{"id":114613,"date":"2025-08-27T20:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/114613\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T20:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:56:07","slug":"canes-ink-kylington-smith-to-professional-tryouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/114613\/","title":{"rendered":"Canes Ink Kylington, Smith To Professional Tryouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211; The Carolina Hurricanes shared on Wednesday that the team has signed defenseman Oliver Kylington and forward Givani Smith to professional tryouts (PTOs) ahead of the team&#8217;s 2025 training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Kylington, 28, is a veteran of eight NHL seasons, playing in 220 games. The left-handed defenseman was a second-round selection of the Calgary Flames in 2015 and was with the organization until 2024. A native of Sweden, he split last season between the Colorado Avalanche and Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Kylington has produced 18 goals and 42 assists for a total of 60 NHL points.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, 27, has played 168 NHL games over six seasons. Appearing in games for the Colorado Avalanche and San Jose Sharks last season, the forward was originally a second-round pick of the Detroit Red Wings in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to representing Jamaica at the 2023-24 Challenger Series, Smith has totaled nine goals and 13 assists for 22 points, along with 268 penalty minutes over the course of his NHL career.<\/p>\n<p>Information regarding the Canes&#8217; 2025 training camp will be announced soon. To view the team&#8217;s six-game preseason schedule, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/hurricanes\/news\/hurricanes-announce-2025-exhibition-schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211; The Carolina Hurricanes shared on Wednesday that the team has signed defenseman Oliver Kylington and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-114613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}