{"id":326155,"date":"2026-07-01T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/326155\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:05:08","slug":"florida-panthers-defenseman-radko-gudas-agree-to-6-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/326155\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers, defenseman Radko Gudas agree to 6-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE \u2014 The Florida Panthers and defenseman Radko Gudas agreed to a six-year deal Wednesday, with an average annual value of $1.5 million, according to multiple media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The $9 million contract will keep him with the franchise until he is 42 years old.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the club acquired his negotiating rights on Monday in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/06\/29\/florida-panthers-secure-rights-to-radko-gudas-in-exchange-for-rights-to-a-j-greer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trade with the Anaheim Ducks<\/a>, exchanging the rights to forward A.J. Greer.\u00a0 The deal officially marks a return to Florida for the 36-year-old. The Prague, Czechia, native was stationed with the Ducks for the last three seasons, where he continued to establish himself as a two-way defender.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his stint in Anaheim, the 6-foot, 208-pound hard hitter spent the 2020-21 to the 2022-23 season with the Panthers, playing a role in their Stanley Cup Finals appearance his last year. However, he was sent to the Ducks before Florida was able to clinch either of its Stanley Cup victories. He posted seven points in 37 postseason appearances with the club.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the fifth landing spot of his career, starting with the Tampa Bay Lightning before heading to Philadelphia and Washington. His 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons with Florida, his last two, were some of the most impressive of his career, and he will look to find similar success while back in South Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE \u2014 The Florida Panthers and defenseman Radko Gudas agreed to a six-year deal Wednesday, with an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,16995,114,5691,110],"class_list":["post-326155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-panthers","tag-latest-headlines","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}