{"id":534243,"date":"2026-04-01T06:37:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/534243\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:37:53","slug":"calgary-flames-sign-forward-jonathan-castagna-to-three-year-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/534243\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Flames sign forward Jonathan Castagna to three-year, entry-level contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CALGARY \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Flames<\/a> have signed forward Jonathan Castagna to a three-year, entry-level level contact, the NHL club announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deal carries an average annual value of US$1.075 million and will start in the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Castagna will join the American Hockey League\u2019s Calgary Wranglers on a professional tryout contract for the remainder of this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 20-year-old from Toronto, had a team-leading 34 points (15 goals, 19 assists) in 34 NCAA games with Cornell this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He earned a spot on the All-ECAC First Team and was named the conference\u2019s top defensive forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Castagna, who is out day-to-day with a lower-body injury was acquired by Calgary from Utah on March 4 in a trade that sent defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mackenzie-weegar\/8477346\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/mackenzie-weegar\/8477346\" target=\"_blank\">MacKenzie Weegar<\/a> to the Mammoth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Mammoth (then the Arizona Coyotes) selected Castagna in the third round, 70th overall, of the 2023 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 The Calgary Flames have signed forward Jonathan Castagna to a three-year, entry-level level contact, the NHL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,4,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-534243","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-nhl","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116328077960258124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534243","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=534243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}