Winnipeg Jets forward Alex Iafallo signs 3-year contract extension

The Winnipeg Jets have signed forward Alex Iafallo to a three-year contract extension, the NHL club announced Wednesday.

The extension will kick in next season and carries an average annual value of US$3.67 million.

The 31-year-old from Eden, N.Y., has 15 goals and 16 assists in 81 games for the Jets this season.

He has played on the Jets’ top line with Gabe Vilardi, who is recovering from an upper-body injury, and has two goals and three assists over his last six games.

Vilardi, who hasn’t played since March 23, resumed skating Tuesday and is considered day-to-day.

The Jets (55-22-4), who last week wrapped up their first Presidents’ Trophy as the team with the best regular-season record, end their campaign Wednesday night against visiting Anaheim.

They’ll face the St. Louis Blues in a first-round playoff series.

Iafallo, an undrafted free agent signed by the Los Angeles Kings out of the University of Minnesota-Duluth in 2017, has played 583 career games for Winnipeg and Los Angeles.

He has recorded 262 points (111 goals, 151 assists) and 101 penalty minutes in the regular season and added 10 points (five goals, five assists) and 10 penalty minutes in 21 playoff games.

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