{"id":878773,"date":"2026-08-31T23:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/878773\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T23:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:34:16","slug":"congratulations-to-the-pionk-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/878773\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the Pionk family!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pionk, 31, tallied 12 points (6G, 9A) and 37 penalty minutes in 51 games for Winnipeg last season. The Omaha, Neb. native was second on the Jets in time-on-ice per game (22:43).<\/p>\n<p>He ranks fourth in franchise history for points by a\u00a0defenceman (228).\u00a0His 45 point campaign in 2019-20 trails only Dustin\u00a0Byfuglien for the most points by a dman in their debut season in Winnipeg\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pionk was an undrafted free agent who signed with the New York Rangers out of the University of Minnesota-Duluth in 2017. He leads all active undrafted defencemen in assists (221), points (268), and PP goals (14)<\/p>\n<p>He was acquired by Winnipeg on June 17\/19 and has recorded 268 points (47G, 221A) and 333 PIMs in 587 career NHL games for the Jets and Rangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pionk, 31, tallied 12 points (6G, 9A) and 37 penalty minutes in 51 games for Winnipeg last season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-878773","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\/878773","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=878773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}