{"id":67943,"date":"2025-08-14T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67943\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T02:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T02:30:07","slug":"blue-jackets-sign-mikael-pyyhtia-to-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67943\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets sign Mikael Pyyhtia to one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">On Wednesday, <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/columbus-blue-jackets\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> general manager Don Waddell announced that the team has signed forward Mikael Pyyhti\u00e4 to a one-year, two-way contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">According to Aaron Portzline of The Athletic, Pyyhti\u00e4\u2019s new deal carries an NHL cap hit of $775,000, with a minor-league salary of $100,000. $140,000 is guaranteed to the Finnish winger. Pyyhti\u00e4 came to the end of his three-year, entry-level contract this past season. That deal had an NHL AAV of $925,000, with an American Hockey League salary of $80,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cMikael Pyyhtia is a highly competitive player that brings high-end speed, reliable two-way play and a strong work ethic to a lineup,\u201d Waddell said in a release. \u201cWe look forward to seeing his continued growth with the Blue Jackets organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">After establishing himself as a solid prospect with Finnish squad TPS in Liiga, Pyyhti\u00e4 came over to North America near the end of the 2022-23 season, playing a couple of games with Columbus, as well as seven with the organization\u2019s primary affiliate, the Cleveland Monsters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The 2023-24 campaign saw the Turku native spend the majority of his season with Cleveland, scoring a career-high seven goals and 21 assists for 28 points. He also notched two assists in 17 games with the Blue Jackets. Pyyhti\u00e4 played a lot more with the Blue Jackets this past year, appearing in 47 games with the big club. He scored his first NHL goal on Oct. 28 against the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/oilersnation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a>, and ended up posting four goals and three assists for seven points, averaging over 12 minutes of ice time while registering a plus\/minus of -11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Pyyhti\u00e4\u2019s efforts led to him cracking the Finnish National Team squad at the 2025 IIHF Men\u2019s World Championship. The 23-year-old didn\u2019t score a point in three games. Along with his most recent international experience, he also won gold with Finland at the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Pyyhti\u00e4 was originally taken by the Blue Jackets in the fourth round, 114th overall, of the 2020 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, Columbus Blue Jackets general manager Don Waddell announced that the team has signed forward Mikael Pyyhti\u00e4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-67943","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\/67943","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=67943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}