{"id":743585,"date":"2026-06-17T21:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743585\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:59:24","slug":"canucks-sign-abbotsford-captain-wouters-to-one-year-two-way-contract-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743585\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks sign Abbotsford captain Wouters to one-year, two-way contract \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

VANCOUVER \u2013 The Vancouver Canucks have signed forward Chase Wouters to a one-year, two-way contract, the NHL club announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Wouters, 26, has played his entire professional career with the American Hockey League\u2019s Abbotsford Canucks since signing as an undrafted free agent before the team\u2019s inaugural 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n

He has been team captain since 2022.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVancouver Canucks’ Chase Wouters looks on during the opening day of the NHL hockey team’s training camp, in Penticton, B.C., on Thursday, September 18, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Darryl Dyck<\/p>\n

Wouters holds franchise records for games played (338) and playoff games played (38) with Abbotsford and was key to the team\u2019s first Calder Cup championship in 2024-25.<\/p>\n

Last season, Wouters appeared in 70 games, scoring 26 points with 76 penalty minutes. He has accumulated 120 points and 316 penalty minutes in his AHL career.<\/p>\n

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The North Battleford, Saskatchewan native has represented Canada internationally at the 2018 U18 World Championships and the 2016 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge, winning silver in the latter.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 17, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2013 The Vancouver Canucks have signed forward Chase Wouters to a one-year, two-way contract, the NHL club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-743585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743585","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=743585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}