{"id":53422,"date":"2025-08-08T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53422\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:38:07","slug":"kiviranta-signs-1-year-contract-with-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53422\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiviranta signs 1-year contract with Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/joel-kiviranta-8481641\" title=\"Joel Kiviranta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Kiviranta<\/a> signed a one-year contract with the Colorado Avalanche on Friday. Financial terms were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old forward had 23 points (16 goals, seven assists) in 79 regular-season games and no points in seven Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joel is a hard-working, responsible player who has demonstrated he can be a key contributor at 5-on-5,&#8221; Avalanche general manager Chris MacFarland said. &#8220;He has been a valuable member of our lineup, and we are excited to have him back for another season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Signed by the Dallas Stars as an undrafted free agent on May 31, 2019, Kiviranta has 60 points (35 goals, 25 assists) in 298 regular-season games for the Stars and Avalanche and 14 points (seven goals, seven assists) in 51 postseason games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joel Kiviranta signed a one-year contract with the Colorado Avalanche on Friday. Financial terms were not disclosed. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-53422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53422","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=53422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}