{"id":284466,"date":"2024-07-15T11:30:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T16:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=284466"},"modified":"2024-07-15T11:30:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T16:30:52","slug":"wild-re-signs-forward-sammy-walker-to-a-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=284466","title":{"rendered":"Wild Re-Signs Forward Sammy Walker to a One-Year Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ST Paul, Minn<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has signed forward\u00a0<strong>Sammy Walker<\/strong>\u00a0to a one-year, two-way contract ($775,000\/$125,000) for the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walker, 24, appeared in four games with Minnesota last season. The right-shot forward also skated in 70 games with the Iowa Wild in the American Hockey League (AHL), recording 45 points (14-31=45), three power-play goals (PPG), three game-winning goals (GWG) and 176 shots on goal. Walker ranked first on Iowa in points, assists and shots and third in goals. He has recorded two points (1-1=2) in 13 career games with Minnesota. Walker made his NHL debut at Vancouver on Dec. 10, 2022 and recorded his first career NHL goal at Winnipeg on Dec. 27, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 5-foot-11, 180-pound native of Edina, Minnesota, owns 93 points (41-52=93), 12 PPG, eight GWG and 294 shots in 126 career AHL games over two seasons with Iowa (2022-24). Walker ranked second among AHL rookies in GWG (5), third in goals and T-6th in scoring in 2022-23. He collected 112 points (48-64=112) and 81 penalty minutes (PIM) in 144 games during four seasons at the University of Minnesota (2018-22) and served as team captain his final three seasons. Originally selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the seventh round (200th overall) of the 2017 NHL Draft, Walker signed a two-year, entry-level contract with Minnesota on Aug. 18, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST Paul, Minn\u00a0\u2013 Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has signed forward\u00a0Sammy Walker\u00a0to a one-year, two-way contract ($775,000\/$125,000) for the 2024-25 season. Walker, 24, appeared in four games with Minnesota last season. The right-shot forward also skated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":284467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284468,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284466\/revisions\/284468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/284467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}