{"id":32648,"date":"2025-07-02T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32648\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:15:09","slug":"granlund-signs-3-year-contract-with-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32648\/","title":{"rendered":"Granlund signs 3-year contract with Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mikael-granlund-8475798\" title=\"Mikael Granlund\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mikael Granlund<\/a> signed a three-year contract with the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday. Financial terms were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old forward had 66 points (22 goals, 44 assists) in 83 regular-season games for the San Jose Sharks and Dallas Stars last season, including 21 points (seven goals, 14 assists) in 31 games with Dallas after he was acquired in a trade on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Granlund had 10 points (five goals, five assists) in 18 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s what I consider a hard worker,&#8221; Ducks general manager Pat Verbeek said. &#8220;He goes to the hard areas, something that we needed more of. Not afraid to be a net-front presence guy. He&#8217;s a guy that hangs onto pucks in the corners for more puck possessions, so he&#8217;s a very smart hockey player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Minnesota Wild with the No. 9 pick in the 2010 NHL Draft, Granlund has 610 points (179 goals, 431 assists) in 902 regular-season games for the Wild, Nashville Predators, Pittsburgh Penguins, Sharks and Stars and 42 points (16 goals, 26 assists) in 77 postseason games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, term is more valuable, more important, than the money,&#8221; Verbeek said. &#8220;It\u2019s something that really works for us, and I\u2019m glad it really worked for him. Both of us are coming out ahead, which is what I love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NHL.com independent correspondent Dan Arritt contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikael Granlund signed a three-year contract with the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday. Financial terms were not disclosed. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-32648","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\/114783828310120104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32648","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=32648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}