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Winnipeg Jets sign Nino Niederreiter to a three-year contract extension

This news isn’t exactly breaking since Scott Billeck of the Winnipeg Sun tweeted out the news on November 4th that Nino Niederreiter wanted to sign an extension in Winnipeg.

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A few days later Billeck subsequently put it out there that Niederreiter’s camp was looking for a three to four year extension with a comparable similar to what the Wild gave Marcus Foligno (16 million for four years).

Today we learned that Winnipeg has signed the 31 year old to a three-year contract extension with an AAV of 4 million.

Which continues to dismiss the “Winnipeg cannot sign players” myth given the fact that Niederreiter would have been able to command decent money as a free agent had he taken that route this July.

We knew it was supposed to be an El Nino winter but it appears that will be extended past 2023-24 which folks in Manitoba will likely be quite happy about.

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David Minuk

Working hard on a daily basis to provide the latest Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba Moose news for our readers and listeners. I also appear on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show every Saturday on our YouTube channel as well as the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show after every single Jets game. And I occasionally jump in the play-by-play booth at Canada Life to provide colour analysis during Manitoba Moose games.

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