{"id":344028,"date":"2025-12-12T22:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344028\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T22:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:01:08","slug":"carolina-hurricanes-sign-defenceman-joel-nystrom-to-four-year-4-9-million-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344028\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Hurricanes sign defenceman Joel Nystrom to four-year, $4.9 million contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> have signed defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/joel-nystrom\/8482911\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/joel-nystrom\/8482911\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Nystrom<\/a> to a four-year, $4.9 million contract extension on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deal carries an AAV of $1.225 million and kicks in next season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cJoel stepped into our lineup early in the season and has proven that he belongs in the NHL,\u201d said Hurricanes general manager Eric Tulsky. \u201cHe fits our style of play well and we are excited to watch his continued development in Carolina.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nystrom, 23, has four assists in 23 games with Carolina this season, his first in the NHL. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A seventh-round pick (219th overall) by the Hurricanes in 2021, Nystrom signed a two-year, entry-level contract in May of 2024 but played in Sweden with Farjestad BK in 2024-25. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carolina Hurricanes have signed defenceman Joel Nystrom to a four-year, $4.9 million contract extension on Friday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,190430,190431,575,85],"class_list":["post-344028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carolina-hurricanes-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-12","tag-joel-nystrom-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8482911","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344028","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=344028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}