{"id":393420,"date":"2026-01-06T11:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/393420\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:16:22","slug":"nashville-predators-sign-goaltender-justus-annunen-to-two-year-2-5m-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/393420\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Predators sign goaltender Justus Annunen to two-year, $2.5M extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville Predators<\/a> announced the signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/justus-annunen\/8481020\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/justus-annunen\/8481020\" target=\"_blank\">Justus Annunen<\/a> to a two-year extension on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deal, beginning in 2026-2027, will pay the 25-year-old goaltender $2.5 million over the two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Annunen has appeared in 12 games for the team this season, starting nine of them. He is 3-5-1 with a 3.29 goals against average and a .875 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Kempele, Finland, Annunen was originally selected with the 64th overall pick of the 2018 NHL Entry Draft by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a>, with whom he spent the first three-plus seasons of his career. He was acquired from the Avs in the fall of 2024 in a deal that saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/scott-wedgewood\/8475809\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/scott-wedgewood\/8475809\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Wedgewood<\/a> head to Denver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 64 games across five seasons with the Avalanche and Predators, Annunen is 28-25-4 with a 3.01 GAA and .892 SV%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nashville Predators announced the signing Justus Annunen to a two-year extension on Monday. The deal, beginning in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[4759,5,50108,2409,231,33451,5281,4,2410],"class_list":{"0":"post-393420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nashville-predators","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-justus-annunen-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8481020","11":"tag-nashville","12":"tag-nashville-predators","13":"tag-nashville-predators-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-18","14":"tag-nashvillepredators","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-predators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115847877013177554","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}