{"id":589690,"date":"2026-06-02T22:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/589690\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T22:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:30:13","slug":"vancouver-canucks-sign-forward-ilya-safonov-to-one-year-two-way-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/589690\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks sign forward Ilya Safonov to one-year, two-way contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 The Vancouver Canucks have signed forward Ilya Safonov to a one-year, two-way contract, the NHL club announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Safonov, 24, played 68 games for Ak Bars Kazan in Russia&#8217;s Kontinental Hockey League this season, recording 33 points, 43 penalty minutes, and a rating of plus-18.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He added nine points in 20 post-season games, helping Kazan reach the Gagarin Cup Final.<\/p>\n<p>Safonov has 128 points and appeared in 331 KHL games with Kazan.<\/p>\n<p>The Moscow-born forward represented Russia at the 2017 Under-17 Hockey Challenge and the 2021 world junior championship.<\/p>\n<p>Safonov was drafted in the sixth round, 172nd overall, by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2021 NHL draft. The Canucks acquired Safonov&#8217;s rights from Chicago in a June 28, 2025, trade in exchange for future considerations.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 2, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 The Vancouver Canucks have signed forward Ilya Safonov to a one-year, two-way contract, the NHL club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[25091,894,37,198,5,11868,45610,4,65622,65621,6739,893,27,5313],"class_list":["post-589690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver-canucks","tag-ak-bars-kazan","tag-canucks","tag-chicago","tag-edmonton","tag-hockey","tag-kontinental-hockey-league","tag-maxim-groshev","tag-nhl","tag-roman-bychkov","tag-safonov","tag-the-canadian-press","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vancouvercanucks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116682884651391612","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589690","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=589690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}