{"id":190179,"date":"2025-10-04T21:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/190179\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T21:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T21:19:07","slug":"west-notes-kempe-cooley-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/190179\/","title":{"rendered":"West Notes: Kempe, Cooley, Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Kings forward Adrian Kempe<\/a> made it known that his desire was to get a contract extension in place before the start of the season, it\u2019s not looking like it will happen.\u00a0 Part of the reason for that might be the comparable his camp is using.\u00a0 Pierre LeBrun of TSN and The Athletic reports (video link<\/a>) that Toronto\u2019s William Nylander<\/a> is believed to be one of the comparables that Kempe\u2019s camp is using.\u00a0 Nylander is in the second season of an eight-year, $92MM contract and has reached the 80-point mark in four straight years, including a 97-point effort in 2023-24.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Kempe has yet to reach that plateau although he has topped 70 the last two seasons.\u00a0 The difference, of course, is the much different salary cap environment now compared to when Nylander\u2019s deal was signed but it\u2019s not surprising that Los Angeles GM Ken Holland would be resistant to make an offer around that price point.<\/p>\n

More from out West:<\/p>\n

While Logan Cooley<\/a> won\u2019t play in Utah\u2019s preseason finale tonight, Cole Bagley of KSL Sports relays (Twitter link<\/a>) that the team has a good feeling that he\u2019ll be ready to go for their season opener next week. The 21-year-old was injured earlier this preseason against Colorado.\u00a0 Cooley took a big step forward last season, going from 44 points in his rookie year to 65 in his sophomore campaign.\u00a0 It\u2019s fair to say that the Mammoth hope that he will take another step in the right direction this season, the final year of his entry-level deal.
\nThe Stars are currently locked into a lease to play at American Airlines Center in Dallas through the 2030-31 season but it appears that they\u2019re already looking ahead. Eric Fisher and Daniel Roberts of Front Office Sports report<\/a> that the organization is looking at Plano as a possible destination to build a new arena.\u00a0 Arlington is also believed to be in consideration as well.\u00a0 At this point, the team hasn\u2019t ruled out staying where they are either but with these projects often taking a long time to put together, it\u2019s not surprising that they\u2019re already looking into their options despite having six years left on their current agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Kings forward Adrian Kempe made it known that his desire was to get a contract extension in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[9056,49,48,757,61653,763,448,82,765],"class_list":["post-190179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-adrian-kempe","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dallas-stars","tag-logan-cooley","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-utah-mammoth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190179","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=190179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}