{"id":616792,"date":"2026-07-07T08:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/616792\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T08:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:12:15","slug":"calgary-flames-ink-defenceman-simon-nemec-to-five-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/616792\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Flames Ink Defenceman Simon Nemec to Five-Year Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Calgary Flames have signed restricted free agent defenceman Simon Nemec to a five-year contract worth $36.25 million.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary acquired the 22-year-old Slovakian in a trade with the New Jersey Devils on June 23. <\/p>\n<p>Nemec, the second overall pick in the 2022 NHL Draft, became the highest-drafted defenceman in history from Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p>Standing 6-foot-1 and weighing 200 pounds, Nemec recorded 11 goals and 15 assists while adding 26 penalty minutes in his most recent season with New Jersey. <\/p>\n<p>Over 155 career games with the Devils, he tallied 16 goals and 33 assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Flames acquired Nemec and right-winger Maxim Tsyplakov from New Jersey in exchange for conditional first-round draft picks in 2027 and 2028, a second-round selection this year, and prospect Etienne Morin. <\/p>\n<p>The move bolsters Calgary\u2019s blue line with a young, high-upside talent as the organization looks to build for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Flames have signed restricted free agent defenceman Simon Nemec to a five-year contract worth $36.25 million.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[1018,895,26,5294,19,3852,896,5,30966,67925,9352,4,34861],"class_list":["post-616792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary-flames","tag-alberta","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-flames","tag-calgaryflames","tag-canada","tag-country-music","tag-flames","tag-hockey","tag-indigenous","tag-lethbridge","tag-medicine-hat","tag-nhl","tag-south"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116877691924058140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616792","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=616792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}