{"id":394611,"date":"2026-01-06T04:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394611\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T04:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:50:07","slug":"dvorak-signs-5-year-25-75-million-contract-with-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394611\/","title":{"rendered":"Dvorak signs 5-year, $25.75 million contract with Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/christian-dvorak-8477989\" title=\"Christian Dvorak\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Dvorak<\/a> signed a five-year, $25.75 million contract with the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday. It has an average annual value of $5.15 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old forward has 25 points (nine goals, 16 assists) in 39 games this season, his first in Philadelphia after signing a one-year, $5.4 million contract on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>He could have become an unrestricted free agent after the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very happy to have Christian be a part of the Philadelphia Flyers for the foreseeable future,&#8221; Flyers general manager Daniel Briere said. &#8220;He has played a pivotal role in our team&#8217;s success this season and proven to be a reliable, two-way center that can be trusted in all situations. More importantly, he plays a big role in our locker room and has fit in seamlessly to our group and what we are building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Arizona Coyotes in the second round (No. 58) of the 2014 NHL Draft, Dvorak has 274 points (114 goals, 160 assists) in 573 regular-season games for the Coyotes, Montreal Canadiens and Flyers. He also has five points (four goals, one assist) in 14 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia (21-12-7), which hasn&#8217;t qualified for the playoffs since the 2019-20 season, is currently third in the Metropolitan Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Dvorak signed a five-year, $25.75 million contract with the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday. It has an average&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-394611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}