Pospisil, from Zvolen, Slovakia, had a career-best 25 points \u2014 four goals and 21 assists \u2014 and 84 penalty minutes in 81 games last season for Calgary.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The six-foot-two, 195-pound forward has delivered a team-leading 539 hits since making his NHL debut on Nov. 4, 2023 \u2014 the third-highest total in the league over that span.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old, left-handed shot was named to Slovakia\u2019s preliminary roster for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milano and Cortina, Italy, along with five other skaters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pospisil had three goals and four assists for Slovakia at the 2024 men’s world championship, and three assists in three games for his country in an Olympic qualifying tournament.<\/p>\n
He was Calgary’s fourth-round pick (105th) in the 2018 NHL draft. Pospisil has a career 12 goals and 37 assists in 144 NHL games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pospisil, from Zvolen, Slovakia, had a career-best 25 points \u2014 four goals and 21 assists \u2014 and 84…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-35300","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\/35300","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=35300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}