{"id":747367,"date":"2026-07-06T23:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/747367\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T23:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:23:08","slug":"nemec-signs-5-year-36-25-million-contract-with-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/747367\/","title":{"rendered":"Nemec signs 5-year, $36.25 million contract with Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m doing my off-ice stuff and on-ice too; I&#8217;m on the same plan as last year, I started skating a little bit earlier, a month after the season,&#8221; Nemec said. &#8220;I felt pretty good last year, so I just wanted to do the same thing this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m working hard right now and waiting for the new season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The highest Slovakia-born defenseman selected in the\u00a0NHL Draft (No. 2, 2022),\u00a0Nemec has 49 points (16 goals, 33 assists) in 155 regular-season games and two points (one goal, one assist) in four Stanley Cup Playoff games. He had two assists in six games for fourth-place Team Slovakia at the 2026 Winter Olympics and helped his country win its first Olympic hockey medal at the 2022 Beijing Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;m doing my off-ice stuff and on-ice too; I&#8217;m on the same plan as last year, I started&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-747367","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\/747367","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=747367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}