{"id":725784,"date":"2026-06-09T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725784\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:14:08","slug":"minnesota-wild-bring-back-c-michael-mccarron-on-six-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725784\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild bring back C Michael McCarron on six-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/michael-mccarron\/8477446\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/michael-mccarron\/8477446\" target=\"_blank\">Michael McCarron<\/a> is staying with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The veteran centre signed a six-year deal carrying an average annual value of $3.3 million on Tuesday, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The contract, which is worth a total of $20 million, carries a no-move clause through its expiry om 2031-32. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McCarron returns for another year after he was acquired at the trade deadline by Minnesota in a deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville Predators<\/a>. The 31-year-old spent the season playing out the last of a two-year, $1.8 million deal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 79 games combined with Minnesota and Nashville, the ninth-year player scored eight goals and totaled 17 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McCarron also added two goals and four points in 11 games with the Wild in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A former first-round draft pick by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a>, McCarron has 36 goals and 79 points in 381 career NHL games with the Canadiens, Predators and Wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael McCarron is staying with the Minnesota Wild. The veteran centre signed a six-year deal carrying an average&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,79561,448,82],"class_list":["post-725784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-minnesota-wild-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-30","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725784","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=725784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}