{"id":824511,"date":"2026-07-25T04:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824511\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T04:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:09:09","slug":"florida-panthers-goaltender-akira-schmid-avoid-arbitration-with-two-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824511\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers, goaltender Akira Schmid avoid arbitration with two-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/akira-schmid\/8481033\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/akira-schmid\/8481033\" target=\"_blank\">Akira Schmid<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a> have reached a two-year contract to avoid arbitration, it was announced Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Schmid, a restricted free agent before Friday\u2019s announcement, was acquired by the Panthers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> on June 29, with a 2028 third-round pick going back to Vegas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe are excited to sign Akira for the next two seasons in South Florida,\u201d said Panthers general manager Bill Zito in a news release. \u201cHe has the size, athleticism and competitive drive that fits the identity of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a>, and we\u2019re looking forward to watching him succeed with our group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 26-year-old netminder appeared in 34 games last season for the Golden Knights, tallying a 16-10-6 record with a 2.59 goals-against average and an .893 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was his second season in Sin City after spending the first three years of his NHL career in New Jersey with the Devils.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Schmid was selected in the fifth round of the 2018 NHL Draft by the Devils and owns a career GAA of 2.67 with an .898 save percentage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goaltender Akira Schmid and the Florida Panthers have reached a two-year contract to avoid arbitration, it was announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,80960,448,82],"class_list":["post-824511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-florida-panthers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-13","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824511","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=824511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}