The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today that the team has signed defenseman Alex Gagne to a two-year, entry-level contract through the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n
Gagne, 23, served as team captain during his senior season at the University of New Hampshire in 2024-25 and collected a career-high 17 points (4g\/13a) in 35 appearances. He paced all team defensemen in scoring and finished fourth on the team overall in assists, leading to his selection to the Hockey East Third All-Star Team.<\/p>\n
The Bedford, N.H,, native spent four seasons with the Wildcats from 2021-25 and totaled 48 points (7g\/41a) in 139 career collegiate contests. Gagne set career highs during his junior season (2023-24) in games played (36) and assists (13-tied) en route to earning Hockey East Third All-Star recognition as well as being named to the New England All-Star Team.<\/p>\n
Prior to his collegiate career, the 6-foot-5, 225-pound defenseman skated for the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders (2019-20) and the Muskegon Lumberjacks (2020-21) in the United States Hockey League. Gagne recorded 34 points (5g\/29a) in 91 career USHL games, setting career-highs in all major statistical categories with a 3g\/23a scoring line across 53 games in 2020-21 leading to his selection to the USHL Third All-Star Team. He also appeared in four career Clark Cup playoff games, all with the Lumberjacks (0g\/0a).<\/p>\n
Gagne was originally selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the sixth round (192nd overall) in the 2021 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today that the team has signed defenseman Alex Gagne to a two-year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-77741","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\/77741","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=77741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}