Jets sign DiVincentiis
NORTH BAY, Ont. — The Winnipeg Jets have signed goaltender Dom DiVincentiis to a three-year entry-level contract, the National Hockey League club announced Wednesday.
Winnipeg selected DiVincentiis, a Bolton, Ont., resident who turned 19 on March 4, in the seventh round of the 2022 NHL Draft.
DiVincentiis played 48 games with the Ontario Hockey League’s North Bay Battalion last season, compiling a won-lost-extended record of 36-9-2 with a 2.33 goals-against average, a .919 save percentage and five shutouts. He led the league in wins, GAA and save percentage and tied for the lead in shutouts.
DiVincentiis won the Jim Rutherford Trophy as the OHL’s Goaltender of the Year after winning Goaltender of the Week honours three times during the regular season and once in the playoffs and being named Goaltender of the Month for January and March. He also was voted to the First All-Star team after the Battalion captured a second straight Central Division championship.
Since the Battalion made him a sixth-round choice in the 2020 OHL Priority Selection from the Vaughan Kings minor midgets, DiVincentiis has career numbers that include a 50-17-3 record with a 2.42 GAA, a .915 save percentage and the five shutouts in 75 regular-season games over two seasons.
In 26 playoff games, he has a 13-13 won-lost record, a 2.76 GAA, a .914 save percentage and one shutout.
DiVincentiis is one of eight members of the 2022-23 Battalion who have attended NHL developments camps, some of which opened as early as last Saturday.
Left winger Matvey Petrov is with the Edmonton Oilers, while defenceman Ty Nelson and centre Kyle Jackson joined the Seattle Kraken. Left winger Josh Bloom went to camp with the Vancouver Canucks and defenceman Tnias Mathurin with the Detroit Red Wings. Left winger Justin Ertel and right winger Kyle McDonald attended the Dallas Stars’ camp.
In addition, centre Liam Arnsby and goaltender Charlie Robertson are to attend development camp with the Florida Panthers starting next Monday.
While DiVincentiis was the fourth of five Battalion members chosen in the NHL Draft last year at Montreal, the Troops joined the Niagara IceDogs and Sarnia Sting as the three OHL clubs without a selection in the 2023 proceedings last week at Nashville.
Thirty-five OHLers were selected, followed by 33 Western Hockey League performers and 12 from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, giving the Canadian Hockey League a total of 80.
