Winnipeg Jets agree on one-year contract with Brian Strait

The Winnipeg Jets have added another defenceman to their stable.

The team announced Friday that it has come to terms with UFA defenceman Brian Strait on a one-year contract worth $600,000.

Strait, 28, has spent the past four seasons with the New York Islanders as a shutdown defenceman, but one who doesn’t bring much in the way of offence. Strait’s career-high is nine points, which he got in 2013-14.

Strait was picked in the third round (65th overall) of the 2006 NHL Draft by the Pittsburgh Penguins, and spent the first five years of his career in that organization.

July 1, 2016

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Brian Strait
SIGNED BY
Winnipeg Jets
LENGTH
1 yr
CONTRACT TYPE
Free Agency
SALARY CAP HIT
$600,000
TOTAL
$600,000

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