{"id":535717,"date":"2026-04-02T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/535717\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:00:19","slug":"flames-sign-defenceman-axel-hurtig-to-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/535717\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames sign defenceman Axel Hurtig to entry-level contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/calgary-flames\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"calgary-flames\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Calgary Flames<\/a> have signed defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/axel-hurtig\/22ec10b4-fa5f-4583-8885-822910710965\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"22ec10b4-fa5f-4583-8885-822910710965\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Axel Hurtig<\/a> to a three-year entry-level contract, the NHL club announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal carries an average annual value of US$990,000.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Swede had a career-best 19 points (six goals, 13 assists) in 64 regular-season games as captain of the Calgary Hitmen this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has a goal and two assists so far in the Western Hockey League&#8217;s playoffs as the Hitmen have a 3-0 lead over Brandon heading into Game 4 of their first-round series Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Hurtig was selected by the Flames in the seventh round (208th overall) of the 2023 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<p>He represented Sweden at the 2025 world junior hockey championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Flames have signed defenceman Axel Hurtig to a three-year entry-level contract, the NHL club announced Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-535717","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116332411522477554","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535717","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=535717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}