{"id":397225,"date":"2026-09-11T20:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T20:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397225\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T20:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T20:36:13","slug":"lightning-sign-forward-kole-lind-to-pto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397225\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning sign forward Kole Lind to PTO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA BAY &#8211;\u00a0The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed forward Kole Lind to a professional tryout agreement (PTO), vice president and general manager Julien BriseBois announced today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lind, 27, skated in 70 games with the Texas Stars of the American Hockey League last season, recording 11 goals and 35 points with 95 penalty minutes. The 6-foot-1, 192-pound forward has appeared in 454 career AHL contests between the Stars, Coachella Valley Firebirds, Charlotte Checkers and Utica Comets, registering 122 goals and 319 points with 42 power-play goals and 25 game-winners. He has also played in 63 career Calder Cup Playoff games, logging 24 goals and 59 points with eight power-play tallies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A native of Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, Lind has appeared in 31 career NHL contests between the Vancouver Canucks and Seattle Kraken, recording two goals and eight points with 12 penalty minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lind was originally drafted by the Canucks in the second round, 33rd\u00a0overall, of the 2017 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA BAY &#8211;\u00a0The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed forward Kole Lind to a professional tryout agreement (PTO), vice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-397225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}