{"id":440009,"date":"2023-07-17T15:10:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=440009"},"modified":"2023-07-17T15:10:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T19:10:39","slug":"winnipeg-ink-barron-to-2-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/winnipeg-ink-barron-to-2-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg ink Barron to 2-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Winnipeg Jets have inked restricted free agent Morgan Barron to a 2-year, 2.7 million dollar deal, the franchise share today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Winnipeg Jets have signed Morgan Barron to a two-year, $1.35M AAV contract.<\/p>\n<p>The young winger showed flashes of talent last season and will look to carry that into 2023-24. \ud83d\udca5<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLJets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NHLJets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoJetsGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GoJetsGo<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4ihIGB7lFB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4ihIGB7lFB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Connor Hrabchak (@ConnorHrabchak1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConnorHrabchak1\/status\/1680942824613904386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The contract carries an average annual value of almost 1.4 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The forward (24) played 70 matches for Winnipeg in the past campaign, scored 8 goals, and gave 13 assists. Barron notched 10 goals and had 15 assists in 84 matches for 2 years with the Jets.<\/p>\n<p>He joined Winnipeg in 2021 from the NY Rangers, with 3 draft selections in a trade for Andrew Copp and a 6th rounder.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan played 18 NHL matches with the hockey franchise from the Big Apple, having 1 goal and 1 assist over parts of 2 campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Winnipeg Jets have inked restricted free agent Morgan Barron to a 2-year, 2.7 million dollar deal, the franchise share today. The Winnipeg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":440010,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17844,17218],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[20464,17846,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The Jets signed the restricted free agent forward Morgan Barron.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440009"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=440009"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=440009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}