{"id":73774,"date":"2025-07-18T22:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/73774\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T22:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:23:08","slug":"jets-sign-forward-gabriel-vilardi-to-a-6-year-45-million-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/73774\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets sign forward Gabriel Vilardi to a 6-year, $45 million extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 18, 2025, 05:37 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>WINNIPEG. Manitoba &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/wpg\/winnipeg-jets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a> locked up forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4233583\/gabriel-vilardi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriel Vilardi<\/a> on Friday, signing the forward to a six-year extension worth $45 million.<\/p>\n<p>Vilardi became a restricted free agent July 1 after completing a two-year, $6.88 million deal. He had career highs in 2024-25 with 27 goals, 34 assists, 61 points and 71 games.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old from Kingston, Ontario, added a goal and three assists in nine playoff games after missing the last 11 games of the regular season and first four of the postseason because of an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Jets acquired Vilardi in June 2023 in a trade that sent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4024833\/pierre-luc-dubois\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre-Luc Dubois<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/la\/los-angeles-kings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a>. He has 90 goals and 85 assists in 270 career regular-season games in six seasons with Los Angeles and Winnipeg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 18, 2025, 05:37 PM ET WINNIPEG. Manitoba &#8212; The Winnipeg Jets locked up forward Gabriel Vilardi on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-73774","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\/114876580021529903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73774","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=73774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}