{"id":16687,"date":"2025-07-23T00:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16687\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T00:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:22:11","slug":"kaapo-kakko-kraken-avoid-arbitration-with-three-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16687\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaapo Kakko, Kraken avoid arbitration with three-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kakko was acquired in a December trade with the New York Rangers for Will Borgen, a third-round pick and a sixth-round pick in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Getting a contract done with Kaapo was a top priority this summer,&#8221; Kraken general manager Jason Botterill said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/kraken\/news\/seattle-kraken-agree-to-terms-with-kaapo-kakko-on-three-year-deal-bn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement by the team.<\/a> &#8220;We knew quickly he&#8217;d be a big part of our team moving forward. He&#8217;s got size, skill and tremendous playmaking ability, and isn&#8217;t afraid of going to the net. He fit in immediately with our group, and we&#8217;re thrilled to have him under contract.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old was drafted second overall by the Rangers in 2019, and has scored 161 points across 379 career games, but was moved amid a shaky start to their 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>He registered just 14 points in 30 games before settling in nicely with Seattle, racking up 30 points in 49 games.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Turku, Finland, he was not one of the initial six listed to represent Team Finland at the upcoming Olympics but was at the 4 Nations Face-Off in 2025 and tallied an assist in two games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kakko was acquired in a December trade with the New York Rangers for Will Borgen, a third-round pick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-16687","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\/16687","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=16687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}