{"id":576280,"date":"2026-04-02T00:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576280\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:42:08","slug":"flyers-sign-david-jiricek-to-two-year-extension-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/576280\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers Sign David Jiricek To Two-Year Extension \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

5:15 p.m.: The team over at PuckPedia revealed<\/a> the financial details of Jiricek\u2019s new two-year extension:<\/p>\n

Year
\nNHL Salary
\nSigning bonus
\nPotential performance bonuses
\nMinors salary<\/p>\n

2026-27
\n$850K
\n$450K
\nNA
\n$1.3MM<\/p>\n

2027-28
\n$1.7MM
\nNA
\nNA
\n$1.7MM<\/p>\n

3:43 p.m.: The Philadelphia Flyers will keep a Trade Deadline addition around for a few years longer. Defenseman David Jiricek<\/a> has signed a two-year, $3MM extension with the club per his agent, Allan Walsh<\/a>. Philadelphia has confirmed the extension<\/a>. The deal will carry a $1.5MM annual-average-value. Philadelphia acquired Jiricek in exchange for<\/a> winger Bobby Brink<\/a> in early-March.<\/p>\n

Jiricek hasn\u2019t yet made his debut in the Flyers lineup, instead spending 10 games with the AHL\u2019s Lehigh Valley Phantoms. He has two goals and 10 points in those appearances, matching his scoring in 24 games with the Iowa Wild to start the season. He also appeared in 25 games with the Minnesota Wild this season but managed no scoring, 14 penalty minutes, and an even plus-minus.<\/p>\n

Jiricek\u2019s young career has been a story of expectations versus reality. He was a popular draft prospect in 2022, hype that culminated in the 6-foot-4 defender being selected sixth-overall by the Columbus Blue Jackets. He joined the Blue Jackets\u2019 ranks in the following season, beginning the year with the AHL\u2019s Cleveland Monsters but receiving routine call-ups throughout the season. In total, Jiricek scored 38 points in 55 AHL games, and no points in four NHL games, in his first pro season in North America. That production, supported by seven points in seven games at the 2023 World Junior Championship, seemed to set Jiricek up for a breakout year in 2023-24.<\/p>\n

Instead, the defender ran into a struggle to produce at the major or minor levels. He scored just 10 points in 43 NHL games, and 19 points in 29 AHL games, in his second season. He also had a negative plus-minus in both leagues. Quickly, the hype from Jiricek\u2019s draft year seemed to be dwindling, as the puck-mover struggled to branch his game out against top-level competition.<\/p>\n

As those struggles continued into his third season, Columbus made the decision to trade Jiricek to the Minnesota Wild<\/a> in November 2024 in exchange for Daemon Hunt<\/a> and one pick in each of the top-four rounds. Wild general manager Bill Guerin<\/a> called the deal a\u00a0\u201cno-brainer\u201d\u00a0at the time<\/a> and Jiricek was quickly pipelined into the NHL rotation. A move didn\u2019t spark his scoring, though, and Jiricek was quickly assigned to the minor leagues. The struggling year hit a peak when his season was ended by a lacerated spleen in late-March<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jiricek made a quiet return this season \u2013 but seems to finally be catching sparks in the Flyers organization. He has filled meaningful minutes in the minor leagues and could be primed for bigger minutes with a new extension under his belt. It is a one-way deal, which could ensure a trial run in the Philadelphia lineup next season, at the very least. With the Flyers, Jiricek will have a chance to learn from similar puck-movers like Rasmus Ristolainen<\/a> and Jamie Drysdale<\/a>. He\u2019ll hope that mentorship can help him stick when he inevitably tries for a role with his third NHL club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5:15 p.m.: The team over at PuckPedia revealed the financial details of Jiricek\u2019s new two-year extension: Year NHL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,160152,448,752,82,4584],"class_list":{"0":"post-576280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-david-jiricek","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-transactions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576280","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=576280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}