{"id":664276,"date":"2026-05-11T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/664276\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:22:08","slug":"jankowski-signs-2-year-3-7-million-contract-with-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/664276\/","title":{"rendered":"Jankowski signs 2-year, $3.7 million contract with Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mark-jankowski-8476873\" title=\"Mark Jankowski\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Jankowski<\/a>\u00a0signed a two-year, $3.7 million contract with the Carolina Hurricanes on Monday. It has an average annual value of $1.85 million,<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old forward had 21 points (11 goals, 10 assists) in 68 regular-season games this season. He has one assist in eight Stanley Cup Playoff games for the Hurricanes, who are 8-0 and will play either the Montreal Canadiens or Buffalo Sabres in the Eastern Conference Final. Carolina swept the Ottawa Senators in the first round and the Philadelphia Flyers in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Jankowski could have become an unrestricted free agent July 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark has been an excellent fit for our organization throughout his time here,\u201d Carolina general manager Eric Tulsky said. \u201cHe\u2019s proven he can contribute in different ways, and we are glad he\u2019s chosen to remain with the organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A first-round pick (No. 21) by the Calgary Flames at the 2012 NHL Draft, Jankowski has 145 points (79 goals, 66 assists) in 482 regular-season games with the Flames, Pittsburgh Penguins, Sabres, Nashville Predators and Hurricanes, and four points (one goal, three assists) in 31 playoff games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Jankowski\u00a0signed a two-year, $3.7 million contract with the Carolina Hurricanes on Monday. It has an average annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-664276","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\/664276","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=664276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}