{"id":539040,"date":"2026-03-16T00:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539040\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T00:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:32:16","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-sign-goaltender-artur-akhtyamov-to-three-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539040\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs sign goaltender Artur Akhtyamov to three-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773621136_402_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Edmonton Oilers&#8217; Connor McDavid (97) stands in front of Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Artur Akhtyamov (70) during third period NHL hockey action in Toronto on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Frank Gunn<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMar 15, 2026 | 3:28 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 The Toronto Maple Leafs signed goaltender Artur Akhtyamov to a three-year contract extension Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is a two-way contract for 2026-27 then reverts to a one-way agreement in 2027-28 and 2028-29. The average annual value is US$900,000.<\/p>\n<p>Akhtyamov, 24, has an 18-10-4 record, 2.86 goals-against average and .904 save percentage in 32 games with the AHL\u2019s Toronto Marlies this season. He has recorded an 11-2-2 home record with a 2.51 GAA and .917 save percentage. <\/p>\n<p>The Russian has a 29-18-8 record, 2.84 GAA, .903 save percentage and four shutouts in 58 career regular season AHL games with the Marlies. Toronto selected Akhtyamov in the fourth round, 106th overall, in the 2020 NHL draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers&#8217; Connor McDavid (97) stands in front of Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Artur Akhtyamov (70) during third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-539040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539040","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=539040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}