{"id":737578,"date":"2026-07-01T20:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737578\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:33:08","slug":"ducks-sign-jensen-to-two-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/737578\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks Sign Jensen to Two-Year Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ducks have\u00a0signed defenseman Nick Jensen to a two-year contract through the 2027-28 NHL season.<\/p>\n<p>Jensen, 36 (9\/21\/90), has appeared in 694 career NHL games with Detroit (2016-18), Washington (2018-24) and Ottawa (2024-26), recording 26-146=172 points with a +33 rating and 164 penalty minutes (PIM). He has also appeared in 33 career Stanley Cup Playoff contests.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-0, 202-pound defenseman recorded 4-13=17 points with 22 PIM while averaging 17:01 time on ice per game in 61 contests with Ottawa last season in 2025-26. Jensen set single-season NHL career highs in points (5-24=29), goals and assists in 2022-23 while he posted a personal best +32 rating in 2021-22 with the Capitals. He has recorded 20-plus points on four occasions, with three coming in the last five seasons: 2021-22 (5-16=21), 2022-23 (5-24=29) and 2024-25 (3-18=21).<\/p>\n<p>Originally selected by Detroit in the fifth round (150th overall) of the 2009 NHL Draft, Jensen skated in 118 career NCAA games with St. Cloud State from 2010-13, earning 15-71=86 points with a +28 rating. He was named to the NCAA\u2019s 2012-13 First All-American Team and was the WCHA Defensive Player of the Year. A native of Rogers, Minn., Jensen helped Team USA to a bronze medal at the 2018 World Championship. He also won a USHL Clark Cup championship in 2010 with Green Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks have\u00a0signed defenseman Nick Jensen to a two-year contract through the 2027-28 NHL season. Jensen, 36 (9\/21\/90),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-737578","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\/737578","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=737578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}