{"id":822694,"date":"2026-07-24T08:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822694\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T08:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:39:18","slug":"hurricanes-seeley-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/822694\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes, Seeley avoid arbitration with one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The restricted free agent defenceman has agreed to a one-year deal with the defending champions, Carolina <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/hurricanes\/news\/canes-sign-seeley-to-one-year-contract\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Seeley&#8217;s new deal is worth $850,000 at the NHL level and $100,000 in the AHL, with $160,000 guaranteed for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old made his NHL debut during the 2025-26 campaign, making one regular-season appearance. While he went point-less, Seeley logged 15:12 of time on ice and two blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Seeley has spent most of his pro career, since being drafted 208th overall in 2020, with the AHL&#8217;s Chicago Wolves \u2014 posting 11 goals and 12 assists through 69 games as an alternate captain. He also chipped in a goal and an assist in 21 playoff appearances and a trip to the Calder Cup Final.<\/p>\n<p>The Yellowknife native has also represented Canada, winning gold at the 2022 world junior championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The restricted free agent defenceman has agreed to a one-year deal with the defending champions, Carolina announced on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-822694","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\/822694","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=822694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}