{"id":575670,"date":"2026-04-01T18:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575670\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:23:10","slug":"flames-sign-axel-hurtig-to-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575670\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames Sign Axel Hurtig To Entry-Level Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Calgary Flames have announced the signing of\u00a0defenceman\u00a0Axel Hurtig to a\u00a0three-year entry-level level contact.<\/p>\n<p>Hurtig, a native of\u00a0H\u00f6g\u00e5s, Sweden, captained the WHL\u2019s Calgary Hitmen for the 2025-26 season, posting a career-best 19 points from six goals and 13 assists along with 46 penalty minutes through 64 contests. The Hitmen are currently in the first round of the WHL Playoffs, with Hurtig recording a goal and\u00a0two assists through\u00a0three\u00a0games, helping Calgary hold a\u00a03-0 series lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Hurtig would appear in 11 playoff contests for the Hitmen, after a regular season where he totaled 16 points in 55 outings, as well as represent Sweden at the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship.\u00a0He was the Flames seventh-round selection (208th\u00a0overall) in the\u00a02023\u00a0NHL Draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TERM:\u00a0Three-year, entry-level<\/p>\n<p>AAV: $990,000\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BORN:\u00a0H\u00f6g\u00e5s, SWE\u200b\u200b DATE: June 10, 2005<\/p>\n<p>HEIGHT: 6\u20195\u201d WEIGHT: 216 lbs.<\/p>\n<p>SHOOTS:\u00a0Left<\/p>\n<p>DRAFTED:\u00a0CGY\u00a0\u2013\u00a07th\u00a0round (208th\u00a0overall) in the 2023\u00a0NHL Draft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Flames have announced the signing of\u00a0defenceman\u00a0Axel Hurtig to a\u00a0three-year entry-level level contact. Hurtig, a native of\u00a0H\u00f6g\u00e5s,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-575670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575670","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=575670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}