Vancouver Canucks sign forward Paul Cotter to one-year, $2.15M contract

The Vancouver Canucks have signed unrestricted free agent forward Paul Cotter to a one-year, $2.15 million contract.

Cotter, 26, registered nine goals and 15 points in 79 games with the New Jersey Devils last season.

The 6-foot-2 winger was acquired by the Devils, along with a draft pick, from the Vegas Golden Knights in exchange for forward Alexander Holtz and goaltender Akira Schmid in July of 2024.

He is coming off a three-year, $2.325 million contract that carried an annual cap hit of $775,000 and became an unrestricted free agent after the Devils failed to give him a qualifying offer.

Drafted 115th overall by the Golden Knights in 2018, Cotter has 47 goals and 82 points in 296 career games split between the Golden Knights and Devils.

Cotter helped the Golden Knights to their first Stanley Cup championship in 2023.