The Winnipeg Jets have signed forward Parker Ford to a two-year, two-way, $1.625MM contract. The deal will carry an $812.5K salary at the NHL level. Ford entered restricted free agency this summer after spending the last three seasons on an entry-level contract.
Ford went undrafted through his years of eligibility in 2019, 2020, and 2021. Those years spanned his final year in the USHL and first two seasons at Providence College. He didn’t catch NHL attention until his upperclass seasons with the Friars, where he became known for his endless motor and strong play in the dirty areas of the ice. He looked like a true coach’s favorite, made impacts in all three zones, and worked his way to 53 points in 75 games over his junior and senior seasons.
Those marks were enough to earn Ford a three-year, entry-level contract at the end of the 2022-23 season. He joined the AHL’s Manitoba Moose for their final eight games of the regular season, and jumped to scoring with four points, only to go without any points in five postseason games. Ford found better balance in the lineup as an AHL rookie last season. He finished the year with 18 goals and 41 points in 72 games, good for sixth on the Moose in scoring. That carved him out a hardy role in Manitoba’s top-six this season – a role Ford vindicated with 14 goals and 21 points in 41 games. He also earned his NHL debut this season, and scored one goal in three games with the Jets lineup.
A two-year deal will reward Ford’s carved out role in the AHL. He’ll likely head straight back to Manitoba’s top-six next season, but could find his way into a fourth-line, NHL role after fellow Jets depth forward Mason Appleton signed with the Detroit Red Wings this summer. Ford is a hard-working, well-rounded winger who is still largely undefined at the top flight, with only a few games in his NHL career and 121 games in his AHL career.
“And it’s worth noting that despite the Pittsburgh Penguins struggling mightily as a team last year and Karlsson’s best days behind him, they still did have the league’s sixth-best power play in 2024-25 with him running it.”
Please everyone read this and believe it. And don’t look into the part where Grezlcyck took his spot because he was awful and that’s when it caught fire. Karlsson is still a PP stud.
“What does this hAvE tO dO w/ Parker Ford?!?!?”
Seriously you need to go find a penguins forum. There is absolutely nothing in this story relating to the penguins or Grzelcyk or Karlsson. Nobody cares about your crazy homer takes on the Penguins in a story about the Jets signing Parker Ford. You’re either really drunk or have completely lost it.
“What does this hAvE tO dO w/ Parker Ford?!?!?!?!?!?!??????????????????”
“OFF TOPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“WE MUST HAVE STRICT ADHERENCE TO EACH AND EVERY RULE OR SOCIETY WILL CRUMBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Yea… you’re definitely drunk.
Or I think you are clowns with pocket protectors.
Scotty kinda nailed it. Citing a quote about Erik Karlsson and the Pens below an article that has no mention of either seems like a move done after some heavy drinking. That said, given your amusing history here, I could also believe that you made that post stone cold sober.
Clowns with pocket protectors so scared of life they can’t even imagine coloring outside the faintest of lines.
More sad than funny, really. Still, funny even though it’s sad.
Pathetic, for sure.