{"id":773759,"date":"2026-07-01T17:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773759\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:45:16","slug":"vancouver-canucks-sign-forward-paul-cotter-to-one-year-2-15m-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773759\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks sign forward Paul Cotter to one-year, $2.15M contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> have signed unrestricted free agent forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/paul-cotter\/8481032\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/paul-cotter\/8481032\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Cotter<\/a> to a one-year, $2.15 million contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cotter, 26, registered nine goals and 15 points in 79 games with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Devils<\/a> last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot-2 winger was acquired by the Devils, along with a draft pick, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> in exchange for forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/alexander-holtz\/8482125\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/alexander-holtz\/8482125\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Holtz<\/a> and goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/akira-schmid\/8481033\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/akira-schmid\/8481033\" target=\"_blank\">Akira Schmid<\/a> in July of 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is coming off a three-year, $2.325 million contract that carried an annual cap hit of $775,000 and became an unrestricted free agent after the Devils failed to give him a qualifying offer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drafted 115th overall by the Golden Knights in 2018, Cotter has 47 goals and 82 points in 296 career games split between the Golden Knights and Devils.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cotter helped the Golden Knights to their first Stanley Cup championship in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Canucks have signed unrestricted free agent forward Paul Cotter to a one-year, $2.15 million contract. Cotter,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[712,49,48,274594,55,83915],"class_list":["post-773759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-paul-cotter-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8481032","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-canucks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773759","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=773759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}