{"id":5908,"date":"2025-07-18T16:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/5908\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:35:07","slug":"helleson-signs-2-year-contract-with-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/5908\/","title":{"rendered":"Helleson signs 2-year contract with Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/drew-helleson-8481563\" title=\"Drew Helleson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Helleson<\/a> signed a two-year contract with the Anaheim Ducks on Friday. Financial terms were not released.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old defenseman was a restricted free agent who had filed for salary arbitration. He&#8217;s the second Ducks player to avoid an arbitration hearing, after goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/lukas-dostal-8480843\" title=\"Lukas Dostal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lukas Dostal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/lukas-dostal-signs-5-year-contract-with-anaheim-ducks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed a five-year contract Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Helleson had 13 points (four goals, nine assists) in 56 games last season. He led Ducks defensemen and NHL rookie defensemen with a plus-6 rating.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Colorado Avalanche in the second round (No. 47) of the 2019 NHL Draft, Helleson has 14 points (five goals, nine assists) in 56 NHL games. He had been acquired by Anaheim in a trade with Colorado for defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/josh-manson-8476312\" title=\"Josh Manson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Manson<\/a> on March 14, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drew Helleson signed a two-year contract with the Anaheim Ducks on Friday. Financial terms were not released. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-5908","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\/5908","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=5908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}