{"id":576319,"date":"2026-04-10T17:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576319\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:33:07","slug":"penguins-signing-north-dakota-defenseman-jake-livanavage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576319\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins signing North Dakota defenseman Jake Livanavage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Livanavage, a 5-foot-10, 185-pound blue liner from Phoenix, came to UND as an undrafted free agent, but made major impacts on both ends of the ice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">He put up at least 25 points in all three seasons at UND and will finish his career with 14 goals and 82 points in 117 games. He earned All-American honors as a sophomore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Livanavage also excelled on the defensive end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">He was UND\u2019s most-used player this season, averaging over 24 minutes per game. He was a finalist for the National Collegiate Hockey Conference\u2019s Offensive Defenseman of the Year and Defensive Defenseman of the Year. Livanavage earned first-team all-NCHC honors this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Livanavage played for the U.S. Collegiate Selects at the Spengler Cup in Davos, Switzerland, in December. The Selects took second place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Livanavage, a 5-foot-10, 185-pound blue liner from Phoenix, came to UND as an undrafted free agent, but made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,46636,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-576319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins-prospects","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576319","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=576319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}