{"id":773762,"date":"2026-07-01T17:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773762\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:48:19","slug":"jets-sign-goaltender-stuart-skinner-to-a-two-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773762\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets sign goaltender Stuart Skinner to a two-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG, July 1, 2026 \u2013 The Winnipeg Jets Hockey Club announced today the team agreed to terms with goaltender Stuart Skinner on a two-year contract with an average annual value of $3,750,000. Skinner will hold a Zoom media availability today (Wednesday, July 1) at 1:00 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n<p>Skinner, 27, played 50 games for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Edmonton Oilers in 2025-26 and had a 23-17-9 record with two shutouts, a 2.92 goals-against average and a .888 save percentage. The Edmonton, Alta. native also played three playoff games for the Penguins and went 0-3 with a 3.08 GAA and a .873 SV%.<\/p>\n<p>Skinner, Edmonton\u2019s third-round pick (78th overall) in the 2017 NHL Draft, has featured in 224 career NHL games for the Oilers and Penguins and posted a 121-71-23 record with nine shutouts, a 2.77 GAA and a .902 SV%. He also helped backstop Edmonton to back-to-back Stanley Cup Final appearances (2024 and 2025) and has a 26-25 postseason record with four shutouts, a 2.89 GAA and a .892 SV%. Skinner was the runner-up for the 2023 Calder Memorial Trophy for rookie of the year and was named to the 2023 NHL All-Rookie Team after he went 29-14-5 with a shutout, a 2.73 GAA and a .914 SV% in an impressive freshman campaign. He also played in the 2023 NHL All-Star Game for Team Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG, July 1, 2026 \u2013 The Winnipeg Jets Hockey Club announced today the team agreed to terms with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-773762","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\/773762","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=773762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}