{"id":725681,"date":"2026-06-09T18:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/725681\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:31:08","slug":"minnesota-wild-signs-forward-michael-mccarron-to-six-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/725681\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild Signs Forward Michael McCarron to Six-year Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAINT PAUL, Minn.\u00a0&#8211; Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has signed forward\u00a0Michael McCarron\u00a0to a six-year, $20 million contract ($3.33 million average annual value) that begins in the 2026-27 season\u00a0and goes through the\u00a02031-32 season.<\/p>\n<p>McCarron, 31 (3\/7\/1995), skated in 20 regular-season games for Minnesota this season after being acquired from Nashville on March 3, recording five points (3-2=5), 20 penalty minutes (PIM), 23 shots on goal, 40 hits and winning 94-of-183 face offs taken (51.4 pct.). For the season, the 6-foot-6, 232-pound native of Grosse Point, Mich., skated in 79 games for the Predators and Wild and tallied 17 points (8-9=17), 93 PIM, and won 522-of-994 face offs taken (52.5 pct.) while setting career-high marks with 109 shots on goal, 205 hits, 77 blocked shots and 14:02 in TOI\/game. McCarron also skated in all 11 games for the Wild during 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs, notching four points (2-2=4), 14 shots on goal and 27 hits while leading the team with 14 blocked shots and ranking second with a 54.5 face off percentage (90-of-165).<\/p>\n<p>McCarron has played in 381 career games across parts of nine NHL seasons with the Montreal Canadiens (2015-18), Nashville (2020-26) and Minnesota (2026), totaling 79 points (36-43=79), 515 PIM, 463 shots on goal and 884 hits. He has skated in 20 Stanley Cup Playoff games in four postseason appearances (2017, 2022, 2024, 2026), recording four points (2-2=4), 26 shots on goal and 40 hits. McCarron also collected two points (1-1=2) and 15 shots on goal to help the United States win the Gold Medal at the 2025 IIHF World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>McCarron has collected 141 points (58-83=141) in 262 games in parts of seven seasons in the American Hockey League (AHL), spending time with the St. John\u2019s IceCaps (2015-17), Laval Rocket (2017-20) and Milwaukee Admirals (2019-23). He posted seven points (4-3=7) in 17 Calder Cup Playoff games across two postseason appearances with Milwaukee (2023) and St. John\u2019s (2017). Prior to his professional career, McCarron spent two seasons (2013-15) in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), winning the 2015 Memorial Cup and OHL championship with the Oshawa Generals, and was named to the 2015 Memorial Cup All-Star Team. McCarron was originally selected by Montreal in the first round (No. 25 overall) of the 2013 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mnwildPR\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mnwildPR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@mnwildPR<\/a>\u00a0on X and visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=0016SK80b27OTIG4xhw8R63eV9lpBrQxV996Qjk0d4g6qlvHkbTx6vT1qsBzZNaOxyDOZDZjTZ1AX30QLJxiGM5b2ZJm4n2Ijre6I-Yi-88oSFVd8ZAnvL4fhGq-MBjCcb7IJPVW517vyCb7eiRGnp8Lg==&amp;c=ztE_cuBo4xmFWg8zzt5ziPP_MCGsKfuCQiOsLcFNxdKTLM74SgeOZQ==&amp;ch=gn-CLqm0DRaKeaNsR02U4neX6vOQYLB4zSQw3cHgnjyFuPXPQTKzIw==\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=0016SK80b27OTIG4xhw8R63eV9lpBrQxV996Qjk0d4g6qlvHkbTx6vT1qsBzZNaOxyDOZDZjTZ1AX30QLJxiGM5b2ZJm4n2Ijre6I-Yi-88oSFVd8ZAnvL4fhGq-MBjCcb7IJPVW517vyCb7eiRGnp8Lg==&amp;c=ztE_cuBo4xmFWg8zzt5ziPP_MCGsKfuCQiOsLcFNxdKTLM74SgeOZQ==&amp;ch=gn-CLqm0DRaKeaNsR02U4neX6vOQYLB4zSQw3cHgnjyFuPXPQTKzIw==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.wild.com\/pressbox<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0for the latest news and information from the team including press releases, game notes, player interviews and daily statistics.<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAINT PAUL, Minn.\u00a0&#8211; Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-725681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725681","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=725681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}