{"id":28825,"date":"2018-07-01T09:28:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T13:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=28825"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:39:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:39:17","slug":"goaltender-andrew-hammond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/07\/01\/goaltender-andrew-hammond\/","title":{"rendered":"Goaltender Andrew Hammond Signs with the Minnesota Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/\/nhl-teams\/wild\/\" target=\"_self\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> have signed unrestricted free agent <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hammoan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Hammond<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0Financial terms of the deal have not yet been released.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hearing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnwild?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#mnwild<\/a> will sign goalie Andrew Hammond to compete with Alex Stalock for the Wild backup\/Iowa No. 1 spot<\/p>\n<p>And, as I&#39;ve previously reported, Greg Pateryn and Eric Fehr will be signing with the Wild<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RussoHockey\/status\/1013405966942040064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Andrew Hammond Heading to the Minnesota Wild<\/h1>\n<p>After four years with Bowling Green, the undrafted Andrew Hammond signed his first professional contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ottawa Senators<\/a>\u00a0at the start of the 2013-14 season. Although he&#8217;s never played more than 24 games at the NHL level, the affectionately nicknamed &#8220;Hamburglar&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/nhl\/news\/nhl-playoffs-2018-andrew-hammond-hamburglar-avalanche-predators-kick-goal-video-review\/1xmiiepcpfskm15tfis0w11cxh\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has quite a reputation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014-15, Hammond received an opportunity late in the season to start for Ottawa thanks to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/andercr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Craig Anderson<\/a><\/strong> going down to injury. He then rattled off a 20-1-2 record to propel the team to a highly unlikely playoff berth. The next year, he came back to earth and was outperformed by Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>Relegated again to the minors, Hammond became a sweetener in arguably the biggest blockbuster trade of the 2017-18 season. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/\/2017\/11\/05\/matt-duchene-traded\/\" target=\"_self\">The trade<\/a> sent <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/duchema01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Duchene<\/a><\/strong> to Ottawa, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/turriky01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Turris<\/a><\/strong> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/predators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nashville Predators<\/a>, and the kitchen sink to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/avalanche\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a>. Hammond was one part of the kitchen sink, along with various prospects and draft picks from both Nashville and Ottawa.<\/p>\n<h2>Opportunity for Andrew Hammond<\/h2>\n<p>Although he has been splitting time between the AHL and NHL levels, Hammond has shown he is capable of winning at the highest level. His playoff push with Ottawa a few years ago proved that. In the very limited action he saw in Colorado this last season, he was strong again. Specifically, he made a career-high 44 saves in Game 5 of the first round series against the Nashville Predators. The 2-1 final score in favour of the Avalanche was largely thanks to his performance, which unexpectedly extended the series one more game. If Hammond can do this more consistently, he will find himself with a permanent job in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"6mfhLZZeSuVvhxgTEL-CXQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/948415034\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'6mfhLZZeSuVvhxgTEL-CXQ',sig:'W90aytA7NansnZiHamRB6WkO_99DseNaryc8WsPXdVE=',w:'594px',h:'416px',items:'948415034',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Wild have signed unrestricted free agent Andrew Hammond.\u00a0Financial terms of the deal have not yet been released. Hearing #mnwild will sign goalie Andrew Hammond to compete with Alex Stalock for the Wild backup\/Iowa No. 1 spot And, as I&#39;ve previously reported, Greg Pateryn and Eric Fehr will be signing with the Wild &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2377,"featured_media":28848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,28,30],"tags":[830,36,5738,221,2569,662,955,70],"class_list":["post-28825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-avalanche","category-wild","tag-andrew-hammond","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-hockey-news","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-news","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-nhl-news","tag-ottawa-senators"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}