{"id":105613,"date":"2021-03-31T17:04:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T21:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=105613"},"modified":"2021-03-31T17:04:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T21:04:25","slug":"jordan-kawaguchi-signs-dallas-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/03\/31\/jordan-kawaguchi-signs-dallas-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Kawaguchi Signs Entry-Level Contract With Dallas Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Stars have signed forward Jordan Kawaguchi to a one-year entry-level contract. Confirmation of the signing came from the team&#8217;s official Twitter account on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019ve signed forward Jordan Kawaguchi to a one-year, entry-level contract. Kawaguchi will report to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TexasStars?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TexasStars<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoStars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GoStars<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GMD5xZP9I5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/GMD5xZP9I5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; X &#8211; Dallas Stars (@DallasStars) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DallasStars\/status\/1377327799120302080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jordan Kawaguchi Signs With Dallas Stars<\/h2>\n<p>Jordan Kawaguchi spent four years at the University of North Dakota and finished his college career as captain of the Fighting Hawks. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/199911\/jordan-kawaguchi\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elite Prospects<\/a>, he has amassed a total of 40 goals and 126 points in 136 games in the NCAA. His college career included a Hobey-Baker calibre junior year where he tallied 15 goals and 45 points in 33 games. Although he lost out to the eventual winner Scott Perunovich, who signed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/blues\/\" target=\"_self\">St Louis Blues<\/a> in March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Kawaguchi will now report to the Dallas Stars AHL affiliate team, the Texas Stars. Unfortunately, his college season in 2020-21 has already ended on the back of a cruel five-OT loss to Minnesota-Duluth in their NCAA regional final. The Fighting Hawks were ranked first in the country for much of the season.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means Going Forward<\/h3>\n<p>Undrafted in 2015, the Abbotsford, BC native played his junior hockey for the Chilliwack Chiefs. Though after years of consistent production in college, he has finally found a home in the NHL. What&#8217;s more, the Dallas Stars seem like the perfect fit.<\/p>\n<p>According to our prospect expert, Ben Kerr, Kawaguchi &#8220;has <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/03\/16\/2020-college-hockey-free-agents-part-3\/\" target=\"_self\">a powerful frame and low centre of gravity<\/a>. This allows him to hold his own in the dirty areas of the ice, whether it be driving the net or battling along the boards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The news of his signing will likely cheer up Stars fans who have had a difficult season to date. Not only has Dallas suffered a Stanley Cup Final hangover but the team has also been severely disrupted by COVID, endured a state-wide power crisis and are missing some of their biggest contributors like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/seguity01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyler Seguin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/radulal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexander Radulov<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bishobe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Bishop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is still a chance of playoff hockey this year. Currently, Dallas is seven points adrift of a playoff spot with four games in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"YRwbICOnSVxK62T6TTPsEg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1309270837\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'YRwbICOnSVxK62T6TTPsEg',sig:'E3Pq4H0tmbIIOHMrNB1OeoXj11_cW0eD6Hf8jK1iL1s=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1309270837',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Stars have signed forward Jordan Kawaguchi to a one-year entry-level contract. Confirmation of the signing came from the team&#8217;s official Twitter account on Wednesday afternoon. We\u2019ve signed forward Jordan Kawaguchi to a one-year, entry-level contract. Kawaguchi will report to the @TexasStars. #GoStars https:\/\/t.co\/GMD5xZP9I5 &mdash; X &#8211; Dallas Stars (@DallasStars) March 31, 2021 Jordan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1733,"featured_media":105640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,4547,34,4548],"tags":[4692,1153,3357],"class_list":["post-105613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stars","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-jordan-kawaguchi","tag-north-dakota-fighting-hawks","tag-scott-perunovich"],"modified_by":"Josh Erickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}