{"id":555528,"date":"2026-04-18T21:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555528\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:12:31","slug":"winnipeg-jets-extend-cole-koepke-on-a-two-year-deal-illegal-curve-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555528\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets extend Cole Koepke on a two-year deal \u2013 Illegal Curve Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the Jets UFA signings last July weren\u2019t very successful with the exception of Minnesotan Cole Koepke who had a slow start with Winnipeg but then got going in his second full NHL season.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204823\" class=\"wp-image-204823\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CS-January-09-2026_2049.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-204823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Colby Spence (Illegal Curve)<\/p>\n<p>He has fit into the locker room easily and on the ice has had a positive impact. After not scoring in the first 17 games he ended up with eight goals and nine assists in 66 games.<\/p>\n<p>This two-year extension makes a lot of sense for both sides. It\u2019s worth 1.45 million AAV.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/logoillegalnew.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Jets UFA signings last July weren\u2019t very successful with the exception of Minnesotan Cole Koepke who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[5,78,4,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-555528","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\/116427775155710232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555528","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=555528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}