{"id":823639,"date":"2026-07-24T18:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823639\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T18:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:42:10","slug":"medicine-hat-tigers-sign-calgary-flames-draft-pick-maceo-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823639\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine Hat Tigers sign Calgary Flames draft-pick Mace\u2019o Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/486dcc40-0c7f-4042-aa45-1526302e7d41.png\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: Medicine Hat Tigers)<\/p>\n<p>By Will Bryant<\/p>\n<p>Sports<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 24, 2026 | 11:28 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Nearly one month after acquiring the rights to Mace\u2019o Phillips from the <a href=\"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-winterhawks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Portland Winterhawks<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-tigers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Medicine Hat Tigers<\/a> have signed him to a WHL Scholarship and Development Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips, a third-round pick of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/flames\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Calgary Flames<\/a> in 2025, spent his 2025-26 campaign with the <a href=\"https:\/\/ushl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">USHL\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/gamblershockey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Green Bay Gamblers<\/a>, putting up 11 points and 187 PIM\u2019s over 44 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Wayzata, MN, product immediately becomes a front-runner for top minutes on a Tigers blue line that is returning only two of its starting six from last season.<\/p>\n<p>Mace\u2019o becomes the fifth NHL-drafted skater on the Tigers\u2019 roster for the upcoming 2026-27 season, joining the Ruck twins, <a href=\"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-tigers\/players\/30288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Yaroslav Bryzgalov<\/a>, and recently signed CHL Import selection, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/859497\/arvid-drott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Arvid Drott<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image Credit: Medicine Hat Tigers) By Will Bryant Sports Jul 24, 2026 | 11:28 AM Nearly one month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-823639","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\/823639","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=823639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}