{"id":779704,"date":"2026-07-05T02:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779704\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T02:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:11:09","slug":"predators-lock-up-mavrik-bourque-to-six-year-33m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779704\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators lock up Mavrik Bourque to six-year, $33M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris MacFarland has locked up one of his newest acquisitions.<\/p>\n<p>Bourque, who was a restricted free agent, was dealt to Nashville from Dallas on Wednesday alongside Ilya Lyubushkin in exchange for a 2027 second-round pick and a 2028 third-rounder.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Bourque broke out in his second full season last year, posting 20 goals and 21 assists in 81 games for the Stars before potting a goal in the post-season.<\/p>\n<p>Over 156 NHL games, Bourque has totalled 66 points (31 goals, 35 assists) in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Bourque was one of several forwards acquired in the off-season by new general manager MacFarland, joining the likes of Ross Colton, Jack Drury, Alex Kerfoot, Adam Edstrom and Nils Hoglander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris MacFarland has locked up one of his newest acquisitions. Bourque, who was a restricted free agent, was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-779704","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\/779704","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=779704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}