{"id":255473,"date":"2025-10-27T23:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/255473\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T23:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:22:11","slug":"avalanche-sign-eagles-forward-to-nhl-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/255473\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche Sign Eagles Forward to NHL Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Avalanche locked up one of the Colorado Eagles\u2019 forwards to an NHL contract on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Tristen Nielsen signed a two-year deal, which begins this season and goes through the end of the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old forward is off to a solid start with the Eagles, where he was playing on an AHL contract. Through seven games, Nielsen has three goals and seven points with a +5 rating. The undrafted forward spent four years playing for Abbotsford in the AHL, capping off that stint with a Calder Cup championship in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p>Before turning pro, Nielsen was a teammate of Trent Miner in the WHL with the Vancouver Giants. Listed at 5-foot-10 and 192 pounds, Nielsen participated in the Avalanche\u2019s training camp before being sent down to the AHL.<\/p>\n<p>By signing an NHL deal, he becomes a call-up option for the Avs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/paypalme\/colhockeynow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CHNS-Tip-Jar.png\" alt=\"Contribute to CHN's travel and support local journalism!\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Avalanche locked up one of the Colorado Eagles\u2019 forwards to an NHL contract on Monday. Tristen Nielsen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1222,1223,831,385,99,116344],"class_list":["post-255473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-avalanche","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-featured","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-tristen-nielsen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255473","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=255473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}