{"id":391337,"date":"2026-01-06T08:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/391337\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T08:19:06","slug":"carolina-hurricanes-acquire-juuso-valimaki-in-deal-with-utah-mammoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/391337\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Hurricanes acquire Juuso Valimaki in deal with Utah Mammoth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> acquired defenceman Juuso Valimaki from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/utah-mammoth\/68\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/utah-mammoth\/68\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Mammoth<\/a> in exchange for future considerations, the team announced on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Valimaki has been assigned to the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 27-year-old has a goal and three points in three games with the AHL\u2019s Tuscon Roadrunners this season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Originally drafted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/calgary-flames\/20\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Flames<\/a> with the 16th overall pick in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft, Valimaki has appeared in 271 NHL games with Calgary and the Utah franchise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Valimaki\u2019s last NHL game came on Jan. 26, 2025, and the native of Tampere, Finland has 11 goals and 72 points in his NHL career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carolina Hurricanes acquired defenceman Juuso Valimaki from the Utah Mammoth in exchange for future considerations, the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,96396,448,82,101438],"class_list":["post-391337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carolina-hurricanes-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-12","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-utah-hockey-club-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-68"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}