{"id":124855,"date":"2025-09-06T18:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/124855\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:50:09","slug":"zary-signs-3-year-11-3-million-contract-with-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/124855\/","title":{"rendered":"Zary signs 3-year, $11.3 million contract with Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/connor-zary-8482074\" title=\"Connor Zary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Zary<\/a> signed a three-year, $11.3 million contract with the Calgary Flames on Saturday. It has an average annual value of $3.775 million.<\/p>\n<p>The forward, who turns 24 on Sept. 25, had been a restricted free agent. He had 27 points (13 goals, 14 assists) in 54 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>Zary missed the final 11 games with a left knee injury sustained following a collision with Dallas Stars forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mikko-rantanen-8478420\" title=\"Mikko Rantanen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mikko Rantanen<\/a> 7:10 into the third period of a 5-2 loss at Scotiabank Saddledome on March 27. He also missed 14 games from Jan. 11-Feb. 23 because of an injury to the same knee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now that it&#8217;s done, we&#8217;re really looking forward to having him in camp,&#8221; general manager Craig Conroy told the Flames website. &#8220;He&#8217;s going to be a big part of this team moving forward, so we&#8217;re very excited to have it done. For the team&#8217;s side, it&#8217;s big, but also for Connor&#8217;s side. He wants to come in here, grab a spot higher in the lineup, the highest he can. We need him to take another step.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Selected by Calgary with the No. 24 pick in the 2020 NHL Draft, Zary has 61 points (27 goals, 34 assists) in 117 regular-season games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor Zary signed a three-year, $11.3 million contract with the Calgary Flames on Saturday. It has an average&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-124855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}