{"id":335854,"date":"2025-12-07T22:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335854\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T22:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T22:40:07","slug":"providence-bruins-sign-former-fourth-round-pick-defenseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335854\/","title":{"rendered":"Providence Bruins Sign Former Fourth-Round Pick Defenseman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Providence Bruins added a defenseman to their roster on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProvidence Bruins General Manager Evan Gold announced today, December 7, that the Providence Bruins have signed defenseman Christian Wolanin to a one-year AHL contract,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.providencebruins.com\/post\/providence-bruins-sign-christian-wolanin-to-one-year-ahl-contract\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the team\u2019s official website announced<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wolanin, a dual Canadian-American defenseman born in Quebec City in 1995, has carved out a solid hockey path after being selected 107th overall by the Ottawa Senators in the 2015 NHL Draft. Following a standout USHL tenure with the Muskegon Lumberjacks, where he earned Second All-Star honors, Wolanin excelled at the University of North Dakota, capturing an NCAA title in 2016 and twice making the NCHC Academic All-Conference team.<\/p>\n<p>He signed an entry-level deal with Ottawa in 2017, debuting in the NHL the next March against Edmonton. Over 86 games across Ottawa, Los Angeles (acquired in a 2021 trade), Buffalo, and Vancouver, Wolanin tallied 23 points. In the AHL, he shone brighter, winning the Eddie Shore Award as top defenseman in 2022-23 and a Calder Cup with Abbotsford in 2025, contributing 10 playoff points including a Western Conference Finals overtime winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>After his Vancouver contract expired, Wolanin joined the Providence Bruins on a professional tryout in November 2025, scoring an overtime game-winner in his debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Providence Bruins added a defenseman to their roster on Sunday. \u201cProvidence Bruins General Manager Evan Gold announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-335854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335854","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=335854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}