{"id":808070,"date":"2026-07-18T10:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808070\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T10:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:57:13","slug":"adam-erne-receiving-khl-interest-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808070\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Erne Receiving KHL Interest \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After missing most of 2024-25 due to a hip injury, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/ernead01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-17_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adam Erne<\/a> was able to return to the NHL last season, albeit in a sparing role.\u00a0 Now an unrestricted free agent once again, it appears he has caught the eye of a KHL team.\u00a0 Sport-Express\u2019 Artur Khairullin reports (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/tebevukhokriknut\/18633\" rel=\"nofollow\">Telegram link<\/a>) that Dinamo Minsk has the veteran on their shortlist of players that they\u2019re hoping to add for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>Erne spent last season with Dallas after inking a one-year, two-way contract worth the league minimum of $775K after a successful training camp PTO.\u00a0 He wound up spending the entire year on the NHL roster, getting into 45 games during the regular season while also having a five-week stint on LTIR due to a lower-body injury along the way.\u00a0 The 31-year-old had six goals and two assists along with 141 hits in those outings while averaging ten minutes per night of ice time.\u00a0 He also made one postseason appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Erne has a total of 424 career NHL appearances under his belt over parts of nine seasons with four different teams.\u00a0 He started off with Tampa Bay after they drafted him in the second round in 2013 but he was moved to Detroit after three seasons with the Lightning.\u00a0 Erne added four more seasons with the Red Wings before one-and-done years with Edmonton and Dallas.\u00a0 Overall, he has 47 goals, 52 assists, and 1,021 hits in his NHL action.<\/p>\n<p>Having gone the PTO-to-contract route for the last two years, it\u2019s fair to assume that Erne\u2019s preference would be to land a guaranteed contract much earlier this time around.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t appear to be materializing, however, so it will be interesting to see how much he wants to reciprocate the KHL interest.\u00a0 Signing over there would lock in a guaranteed deal but also might mark the end of his NHL playing days.\u00a0 Erne has a few more weeks at least to decide which route he wants to take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After missing most of 2024-25 due to a hip injury, Adam Erne was able to return to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[192050,64,63,981,575,85],"class_list":["post-808070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-adam-erne","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-khl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808070","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=808070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}