{"id":741616,"date":"2026-07-03T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/741616\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T21:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:40:09","slug":"lightning-sign-forward-jansen-harkins-to-one-year-two-way-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/741616\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning sign forward Jansen Harkins to one-year, two-way contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA BAY \u2013\u00a0The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed forward Jansen Harkins to a one-year, two-way contract, vice president and general manager Julien BriseBois announced today.<\/p>\n<p>Harkins, 29, appeared in 44 games for the Anaheim Ducks during the 2025-26 season, notching three goals and eight points. He has played in 305 career NHL games between the Ducks, Pittsburgh Penguins and Winnipeg Jets, recording 18 goals and 45 points.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Harkins has played in 225 career AHL games, posting 62 goals and 161 points. During the 2019-20 season, Harkins represented the Manitoba Moose in the AHL All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>Harkins was originally drafted by Winnipeg in the second round, 47th\u00a0overall, of the 2015 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA BAY \u2013\u00a0The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed forward Jansen Harkins to a one-year, two-way contract, vice president&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-741616","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\/741616","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=741616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}