{"id":775942,"date":"2026-07-02T17:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775942\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:42:11","slug":"flames-acquire-jacob-middleton-from-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/775942\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames Acquire Jacob Middleton From Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Calgary Flames announced today that they have acquired defenceman Jacob Middleton\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0Minnesota\u00a0Wild\u00a0along with a second-round pick (2029),\u00a0third-round pick (2027) and a fourth-round pick (2028) in exchange for Blake Coleman and Olli\u00a0M\u00e4\u00e4tt\u00e4. Calgary will retain 50% of Coleman\u2019s contract.<\/p>\n<p>Middleton, a native of\u00a0Wainwright,\u00a0AB,\u00a0has played in the NHL for nine seasons split between San Jose and Minnesota. Last season, he played in 75 games netting a pair of goals along with 14 assists for 16 points and 76 penalty minutes and played in an additional 11 playoff games. In 381 career games, the blueliner has scored 24 goals and 70 assists for 94 points and 360 penalty minutes. Jacob won the 2023 IIHF World Championship as a part of Team Canada.<\/p>\n<p>JACOB\u00a0MIDDLETON\u00a0\u2013\u00a0DEFENCEMAN<\/p>\n<p>BORN: Wainwright, AB\u200b\u200b DATE:\u00a0July 2,\u00a01996<\/p>\n<p>HEIGHT:\u00a06\u20193\u201d\u00a0\u200b\u200b\u200bWEIGHT:\u00a0218\u00a0lbs.<\/p>\n<p>SHOOTS:\u00a0Left<\/p>\n<p>DRAFTED:\u00a0LAK\u00a0\u2013\u00a07th\u00a0round (210th\u00a0overall) in the 2014\u00a0NHL Draft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Flames announced today that they have acquired defenceman Jacob Middleton\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0Minnesota\u00a0Wild\u00a0along with a second-round pick (2029),\u00a0third-round pick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-775942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775942","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=775942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}