{"id":474421,"date":"2023-12-29T14:45:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T18:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474421"},"modified":"2023-12-29T14:45:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T18:45:16","slug":"washington-inks-defenseman-bear-to-a-2-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/washington-inks-defenseman-bear-to-a-2-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington inks defenseman Bear to a 2-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Bear is returning to the National Hockey League after a shoulder procedure after inking a 2-season deal with the Washington Capitals.<\/p>\n<p>GM Brian MacLellan shared about the contract with the defenseman today, almost a week after the player joined the organization for practice, and the team from the USA capital shared their intentions to ink him. The deal is worth over 4 million dollars and carries a salary cap hit of over 2 million for the rest of this campaign and the next season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealed completely now and putting the problem behind him, Bear could be a good fit for our team,\u201d manager Spencer Carbery admitted in the past days. Ethan is someone, I think, that can, in the right conditions, if all goes well, bring an added punch to our back end, especially when we are attacking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear yet when he will see him on the ice for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time this campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">OFFICIAL: The Washington Capitals have signed defenseman Ethan Bear to a two-year, $4.125 million contract. Bear\u2019s contract will carry an average annual value of $2.0625 million.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ALLCAPS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ALLCAPS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Washington Capitals (@Capitals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Capitals\/status\/1740469983082070488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Bear is returning to the National Hockey League after a shoulder procedure after inking a 2-season deal with the Washington Capitals. GM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":474422,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17844,17091],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[22467,17894,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Capitals signed the defenseman to a 2-year contract.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474423,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474421\/revisions\/474423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474421"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474421"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}