{"id":597005,"date":"2026-04-11T12:37:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597005\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:37:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:37:52","slug":"calgary-flames-sign-defenceman-abram-wiebe-to-two-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597005\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Flames sign defenceman Abram Wiebe to two-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CALGARY \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Flames<\/a> have signed defenceman Abram Wiebe to a two-year contact with an average annual value of US$950,000, the NHL club announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wiebe, from Mission, B.C., had five goals and 24 assists in 40 games with the University of North Dakota in the 2025-26 NCAA season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He also played four games with the U.S. Collegiate Selects at the 2026 Spengler Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wiebe spent four seasons with the BCHL\u2019s Chilliwack Chiefs, earning the league\u2019s top defenceman award in 2022-23, before joining North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Calgary acquired Wiebe, defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/zach-whitecloud\/8480727\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/zach-whitecloud\/8480727\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Whitecloud<\/a>, a 2027 first-round pick, and a conditional 2028 second-round pick in exchange for defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/rasmus-andersson\/8478397\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/rasmus-andersson\/8478397\" target=\"_blank\">Rasmus Andersson<\/a> in a Jan. 18 trade with Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Golden Knights selected Wiebe in the seventh round (209th overall) at the 2022 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 10, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 The Calgary Flames have signed defenceman Abram Wiebe to a two-year contact with an average annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-597005","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","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597005","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=597005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}