{"id":760740,"date":"2026-06-26T03:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760740\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T03:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:38:10","slug":"sources-jason-robertson-turns-down-contract-offer-from-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760740\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Jason Robertson turns down contract offer from Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to multiple sources, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/seattle-kraken\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"seattle-kraken\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Seattle Kraken<\/a> were given permission by Dallas to talk to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/jason-robertson\/55ab2861-3357-4e4f-9b29-59b62e039e5a\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"55ab2861-3357-4e4f-9b29-59b62e039e5a\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jason Robertson<\/a>, and offered him approximately $15 million per year on a eight-year deal \u2014 but the offer was declined.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neither the Stars nor the Kraken agreed to comment, nor did Robertson\u2019s representative, Andy Scott.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s believed the two teams had worked out some kind of trade before the permission was granted, apparently including Seattle\u2019s first-round pick \u2014 seventh overall in Friday\u2019s draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to say what\u2019s next for the Stars and their 40-goal winger, who are believed to be at least $2 million apart per season. Their top contract is Mikko Rantanen at $12 million per year, and the hope was Robertson would come somewhere around that number.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Robertson is a restricted free agent as of July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to multiple sources, the Seattle Kraken were given permission by Dallas to talk to Jason Robertson, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-760740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760740","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=760740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}