Winnipeg Jets re-sign Cole Perfetti to two-year, $6.5M contract

The Winnipeg Jets have inked Cole Perfetti to a two-year bridge deal carrying a $3.25 million cap hit, the team announced Monday.

This now ends the contract stalemate that has kept Perfetti out of training camp.

The 22-year-old appeared in 71 games with the Jets last season, tallying a career-high 19 goals and nearly doubling his scoring numbers from his second season with the Manitoba side.

The Whitby, Ont., native has accumulated 75 points over 140 career games in the NHL, despite seeing his time on the ice get reduced over the last two seasons.

Perfetti appeared just once in Winnipeg’s brief playoff run last spring, logging just under 11 minutes of ice time in the Jets’ Game 5 defeat to the Colorado Avalanche after being a healthy scratch for the bulk of the team’s first-round series.

Perfetti was plucked by Winnipeg 10th overall in the 2020 NHL Draft and became the team’s highest selection since Patrick Laine in 2016.