{"id":805770,"date":"2026-07-16T14:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/805770\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:05:14","slug":"jets-sign-cole-perfetti-to-five-year-30-million-extension-to-avoid-arbitration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/805770\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets sign Cole Perfetti to five-year, $30-million extension to avoid arbitration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/winnipeg-jets\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"winnipeg-jets\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> have avoided arbitration with one of their top young players.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player=\"8b4770d6-24c5-42a4-bcd1-7bd402dbe89d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/cole-perfetti\/8b4770d6-24c5-42a4-bcd1-7bd402dbe89d\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cole Perfetti<\/a> and the Jets have agreed on a five-year, $30-million extension worth $6 million in average annual value in order arbitration, the team announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>His production took a step back in his fifth season, finishing with 12 goals and 20 assists in 68 games, after he put up a 50-point (18 goals, 32 assists) season in 2024-25. <\/p>\n<p>Drafted 10th overall in 2020, the Whitby, Ont., native has 59 goals and 98 assists in 290 career games with the Jets since debuting in the 2021-22 season. <\/p>\n<p>Perfetti, 24, and the Jets were set to head to arbitration on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Jets have avoided arbitration with one of their top young players. Cole Perfetti and the Jets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-805770","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\/805770","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=805770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}