The New Jersey Devils added another veteran forward to the mix on a one-year, two-way deal, signing Colin White to a contract that pays $900,000 at the NHL level and $400,000 at the American Hockey League level.
The team announced the move through General Manager Sunny Mehta and Devils Assistant General Manager/Utica Comets General Manager Braden Birch.
White, 29, arrives after spending the past two seasons in the San Jose organization. His biggest production came with the San Jose Barracuda, where he put up 48 points on 21 goals and 27 assists in 46 regular-season games.
Those numbers were good for second on the team last season, and all three totals were career highs for him in a single AHL campaign. San Jose signed him in January of 2025, and he also appeared in three NHL games with the club.
In that 2025 season, he had 25 points on 12 goals and 13 assists in 48 AHL games, and his career-best three shorthanded goals ranked second on the team.
The right-handed shot has logged 323 regular-season NHL games since making his debut with Ottawa on April 3, 2017, against Detroit. He stayed with the Senators through 2021-22, then had a stint with Florida in 2022-23.
White also got into 21 postseason games during Florida’s run to the Stanley Cup Final that season. Before joining San Jose, he split 2023-24 between Pittsburgh and Montreal.
His top NHL season came in 2018-19 with Ottawa, when he scored 14 goals and added 27 assists for 41 points.
White’s AHL résumé also stretches back a ways. He has played 166 regular-season games in the league, beginning in 2016-17 with Binghamton. He later spent two seasons in Belleville in 2017-18 and 2019-20, and he also saw time with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton during part of the 2023-24 campaign.
Born in Hanover, MA, on Jan. 30, 1997, White was selected 21st overall by Ottawa in the 2015 NHL Draft.
Before turning pro, he spent two seasons with the USA Hockey National Team Development Program from 2013-14 to 2014-15 and then two seasons at Boston College from 2015-16 to 2016-17. At Boston College, he produced 76 points on 35 goals and 41 assists in 72 games and finished among the top three scorers on the team in both seasons.
He was named the 2016 Hockey East Rookie of the Year and earned Second All-Star Team honors in the 2015-16 season.
White has also represented the United States multiple times on the international stage. He played at the IIHF U-18 World Junior Championship in 2014-15, then at the World Junior Championship in 2015-16 and 2016-17.
He helped the U.S. win gold in 2014-15, scoring the game-winning goal against Finland in the gold-medal game. He also was part of the U.S. team that won bronze at the 2015-16 WJC and gold at the 2016-17 WJC.
Later, he represented the U.S. at the IIHF World Championship in 2018-19 and helped the team win bronze at the 2017-18 WC.
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