The Ducks announced today that the National Hockey League (NHL) club has signed defenseman Drew Helleson to a two-year contract through the 2026-27 NHL season.<\/p>\n
Helleson, 24 (3\/26\/01), recorded 4-9=13 points with a +6 rating and 47 penalty minutes (PIM) in 56 games with Anaheim in 2024-25. Helleson led all NHL rookie defensemen in plus\/minus (+6) and shorthanded time on ice (54:32), while he ranked second in points and assists, was tied for second in goals and third in total time on ice (915:40). Among all NHL rookies, his +6 rating was tied for seventh.<\/p>\n
The 6-3, 213-pound defenseman has earned 5-9=14 points with a +6 rating in 59 career NHL games with Anaheim, making his NHL debut in 2022-23 while recording his first NHL goal and point April 11, 2023 vs. Vancouver (Thatcher Demko). Helleson has also appeared in 153 career AHL contests with the San Diego, earning 9-29=38 points and 121 PIM.<\/p>\n
A native of Farmington, Minn., Helleson represented Team USA at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, recording one assist in three tournament contests. He helped Team USA to a gold medal at the 2021 World Junior Championship, scoring 2-2=4 points with a +9 rating in seven games while co-leading all tournament defensemen in goals. He also helped Team USA to a gold medal at the 2018 World U-17 Hockey Challenge and bronze at the 2019 U-18 World Championship.<\/p>\n
Acquired by Anaheim from Colorado with a 2023 second-round selection for Josh Manson, Helleson collected 9-37=46 points with a +26 rating in 82 career NCAA games with Boston College from 2019-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks announced today that the National Hockey League (NHL) club has signed defenseman Drew Helleson to a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-73187","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\/114875381320882144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73187","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=73187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}