{"id":784626,"date":"2026-07-06T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784626\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:58:08","slug":"flames-sign-simon-nemec-to-five-year-36-25m-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784626\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames sign Simon Nemec to five-year, $36.25M contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/calgary-flames\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"calgary-flames\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Calgary Flames<\/a> have locked down their newest acquisition for the foreseeable future. <\/p>\n<p>Defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/simon-nemec\/80d33054-c02b-42a2-bcc4-cd0dc89ce1bc\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"80d33054-c02b-42a2-bcc4-cd0dc89ce1bc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Simon Nemec<\/a> signed a five-year, $36.25 million contract with the Flames, the team announced on Monday. The deal carries an AAV of $7.25 million. <\/p>\n<p>The Flames acquired the 22-year-old from the New Jersey Devils in exchange for two conditional first-round picks, a 2026 second-rounder and prospect Etienne Morin on June 23. <\/p>\n<p>The Slovakian scored 11 goals, had 15 assists and was minus-11 in 68 games for the Devils this past season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-one, 190-pound player was selected second overall by the Devils in 2022, which made him the highest Slovak defenceman ever drafted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 155 career NHL games, Nemec has 16 goals and 49 points. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 With files from Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Flames have locked down their newest acquisition for the foreseeable future. Defenceman Simon Nemec signed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-784626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784626","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=784626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}