{"id":358795,"date":"2026-06-13T03:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358795\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T03:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:07:13","slug":"vancouver-canucks-sign-defenceman-jack-thompson-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358795\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks sign defenceman Jack Thompson to one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"posted\">By Canadian Press on June 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8ecd99ce45f75530ed0918a0ec657d32f4b854b3cd1a4e84c4dbd8ee950c8a34-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>San Jose Sharks defenseman Jack Thompson during an NHL hockey game against the Montreal Canadiens in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo\/Jeff Chiu)VANCOUVER \u2014 The Vancouver Canucks have added to their blue line depth, signing defenceman Jack Thomson to a new contract.<br \/>\nGeneral manager Ryan Johnson announced the news on Friday, saying the 24-year-old from Courtice, Ont., has agreed to a one-year, two-way deal.<br \/>\nThompson spent much of last season in the American Hockey League, logging 14 games with the Abbotsford Canucks and 42 with the San Jose Barracuda, and posting a total of six goals and 25 points.<br \/>\nThe six-foot-one, 189-pound blue liner was part of the San Jose Sharks organization before being dealt to Vancouver for Jett Woo on March 5.<br \/>\nHe was originally selected by Tampa Bay in the third round of the 2020 draft and has played 34 NHL games, split between the Lightning and the Sharks, amassing four goals, 10 points and 10 penalty minutes.<br \/>\nThompson was also part of the Canadian team that won gold at the 2022 world junior hockey championship.<br \/>\nThis report by The Canadian Press was first published June 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>11<br \/> -10\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Canadian Press on June 12, 2026. San Jose Sharks defenseman Jack Thompson during an NHL hockey game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-358795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358795","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=358795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}