{"id":356408,"date":"2026-07-29T16:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356408\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:39:10","slug":"florida-everblades-florida-signs-forward-mark-estapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356408\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Everblades | FLORIDA SIGNS FORWARD MARK ESTAPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESTERO, Fla. \u2013\u00a0The\u00a0Florida Everblades have signed forward Mark Estapa to a standard player contract for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>Estapa, 24, is entering his second pro season. Last year, the St. Clair, Michigan local played his rookie season with the Trois-Rivi\u00e8res Lions, getting seven goals and eight assists in 63 games. Estapa has also played one game in the American Hockey League for the Laval Rocket<\/p>\n<p>In college, Estapa won two B1G Championships at Michigan in 2022 and 2023. As a Wolverine, the 6\u2019 2\u201d 205-pound forward totaled 14 goals and 30 assists over 145 collegiate games. Prior to college, he played junior hockey in the USHL for the Tri-City Storm for two seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESTERO, Fla. \u2013\u00a0The\u00a0Florida Everblades have signed forward Mark Estapa to a standard player contract for the 2026-27 season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-356408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356408","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=356408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}