{"id":807144,"date":"2026-07-18T00:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807144\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T00:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:16:11","slug":"drysdale-signs-4-year-26-million-contract-with-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807144\/","title":{"rendered":"Drysdale signs 4-year, $26 million contract with Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re excited to have Jamie remain a key part of our organization for years to come,\u201d Flyers general manager Daniel Briere said. &#8220;Since we acquired him, Jamie has worked extremely hard and taken big steps in his development and has established himself as a reliable piece on our back end with the ability to impact the game in all situations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe his best hockey is still ahead of him, and he&#8217;s going to play an important role in strengthening our blue line as we continue to build.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drysdale tied his NHL career high with 32 points (eight goals, 24 assists) in 78 regular-season games for Philadelphia last season. He also had four points (two goals, two assists) in 10 Stanley Cup Playoff games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Anaheim Ducks with the No. 6 pick in the 2020 NHL Draft, Drysdale has 102 points (25 goals, 77 assists) in 295 regular-season games with the Flyers and Ducks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Drysdale was acquired by Philadelphia in the trade for Cutter Gauthier on Jan. 8, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe&#8217;re excited to have Jamie remain a key part of our organization for years to come,\u201d Flyers general&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-807144","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\/807144","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=807144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}