{"id":535969,"date":"2026-04-02T04:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/535969\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:36:34","slug":"flames-sign-defenceman-axel-hurtig-to-thee-year-entry-level-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/535969\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames sign defenceman Axel Hurtig to thee-year, entry-level deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Press &#8211; Apr 1, 2026 \/ 10:23 am | Story: 606607<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/dec675f41b014d7523d8c1ea5742f2a14a78b7b86ca666bcce079db5cb110ebd_p4272488.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>CALGARY \u2014 The Calgary Flames have signed defenceman Axel Hurtig 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. <\/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<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian Press &#8211; Apr 1, 2026 \/ 10:23 am | Story: 606607 Photo: The Canadian Press CALGARY&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535970,"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-535969","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\/116333261539726385","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535969","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=535969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}