{"id":514047,"date":"2026-03-20T23:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/514047\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T23:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:40:24","slug":"canucks-sign-victor-mancini-to-two-year-extension-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/514047\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks Sign Victor Mancini To Two-Year Extension \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Canucks are getting more work done early with one of their pending restricted free agents. Vancouver <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Canucks\/status\/2035121751525642660\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> that they\u2019ve signed defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mancivi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-20_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Victor Mancini<\/a> to a two-year, $2MM extension.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a fairly straightforward extension since Mancini wasn\u2019t eligible for much of anything extra in his next deal. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PuckPedia\/status\/2035122856258928699\" rel=\"nofollow\">PuckPedia shared<\/a> that the 23-year-old blueliner will earn a $905K salary during the 2026-27 season, and a $1.05MM salary in the 2027-28 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Hancock, MI native is in his first full season with the Canucks since being acquired from the New York Rangers last year in the trade that sent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/millejt01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-20_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">J.T. Miller<\/a> back to the Big Apple. He was drafted 159th overall by the Rangers in the 2022 NHL Draft and made his debut on October 9, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He got off to a solid start to his NHL career. By the end of October last season, Mancini had scored one goal and four points in eight games with a +4 rating, averaging 16:37 of ice time per game.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, not much has gone right since. In Mancini\u2019s next 41 games, split between the Rangers and Canucks, he has scored one goal and four points with a -23 rating.<\/p>\n<p>Still, that\u2019s not the entire picture. Even in limited ice time, Mancini has managed a respectable 90.9% on-ice SV% at even strength. He has also performed well with Vancouver\u2019s AHL affiliate this season, scoring four goals and 12 points in 33 games with the Abbotsford Canucks with a +1 rating.<\/p>\n<p>Given the ongoing rebuild in Vancouver and the $1MM AAV on his new deal, it\u2019s more than likely Mancini will open the 2026-27 campaign with the Canucks. This summer, Vancouver is expected to re-sign Derek Forbort or Pierre-Olivier Joseph, giving Mancini a pathway to the bottom-pairing unless the Canucks make another addition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Canucks are getting more work done early with one of their pending restricted free agents. Vancouver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,5,4,405,893,27,5313,1863],"class_list":{"0":"post-514047","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-nhl","11":"tag-transactions","12":"tag-vancouver","13":"tag-vancouver-canucks","14":"tag-vancouvercanucks","15":"tag-victor-mancini"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116264149102876901","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514047","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=514047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}