{"id":129566,"date":"2025-08-08T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129566\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:10:10","slug":"avalanche-signs-kiviranta-colorado-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129566\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche Signs Kiviranta\u00a0 | Colorado Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today the team has signed forward <strong>Joel Kiviranta<\/strong> to a one-year contract for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kiviranta<\/strong>, 29, suited up in 79 regular-season games and seven Stanley Cup Playoff contests for the Avalanche in 2024-25, his second season with the club. In the regular season, the winger set career-highs in goals (16), points (23) and notched his first two career game-winning goals. Kiviranta also registered his first three career multi-goal performances, two of which took place in the month of December. Among them was Kiviranta\u2019s first career regular-season hat trick on Dec. 22 vs. Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Vantaa, Finland, Kiviranta played in his 100th contest with the Avalanche on Jan. 11, 2025. In 135 games with Colorado, he has collected 32 points (19g\/13a) as well as his two career-high showings of three points. Kiviranta also posted a career-high four-game goal streak from March 6-11, which began with his second career shorthanded marker on March 6. This is the 29-year-old\u2019s third NHL contract with the Avalanche.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joel is a hard-working, responsible player who has demonstrated he can be a key contributor at five-on-five,&#8221; said Avalanche General Manager <strong>Chris MacFarland<\/strong>. &#8220;He has been a valuable member of our lineup, and we are excited to have him back for another season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 5-foot-11, 185-pound forward has appeared in 298 career regular-season games and has registered 60 points (35g\/25a) with the Avalanche and Dallas Stars from 2019-25. He\u2019s played in the Stanley Cup Playoffs in each of the last four seasons as well as five of his six as a professional in North America, tallying 14 points (7g\/7a) in 51 postseason contests. Kiviranta made a Stanley Cup Final appearance with the Stars in 2020 and helped them earn a Western Conference Final berth in 2023. In his first campaign in North America, Kiviranta was added to Dallas\u2019 2020 postseason roster and chipped in a career-high six points (5g\/1a) over 14 games, including a hat trick in Game 7 of the Second Round against Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Kiviranta signed with Dallas as an undrafted free agent on May 31, 2019 after playing parts of six seasons for the SM-Liiga\u2019s Jokerit (2013-14) and Vaasan Sport (2014-19) programs. He tallied 114 points (60g\/54a) in 261 games in his Liiga career. On the international stage, Kiviranta captured a gold medal representing Finland at the 2019 World Championship and a bronze medal at the 2013 U-18 World Championship where he was teammates with <strong>Artturi Lehkonen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today the team has signed forward Joel Kiviranta to a one-year contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-129566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114994258004500394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}