{"id":68767,"date":"2025-08-14T22:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/68767\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T22:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:58:10","slug":"minor-transactions-kempe-novak-berger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/68767\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor Transactions: Kempe, Novak, Berger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Coyotes forward\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kempema01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-14_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mario Kempe<\/a> is continuing his career overseas on a one-year contract with Austria\u2019s EC-KAC, the club <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kac.at\/news\/2025\/08\/mario-kempe-wechselt-nach-klagenfurt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The older brother of top Kings winger\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kempead01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-14_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adrian Kempe<\/a> is entering his 18th professional season, the vast majority of which were spent in Europe. Now 36, he was a fifth-round pick of the Flyers back in 2007 but only played five games for their AHL affiliate in 2008-09 before returning overseas. His only NHL experience came later in his career with Arizona, recording a 6-7\u201313 scoring line in 70 games across the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Injuries have diminished the once-effective scorer in recent years. He spent last season in Finland with Tappara, scoring 11 points in 30 games for the Liiga club. He now joins EC-KAC in the ICEHL \u2013 still a major pro league in Europe, but not at the level of the KHL, SHL, Liiga, or Swiss NL. He\u2019s spent most of his career in his native Sweden, recording 56 goals and 115 points in 328 career SHL games for Djurg\u00e5rdens IF, MODO Hockey, R\u00f6gle BK, and Lule\u00e5 HF.<\/p>\n<p>More moves from around the hockey world:<\/p>\n<p>The Coachella Valley Firebirds, the Kraken\u2019s AHL affiliate, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cvfirebirds.com\/2025\/08\/14\/firebirds-add-forward-jakov-novak\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> today they\u2019ve signed forward\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/269880\/jakov-novak\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jakov Novak<\/a>\u00a0to a one-year deal. He spent the last two years in the Canadiens organization on minor-league deals with AHL Laval and ECHL Trois-Rivi\u00e8res. He was over a point-per-game for the latter club last season (57 in 53 GP) en route to a Kelly Cup championship. The 26-year-old winger was a 2018 seventh-round pick of the Senators but had his signing rights later traded to Montreal, which never signed him to an NHL deal.<br \/>\nThe Flyers\u2019 AHL affiliate, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, are signing left-shot defender\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/299029\/carter-berger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carter Berger<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TonyAndrock\/status\/1956051823208341940\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tony Androckitis of Inside AHL Hockey<\/a> reports. Berger, 25, was a fourth-round pick by the Panthers in 2019 but never signed. He spent his first pro season last year under contract with AHL Hartford but played almost exclusively on assignment to ECHL Bloomington, where he had an 8-25\u201333 scoring line with a -7 rating in 67 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Coyotes forward\u00a0Mario Kempe is continuing his career overseas on a one-year contract with Austria\u2019s EC-KAC, the club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[3063,64,63,54434,54437,54435,54436,575,85,206],"class_list":["post-68767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ahl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carter-berger","tag-icehl","tag-jakov-novak","tag-mario-kempe","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}