{"id":471048,"date":"2026-02-25T11:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/471048\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:02:25","slug":"kraken-sign-ryan-winterton-to-two-year-extension-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/471048\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraken Sign Ryan Winterton To Two-Year Extension \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been an eventful evening for the Seattle Kraken, announcing that<\/a> Ryan Winterton<\/a> has been signed to a two-year contract extension worth $1.125MM per season. The forward would have become a restricted free agent after the season, now with a nice increase from his current $828k entry level deal. Winterton\u2019s contract news came out tonight along with teammate Ben Meyers<\/a>\u2018 extension<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A third round selection of Seattle in their inaugural 2021 draft class, Winterton has emerged as a nice find with a strong bottom six potential. Standing at 6\u20192\u2033, the 22-year-old recorded at least 35 points in each of his two AHL seasons, now breaking through as a regular in the lineup. Across 54 games so far, the Ontario native has 15 points, missing just two contests to this point.<\/p>\n

Back in August, Winterton was listed as the Kraken\u2019s ninth-best prospect by Steven Ellis of The Fourth Period<\/a>. A franchise whose efforts to build a contender immediately proved ineffective, with shuffling behind the bench, Seattle has finally started to assemble a formidable next wave of young players; Winterton helping round out the group with a high floor outlook.<\/p>\n

Winterton\u2019s development is still a work in progress, as his possession metrics at even strength remain below average, but he\u2019s shown real improvement from last season\u2019s -11 in just 12 games, now into the positives across his 54 games. Serving as a penalty killer in the team\u2019s bottom six, he offers enough speed and puck skills to carve out a role under Head Coach Lane Lambert<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now locked up until after the 2027-28 season, where he\u2019ll still remain under team control, Winterton is expected to grow further over the next two seasons on his way to becoming a fixture of Seattle\u2019s lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been an eventful evening for the Seattle Kraken, announcing that Ryan Winterton has been signed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5,4188,30,4,36100,2686,234,5318,405],"class_list":["post-471048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-kraken","tag-hockey","tag-kraken","tag-newsstand","tag-nhl","tag-ryan-winterton","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-seattlekraken","tag-transactions"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116130935188474164","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471048","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=471048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}