{"id":885478,"date":"2026-09-09T08:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T08:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/885478\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T08:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T08:54:14","slug":"canes-sign-joseph-to-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/885478\/","title":{"rendered":"Canes Sign Joseph To One-Year Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211; Eric Tulsky, General Manager of the National Hockey League\u2019s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has signed defenseman Pierre-Olivier Joseph to a one-year contract. The deal will pay Joseph $850,00 for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>About Pierre-Olivier Joseph:<\/p>\n<p>Joseph spent the 2025-26 season with the Vancouver Canucks, tallying six points (1g, 5a) in 31 games.<br \/>\nHe has totaled 46 points (9g, 37a) in 225 career NHL games with Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Vancouver.<br \/>\nThe 27-year-old recorded 64 points (14g, 50a) and 104 penalty minutes in 138 career AHL games with Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton from 2019-2023.<br \/>\nHe recorded 10 goals and 23 assists for 33 points in 2021-22 with Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton, finishing first among club defensemen in goals, second in points and third in assists.<br \/>\nThe 6\u20192\u201d, 185-pound blueliner registered 140 points (29g, 111a) with a +47 plus\/minus rating and 205 penalty minutes in 235 career QMJHL games with the Charlottetown Islanders.<br \/>\nThe Laval, Quebec, native helped Canada win a gold medal at the 2023 IIHF World Championship.<br \/>\nJoseph was originally selected by the Arizona Coyotes in the first round, 23rd overall, at the 2017 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211; Eric Tulsky, General Manager of the National Hockey League\u2019s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-885478","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\/885478","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=885478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}