{"id":722119,"date":"2026-06-23T23:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722119\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T23:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:32:10","slug":"zach-werenski-blue-jackets-to-discuss-his-future-after-nhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722119\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Werenski, Blue Jackets to discuss his future after NHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s been a lot of noise around Werenski, who has two years remaining on his current contract with the Blue Jackets. They can extend him as soon as\u00a0July 1, 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, at a time where trade requests, both public and private, and the fallout from them, have dominated the NHL\u2019s news cycle, speculation intensified that Werenski might be next to declare his intentions for the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While that has not occurred to this point, Werenski\u2019s importance to the Blue Jackets is enormous, and they have to get a handle on where things stand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We should have a clearer picture sometime after Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s been a lot of noise around Werenski, who has two years remaining on his current contract with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-722119","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\/722119","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=722119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}