{"id":83233,"date":"2025-08-20T20:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/83233\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T20:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:12:08","slug":"avalanche-add-depth-by-signing-forward-victor-olofsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/83233\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche add depth by signing forward Victor Olofsson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 20, 2025, 01:58 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>DENVER &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/col\/colorado-avalanche\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> added depth at forward Wednesday by signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3151096\/victor-olofsson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Olofsson<\/a> to a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Olofsson, 30, spent last season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/vgk\/vegas-golden-knights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>, where he had 15 goals and 14 assists over 56 games. He turned in the longest road point streak in Golden Knights history when he notched at least a point in 10 straight games from Dec. 4 to Jan. 23.<\/p>\n<p>He got his first taste of the Stanley Cup playoffs last season, scoring two goals as the team reached the second round.<\/p>\n<p>A seventh-round pick by Buffalo in 2014, Olofsson has 105 goals and 106 assists in 370 games with the Sabres and Golden Knights. He reached two milestones last season &#8212; recording his 100th career assist on Jan. 17 and notching his 100th career goal the next night.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-foot-11, 180-pound Olofsson was on the 2019-20 all-rookie team.<\/p>\n<p>Before arriving in North America, Olofsson played in the Swedish Hockey League for parts of the 2013-18 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>He was a member of Team Sweden at the IIHF World Championship in 2021 and 2024, helping the squad to a bronze medal last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 20, 2025, 01:58 PM ET DENVER &#8212; The Colorado Avalanche added depth at forward Wednesday by signing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-83233","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\/83233","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=83233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}