{"id":790962,"date":"2026-07-09T17:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/790962\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T17:15:12","slug":"canes-sign-heimosalmi-to-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/790962\/","title":{"rendered":"Canes Sign Heimosalmi To One-Year Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211; Eric Tulsky, General Manager of the National Hockey League\u2019s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has signed defenseman Aleksi Heimosalmi to a one-year, two-way contract. The deal will pay Heimosalmi $850,000 in the NHL or $85,000 in the American Hockey League (AHL).<\/p>\n<p>About Aleksi Heimosalmi:<\/p>\n<p>The Pori, Finland, native spent the 2025-26 season with the AHL\u2019s Chicago Wolves, recording 17 points (4g, 13a) and 40 penalty minutes in 52 regular-season games.<br \/>\nHeimosalmi added two points (1g, 1a) in seven playoff games to help the Wolves make it to the 2026 Calder Cup Final.<br \/>\nThe 6\u20190\u201d, 181-pound blueliner registered 14 points (5g, 9a) in 56 regular-season games with the Wolves in 2024-25.<br \/>\nTotaled 34 points (6g, 28a) in 139 career games with Assat in Finland\u2019s professional league Liiga between 2021-24.<br \/>\nHeimosalmi represented Finland at both the 2023 and 2022 IIHF Under-20 World Championships, earning a silver medal in 2022.<br \/>\nHe was named Best Defenseman at the 2021 IIHF Under-18 World Championship after ranking tied for second in goals (2), third in assists (6) and tied for first in points (8) among defensemen at the tournament.<br \/>\nThe blueliner was selected by the Hurricanes in the second round, 44th overall, of the 2021 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211; Eric Tulsky, General Manager of the National Hockey League\u2019s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-790962","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\/790962","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=790962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}