{"id":613974,"date":"2026-04-19T07:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613974\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T07:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:10:20","slug":"koepke-signs-two-year-contract-extension-with-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613974\/","title":{"rendered":"Koepke signs two-year contract extension with Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG,\u00a0Apr. 18, 2026\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Winnipeg Jets Hockey Club announced today\u00a0that\u00a0they have agreed to terms with\u00a0forward\u00a0Cole Koepke\u00a0on a\u00a0two-year\u00a0contract\u00a0extension\u00a0with an average annual value of\u00a0$1,450,000.<\/p>\n<p>Koepke, 27,\u00a0had 17 points (8G,\u00a09A) and 16\u00a0penalty minutes\u00a0in\u00a066 games\u00a0for\u00a0the\u00a0Jets this\u00a0season.\u00a0The Two Harbors, Minn. native\u00a0scored his first career shorthanded goal in 2025-26. Koepke also led Winnipeg with 186 hits despite averaging just 10:28 of time-on-ice per game.\u00a0Koepke,\u00a0originally drafted by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the sixth round (183rd\u00a0overall)\u00a0of the\u00a02018 NHL Draft,\u00a0has\u00a037\u00a0points (19G,\u00a018A) and\u00a035\u00a0PIMs in\u00a0165\u00a0career NHL games with\u00a0the Jets, Lightning, and Boston\u00a0Bruins.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Koepke<\/p>\n<p>Forward<\/p>\n<p>Born May 17,\u00a01998 \u00a0&#8212;\u00a0Two Harbors, Minn.<\/p>\n<p>Height 6.01 &#8212; Weight 207 &#8212; Shoots L<\/p>\n<p>-#####-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG,\u00a0Apr. 18, 2026\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Winnipeg Jets Hockey Club announced today\u00a0that\u00a0they have agreed to terms with\u00a0forward\u00a0Cole Koepke\u00a0on a\u00a0two-year\u00a0contract\u00a0extension\u00a0with an average&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":{"0":"post-613974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-winnipeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613974","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=613974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}