{"id":207962,"date":"2026-03-06T21:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207962\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:50:24","slug":"ducks-sign-ryan-poehling-to-four-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207962\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks sign Ryan Poehling to four-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/ryan-poehling\/158053c4-d6db-4d3b-b859-267f6bcfa863\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"158053c4-d6db-4d3b-b859-267f6bcfa863\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ryan Poehling<\/a> has agreed to a four-year, $15 million contract extension with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/anaheim-ducks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"anaheim-ducks\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a>\u00a0during his first season with the team.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks announced the deal Thursday for Poehling (PAY-ling), who has seven goals and 17 assists in 54 games while serving as a top penalty killer and defensive forward.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim acquired Poehling and a second-round pick from the Philadelphia Flyers last June\u00a0in a trade for centre Trevor Zegras.<\/p>\n<p>While general manager Pat Verbeek&#8217;s decision to give up on Zegras \u2014 a fan favourite and former first-round pick \u2014 remains unpopular among many Anaheim fans, Poehling has assuaged that disappointment somewhat by excelling in a key depth role for the second-place Ducks, who are\u00a0firmly in the race\u00a0for their first playoff appearance since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks are the fourth NHL team for the 27-year-old Poehling, a first-round pick by Montreal in 2017. He spent one season with Pittsburgh before signing as a free agent in 2023 with Philadelphia, where he set career highs with 12 goals and 19 assists last season.<\/p>\n<p>Poehling is now signed with Anaheim through the 2029-30 season, and he is getting a raise from his current two-year, $3.8 million deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 Forward Ryan Poehling has agreed to a four-year, $15 million contract extension with the\u00a0Anaheim Ducks\u00a0during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-207962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}