{"id":55146,"date":"2025-08-08T18:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55146\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:47:07","slug":"avalanche-re-sign-forward-joel-kiviranta-on-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/55146\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche re-sign forward Joel Kiviranta on one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/joel-kiviranta\/9f86cf0b-416d-4408-a080-9d638f52d006\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"9f86cf0b-416d-4408-a080-9d638f52d006\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joel Kiviranta<\/a> agreed to a one-year contract for next season, the club announced on Friday. Kiviranta&#8217;s salary was not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Kiviranta, 29, played 79 regular-season games and all seven post-season contests for the Avalanche last season.<\/p>\n<p>In the regular season, he tallied career highs in goals (16) and points (23) and scored his first career hat trick in December.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joel is a hard-working, responsible player who has demonstrated he can be a key contributor at five-on-five,&#8221; said Avalanche general manager Chris MacFarland. &#8220;He has been a valuable member of our lineup, and we are excited to have him back for another season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kiviranta, of Finland, first broke into the NHL as an undrafted free agent with the Dallas Stars during the 2019-20 season.<\/p>\n<p>He played four seasons for the Stars before spending the past two in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Across 298 regular-season games, Kiviranta has 35 goals and 25 assists. He also has 14 points (seven goals, seven assists) in 51 playoff contests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forward Joel Kiviranta agreed to a one-year contract for next season, the club announced on Friday. Kiviranta&#8217;s salary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-55146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55146","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=55146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}