{"id":598233,"date":"2026-04-21T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/598233\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:34:08","slug":"ducks-sign-procyszyn-to-three-year-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/598233\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks Sign Procyszyn\u00a0to Three-Year Entry-Level Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ducks have\u00a0signed center\u00a0Ethan\u00a0Procyszyn\u00a0to a three-year entry-level contract beginning in the 2026-27 NHL season.<\/p>\n<p>Procyszyn, 19 (7\/22\/06), recorded 31-28=59 points with a +32 rating as captain of North Bay of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) this season. Among North Bay leaders, Procyszyn paced the club in scoring, goals, plus\/minus and faceoff wins (629), while he co-led in power-play goals (6) and game-winning goals (5), ranked second in assists and third in shots (206) and faceoff win percentage (629-of-1166, 53.9%). He helped the Battalion to the second round of the OHL Playoffs, recording 4-1=5 points in 10 contests.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by Anaheim in the third round (68th overall) of the 2024 NHL Draft, Procyszyn scored 85-92=177 points with a +22 rating and 261 penalty minutes (PIM) in 257 career OHL games with North Bay from 2022-26. He has also recorded 9-6=15 points in 43 career OHL Playoff contests. Procyszyn posted career-highs in scoring (34-30=64), goals and assists in his first season serving as the captain of the Battalion in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-2, 190-pound forward helped North Bay to the 2024 Eastern Conference Final in his second season, recording 15-21=36 points in 62 regular season contests and 2-4=6 points in 16 playoff outings. In 2022-23, he was named the Battalion\u2019s Rookie of the Year, recording 5-13=18 points with a +9 rating in 62 games. He also added 1-1=2 points in 12 playoff outings.<\/p>\n<p>The Wasaga Beach, Ontario native helped Canada to a silver medal at the 2023 U-17 World Hockey Challenge, scoring 3-1=4 points in seven tournament games. He was teammates with Ducks 2024 draft pick Tarin Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks have\u00a0signed center\u00a0Ethan\u00a0Procyszyn\u00a0to a three-year entry-level contract beginning in the 2026-27 NHL season. Procyszyn, 19 (7\/22\/06), recorded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-598233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}