Golden Knights sign Jonas Rondbjerg to one-year contract
The Vegas Golden Knights are keeping one of their longtime depth forwards in the organization.
On Wednesday, the Golden Knights signed winger Jonas Rondbjerg to a one-year, two-way contract extension.
The #VegasBorn have re-signed 27 y/o F Jonas Rondbjerg to a 1 year two way contract $850K NHL $400K Minors $425K Guaranteed Rep'd by Markus Lehto @the_team_hockey puckpedia.com/player/jonas-r…
According to PuckPedia, the deal will carry a cap hit of $850,000 at the NHL level.
Rondbjerg, 27, spent the majority of last season with Vegas’ American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate Henderson Silver Knights, where he had 13 goals and 13 assists for 26 points in 43 games. He also had an assist in four games for Vegas, and then had an assist in Henderson’s six playoff games.
Initially selected by the Golden Knights in the third round of the 2017 NHL Entry Draft, Rondbjerg played mostly for Vaxjo HC of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) in his two seasons after getting drafted. In 80 combined games over those two seasons, he notched eight goals and nine assists for 17 points.
The Danish national got his first extended look in North America in the 2020-21 season, when he played 38 games for the Silver Knights and registered six goals and seven assists for 13 points.
In the 2021-22 season, he got his lengthiest opportunity in the NHL, playing 30 games for Vegas while putting up two goals and four assists for six points. He also played 39 games for Henderson that year, recording solid numbers with 14 goals and 13 assists for 27 points.
In each of the next three seasons, Rondbjerg saw at least some action up with the Golden Knights, though never as much as the 30 games he got in 2021-22. In 46 total NHL games over that span, he managed just one goal and three assists for four points. At the AHL level over that time, he established himself as a steady, roughly half-point-per-game player, putting up 79 points in 155 games.
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