{"id":641385,"date":"2026-08-12T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/641385\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:00:30","slug":"canucks-sign-first-round-draft-pick-novotny-to-three-year-entry-level-contract-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/641385\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks sign first-round draft pick Novotny to three-year entry-level contract | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8211; The Vancouver Canucks have signed forward Adam Novotny to a three-year entry-level contract, the NHL team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Canucks selected the Czech forward 24th overall with their second first-round pick at the 2026 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year old played 58 games with the Peterborough Petes of the Ontario Hockey League last season, recording 65 points (34 goals, 31 assists) and 22 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n<p>He also played with Mountfield HK of the Czech Extraliga in the 2024-25 season, totaling three points in 41 games.<\/p>\n<p>The forward has represented Czechia internationally multiple times and helped his country win silver at the 2026 world junior championship.<\/p>\n<p>Canucks general manager Ryan Johnson says Novotny impressed management at the team&#8217;s recent development camp.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 11, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER &#8211; The Vancouver Canucks have signed forward Adam Novotny to a three-year entry-level contract, the NHL team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[69945,894,5,6,285,1355,4,5945,5950,1354,1361,43,1353,1356,19535,893,27,5313],"class_list":["post-641385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver-canucks","tag-adam-novotn","tag-canucks","tag-hockey","tag-ice-hockey","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-national-hockey-league-teams","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-seasons","tag-nhl-team-seasons","tag-seasons-in-american-ice-hockey","tag-seasons-in-canadian-ice-hockey","tag-sports","tag-top-level-sports-leagues","tag-top-tier-ice-hockey-leagues","tag-two-way-contract","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vancouvercanucks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117081251748106564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641385","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=641385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}