{"id":289108,"date":"2025-11-17T15:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289108\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:19:06","slug":"kempe-signs-8-year-85-million-contract-with-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/289108\/","title":{"rendered":"Kempe signs 8-year, $85 million contract with Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/adrian-kempe-8477960\" title=\"Adrian Kempe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Kempe<\/a> signed an eight-year, $85 million contract with the Los Angeles Kings on Monday. It has an average annual value of $10.625 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old forward, who is in the last of a four-year, $22 million contract ($5.5 million AAV) he signed with the Kings on July 10, 2022, could have become an unrestricted free agent after this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to have Adrian signed for the next eight seasons,\u201d Los Angeles general manager Ken Holland said. \u201cHe is an elite competitor who\u2019s developed into one of the League&#8217;s most dynamic two-way forwards, and his growth since joining the Kings organization has been tremendous. Adrian&#8217;s presence both as a player and a leader is incredibly valuable to the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout this process, both sides were committed to finding a structure that reflects Adrian\u2019s importance to us while keeping our long-term goals of building a team capable of contending every season in mind. We\u2019re excited to have Adrian remain a core part of our organization for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adrian Kempe signed an eight-year, $85 million contract with the Los Angeles Kings on Monday. It has an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-289108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289108","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=289108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}