{"id":654388,"date":"2026-09-02T21:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/654388\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T21:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T21:00:19","slug":"rangers-sign-winger-eeli-tolvanen-for-1-year-1-5-million-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/654388\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers sign winger Eeli Tolvanen for 1 year, $1.5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The New York Rangers agreed to terms with winger Eeli Tolvanen on a one-year, $1.5 million contract, the team announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers and Tolvanen reached the deal with a little more than two weeks before the start of training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Tolvanen is coming off a 36-point season with Seattle, skating in 78 of 82 games. He set career highs with 23 goals in 2024-25 and 41 points in \u201923-24.<\/p>\n<p>Tolvanen figures to slot in on New York\u2019s second or third line. The 27-year-old Finn is joining his third organization after being drafted by Nashville in 2017 and getting claimed off waivers by the Kraken in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>See AP\u2019s full NHL coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The New York Rangers agreed to terms with winger Eeli Tolvanen on a one-year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4154,5,4188,2409,3328,4,3494,3492,60587,52361,50837,71260,2686,234,5318],"class_list":["post-654388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-kraken","tag-eeli-tolvanen","tag-hockey","tag-kraken","tag-nashville","tag-new-york","tag-nhl","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","tag-product-40820-ap-washington-state-sports-only","tag-rangers-sign-eeli-tolvanen","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-seattlekraken"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117203463327870164","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654388","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=654388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}