{"id":880200,"date":"2026-09-04T22:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T22:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/880200\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T22:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T22:18:10","slug":"vancouver-canucks-sign-d-zeev-buium-to-an-eight-year-75-04-million-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/880200\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks sign D Zeev Buium to an eight-year, $75.04 million contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> announced that the club has signed defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/zeev-buium\/8484798\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/zeev-buium\/8484798\" target=\"_blank\">Zeev Buium<\/a> to an eight-year, $75.04 million contract extension that carries an AAV of $9.38 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cZeev has settled in nicely with our organization since his trade to Vancouver last season, and we are extremely happy to see him make this long-term commitment to the Canucks,\u201d said general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ryan-johnson\/8481564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ryan-johnson\/8481564\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Johnson<\/a> in a news release. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe is a key member of our young core and a player we will build around moving forward. Zeev has a lot of upside, and we feel with his abilities he will flourish in the system and environment we are creating inside our locker room. We look forward to working together and creating a strong partnership and foundation for our future.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Buium, 20, appeared in 45 games with the Canucks after he was acquired from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> as part of the return for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/quinn-hughes\/8480800\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/quinn-hughes\/8480800\" target=\"_blank\">Quinn Hughes<\/a>, recording three goals and 12 points with Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 76 career NHL games with the Wild and Canucks, Buium has six goals and 26 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Buium was traded from the Wild to the Canucks on Dec 12, 2025, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/liam-ohgren\/8483499\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/liam-ohgren\/8483499\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Ohgren<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/marco-rossi\/8482079\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/marco-rossi\/8482079\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Rossi<\/a>, and a first-round pick in 2026, for Hughes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The San Diego, Calif. native was originally selected 12th overall by the Wild in the 2024 NHL Draft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has also represented the United States internationally on several occasions, winning gold at the 2025 World Championship and at the 2024 and 2025 World Junior Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Canucks announced that the club has signed defenceman Zeev Buium to an eight-year, $75.04 million contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,575,85,115491,449452],"class_list":["post-880200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-canucks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-23","tag-zeev-buium-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8484798"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880200","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=880200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}