{"id":524322,"date":"2026-03-26T19:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/524322\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:21:21","slug":"flyers-sign-ohio-states-riley-thompson-to-entry-level-contract-nbc-sports-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/524322\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers sign Ohio State\u2019s Riley Thompson to entry-level contract \u2013 NBC Sports Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Flyers dipped into the college free-agent pool Thursday by signing Riley Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>The one-year entry-level contract is for next season, but Thompson will report to AHL affiliate Lehigh Valley for the rest of this season on a professional tryout.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson is a big, 23-year-old forward who played the last two seasons at Ohio State. The 6-foot-4, 222-pounder can play some center and winger. He had 27 points (13 goals, 14 assists), 111 shots and 60 penalty minutes in 37 games for the Buckeyes this season.<\/p>\n<p>He had a strong finish with 11 points (four goals, seven assists) over Ohio State&#8217;s last 10 games. That stretch was highlighted by a three-point performance in an upset of nationally-ranked Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Thompson put up 33 points (17 goals, 16 assists) in 40 games for a Buckeyes team that went 24-14-2.<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa native started his college career at Alaska Anchorage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Flyers dipped into the college free-agent pool Thursday by signing Riley Thompson. The one-year entry-level contract is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5112],"tags":[1468,2575,5,4,1467,56,5205],"class_list":{"0":"post-524322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-flyers","8":"tag-flyers","9":"tag-flyers-news","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","14":"tag-philadelphiaflyers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116297104509351749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524322","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=524322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}