals and made five points from it. Similarly, he took a couple of penalties, scored one power-play goal, earned one power-play point, made eighteen shots with the shooting ratio of 27.8 percent.
Currently, he is signed with the Dallas Stars for three years in $21 million, which guarantees him the worth of $7 million annually.
Joe Pavelski's Net Worth And Salary
Joe Pavelski has an estimated net worth of $24 million, which he derives from the professional career as a hockey player. He has been one of the noble players of the Dallas Stars since his signing in the summer of 2019. Similarly, he garners the average salary of $7 million as per his contract with Dallas Stars.
Pavelski started his professional career from Stevens Point Area, Senior High Panthers hockey team, and with them, he won the Wisconsin State Hockey Championship in 2002. Similarly, as a player of United States Hockey League's Waterloo Blackhawks, he won the USHL Dave Tyler Junior Player of the Year award in 2004.
Later, in 2013, he went for the NHL Draft, where San Jose Sharks selected him as their 205th overall pick in the seventh round. With the Sharks, he played six seasons. He made the annual salary of $4,000,000 in 2013, $5,000,000 in 2014, and $6,000,000 in 2015.
Joe Pavelski Is A Married Man
Joe Pavelski is married to his wife Sarah Pavelski, for more than a decade. They first met in Waterloo, when Joe Pavelski was pursuing his junior hockey career from Waterloo Black Hawks. Later, they started dating and took their relationship to the next level with a marital tie.
The Pavelski pair exchanged their wedding vows on 12 July 2008 and are together for twelve years.
Joe Pavelski, his wife Sarah, and their son, Nathan (©: The Mercury News)
In the course of their twelve years of their married life, the couple welcomed a son named Nathan Joseph Pavelski on 26 October 2010. He is now nine years old. Currently, Joe Pavelski lives happily with his family with immense love and understandings.