{"id":774050,"date":"2026-07-01T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774050\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:59:09","slug":"wild-sign-g-calvin-pickard-to-one-year-1-million-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774050\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild sign G Calvin Pickard to one-year, $1 million contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pickard, 34, has spent the last four seasons with the Oilers, splitting time between the NHL and AHL levels with the Bakersfield Condors. <\/p>\n<p>The Moncton, N.B., native posted a 5-6-2 record with a 3.68 goals-against average and .871 save percentage in 16 NHL games with the Oilers last season. In eight games with the Condors, he had a 4-3-1 record with a 3.26 GAA and .886 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Drafted 49th overall by Colorado in 2010, Pickard has a 74-77-14 record with a 2.95 GAA and .901 save percentage in 191 games split between the Avalanche, Maple Leafs, Flyers, Coyotes, Red Wings and Oilers.<\/p>\n<p>He now joins a Wild side set to be without No. 1 goaltender Filip Gustavsson to start the 2026-27 season, as the Swede underwent hip surgery following the team&#8217;s Stanley Cup Playoffs run.<\/p>\n<p>Pickard&#8217;s most meaningful moments in Edmonton came during the team&#8217;s run to the 2025 Stanley Cup Final, when he appeared in 10 games and posted an .886 save percentage. At one point that spring, over an eight-game stretch, Pickard went 7-1 for the Oilers and won games in the first, second and final round. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pickard, 34, has spent the last four seasons with the Oilers, splitting time between the NHL and AHL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-774050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774050","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=774050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}