{"id":213114,"date":"2025-09-09T15:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213114\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:15:09","slug":"wolf-signs-7-year-52-5-million-contract-with-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213114\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolf signs 7-year, $52.5 million contract with Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/dustin-wolf-8481692\" title=\"Dustin Wolf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dustin Wolf<\/a> signed a seven-year, $52.5 million contract with the Calgary Flames on Tuesday. The contract, which starts in 2026-27, has an average annual value of $7.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old goalie is entering the final season of a two-year contract he signed July 30, 2024, and could have been a restricted free agent after this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been looking to hopefully get something done,&#8221; Wolf told Flames TV. &#8220;There was no timeline, but kind of sooner the better. I&#8217;ll be here the next eight years and really excited to call this place my home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To have their belief and faith that I can help this team win hockey games and we can make a run for a championship one day, it&#8217;s an exciting time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 53 games last season, Wolf was 29-16-8 with three shutouts, a 2.64 goals-against average and .910 save percentage that ranked second among United States-born goalies (minimum 40 games) behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/connor-hellebuyck-8476945\" title=\"Connor Hellebuyck\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Hellebuyck<\/a> of the Winnipeg Jets. He was second in voting for the Calder Trophy, given annually to the top rookie in the NHL, won by Montreal Canadiens defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/lane-hutson-8483457\" title=\"Lane Hutson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lane Hutson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wolf, also a member of the NHL All-Rookie Team last season, was not invited to attend the United States Men&#8217;s Olympic Orientation Camp for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dustin Wolf signed a seven-year, $52.5 million contract with the Calgary Flames on Tuesday. The contract, which starts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":213115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-213114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115175000594921038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}