{"id":804221,"date":"2026-07-15T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/804221\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:40:10","slug":"jets-sign-forward-cole-perfetti-to-a-five-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/804221\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets sign forward Cole Perfetti to a five-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG,\u00a0July\u00a015, 2026\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Winnipeg Jets\u00a0Hockey Club announced today\u00a0the team\u00a0agreed to terms with\u00a0forward Cole Perfetti\u00a0on a\u00a0five-year contract\u00a0with an average annual value\u00a0of $6,000,000.<\/p>\n<p>Perfetti,\u00a024,\u00a0recorded\u00a032\u00a0points (12G,\u00a020A) and\u00a020\u00a0penalty minutes\u00a0in\u00a068\u00a0games\u00a0for the\u00a0Jets\u00a0in 2025-26. The\u00a0Whitby, Ont. native\u00a0set a career high with 15:37 time-on-ice per game last season.<\/p>\n<p>Perfetti, the Jets\u2019 first-round pick (10th\u00a0overall) in the 2020 NHL Draft,\u00a0set career highs for\u00a0points (50) and assists (32) in\u00a082 games in\u00a02024-25.\u00a0In the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, he\u00a0scored\u00a0the latest tying goal in a Game 7 in\u00a0NHL history\u00a0to\u00a0help\u00a0Winnipeg overcome\u00a0the\u00a0St. Louis\u00a0Blues\u00a0in their\u00a0First Round\u00a0matchup. Perfetti\u00a0has recorded\u00a0157\u00a0points (59G,\u00a098A) and\u00a068\u00a0PIMs\u00a0in\u00a0290\u00a0career\u00a0regular season\u00a0games over the past\u00a0five\u00a0seasons for Winnipeg.\u00a0He\u00a0has posted\u00a0six points (3G, 3A)\u00a0and two PIMs in\u00a014\u00a0playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, Perfetti has represented Canada on several occasions, highlighted by a gold medal win at the 2021 World Championship where he recorded two goals and four PIMs in 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Perfetti<\/p>\n<p>Forward<\/p>\n<p>Born Jan.\u00a01\u00a02002\u00a0&#8212; Whitby, ONT\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Height 5.11 &#8212; Weight 185 &#8212; Shoots L<\/p>\n<p>-#####-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG,\u00a0July\u00a015, 2026\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Winnipeg Jets\u00a0Hockey Club announced today\u00a0the team\u00a0agreed to terms with\u00a0forward Cole Perfetti\u00a0on a\u00a0five-year contract\u00a0with an average annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-804221","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\/804221","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=804221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}