{"id":382251,"date":"2026-07-01T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382251\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:13:09","slug":"panthers-sign-defenceman-radko-gudas-to-six-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/382251\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers sign defenceman Radko Gudas to six-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The veteran defenceman agreed to a six-year, $9-million deal ($1.5 million AAV), Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/2072342661621547128\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gudas, 36, was the Anaheim Ducks&#8217; captain for the past two seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers acquired Gudas&#8217; rights from the Ducks in exchange for the rights to veteran forward A.J. Greer last month.<\/p>\n<p>His steadying presence on the blue line helped the Ducks to their first playoff berth in eight years this past season. Anaheim defeated the Edmonton Oilers in Round 1 before falling to the Vegas Golden Knights in Round 2.<\/p>\n<p>Gudas had two goals and 11 assists in 56 regular-season games with the Ducks last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The veteran defenceman agreed to a six-year, $9-million deal ($1.5 million AAV), Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman reported on Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-382251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382251","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=382251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}