{"id":804327,"date":"2026-07-15T21:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/804327\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T21:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:52:14","slug":"winnipeg-jets-rfa-cole-perfetti-avoid-arbitration-with-five-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/804327\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets, RFA Cole Perfetti avoid arbitration with five-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> and restricted free agent forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/cole-perfetti\/8482149\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/cole-perfetti\/8482149\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Perfetti<\/a> have reached a five-year, $30 million contract extension that avoids arbitration, per TSN\u2019s Danielle Bain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deal carries an average annual value of $6 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Perfetti, 24, recorded 12 goals and 32 points in 68 games with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 5-foot-11 centre is coming off a two-year, $6.5 million contract that carried a cap hit of $3.25 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drafted 10th overall by the Jets in 2020, Perfetti has 59 goals and 157 points in 290 career games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Perfetti\u2019s best season came during the 2024-25 campaign where he registered 18 goals and 50 points in 82 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Whitby, Ont., native represented Canada at the 2021 World Hockey Championship, taking home a gold medal. He also represented his country at the 2021 World Juniors in a silver-medal finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Jets and restricted free agent forward Cole Perfetti have reached a five-year, $30 million contract extension&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,282917,448,82,74727],"class_list":["post-804327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cole-perfetti-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8482149","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-winnipeg-jets-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-52"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804327","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=804327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}