{"id":3995,"date":"2025-07-17T23:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3995\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T23:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:15:10","slug":"ducks-re-sign-goaltender-lukas-dostal-to-five-year-32-5m-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3995\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks re-sign goaltender Lukas Dostal to five-year, $32.5M contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

The goaltender and the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> put pen to paper on a five-year contract Thursday, the team announced.<\/p>\n

The deal carries an average annual value of $6.5 million, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I love to play in front of you and love to live in this community. We are a team on the rise,” Dostal said in a video released by the team. “Can’t wait to see you soon in the Honda Center.” <\/p>\n

The 25-year-old netminder has enjoyed two breakout seasons with the Ducks and will continue to shoulder starter duties given John Gibson’s trade to the Detroit Red Wings. In 54 games last season, the Brno, Czechia native recorded a .903 save percentage and a 3.10 goals-against average with one shutout. <\/p>\n

\u201cLukas has proven he is a No. 1 goaltender and we are so pleased to get this deal done,\u201d general manager\u00a0Pat Verbeek said in a statement. \u201cHe is just entering the prime of his career with his best hockey ahead of him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dostal was selected in the third round, 85th overall, by the Ducks at the 2018 NHL Draft. <\/p>\n

Dostal is excited about the future with a young team that includes forwards Leo Carlsson, Cutter Gauthier and Mason McTavish; defencemen Olen Zellweger, Pavel Mintyukov and Jackson LaCombe, and Beckett Sennecke, the No. 3 pick in the 2024 draft.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was one of the reasons that I was willing to sign a long-term deal \u2014 because it\u2019s always about trusting the process,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I really trust the process that\u2019s going on in Anaheim right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 with files from the Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The goaltender and the Anaheim Ducks put pen to paper on a five-year contract Thursday, the team announced.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-3995","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\/3995","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=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}