Brock Faber is not leaving home anytime soon.

Announced on Monday afternoon, the Minnesota Wild have signed their star rookie defenseman to a very long-term contract, spanning eight years for a total of $68 million. The contract will carry a cap hit of $8.5 million.

The 21-year-old blueliner just finished his rookie campaign where he played in all 82 games and managed to score eight goals and 47 points, while leading all Wild skaters. He did all of this while averaging 24 minutes and 58 seconds per game — only Rasmus Dahlin, Seth Jones, Mike Matheson, Drew Doughty, and John Carlson were on the ice more for their team, and Faber was doing it in his very first year of professional hockey. A true workhorse.

Faber was set to be a restricted free agent after the 2024-25 season, and will now be under contract with the Wild through the 2032-33 season.

Ever so steadily, the Wild are keeping a group of very talented young players in St. Paul for a very long time. Just last year, Minnesota locked up winger Matt Boldy to a seven-year deal; and before that, center Joel Eriksson Ek committed his future to the Wild. With Kirill Kaprizov having just two more years left on his contract, and the long-term deals of Jonas Brodin and Jared Spurgeon still here for four and three more years, respectfully, the Wild have set themselves up for their new core of players if anything goes awry.

Faber is now set to hopefully have a monster sophomore season that could spell out some more team success overall. If the Wild’s blue line is just healthy enough to not force Faber to play almost half an hour each night, and the fellow youngsters like Marco Rossi, Marat Khusnutdinov, Liam Ohgren, and the like, really start producing a whole lot of points; then we should be in for a fun ride