{"id":520915,"date":"2026-01-16T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/520915\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:06:09","slug":"balinskis-signs-2-year-contract-with-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/520915\/","title":{"rendered":"Balinskis signs 2-year contract with Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/uvis-balinskis-8484304\" title=\"Uvis Balinskis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uvis Balinskis<\/a> signed a two-year contract with the Florida Panthers on Friday. Financial terms were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old defenseman has eight points (one goal, seven assists) in 36 games with the Panthers this season and could have become an unrestricted free agent after the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uvis has proven his ability to be a dependable NHL blueliner on a consistent basis,&#8221; Panthers general manager Bill Zito said. &#8220;He possesses a relentless work ethic, and we are excited that he will continue his career with the Panthers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Balinskis was named to Team Latvia for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Signed by Florida as an undrafted free agent on April 18, 2023, Balinskis has 29 points (six goals, 23 assists) in 138 regular-season games and one goal in five Stanley Cup Playoff games with the Panthers and won the Stanley Cup last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers (24-18-3) visit the Washington Capitals on Saturday (7 p.m. ET; SCRIPPS, MNMT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uvis Balinskis signed a two-year contract with the Florida Panthers on Friday. Financial terms were not disclosed. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":520916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-520915","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\/115906110037338495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520915","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=520915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}