A young center with an edge plans to stay in Alberta for a few more years.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, it was announced that the Calgary Flames<\/a> have signed forward Martin Pospisil to a three-year contract extension. The deal, which will begin with the 2026-27 season, will carry an AAV of $2.5 million through the 2028-29 campaign.<\/p>\n Pospisil has one more year remaining on his current two-year contract that he signed in February 2024, which has a cap hit of $1 million.<\/p>\n Pospisil has proven to be a tough customer in his first two seasons with the Flames. After spending four seasons with the organization\u2019s American Hockey League affiliate in Stockton and Calgary, the Slovakian native became a full-time member of the Flames during the 2023-24 season. That year, he scored a career-high eight goals, along with 16 assists for 24 points. He also produced 109 penalty minutes, finishing ninth in the NHL. <\/p>\n This past year, he appeared in 81 games, scoring four goals with a career-best 21 assists and 25 points, with another 84 minutes in penalties.<\/p>\n While Pospisil has proven he has the talent to be a big-leaguer, his physical nature has given him some trouble at times. In March 2024, he was suspended for three games <\/a>for checking then-Seattle Kraken<\/a> defenseman Vince Dunn from behind. He was ejected for elbowing<\/a> Winnipeg Jets<\/a> defender Josh Morrissey less than a month later. This past January, Pospisil received another game misconduct for boarding<\/a> Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> forward Taylor Hall.<\/p>\n All this to say, the Flames know they have something interesting with the 23-year-old. If he can do a better job at keeping his nose clean while still providing that grit, he can be a key player in Calgary for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young center with an edge plans to stay in Alberta for a few more years. On Wednesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-36922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36922","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=36922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}