{"id":6374,"date":"2025-07-18T20:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6374\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T20:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:47:07","slug":"jets-sign-gabriel-vilardi-to-six-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6374\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets sign Gabriel Vilardi to six-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/winnipeg-jets\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"winnipeg-jets\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> signed the forward to a six-year contract, they announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Per Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman, the deal, which allows the two parties to avoid arbitration, is worth $45 million with an average annual value of $7.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Vilardi is coming off a career-best season, recording highs in goals (27), assists (34) and points (61).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his two years in Winnipeg, the 25-year-old forward has logged consecutive 20 goal seasons and has a goal and seven assists in 14 post-season games.<\/p>\n<p>He joined the Jets as part of the trade that sent Pierre-Luc Dubois to the Los Angeles Kings in the 2023 off-season. <\/p>\n<p>The Kingston, Ont. native, has 175 points (90 goals, 85 assists) in 270 games over his six-year career between the Jets and Kings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Jets signed the forward to a six-year contract, they announced on Friday. Per Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-6374","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\/6374","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=6374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}