{"id":358922,"date":"2025-12-16T12:30:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/358922\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:30:26","slug":"vancouver-canucks-f-max-sasson-agree-on-two-year-2m-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/358922\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks, F Max Sasson agree on two-year, $2M contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">VANCOUVER \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> have shored up their future depth, signing centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/max-sasson\/8484136\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/max-sasson\/8484136\" target=\"_blank\">Max Sasson<\/a> to a two-year extension with an average annual value of US$1 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">General manager Patrik Allvin announced the move Monday, saying in a statement that the 25-year-old forward has made the most of the opportunities presented to him and provided solid play for the Canucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sasson has played in 29 games for Vancouver this season, hitting career highs in goals (six), points (eight) and average ice time (11:02).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He contributed three goals and four assists over 29 games with the NHL team last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sasson has also logged 106 regular-season games for the American Hockey League\u2019s Abbotsford Canucks, notching 78 points and he helped the team to a Calder Cup title last spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The six-foot-one, 181-pound athlete from Birmingham, Mich., originally signed with Vancouver as an undrafted free agent in March 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 15, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 The Vancouver Canucks have shored up their future depth, signing centre Max Sasson to a two-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,5,47313,4,893,27,34339,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-358922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-canucks","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-max-sasson-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8484136","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-vancouver","13":"tag-vancouver-canucks","14":"tag-vancouver-canucks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-23","15":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115729257160733793","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358922","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=358922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}