{"id":533962,"date":"2026-04-01T03:15:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/533962\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T03:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:15:41","slug":"flames-sign-jonathan-castagna-to-entry-level-contract-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/533962\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames Sign Jonathan Castagna To Entry-Level Contract \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, the Calgary Flames have signed one of their recently acquired prospects to his entry-level contract. Calgary <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/flames\/news\/flames-sign-jonathan-castagna\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> that they\u2019ve signed forward <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/535656\/jonathan-castagna\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jonathan Castagna<\/a> to a three-year, $3.225MM ($1.075MM AAV) entry-level contract beginning next season. Outside of his AAV, the Flames didn\u2019t provide any more contractual details.<\/p>\n<p>Castagna, 20, was drafted with the 70th overall pick of the 2023 NHL Draft by the now-defunct Arizona Coyotes. He was playing in the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association with St. Andrew\u2019s College at the time, scoring 29 goals and 72 points in 50 games.<\/p>\n<p>The following year, Castagna began his collegiate career at Cornell University. He had a decent showing as a freshman, scoring 11 goals and 25 points in 35 games with a +20 rating. Unfortunately, he took a step back in his sophomore season, registering five goals and 15 points in 32 contests.<\/p>\n<p>He rebounded in a big way this year. Although he only finished 40th in scoring throughout the entire NCAA, Castagna still had a point-per-game year, registering 15 goals and 34 points in 34 games with a +23 rating.<\/p>\n<p>In an interesting way, that made him a more expendable prospect for the Utah Mammoth. The team is already flush with young top-six forwards and has other prospects on the way. Looking to make a splash at the deadline, the Mammoth included Castagna in the package for defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/weegama01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-30_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MacKenzie Weegar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In their announcement, the Flames shared that Castagna will begin his professional career on an amateur tryout agreement with the AHL\u2019s Calgary Wranglers. He\u2019s dealing with a minor lower-body injury at the time being, so it\u2019ll be a few days before he makes his professional debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As expected, the Calgary Flames have signed one of their recently acquired prospects to his entry-level contract. Calgary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,58046,30,4,405],"class_list":{"0":"post-533962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary-flames","8":"tag-calgary","9":"tag-calgary-flames","10":"tag-calgaryflames","11":"tag-flames","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-jonathan-castagna","14":"tag-newsstand","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116327279934243425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533962","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=533962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}