{"id":553855,"date":"2026-03-21T00:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553855\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T00:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:17:07","slug":"vancouver-canucks-defenceman-victor-mancini-agree-to-terms-on-two-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553855\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks, defenceman Victor Mancini agree to terms on two-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> and defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/victor-mancini\/8483768\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/victor-mancini\/8483768\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Mancini<\/a> have reached a two-year, $2 million contract extension, it was announced Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deal carries an average annual value of $1 million.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">General Manager Patrik Allvin announced today that the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Canucks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Canucks<\/a> have agreed to terms with defenceman Victor Mancini on a two-year contract extension with a $1 million AAV. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CHdPN4YyUP\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/CHdPN4YyUP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canucks\/status\/2035121751525642660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mancini, 23, has appeared in 18 games so far this season at the NHL level, tallying 22 blocked shots, 22 hits and eight shots on goal while averaging 13:50 of ice time per contest. He\u2019s also appeared in 33 AHL games this year with the Abbotsford Canucks and has four goals and eight assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was acquired by the Canucks in January of 2025 from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-rangers\/3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-rangers\/3\" target=\"_blank\">New York Rangers<\/a> as part of the multi-player deal that sent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jt-miller\/8476468\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jt-miller\/8476468\" target=\"_blank\">J.T. Miller<\/a> to New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mancini is a veteran of 49 NHL games spread out over two seasons. He has two goals and six assists for eight career points. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Canucks and defenceman Victor Mancini have reached a two-year, $2 million contract extension, it was announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,575,85,115491,273741],"class_list":["post-553855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-canucks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-23","tag-victor-mancini-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8483768"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553855","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=553855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}