{"id":560319,"date":"2026-03-25T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560319\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:55:10","slug":"jets-sign-forward-lucas-wahlin-to-a-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560319\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets sign forward Lucas Wahlin to a one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG,\u00a0Mar. 25, 2026\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Winnipeg Jets Hockey Club announced today\u00a0that they have\u00a0signed\u00a0forward Lucas Wahlin\u00a0to\u00a0a\u00a0one-year, two-way contract\u00a0with an average annual value of\u00a0$850,000 in the NHL. His deal will\u00a0begin in\u00a0the\u00a02026-27\u00a0season\u00a0and he has signed an amateur try-out contract with the\u00a0AHL\u2019s\u00a0Manitoba Moosefor the remainder of the\u00a02025-26\u00a0season.<\/p>\n<p>Wahlin, 24, played 36 games for\u00a0the University of\u00a0St. Thomas\u00a0this season,\u00a0recording\u00a039 points (21G, 18A)\u00a0and 41 penalty minutes, while\u00a0his 21 goals led\u00a0both\u00a0the\u00a0Tommies\u00a0and the CCHA.\u00a0Wahlin,\u00a0UST\u2019s team captain since 2023-24,\u00a0was recently named the 2025-26 CCHA Student-Athlete of the Year\u00a0and\u00a0CCHA Defensive Forward of the Year.\u00a0He\u00a0was also\u00a0freshly\u00a0named to the\u00a0All-CCHA\u00a0First Team for the second consecutive\u00a0season.\u00a0Wahlin,\u00a0a native of Woodbury, Minn., appeared in 137\u00a0career\u00a0games for the\u00a0Tommies\u00a0and posted 131 points (56G, 75A) and 159 PIMs.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas Wahlin<\/p>\n<p>Forward<\/p>\n<p>Born\u00a0May 3,\u00a02001 \u00a0&#8212;\u00a0Woodbury, Minn.<\/p>\n<p>Height\u00a05.11\u00a0&#8212; Weight\u00a0160\u00a0&#8212; Shoots\u00a0R<\/p>\n<p>-#####-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG,\u00a0Mar. 25, 2026\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Winnipeg Jets Hockey Club announced today\u00a0that they have\u00a0signed\u00a0forward Lucas Wahlin\u00a0to\u00a0a\u00a0one-year, two-way contract\u00a0with an average annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-560319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560319","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=560319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}