{"id":49908,"date":"2025-07-31T11:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49908\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:27:10","slug":"international-notes-pavel-gettinger-virtanen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49908\/","title":{"rendered":"International Notes: Pavel, Gettinger, Virtanen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Free agent forward\u00a0Ondrej Pavel<\/a>\u00a0has signed a one-year deal with Finnish club Tappara with an option for 2026-27, the team announced<\/a> today.<\/p>\n

Pavel, 24, will play in Europe for the first time since the Czech center departed his home country in 2016 to play the bulk of his development in North America. While undrafted, he was a free agent signing by the Avalanche out of Minnesota State in 2023 after winning regular-season titles in each of his three seasons in Mankato.<\/p>\n

Primarily a bottom-six checking piece, his offensive production in the pros has reflected that. He scored only 12 points in 77 games for the AHL\u2019s Colorado Eagles before the Avs traded him to the Predators as part of the\u00a0Juuso P\u00e4rssinen<\/a>\u00a0deal in December. He finished the season with an improved 8-10\u201318 scoring line with 49 PIMs and a +8 rating in 43 games for the Milwaukee Admirals, but he was still non-tendered by Nashville last month and became an unrestricted free agent as a result.<\/p>\n

The Prague native got into a pair of NHL games with Colorado in the 2023-24 season, recording one hit and three shots on goal in just over 12 minutes of total ice time. He now takes his talents to Tappara, joining a club that looks to get back on track following a .500 finish last year after winning three straight Liiga championships. He joins former NHLers\u00a0Jyrki Jokipakka<\/a> and\u00a0Olli Juolevi<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n

There are some more notable international signings today:<\/p>\n

While winger\u00a0Timothy Gettinger<\/a> was reportedly looking for a KHL contract<\/a> a few weeks ago, he\u2019s ended up in Germany<\/a> with the DEL\u2019s Schwenninger Wild Wings on a one-year deal. The longtime minor-league winger in the Rangers\u2019 and Red Wings\u2019 systems solidifies his move overseas after recording 81 goals and 174 points in 346 AHL games over the past seven seasons. The 27-year-old was a fifth-round pick by New York in 2016 and has one point in 16 NHL games, all with the Blueshirts. He joins ex-NHLers\u00a0Zachary Senyshyn<\/a> and\u00a0Jordan Szwarz<\/a>\u00a0on the Wild Wings\u2019 forward corps.
\nFormer Canucks forward\u00a0Jake Virtanen<\/a> has landed a one-year deal with Slovak club HK Dukla Michalovce, the team said on Facebook<\/a>. Virtanen, 28, has not played in North America since being bought out in 2021<\/a> amid sexual assault allegations that he was later found not guilty of by a jury. The 2014 No. 6 overall pick has underwhelmed in Europe, most recently recording 19 points in 46 games last season for the DEL\u2019s Iserlohn Roosters. He\u2019ll now look to improve his scoring in a less competitive league in Slovakia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free agent forward\u00a0Ondrej Pavel\u00a0has signed a one-year deal with Finnish club Tappara with an option for 2026-27, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[6181,38643,38646,385,38644,99,38645,6182],"class_list":["post-49908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-del","tag-jake-virtanen","tag-liiga","tag-nhl","tag-ondrej-pavel","tag-sports","tag-tim-gettinger","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49908","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=49908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}