{"id":739450,"date":"2026-07-02T18:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/739450\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T18:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:43:07","slug":"minnesota-wild-signs-forward-maxin-shabanov-to-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/739450\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild Signs Forward Maxin Shabanov to One-Year Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAINT PAUL, Minn.\u00a0&#8211; Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club\u00a0has\u00a0signed forward\u00a0Maxim Shabanov\u00a0(MAK-sim, SHAB-Uh-nawv)\u00a0to a one-year, $1,600,000 contract\u00a0for\u00a0the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>Shabanov, 25 (10\/7\/00), collected 18 points (5-13=18), two penalty minutes (PIM) and 56 shots on goal in 44 games during his rookie campaign last season with the New York Islanders.\u00a0The 5-foot-9, 167-pound native of Chelyabinsk, Russia scored a goal in his NHL debut on Oct. 9 at Pittsburgh and recorded his first career multi-point (2-1=3) game on Nov. 20 at Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his first season in the NHL, Shabanov spent four seasons (2021-25) with Traktor Chelyabinsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) where he collected 150 points (67-83=150), 26 PIM and a plus-23 rating over a span of 207 games. He ranked third in the KHL in regular season scoring in 2024-25 with 67 points (23-44=67) in 65 games and was named to the KHL First All-Star Tam. He added 20 points (10-10=20) in 21 postseason games to help Traktor advance to the 2025 Gagarin Cup Playoffs. Shabanov led the KHL in goals and plus-minus rating (plus-14) in the 2025 playoffs and played in the 2025 and 2024 KHL All-Star Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAINT PAUL, Minn.\u00a0&#8211; Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-739450","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\/739450","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=739450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}