Day of signings for home club and on the farm

The Winnipeg Jets and pending restricted free agent forward Isak Rosen have quickly found some middle ground.

Both sides came together on Wednesday for a two year contract extension. Rosen, 23, will earn US$925,000 per season. The slick Swedish skater was coming out of his entry-level deal and had 10 points (six goals, four assists) in 37 combined games for the Jets and Buffalo Sabres last year.

He also led Buffalo’s AHL affiliate, the Rochester Americans, with 25 goals in 37 games prior to being promoted full-time to the NHL.

Rosen was shipped to Winnipeg along with defenceman Jacob Bryson, a 2027 second-round pick, and a conditional 2026 fourth-round pick in exchange for blue-liners Logan Stanley and Luke Schenn at the trade deadline.

Rosen was selected in the first round, 14th-overall, in the 2021 NHL draft and has been a dominant player at the AHL level, with 185 points (87G, 98A) in 231 career games.

He’ll look to carve out an even bigger role with the Jets when training camp gets underway in September.

The Jets just have one major RFA left to get signed this summer — forward Cole Perfetti.

Forwards Jaret-Anderson Dolan and David Gustafsson and defenceman Tyrel Bauer, who spent all of last year with the Manitoba Moose, are also RFAs.

Winnipeg has a number of unrestricted free agents who, if not signed by July 1, will be free to latch on with other teams. They include Bryson and fellow blue-liners Ville Heinola and Colin Miller, forward Gustav Nyquist and backup goaltender Eric Comrie.

Moose forwards Phil Di Giuseppe and Mason Shaw are also pending UFAs along with winger Samuel Fagemo and defenceman Kale Clague, who have already inked new deals overseas in Europe and won’t be back.

Speaking of the Moose, they have locked up a pair of pending free agents with new AHL deals.

Defenceman Ashton Sautner and forward Tyson Empey both inked new one-year contracts Wednesday.

Sautner, 32, will return for a fifth straight season as he provides veteran leadership and stability on the blue line. The Flin Flon product, who has 23 career NHL games on his resumé, had 13 points (3G, 10A) in 68 regular-season games with the Moose last year.

Empey, 30, is back for a third year in antlers. The native of Swift Current, Sask., is a versatile, two-way winger who had 16 points (8G, 8A) in 83 career regular-season games with the Moose.

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