{"id":397693,"date":"2026-01-08T15:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/397693\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:02:44","slug":"hurricanes-acquire-d-juuso-valimaki-from-mammoth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/397693\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes acquire D Juuso Valimaki from Mammoth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 6 &#8211; The Carolina Hurricanes picked up defenseman Juuso Valimaki in a late-night trade with the Utah Mammoth on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Utah received future considerations in the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Valimaki played 43 games for the Mammoth in 2024-25 but had yet to log an NHL appearance this season as he recovered from a torn ACL. The 27-year-old Finn returned to the ice on New Year&#8217;s Eve with the Tucson Roadrunners, Utah&#8217;s American Hockey League affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina assigned Valimaki &#8212; a pending unrestricted free agent &#8212; to the AHL&#8217;s Chicago Wolves.<\/p>\n<p>Valimaki has 72 career points in 271 NHL games. He was drafted No. 16 overall by the Calgary Flames in 2017 and also played for the Arizona Coyotes before that team uprooted to Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before tearing his ACL last February, Valimaki was a healthy scratch in each of Finland&#8217;s three games at the 4 Nations Face-Off. He was not named to Finland&#8217;s 2026 Olympic roster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Body\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__element__5eCce article-body-module__trust-badge__5mS3f\">Our Standards: <a data-testid=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thomsonreuters.com\/en\/about-us\/trust-principles.html\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__medium__2Rl30 text-module__small__sph8i link-module__link__INqxZ link-module__underline_default__-okuC link-module__with-icon__qlg76\">The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reutersagency.com\/en\/licensereuterscontent\/?utm_medium=rcom-article-media&amp;utm_campaign=rcom-rcp-lead\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"button-module__link__A3sD0 button-module__secondary__70gBu button-module__round__QDFgq button-module__w_auto__Sem-F\" data-testid=\"LicenceContentButton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Purchase Licensing Rights<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 6 &#8211; The Carolina Hurricanes picked up defenseman Juuso Valimaki in a late-night trade with the Utah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,50399,1876,5,195,49571,4,49572,49570],"class_list":["post-397693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-hurricanes","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-carolinahurricanes","tag-destousspm","tag-hkn","tag-hockey","tag-hurricanes","tag-iceh","tag-nhl","tag-spo","tag-topicsports-ice-hockey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115860088212963368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397693","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=397693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}