{"id":803210,"date":"2026-07-16T04:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/803210\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T04:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:20:08","slug":"zegras-signs-4-year-36-5-million-contract-with-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/803210\/","title":{"rendered":"Zegras signs 4-year, $36.5 million contract with Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 25-year-old forward, who was a restricted free agent, had filed for salary arbitration on July 5.<\/p>\n<p>He had NHL career highs with 26 goals and 67 points in 81 regular-season games last season and had six points (two goals, four assists) in 10 Stanley Cup Playoff games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the Flyers were eliminated in the second round of the playoffs by the Carolina Hurricanes, Zegras said he was hoping to get a new deal done with the Flyers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would love to be here for a long time,&#8221; Zegras said on May 12. &#8220;I hope that would happen over the next couple months, or whatever the timeframe will be. But I love playing here, I love the fans, I love the group that we have. That would be something I&#8217;d be excited for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Anaheim Ducks in the first round (No. 9) of the 2019\u00a0NHL Draft, Zegras has 253 points (93 goals, 160 assists) in 349 regular-season games for the Ducks and Flyers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was traded to the Flyers by the Ducks for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ryan-poehling-8480068\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Poehling<\/a>, a second-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft and a fourth-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft on June 23, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 25-year-old forward, who was a restricted free agent, had filed for salary arbitration on July 5. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-803210","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\/803210","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=803210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}