{"id":891592,"date":"2026-09-11T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T09:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891592\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T09:30:10","slug":"bowman-signs-6-year-20-4-million-contract-with-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891592\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowman signs 6-year, $20.4 million contract with Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/braeden-bowman-8483890\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Braeden Bowman<\/a> signed a six-year, $20.4 million contract with the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday. It has an average annual value of $3.4 million and will begin with the 2027-28 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old forward is entering the final season of a two-year, entry-level contract he signed on March 2, 2025, and could have become a restricted free agent after this season.<\/p>\n<p>An undrafted free agent, Bowman had 26 points (eight goals, 18 assists) and averaged 14:08 of ice time in 54 games as a rookie last season. He also had four power-play points (two power-play goals).<\/p>\n<p>Bowman appeared in one Stanley Cup Playoff game for the Golden Knights.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas, which lost to the Carolina Hurricanes in six games in the Stanley Cup Final, opens its regular season against the Chicago Blackhawks on Sept. 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Braeden Bowman signed a six-year, $20.4 million contract with the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday. It has an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-891592","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\/891592","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=891592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}