{"id":134672,"date":"2025-09-10T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/134672\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:29:08","slug":"eichel-taking-business-as-usual-approach-in-contract-season-with-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/134672\/","title":{"rendered":"Eichel taking ‘business as usual’ approach in contract season with Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"

HENDERSON, Nev. — Jack Eichel<\/a> doesn’t appear concerned about his future with the Vegas Golden Knights even though he’s entering the final season of an eight-year, $80 million contract (average annual value of $10 million).<\/p>\n

“For me, it’s business as usual,” Eichel told NHL.com at the NHL\/NHLPA North American Player Media Tour on Wednesday. “Things like that kind of take care of themselves when you’re focused on the right things. I know that will sort itself out. Moreso, my mentality is we’re starting training camp, we’re starting the season and how do I be the best version of myself to help our team win, be a good teammate. We’ll see what happens going forward.”<\/p>\n

Eichel is at ease about the contract situation partly because there is mutual interest from both sides to get a new deal done before he could become an unrestricted free agent after this season.<\/p>\n

General manager Kelly McCrimmon said May 17<\/a>, after the Golden Knights were eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs, that re-signing Eichel was “a really important order of business for us.” He recently echoed that comment in an interview with The Athletic, saying it “remains a priority.”<\/p>\n

“It’s no secret that I like it here in Vegas,” Eichel said. “It’s a great organization. I really enjoy living here and being a part of this community.”<\/p>\n

Eichel signed his current contract Oct. 3, 2017, when he was still playing for the Buffalo Sabres, which began in the 2018-19 season. He was traded to Vegas by Buffalo with a third-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft on Nov. 4, 2021, for forwards Peyton Krebs<\/a> and Alex Tuch<\/a>, a first-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft and a second-round pick in 2023.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old center led the Golden Knights and was eighth in the NHL with a career-high 94 points (28 goals, 66 assists) in 77 games last season. He had 66 points (27 goals, 39 assists) in 67 games in 2022-23 before helping Vegas win the Stanley Cup with 26 points (six goals, 20 assists) in 22 playoff games.<\/p>\n

Eichel had 68 points (31 goals, 37 assists) in 63 games in 2023-24. He said the best part about playing for the Golden Knights is the expectation to win every season.<\/p>\n

“As a player it’s a very competitive environment,” Eichel said. “The organization does a good job of taking care of their players and our goal is to win the Stanley Cup every year, and that’s a great thing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HENDERSON, Nev. — Jack Eichel doesn’t appear concerned about his future with the Vegas Golden Knights even though…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-134672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}