Ducks sign defenseman to two-year contract extension

The Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday ensured they would keep one of their young defensemen for the next two seasons, signing Tyson Hinds to a two-year, one-way contract extension that runs through the 2027-28 NHL season. The agreement carries an average annual value of $900,000, giving the 23-year-old blueliner his first one-way NHL contract while keeping him under team control as a restricted free agent when the deal expires.

Selected by Anaheim in the third round (76th overall) of the 2021 NHL Draft, Hinds reached the NHL for the first time during the 2025-26 campaign. He appeared in six regular-season games, logging a plus-one rating with two penalty minutes while averaging 15:37 of ice time. Although he did not record a point during the regular season, Hinds became a more regular option during the playoffs, skating in nine of the Ducks’ 12 postseason contests. He notched his first NHL point with an assist in Game 3 of the opening-round series against the Edmonton Oilers on April 24, 2026, finishing the playoffs with one assist while averaging around 11 minutes per game. That assist also made him just the second player in Anaheim franchise history to record his first career NHL point during the postseason.

Most of Hinds’ season was spent with the AHL’s San Diego Gulls, where he put up the best offensive numbers of his professional career. He accumulated five goals and 14 assists for 19 points in 62 games, adding a career-best plus-16 rating and 21 penalty minutes. The campaign set new personal highs in goals, points and plus-minus. Across 204 career AHL appearances, Hinds has garnered 11 goals, 36 assists and 47 points while collecting 105 penalty minutes. His progression followed earlier seasons of 10 points in 71 games during 2023-24 and 18 points in 71 contests in 2024-25.

Before turning professional, the Gatineau, Quebec native enjoyed an outstanding final junior season with the Sherbrooke Phoenix in the QMJHL. He amassed 11 goals and 43 assists for 54 points in 56 games during 2022-23, earning the Kevin Lowe Trophy as the league’s Best Defensive Defenseman. Hinds led all QMJHL defensemen with a plus-61 rating, ranked sixth among blueliners in points per game (0.96), finished eighth in both total points and assists, and recorded the league’s highest plus-minus since 2002-03, the fifth-best mark ever by a QMJHL defenseman.

Internationally, Hinds also helped Canada win the gold medal at the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship, contributing two goals and a plus-nine rating in seven tournament games.