{"id":779775,"date":"2026-07-05T03:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779775\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T03:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T03:05:09","slug":"predators-sign-mavrik-bourque-to-six-year-33-million-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779775\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators Sign Mavrik Bourque to Six-Year, $33 Million Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, Tenn. (July\u00a04,\u00a02026) \u2013\u00a0Nashville\u00a0Predators President of Hockey Operations\/General Manager Chris MacFarland announced today\u00a0that the team has\u00a0signed forward Mavrik Bourque to a six-year, $33 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>Bourque, 24 (1\/8\/02),\u00a0was acquired by the Predators along with defenseman Ilya Lyubushkin from the Dallas Stars in exchange for Nashville\u2019s second-round pick in the\u00a02027 NHL Draft and Vegas\u2019 third-round pick in the 2028 NHL Draft on July 1.\u00a0He\u00a0recorded career highs in goals (20), assists (21) and points (41) in 2025-26 with the Stars while adding 79 hits and 147 shots in 82 games; his 20 goals were the fourth-most on Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-foot-11, 187-pound forward owns 66 points (31g-35a) in 156 career\u00a0NHL games for the Stars after debuting in 2023-24. During his time in the AHL with Texas, Bourque recorded 129 points (47g-82a) in 147 outings, leading the AHL in points in 2023-24 with 77 (26g-51a) in 71 games played, earning the league\u2019s Most Valuable Player award. The forward has played in 10 career Stanley Cup Playoff contests, scoring one goal in 14:02 of average ice time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Become Smashville Loyal today! Full, Half and Quarter Season Ticket plans are available for the 2026-27 Nashville Predators season presented by Regions Bank. For more information, please call 615-770-7800, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/predators\/tickets\/smashville-loyal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NashvillePredators.com<\/a>\u00a0or text PREDS to 833-453-2488 to begin receiving ticket offers directly to your phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nashville, Tenn. (July\u00a04,\u00a02026) \u2013\u00a0Nashville\u00a0Predators President of Hockey Operations\/General Manager Chris MacFarland announced today\u00a0that the team has\u00a0signed forward Mavrik&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-779775","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\/779775","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=779775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}