{"id":119089,"date":"2025-09-04T20:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119089\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T20:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:31:07","slug":"tanner-kero-signs-with-dels-kolner-haie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119089\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanner Kero Signs With DEL’s Kolner Haie"},"content":{"rendered":"

The K\u00f6lner Haie of Germany\u2019s DEL have signed forward Tanner Kero<\/a>\u00a0to a contract for the 2025-26 season, according to a team release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kero has played 134 career games over five NHL seasons, most recently as a fringe roster option for the Stars in the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons. He produced solid offense for his limited minutes, logging a 3-10\u201313 scoring line in 62 appearances across the two campaigns while averaging 10:13 per night. He was actually something of a full-time piece for Dallas in the COVID-shortened season, never heading down to the AHL and making 39 out of a possible 56 appearances that year.<\/p>\n

Before his run in Dallas, his prior NHL experience came over a three-year run with the Blackhawks from 2015-18. The undrafted free agent out of Michigan Tech made a career-high 47 appearances for Chicago in 2016-17, seeing consistent time as a third and fourth-line center while recording a 6-10\u201316 scoring line.<\/p>\n

While he\u2019s always been a strong minor-league scoring option, that was never enough to land him any long-term NHL stability. Since his last NHL appearance, he spent an additional season in the Stars organization with AHL Texas, recording 50 points in 69 games during the 2022-23 season. He spent the following year on a minor-league contract with the AHL\u2019s Colorado Eagles before heading overseas for the first time last summer, signing with HV71<\/a> in Sweden.<\/p>\n

Kero only managed nine goals and 22 points in 52 games for the SHL club, which narrowly avoided relegation to the second-tier HockeyAllsvenskan. That was a sharp dropoff from his AHL production in the prior campaign, and he understandably wasn\u2019t brought back after completing his one-year deal.<\/p>\n

Instead of returning to more familiar waters in North America, Kero will now test the German circuit in hopes of gaining some new life offensively. The 33-year-old joins\u00a0Brady Austin<\/a>,\u00a0Ryan MacInnis<\/a>,\u00a0Patrick Russell<\/a>, and\u00a0Dominik Uher<\/a>\u00a0as names on the Haie\u2019s roster with NHL experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The K\u00f6lner Haie of Germany\u2019s DEL have signed forward Tanner Kero\u00a0to a contract for the 2025-26 season, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,84195,575,85,84194,206],"class_list":["post-119089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-del","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-tanner-kero","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}