{"id":47624,"date":"2025-07-08T03:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T03:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47624\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T03:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T03:10:10","slug":"utah-mammoth-jack-mcbain-25-agree-on-five-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47624\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Mammoth, Jack McBain, 25, agree on five-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f7e8115e-e00b-315d-8018-d2b38e4f420a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/uta\/utah-mammoth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Mammoth<\/a> re-signed center <a data-player-guid=\"59105f2b-5f8b-30c7-8338-3a97e4416586\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4755695\/jack-mcbain\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack McBain<\/a> to a five-year contract worth $21.25 million on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>McBain will count $4.25 million against the salary cap through the 2029-30 NHL season, which was announced a little more than 24 hours since the team elected salary arbitration with the restricted free agent forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is a big, strong, physical player who competes hard on a nightly basis and brings a gritty toughness to our group,&#8221; general manager Bill Armstrong said. &#8220;Jack is an important part of the championship-caliber team we are building, and we look forward to having him back on our roster for the foreseeable future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/45647254\/nhl-free-agency-2025-market-trends-lessons-top-players-contracts-salary-cap\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1514344_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/45619963\/nhl-free-agency-tracker-2025-contracts-teams-analysis-grades\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1514435_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>McBain, 25, is coming off setting a career high with 27 points and playing all 82 games. He was one of six players to skate in every game of the organization&#8217;s first season in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jack&#8217;s versatility as a player, his care for his teammates and his demonstrated willingness to do whatever it takes to win, are all critical elements to our future team success,&#8221; president of hockey operations Chris Armstrong said.<\/p>\n<p>McBain has 82 points in 241 games with the franchise, which moved to Utah from Arizona. Since debuting in April 2022, he ranks third in the league with 832 hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY &#8212; The Utah Mammoth re-signed center Jack McBain to a five-year contract worth $21.25 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-47624","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\/114815423317186472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47624","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=47624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}