{"id":554086,"date":"2026-04-16T21:24:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554086\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:24:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:24:29","slug":"jets-sign-defenceman-garrett-brown-to-a-two-year-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554086\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets sign defenceman Garrett Brown to a two-year, entry-level contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG,\u00a0Apr. 16, 2026\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Winnipeg Jets Hockey Club announced today\u00a0that they have\u00a0signed defenceman\u00a0Garrett Brown\u00a0to\u00a0a\u00a0two-year,\u00a0entry-level\u00a0contract\u00a0with an average annual value of\u00a0$1,050,000 in the NHL. His deal will\u00a0begin in\u00a0the\u00a02026-27\u00a0season\u00a0and he has signed an amateur try-out contract with the\u00a0AHL\u2019s Manitoba Moose\u00a0for the remainder of the\u00a02025-26\u00a0season.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, 22, played 33 games for the University of Denver Pioneers this season, recording 12 points (2G, 10A) and 12 penalty minutes. The Buffalo, N.Y. native recently helped the Pioneers to their second NCAA Championship in the\u00a0past\u00a0three\u00a0years\u00a0and he\u00a0tallied a pair of assists in the\u00a0National Championship\u00a0victory. Brown,\u00a0Winnipeg\u2019s fourth-round pick (99th\u00a0overall) in the 2022 NHL Draft,\u00a0posted 24 points (4G, 20A) and 59 PIMs in 83\u00a0career games for\u00a0DU\u00a0and was a two-time NCHC Academic All-Conference Team (2023-24 and 2024-25).<\/p>\n<p>Garrett Brown<\/p>\n<p>Defence<\/p>\n<p>Born\u00a0Apr\u00a04,\u00a02004\u00a0\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0Buffalo,\u00a0N.Y.<\/p>\n<p>Height\u00a06.03\u00a0&#8212; Weight\u00a0195\u00a0&#8212; Shoots\u00a0R<\/p>\n<p>-#####-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG,\u00a0Apr. 16, 2026\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Winnipeg Jets Hockey Club announced today\u00a0that they have\u00a0signed defenceman\u00a0Garrett Brown\u00a0to\u00a0a\u00a0two-year,\u00a0entry-level\u00a0contract\u00a0with an average annual value of\u00a0$1,050,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[5,78,4,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-554086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-jets","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-winnipeg","12":"tag-winnipeg-jets","13":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116416496515351048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554086","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=554086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}