{"id":28431,"date":"2006-08-02T10:56:17","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T15:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2006\/08\/02\/mavericks-peto-heads-for-europe\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:56:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:56:37","slug":"mavericks-peto-heads-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2006\/08\/02\/mavericks-peto-heads-for-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks’ Peto Heads For Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"
Minnesota State’s Kyle Peto, the team’s top-scoring defenseman a year ago, has opted to forego his final year of collegiate eligibility to sign with a European professional team.<\/p>\n
The Mankato (Minn.) Free Press<\/i> reported Peto’s departure, with Mavericks head coach Troy Jutting confirming that Peto had signed a contract with a team in the Finnish Elite League.<\/p>\n
“I knew he was looking into opportunities and seeing what was out there,” Jutting told the Free Press<\/i>. “I’m disappointed that he won’t be back to finish his degree.”<\/p>\n
Peto tallied 8-21–29 in 38 games in 2005-06 for the Mavericks. The 23-year-old native of Lethbridge, Alb., finishes his Minnesota State career with 14 goals and 64 assists for 78 points, fourth all-time among MSU blueliners — in 111 overall games. <\/p>\n
Peto, who redshirted his freshman year of 2002-03 at MSU due to an injury after just three games, would have been a senior this season. He is the second Maverick to leave early this offseason, following forward David Backes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minnesota State’s Kyle Peto, the team’s top-scoring defenseman a year ago, has opted to forego his final year of collegiate eligibility to sign with a European professional team. The Mankato (Minn.) Free Press reported Peto’s departure, with Mavericks head coach Troy Jutting confirming that Peto had signed a contract with a team in the Finnish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n